what meal can you make from scratch for £1?

Answer 1

Assuming here you have access to a basic student-level kitchen and utensils...

Spaghetti al Tonno

- 1 packet wholewheat spaghetti (29p)
- 1 tin chopped tomatoes (15p)
- 1 tin tuna in oil (29p)
- 50g mushrooms (12p)
- 1 small onion (12p)

Drain tuna in oil, placing oil into small frying pan. Slice mushrooms and fry gently with onion until coloured in. Add tomatoes and reduce by half.

Meanwhile, cook spaghetti according to package directions until al dente. Add tuna chunks and spaghetti to sauce and toss thoroughly. Enjoy meal and 1p change.


Soupe a L'Oignon Gratinee (French onion soup)
2 mini-packages of butter (borrowed from a supermarket cafe - not that many people eat theirs, look around for uncleared plates)
1lb / 450g onions (33p)
2 beef stock cubes (package price for six: 19p)
1 ciabatta roll or French dinner roll (19p)
2 oz / 50g value cheddar (buy off deli counter: 25p)

Find a saucepan that you can cover tightly.
Sweat onions gently in butter until translucent and golden brown. Make up stock to 1 pint (needs to be quite strong) and add to onions, stirring strongly at bottom of pot with wooden spoon to loosen all the caramelized sugars and onion bits. Cover tightly, and simmer gently for about an hour.

Just before serving, slice and lightly toast the roll, grate or crumble the cheese. Transfer soup to HEATPROOF bowls and top each with slices of roll and cheese. Whack under grill and bubble the cheese. Serve.

PS for colonial types: according to XE.com, £1 = US$1.85 at current rates. And there are 100p in £1, all the shillings and guineas nonsense is only for horse prices these days.

Damn, I need a US holiday again...

Answer 2

All depends on what you mean, £1 a head or a complete meal for yourself.

so for yourself -

You wont get a decent salad for a quid, no chance, porridge maybe, but remember u have to buy the milk and porridge. Cheap beans an cheap bread.

A good cheap meal for a £1 would be a plain omelette, or even with onion, 6 eggs an onion about 80-90 pence. Cheese omelette is nice but u would have to buy cheese.

Same omelette but as soufle omlette.

Seperate the egg yolk an white and beat the white till it forms soft peaks (or till it hold to whisk) bet the egg yolk and fold this into whisked egg white. Could lightly fry onion first. Then add onion as folding together, u should have butter or marg allready, a small dollop into frying pan, let it melt then add ur omlette mixture, so u have a nice even spread across pan, whilst doing this heat ur grill up. after about 3 - 4 minutes the bottom should be cooked, transfer to grill in pan and cook the top till it browns off. And you should have a nice fluffy omelette

Answer 3

Im thinking a newspaper based meal, not the Daily Mail though. The Sun perhaps? Not only do you get a meal but an informative read too, and topics to discuss with your tramp friends.
Chew on the pulp and the newsprint will give you energy. If you really want to push the boat out out, rummage through your local dustbins and find some chips and then wrap them in your newspaper and enjoy an authentic British meal. Of course you can wrap anything in your newspaper u like, discarded curry, spagetti, even spread marmite on it, just don't toast it. Hope i helped.

Answer 4

go by a dozen eggs. you can fry some, scramble some and boil some.

the dollar menue at mcdonalds. They have that penny holder if you need tax money.

go by a can of generic spagheiteos or how ever you spell it. for fifty cents at family dollar. then go to the bread thrift store where you can get bread for twenty cents a loaf. So far you are 75 cents plus tax. Go by yourseld a treat like a sucker or tootsy role.

And if you need butter for your bread go to a gas station/convience store and they have those tubs of single butter packets. go help yourself to some of them they are free. then you can have butter on your bread.

and if you are really desperate and need coffee go a larger clinic and go into the wating room and act like your waiting for someone. help your self to the free coffee, sugar and creamer.

finally if you are that broke and hungy go visit you mom.

I know read the obits and find a funeral. go to the church basement for the meal if anyone asks tell them you volunteerd at the nursing home and she was so dear to you . make sure she was in a nursing home.

use the local food shelf.

go to a very busy resteraunt lke perkins and you could easily sneak out with out paying.

in all honesty I have never tried or did any of these things but you sound like your hungry and only have a dollar.

hey on friday and sat at larger grocery stores they have samples all over. keep going around to get more.

Answer 5

Try cheesey crumpets. Spread with butter and a little marmite, add cheese and grill.
Alternatively you could have a pot noodle, a packet of batchelors super noodles, pasta with pesto, or 2 or 3 chocolate bars depending on your preference.
If you are on a health kick and live near a market buy one apple one banana, a couple of strawberries etc and make a fruit salad.
Personally I would go for the chocolate

Answer 6

Buy a packet of bachelors quick-soak dried peas. A couple of carrots, a couple of potatoes, one onion, garlic and 2.5 pints of vege stock. Once you've soaked the peas, saute the vegetables in butter for 10 minutes, add the peas, stock, pepper and salt to taste. Once cooked, puree the lot.

Cheap as chips and absolutely the best soup in the world!

Answer 7

Pasta in tomato sauce.

Buy a bag of Sainsburys own Penne (34p) a large onion (about 20p) and two tins of Sainsburys own chopped tomatoes (14p per can in the basics range)

grand total: around 84p (depending on the size of the onion)

recipe
Finely dice the onion, fry till golden brown.
Add both tins of chopped tomatoes salt and pepper to taste and a level teaspoon of sugar (yes really).
Simmer and stir till the sauce is thick (about 10 mins on a low flame)
Boil the pasta in plenty of salted water as per directions on the packet till al dente
drain the pasta then add pasta to the sauce - stir the sauce in and serve

Answer 8

PASTA!!! Buy a bag, around 60p a bag from a big supermarket, and a simple covering of whatever you have in the house. I like pasta with just some salt and pepper, a little olive oil, some tomatoes, herbs? Or you could grate a little cheese on? Keep it simple, that'll keep it cheap!

Answer 9

Spaghetti

Answer 10

Vegetable stew
or
Vegetable soup
or
Beans on Toast
even
Cheese on toast
yet again
Egg on toast.
lastly
Baked Potato in it's jacket with any of the above filling.