Serves: 4 Cost per person: £1. You can pick up value range spaghetti for just 20p and stretch the sauce with vegetables, such as mushrooms or grated carrot, and finely chopped celery.

I make Bolognese sauce in my slow cooker to save energy costs too. Another great thing about recipes using canned food is when considering ' how long does canned food last?

As long as the can isn't damaged in any way, e. bulges, leakages, or rust, they can remain good to eat for several years. Once opened, just pop it in the fridge in an air-tight container and consume it within three to five days.

Get the recipe: Spaghetti Bolognese. At just £1. You can make this dish even cheaper by mixing the mashed potatoes with mashed carrots, which are cheaper per kilo. Adding in the mushrooms makes the meat go further, as well as adding to your five portions of fruit and vegetables a day.

Get the recipe: Cottage pie recipe. Opting for a strong cheese means you won't use loads of it in your recipe so you'll have leftovers for another recipe - a great money-saving tip. Get the recipe: Bacon and pea risotto. Even though they taste better than chicken breasts, thighs are always cheaper, making them a complete bargain.

To keep the per head price down you can make two meals worth. Buy the chicken mushrooms and sauce twice, and use all the potatoes and 1 ball of mozzarella over the top. You can keep the second portion in the fridge overnight and reheat it the next day.

Get the recipe: Tomato baked chicken. The melty cheese topping is one of the best parts, but cheese is an expensive extra on a shopping list starting at around £4.

These cheese slices are a handy cheat - you can just place them over the top of the past bake before you put it in the oven and it will melt in place. Scrunched-up crisps or tortilla chips make a nice crunchy topping.

You can get a similar effect from breadcrumbs made from stale bread which may end up being cheaper too. And a nifty way to use up leftover bread. Get the recipe: Tuna pasta bake. This warm and comforting potato-topped pie is a perfect weekend supper for the whole family.

This Woman's Weekly turkey mince cottage pie is perfect for Sunday dinner. We've used tinned peas instead of frozen to keep them cheap. Get the recipe: Turkey mince cottage pie. This is such a great classic family meal, made even tastier with bacon and even healthier with peas.

Using cooking bacon keeps the costs down. Get the recipe: Macaroni cheese with peas. This cauliflower curry is a great alternative to a classic meat curry. It will last for ages with no chance of leaves going soggy in the bottom of the salad drawer.

Get the recipe: Cauliflower curry. This recipe is priced on using the two spare burger buns to make breadcrumbs, but if you have crusts of bread knocking around you could grate them into breadcrumbs and use the buns for a packed lunch.

Use the two spare burger buns to make breadcrumbs for the burgers and instead of binding them with egg, add a small splash of milk - just enough to bring them together. Get the recipe: Bean burgers. Light yet filling, this spring courgette and pesto pasta dish is simple to make - you can have it on the table in just 20 minutes.

If you want to jazz this recipe up, swap the regular pesto for red pesto instead. Leftovers can be easily reheated the next day and served for lunch or served cold with a leftover side salad from a previous meal. Get the recipe: Courgette and pesto pasta.

This root vegetable layer bake uses dried herbs to keep it under budget. If you want to make it vegetarian, skip the sausages and top with cheese instead, or swap for vegetarian or chicken sausages. Making this dish vegetarian will also cut the cost per person.

Get the recipe: Root vegetable layer bake. Serves: 4 Cost per person: 96p Total cost: £3. This sausage and potato casserole is so cheap you could buy fancier sausages and still keep it under £2 a head.

Curly kale goes really well with the tomato-y sauce and a g bag 87p would take the spend up to £1. Get the recipe: Easy sausage and potato casserole. Serves: 6 Cost per person: 75p Total cost: £4. Start this week with a bowl of this deliciously filling winter vegetable soup, serving six. It freezes well, so you can batch cook it too.

Get the recipe: Winter vegetable soup. Serves: 4 Cost per person: £1 Total cost: £4. This recipe is one of our oldest and still really popular.

In fact, it first appeared in in Woman's Weekly magazine. Lots of the ingredients are things you will already have in the store cupboard, so there are only three items to add to the shopping list.

Get the recipe: Chicken and spring onion pancakes. This minute bean hotpot is packed full of veggies. This makes a really lovely filling vegetarian dinner.

Feel free to add more veggies if you have them lurking at the bottom of the fridge: carrots, parsnips, or swede would all work well, for instance. It's a great dish for using up leftovers. Get the recipe: Bean hotpot. Spanish omelettes are filling and healthy as they're made with spuds and peppers.

