cheap family recipes
feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a month
Can’t cook, won’t cook?
…including batch cooking, equipment and growing your own.
Here are our tips for cooking our meal planners, we hope you find them useful The articles below are also written to help you come up with your own thrifty nutritious meal plans. Everyone from novice level to those who could teach Delia a thing or two are welcome to our planner, and so here are some tips if you don’t know your hollandaise from your halibut!
- kitchen essentials
- how to get ahead with your cooking
- reducing your grocery spend
- make the most of your leftovers
- grow your own, fruit vegetables and herbs
- tips for ‘frugalising’ a recipe
- how to make chicken stock
- bored of our option one meal planner or want to ring the changes with option 2?
- making your own meal planner if ours don’t fit your family
- adapting the planner for single people
- or for bigger broods
We hope we have given you the starting point to create your own thrifty meal planner, and want to give you the confidence to know it is nutritionally balanced. This nutrition article helps you to do just that!
Why Not Try....?
Sweetcorn Fritters
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthSweetcorn FrittersA simple recipe using just sweetcorn, onion and batter to make little fritters. Great to whip up as an anytime snack for hungry after schoolers or hollow legged teenagers as well as...
Swede Cloddies
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthSwede Cloddiessubstitute any firm vegetable for the swede in these cloddies Why Not Try....?Before putting together our meal planners we surveyed over 600 people to...
Sunshine Scones
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthSunshine Sconesdeeply savoury bites of loveliness with tomato puree - vegan Why Not Try....?Before putting together our meal planners we surveyed over 600...
Take care of your family and your budget
Before putting together our meal planners we surveyed over 600 people to ask when faced with a tighter budget, which things they would struggle to give up.