Lucy | 30th December 2017 | Cooking and Recipes

£3 Vegetable Pasta Bake – Serves 5 adults. Ingredients For this simple to make, cost-effective dish, you will need... Ingredients Average cost Oil for frying 3p 1 big onion 10p 4 medium parsnips 79p 4 medium carrots 24p 1 courgette 35p 1 garlic bulb 5p 1 tin chopped tomatoes 35p Pinch of salt 2p 1 Tbsp Tomato purée 5p 2 tsp paprika 5p 1 tsp mixed herbs 5p 400 ml veg stock 30p 500g pasta 20p Mild cheddar 50p     Grand Total £3.08 Method Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Heat oil in pan Fry onion and garlic till soft Fry veggies 5 min or until veggies soft Add salt, tomato purée, paprika, herbs and cook for 5 min or until completely mixed. Add chopped tomato and stock and cook for 20 minutes until all veg is cooked. Meanwhile cook pasta (according to package instructions) Mix veg and pasta well together. Put in ovenproof dish, sprinkle cheese on top and cook for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted. Mild cheddar enough to cover (I only put on half as my husband does not like cheese!).   And then around 10 minutes later... serve and enjoy!   Let me know in the comments how yours turned out! Don't forget to take photos :)...

Lucy | 11th December 2017 | Cooking and Recipes

Hi everyone my name is Lucy and I would love to share some of my good, cheap, healthy and baby friendly recipes with you. This is my first go at this blogging thing so please be patient and any feedback would be much appreciated. I decided to go on this journey after searching for loads of cheap dishes, books, the whole lot and I have found it hard because even the budget-friendliest recipes out there has ingredients I do not have, so this is my attempt to put together a list of recipes with ingredients that people do have in their cupboard or even just ingredients that can be purchased cheaply.  Now I am by no means an amazing cook but I do enjoy and love cooking. I mostly cook from scratch and without measurements but I will try my best to give you guys measurements. I will be adding a new recipe every week so please watch this space.  I love risotto and this one can be done so cheaply, you can even use sweet potato or courgette if you don't fancy butternut. It serves 2 adults and 1 child and costs approximately £4 to make if you're using Parmesan, but even cheaper if you don't  (how exciting is that).    HERE GOES NOTHING!   Ingredients 2 cups risotto rice 1 medium butternut squash 1 big beef tomato 1 big onion 2 chopped garlic cloves 1.5  litre veg stock (2 oxo cubes mixed with water) paprika 1 tsp or to your liking mixed herbs 1 tsp or to your liking salt and pepper to taste Parmesan to serve (optional) Oil  Method   Before you start chop butternut into bite size chunks and lay on a lightly oiled oven proof dish.  Sprinkle over the paprika and place in 180 degrees preheated oven until butternut is nice and soft. Then mix the 2 oxo cubes with water  in a 1.5 litre jug, mix in the mixed herbs. Set aside. Place a bit of oil in a pan, fry onion and garlic until soft. Add rice and tomato and cook for a further 5 min, stirring the whole time to  keep from sticking. Add stock slowly, stirring continuously to keep from sticking. Onc...