cheap family recipes
feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a month
Ingredients
- 800 g onions
- 400 g potato (washed not peeled) and cubed
- 100 g carrots
- 1 stock cube
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- chilli/garam if you fancy!
- 60 g bacon cut into titchy pieces and fried with the onion
- salt and pepper
- 1 tblsp vinegar
To Serve
- 6 slices home made bread from your baking this week
Instructions
- Chop the onion and bacon with about 1tsp of garlic powder and fry them up
- Cube the potatoes (about 1cm cubed) no need to peel if they don't need it. Fry them for a few minutes, sprinkling over the stock cube.
- Then, after about 5 mins cooking, pour in 1.8 litres of hot water from the kettle, sprinkle in some salt and pepper and cover and cook until the veg are soft.
- Whizz up with a stick blender. Taste, adjust seasonings and serve. You can add more water if your soup is too thick.
Equipment Needed
Notes
Nutrition
Why Not Try....?
Fruity Scones
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthFruity Scones There is 15p per person, per day, allocated in the given budget for the month for fruit. This isn't much and you will need to shop carefully if you want to stick with...
Fruity Pancakes
cheap family recipesfeed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthFruity Pancakes Why Not Try....?Before putting together our meal planners we surveyed over 600 people to ask when faced with a tighter budget, which things they...
French Onion Soup
cheap family recipesfeed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthFrench Onion Soup Why Not Try....?Before putting together our meal planners we surveyed over 600 people to ask when faced with a tighter budget, which things...
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.