FEED your family for less than a fiver a meal using my lockdown shopping list.
With £35 to spend, I’ve created warming options to keep you cosy and fill their tummies in these tough times.
With basic ingredients from your cupboard and a handful of other items, everything you need to cook well is here.
And try the tasty main course recipes from Morrisons.com.
- Costs based on food for four
Bargain meal ideas
MONDAY
FOR meat-free Monday, make a tasty vegetable chilli using a variety of veg, beans and sauce. Morrisons has frozen sliced mixed peppers, 500g, £1, wonky carrots, 1kg, 35p, and a cauliflower, 95p.
Fry them up and add a tin of Morrisons mixed beans, 300g, 60p, and Morrisons tomato and chilli pasta sauce, 500g, down from 60p to 55p.
Loosen with some water to cook the veg and serve alongside Morrisons easy-cook long grain rice, 95p.
Total: £4.40
TUESDAY
IT is time for another family favourite. Enjoy a sausage dinner with Heck ten chicken Italia sausages, down from £2.25 to £1.75 at Asda.
Serve with the store’s Frozen for Freshness mixed vegetables, 84p, and Asda’s Grower’s Selection British jacket potatoes, 2kg, down from £1.20 to £1, leaving plenty of spuds for lunch another day.
Total: £3.59
WEDNESDAY
MAKE getting over the midweek hump easier.
Snap up the Co-op’s £5 freezer filler offer, which runs until January 26 and features five Birds Eye products – two crispy chicken grills, four chicken burgers, eight crispy fish fingers, Alphabites and garden peas – as well as Nestle Rowntree four Fruit Pastilles ice lollies.
Total: £5
THURSDAY
THE Morrisons stir-fry meal deal is a must. Get a pack of stir-fry vegetables, noodles and a sauce for £3, saving up to 70p.
If you want to add meat, chop up pork shoulder steaks from Morrisons, 325g, £1.90.
Total: £4.90
FRIDAY
SPAGHETTI bolognese is on the menu. Cook up skinny beef mince 3 per cent fat, 500g, £3.49; a yellow pepper, 42p; chunky chopped tomatoes with herbs, 400g, 35p; and an onion, 47p for a pack of three, all from Aldi. Serve alongside the store’s spaghetti, 500g, 20p.
Total: £4.93
SATURDAY
TREAT yourself to a lockdown “fakeaway”. Cook up some Morrisons boneless chicken thigh fillets, 600g, £2.99, with Morrisons tikka masala sauce, 450g, 85p, with two packs of Morrisons pilau micro rice, 49p per pack.
Total: £4.82
SUNDAY
MAKE a mini roast with Tesco’s Willow Farm chicken drumsticks, 900g-1.2kg, £1.42, its Perfectly Imperfect potatoes, 2.5kg, 93p, frozen fine whole green beans, 900g, 53p, and Perfectly Imperfect parsnips 500g, 40p, and Aunt Bessie’s Bramley apple crumble, 500g, £1.35.
Total: £4.63