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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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After seeing the recipe thread it had me thinking of good whole food meals you can knock up for next to nothin.
So how about so meals us oldies can pass on to the young on here?
I'll kick it off with one of my favourites....liver and onions which I can do for under £2 for 4 meals  |
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"After seeing the recipe thread it had me thinking of good whole food meals you can knock up for next to nothin.
So how about so meals us oldies can pass on to the young on here?
I'll kick it off with one of my favourites....liver and onions which I can do for under £2 for 4 meals "
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By *orum TrollWoman
over a year ago
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"potatoes, any veg, and any meat. shove it in a pan and cook it as a stew.
How much does it cost lol"
depends how many you're cooking for, but the cheaper the veg and meat then the cheaper the meal. less then £1 for the potatoes.
you could replace the meat for cheese when the veg and potatoes have finished cooking, just drain the pot and grate cheese into it. it'll melt. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Rabbit stew costs pence, but you do have to have sourced the rabbits from somewhere.
I make a mean pheasant curry too. "
Loads of road kill around here but it's such a faf prepping it yourself.
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I did a lovely meal last week, got a huge side of trout from morrisons on offer cost £2.61, already had frozen veg in (servings were pence really compared to how much was in the bag) and a bit of rice that was on offer for £1 so for the 3 of us only had to spend £3.61 due to the veg being on the freezer already |
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"Rabbit stew costs pence, but you do have to have sourced the rabbits from somewhere.
I make a mean pheasant curry too. "
Make friends with a farmer and you're in rabbits and pheasant for life |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
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"Rabbit stew costs pence, but you do have to have sourced the rabbits from somewhere.
I make a mean pheasant curry too.
Make friends with a farmer and you're in rabbits and pheasant for life "
Or be one.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Rabbit stew costs pence, but you do have to have sourced the rabbits from somewhere.
I make a mean pheasant curry too.
Make friends with a farmer and you're in rabbits and pheasant for life
Or be one. "
Don't make me do heart eyes at you, Jimi! |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
Hereford |
"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then "
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person. "
Jim in the event of a zombie apocalypse I think we should team up. I am totally kick ass and you can cook |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person. "
Eww! |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
Hereford |
"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person.
Jim in the event of a zombie apocalypse I think we should team up. I am totally kick ass and you can cook "
I have apocalypse skills..... and firearms...  |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
Hereford |
"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person.
Eww!"
S'fine - tastes a lot like partridge. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person.
Jim in the event of a zombie apocalypse I think we should team up. I am totally kick ass and you can cook
I have apocalypse skills..... and firearms... "
Okay you're in. I prefer my rabbit rare and firearms light. I prefer hand to hand combat. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person.
Eww!
S'fine - tastes a lot like partridge. "
I don't plan on finding out, about either!  |
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By *orum TrollWoman
over a year ago
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"Ramen is really versatile though, you can get 30 packs for like a tenner and you can add as much as you want to it.
Yes, I'm so down with this!"
don't do what i did and order 300 packets off ebay coz they were cheaper in bulk. still got loads left. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Ramen is really versatile though, you can get 30 packs for like a tenner and you can add as much as you want to it.
Yes, I'm so down with this!
don't do what i did and order 300 packets off ebay coz they were cheaper in bulk. still got loads left. "
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
Hereford |
"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person.
Eww!
S'fine - tastes a lot like partridge.
I don't plan on finding out, about either! "
I just won't tell you thats whats in the stew... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Butternut squash, 2 onions, cream and ready crispy bacon. Makes a nice soup and costs less than £3"
Now that's my type of food
You can keep your squirrel's and road kill....and as for raven I think I must be to old to know what it is |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Butternut squash, 2 onions, cream and ready crispy bacon. Makes a nice soup and costs less than £3
Now that's my type of food
You can keep your squirrel's and road kill....and as for raven I think I must be to old to know what it is"
Ramen even...the bloody birds are sneaking in again |
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Making meals with eggs is cheap and healthy. I like to have scrambled eggs, with home made pico de gallo salsa, and some veggie sausage in a wrap.
To make it healthier, and a tad more expensive, ditch the wrap and top off with home made guacamole (mashed avocado, diced tomatoes and onions, lime juice, and a hint of salt, pepper, and cilantro). Yum. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I came to this thread to talk about how surprisingly cheap getting food delivered on Amazon is...