Try this simple Spanish-style tortilla recipe for a weekend lunchtime. Slice them up on a large plate, season with salt and pepper, and drizzle a little olive oil over the top to make a pretty tomato salad. Get the recipe: Spanish-style tortilla. Serves: 4 Cost per person : £1. Meatballs are a great cheap family meal.

A nifty trick is to bulk up mincemeat dishes using vegetables to make them go further. Adding an extra onion and a couple of finely chopped carrots would cost less than 50p.

It would add another portion to the sauce and the g pasta will easily serve five. Stay under budget by using dried herbs in this recipe and skipping the Parmesan and pesto, but use store cupboard ingredients to boost the flavour instead.

Half a crumbled beef stock cube, for example. Get the recipe: How to make meatballs. Serves: 6 Cost per person: £1.

It goes well with value range rice if you have hungry teenagers to fill up. You can get a really good deal on this large pack, which portions out at two thighs per person.

Remove the skin if you like, to keep the fat content lower but it's not necessary. Get the recipe: Farmhouse chicken braise. This Slimming World recipe for bacon and broccoli pasta salad is not only cheap to make but healthy too. We've doubled the ingredients so it serves four.

We swapped the Tenderstem broccoli for regular broccoli which is more affordable. It has a lovely texture. Get the recipe: Bacon and broccoli pasta salad. This veggie curry is a lovely weeknight supper. Onion, garlic, rice, and tins all last for ages.

The tinned spinach and paste pots keep costs down for a single meal. But if you have the cash and might repeat the recipe, or cook other curries, A jar of balti curry paste for £1.

Get the recipe: Lentil and spinach balti. This hearty pork and pepper goulash recipe is flavoured with paprika and packed with veggies such as red onion, tin tomatoes, and roasted red pepper. Chop it in half, place it on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, and bake for 40 minutes.

The skin will be blackened and ready to peel off. Get the recipe: Pork goulash. You may already have some of the ingredients, such as butter, flour, and milk, to make this delicious sausage and cheese bake.

Prep in just 15 minutes. We used normal pork sausages instead of spicy ones to keep the recipe on budget. Slice the mozzarella ball thinly so you get lovely gooey layers of soft white cheese in the dish.

Get the recipe: Spicy sausage and cheese pasta bake. Serves: 6 Cost per person: 82p Total cost: £4. This makes a lovely, vegetarian-friendly Sunday lunch. With the homemade pie case, it does not feel like a budget dish at all.

You can use any cream cheese with garlic and herbs, and we swapped the crème fraîche for sour cream as it works out a little cheaper. Butter is one of our store cupboard staple ingredients, but you do need a large portion for this recipe - about half a pack.

This recipe is great for sharing and as you've got a bit of budget left over you could easily serve it with a salad for a summer meal. Leftovers also make the perfect lunch option the next day. Get the recipe: Courgette, garlic, and herb oaty crust quiche.

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Egg Salad Lettuce Wraps. I rely heavily on a well-planned dinner menu because this is where I spend the bulk of my grocery budget plus it ensures I'm not scrambling to find something to serve come 6 p.

I'll plan on three easy recipes plus a night of repurposing the leftovers. Because our evening schedule can be unpredictable, I'll pick up ingredients for a pantry meal that won't go to waste if I end up not cooking one night.

Make your own menu or try one of our budget dinner plans. Lentils, cabbage, beef stew meat, sweet potatoes, eggs, canned salmon, black beans. Easy Vegetarian Chili.

Baked Eggs in Tomato Sauce with Kale. Sweet Potatoes with Warm Black Bean Salad. Easy Chicken Fried Rice. American Goulash. I like to plan snacks and treats based on one or two staples or on ingredients that are already part of the meal plan.

Smoothies are the perfect way to use up yogurt, bananas and frozen berries, and my kids love them as after-school snacks.

Lately we've been crazy about salted roasted chickpeas, the best one-ingredient snack you'll ever make. And none of us can turn down a square of dark chocolate with a schmear of peanut butter after dinner. Apples or any leftover fruit , peanut butter, canned chickpeas. Apple-Peanut Butter Smoothie.

Crunchy Roasted Chickpeas. A number of our meals this week incorporate a few pantry staples that I often have on hand. Here's what I'll rely on this week. Note: I did not include these items in my budget, but included approximate cost per serving for reference.

With a bit of planning and creativity, you can feed your family a week's worth of nutritious meals for a little more than what you'd spend at a restaurant for one meal. Use this healthy meal plan on a budget as inspiration to make the most of your grocery budget without sacrificing taste or variety!

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