Cheap Tasty Meals in a Flash

Cheap Tasty Meals in a Flash

Times are hard folks and if you believe all you read, getting harder. So how can we keep our family salutary if we go on a funds for our food; straightforward supervene my recipes and you can not go wrong.

Budget or store cupboard meals do not mean egg and chips every day of the week.

Tuna Salad Recipe

Not that there is whatever wrong with egg and chips, add a merge of sausages some beans and a hunk of decent bread, and you have a great meal, that will stave of any hunger pangs you may have.

But maybe just maybe we can do a bit more for our families, at this time of year vegetables are fairly inexpensive. Have you conception of growing your own, you will not be self sufficient, unless you have hundreds of acres of spare land. But place a few grow bags on you're patio and you could have tomatoes lettuce, and numerous other salad crops growing away very quickly.

Enough of me waffling on, you are here for a few ideas on cheap meals, and I am about to serve you up with some.

This recipe is a nice quick and easy way to get some good food into those hungry hordes.

Cheesy baked Tortillas

1 tablespoon Olive Oil - plus a bit extra for greasing
1 Onion - finely chopped
1 Red Pepper - de-seeded and chopped
1 large can Chopped Tomatoes
1 large can Mixed Beans in Mild Chilli Sauce
1 large can Red Kidney Beans in Water - drained and rinsed
1/4 lb Reduced-fat grated Mature Cheddar
8 Garlic & Coriander Tortilla Wraps
Black Pepper - optional

Preheat oven to 190 C/Gas 5. Lightly oil a large ovenproof dish.

Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the onion and pepper for 5 minutes until softened,

Stirring occasionally. Add the tomatoes and beans to the pan, season with black pepper and heat straight through for 5 minutes stirring the mix lightly.

Divide half the cheese in the middle of each tortilla, then add the tomato and bean mixture, equal amounts in the middle of each tortilla, dish up with a green salad Walla they will love it folks. This will nothing else but feed four family members, and if you are specific where you shop will cost you under five pounds.

This next meal is a particular favourite of mine, and I am sure you will enjoy it just as much as myself.

Fishy Chilli

Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 onion, finely chopped
1/4 lb mushrooms, sliced
1 1/2 teaspoons of hot chilli powder
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon of dried mixed herbs
Large can of chopped tomatoes
Small can of tuna, drained
Large can of red kidney beans, drained
Small can sweetcorn drained
Salt & ground black pepper
2 bags boil in the bag rice, brown rice if you can get it.

Method

Heat the oil in a large saucepan and moderately cook the onion and mushrooms for 4 minutes.

Stir in the chili powder, cumin and herbs and then add the chopped tomatoes, tuna, red kidney beans, sweetcorn and seasoning.

Bring to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes

Meanwhile cook the rice according to the packet instructions.

That's it done dish it up, and enjoy another meal for less than a fiver. There is enough here to feed four people.

Those are just a merge of ideas for you folks, keep reading my articles and I will fill those stomachs with cheap and above all salutary meals enjoy.

Cheap Tasty Meals in a Flash