But it's not rabbit stew cheap.
... I'll just back away slowly then
For you urban types - I've eaten squirrel before, its actually very nice, it's just a bitch to skin and you need one squirrel per person.
Eww!
S'fine - tastes a lot like partridge.
I don't plan on finding out, about either! "
Doesn't it have a nutty flavour? |
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Sausage hotch potch. Feeds 4
12 sausages £2
Tin of baked beans £0.40
Tim of kidney beans £0.38
Tin of potatoes £0.19
1/2 pack streaky bacon £0.50
Chopped onion £0.10
Tim of chopped tomatoes £0.40. = £3.97. Less than a quid each
Just don't go anywhere public the next day lol |
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Pasta, onion, garlic, tin of tomatoes, cheese. Sweat onions and garlic, add tomatoes and simmer until thickened. Meanwhile cook pasta, serve with grated cheese. Feeds two for about a quid. Add tuna for a more substantial sauce.
Layer onions, sausages and baked beans, cook about 40 mins,top with mash, cook until browned. Not sure how much but feeds 4 cheaply.
Banana custard.
Ice cream with banana and chocolate custard.
Any pasta with own brand Philadelphia stirred in. |
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By *wo4FemCouple
over a year ago
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Sausage chips and beans is a cheap meal. You can get 40 sausages for £2 at iceland, 10kg bag of potatoes (£2.80), tin of beans (29p). Plenty left over for another day.
Jacket potato with cheese (£2 - 450g - icland) and salad (£1 - coop)
Egg (£1.69 for 30) and chips with beans. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Chicken and stuffing pancakes.
Make pancakes and leave to go cold, a chicken leg cooked and shred the meat, make up a packet of stuffing and mix in the shredded chicken . Spoon some onto a pancake and fold over to seal. Bake in the oven, goes nice with whatever you want to accompany it. |
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Don't think it has to be way out.
Lots of supermarkets have joints or chickens for £5 . Adding potatoes or pasta and veg is pence.
A joint or chicken can also do the next days lunch or evening stir fry.
Real home-made pizza with home made dough comes in stupid cheap and is fun with the kids too.
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Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead |
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I don't cost my meals out per person but you can't much cheaper than using up all those leftover veggies, the ones lurking in the fridge & chucking them all in a soup together. Use something like a butternut squash to give it some depth along with a sprinkling of Garam Marsala or Smoked Paprika. |
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"Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead"
I'd love to know where you can find a whole chicken for £2.35 lucky to get one under 4 quid around here! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I'll kick it off with one of my favourites....liver and onions which I can do for under £2 for 4 meals
hope you soak the liver in milk for a few hours  "
Nah....I'm eating it not keeping it as a pet |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead
I'd love to know where you can find a whole chicken for £2.35 lucky to get one under 4 quid around here!"
Aldi £2.35 for a fresh chicken. ...be it it's only 1.25 kilo....but you can |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead
I'd love to know where you can find a whole chicken
for £2.35 lucky to get one under 4 quid around here!"
aldi or lidl |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Simplest food that I love is spaghetti -- with a curl of butter and splash of chilli sauce to wet it through, and well seasoned. Yum. "
Oh my god was six people at an after party years ago, early morning hours and all that we foraged around that house was pretty much Pasta, bottle of sweet chilli sause and cupboard full of spices.. feeds six i can tell you that! No butter though  |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
You cannot beat the old staple I was brought up on as a kid, Mince and Potatoes!
Minced Beef or Pork.
Potatoes (pre boil, then cut into chunks)
Onion.
Gravy or Stock.
Worcestershire Sauce.
Salt / Pepper to season.
500 g meat plus potatoes etc will stretch to 4 meals. Superb! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"You cannot beat the old staple I was brought up on as a kid, Mince and Potatoes!
Minced Beef or Pork.
Potatoes (pre boil, then cut into chunks)
Onion.
Gravy or Stock.
Worcestershire Sauce.
Salt / Pepper to season.
500 g meat plus potatoes etc will stretch to 4 meals. Superb!"
Nice one that's my kind of food too.
Here's another one "Panackelty" it's a north east dish....a tin of corned beef two or three sliced carrots,sliced onions and Potatoes. ..sliced of course. 3 oxos and cornflour. ....prep 10 minutes cook half a hour and a big pan full for around £2.50-£3.00....eat with bread optional |
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Uni special was packet of bacon, rice and eggs. Do your rice throw it in a frying pan cook the bacon half throw all in a wok and breaks some eggs over it |
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Make your own beans on toast with butter beans, tin of tomatoes,paprika,garlic, red wine vinegar (opt) and crusty sliced bread. Add cheese if you want.
It's really tasty and very filling.
I have herbs and spices, tomatoes and condiments I use to flavour food. They can make most things edible. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Rabbit stew costs pence, but you do have to have sourced the rabbits from somewhere.
I make a mean pheasant curry too. "
Fuck ! You would eat like a king if you got hold of my two bunnies
Giant continental breed for meat originally. Currently weighing in at 7 kg each. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Make your own beans on toast with butter beans, tin of tomatoes,paprika,garlic, red wine vinegar (opt) and crusty sliced bread. Add cheese if you want.
It's really tasty and very filling.
I have herbs and spices, tomatoes and condiments I use to flavour food. They can make most things edible. "
Nice one |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"If you get some bread,beans and some cheese and put them all together that's pretty nice
So cheesy beans on toast then
Yeah it's grate "
Oh you grate the cheese as well....you'll be on master chef soon |
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A 375g bag of dried soya mince for £1.90 lasts me ages. I make up batches for the freezer of Bolognese or Chilli con carne style sauces (tin chopped tomatoes 31p, tin kidney beans 50p,chopped onions, peppers and mushrooms, plus herbs or chilli powder and half a pint of stock). Cheap, quick to cook, low fat, low calorie and high protein. I serve it with a baked sweet potato. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"If you get some bread,beans and some cheese and put them all together that's pretty nice
So cheesy beans on toast then
Yeah it's grate
Oh you grate the cheese as well....you'll be on master chef soon "
I was thinking more like come dine with me, we could do a fab special |
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"Mash a tin of kidney beans. Add a little chopped onion and a raw egg. Shape into patties Then fry like a burger.
Sally"
Ok if your a veggie but I like real meat....and meets |
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"Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead
I'd love to know where you can find a whole chicken for £2.35 lucky to get one under 4 quid around here!
Aldi £2.35 for a fresh chicken. ...be it it's only 1.25 kilo....but you can "
Not around here! We've just got back from there |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead
I'd love to know where you can find a whole chicken for £2.35 lucky to get one under 4 quid around here!
Aldi £2.35 for a fresh chicken. ...be it it's only 1.25 kilo....but you can
Not around here! We've just got back from there "
Don't you have a lidl or a Aldi....or is bedworth in a foreign country? |
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"Got to love a jacket potato with beans. Add a few of your own spices to the beans to jazz it up.
Yummy "
Sound nice but when it comes to jacket spuds.....just salt and pepper and plenty of real butter for me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Egg noodles - £1.20
Mushrooms - 50p
Beansprouts - £1
Bag of frozen mixed veg - £1
Enough to make 5 portions of stir fry (if you already have spices and soy sauce/chilli) costs around £3.70.
74p a portion. |
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vegetarian ocean pie you can make for about a fiver and will feed 4 to 6 people depending how hungry you are, really nice too
just need tofu, mushrooms, sweet corn,parsley sance and potatoes |
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"Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead
I'd love to know where you can find a whole chicken for £2.35 lucky to get one under 4 quid around here!
Aldi £2.35 for a fresh chicken. ...be it it's only 1.25 kilo....but you can
Not around here! We've just got back from there
Don't you have a lidl or a Aldi....or is bedworth in a foreign country? "
If you read what I put you will see that we just got back from a shopping trip to Aldi  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Tandoori chicken with homemade naans, with bombay aloo or cheaper still Dahl ,
a whole chicken £2.35
Potatoes,onions £1/ lentils,onion 50p
flour 20p
Yogurt 20p
spices 20p
feeds 4 easily ,we have bread maker so makes dough easy to make and knead
I'd love to know where you can find a whole chicken for £2.35 lucky to get one under 4 quid around here!
Aldi £2.35 for a fresh chicken. ...be it it's only 1.25 kilo....but you can
Not around here! We've just got back from there
Don't you have a lidl or a Aldi....or is bedworth in a foreign country?
If you read what I put you will see that we just got back from a shopping trip to Aldi "
Now now don't get shirty |
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