I have £4.00 to lavish upon myself. What is good 'eats' for this price? Any ideas?

Ta

A 3lb chicken
Sling it in the oven at 180C for 1hr 45mins. Done!

(Drain stock into a bowl, cool then refrigerate overnight, remove fat as a solid disk and bin it, use stock in soup or stew).
Gets you a few different meals from the result depending on what you have to add or accompany it with.

Easy.

You lucky bastard!

I think I've got about £2.28...mostly in 10p pieces.

Good eats?...Sausage Dinner from the chippy? A pack of Tikka chicken chunks and a pack of instant noodles (chicken flavour)...

I'm not great when it comes to healthy eating and that

irrepressible wrote:
Neither am I irre, since being on the JSA diet.

feather wrote:
This sounds like a plan, feather.

Make a couple of incisions in the thickest part of the thighs, right down to the bone so that it cooks at the same rate as the rest of the bird, and cover it with salt & any kind of cooking oil (don't worry - kidneys clean out excess salt). Baste it every 30 minutes or so.

Gilly wrote:
Gilly, when guys cook it basically comes down to: "Is it still bleeding"? "Nah" "That'll be done then, tuck in."

If a good meal is your goal the comparison to the amount of money you mentioned I would get me a catfish dinner buffet,and a six pack of beer on the way home,that's about 10 bucks right.

Note......... I never drink and drive

Rick wrote:
Catfish?

Sounds a bit too exotic for my simple tastes, rick. Thanks for the suggestion though...although, I don't think £4.00 is gonna get me quite what it might in USDs...unfortunately.

Though a nice, cold beer would be lovely right now.

Easy to remember recipe format for guys......

A 3lb chicken = Bish
Sling it in the oven at 180C = Bash
for 1hr 45mins = Bosh

Anything more is just being flash, confusing and likely result in disaster, despondency and toast for tea.

Here ends this public service announcement.

big bag of red lentils ..........for soupage (two vegatable stock cubes and 1/4 of a bag of lentils..........lots of pepper )

some flour and some butter or oil , a few eggs and a bit of cheese.

Plus Asda does an amazing chocolate in it's smart price range .......on;l 30p but tastes like bournville

The thought got me salivating, so I've just bunged one in myself.

dawnbreak wrote:
Cheers Dawny...I'm loathe to spend it 'there' (may as well just mail it back to Cameron) but I doubt I get much bang for my buck elsewhere.

Gilly wrote:
That sounds both painful and entirely unhygienic, gilly.

You saucy devil, you.

EDIT: You can scratch that dinner invite too, thanks.

Asda chocoate is alright ................and it's only 30p

Ab Origine wrote:
What?

You didn't think...

You thought...

Right...am off out to see what I can hunt and gather. Thank you all for your suggestions.

A good one is to go to your local Asda/Tesco just before they close, and grab the stuff they reduce cos the sell by date is up.

The smaller not 24hr branches obviously. Stuff thats normally a couple of quid goes for like 10p at the Asda Local round here at ten to eight.

Chicken? £4? Fuck, not much for a life is it? Even if that life does consist of.......well you know., zero quality, zero sunlight yada yada.

G'day ab Origine.

A simple and cheap meal coming up ...

Split peas (I prefer the green )
Two onions (I prefer the red, though either works fine)
Two to three large potatoes
Pepper
Salt (I use a herb salt, though sea salt is great to use as well)

Bake your potatoes, turning when necessary, 200 degrees C (jacket potatoes don't require any oil, just bang 'em in a dish)
Cook onions with some salt and pepper added to taste (your taste that is )
When onion is done, add split peas and water (2 1/2 cups of water to 1 cup of split peas) and more pepper to taste
Bring the peas to a boil and then dial down the heat
Once the split peas are soft, blend them up and serve over your jacket potato

Optional extras, zucchini, spinach, garlic and parsley (in with the soup that is )

Cheap and easy to prepare. It ill take around 1 - 1.5 hours before you can tuck into it, but its worth the wait.

Not as nutritious, though VERY cheap ...

Cook some spaghetti with chilli flakes added into the water (might take a few goes to get the heat right for you)
When finished cooking the spaghetti, drizzle olive oil over and add herb salt to taste

This one costs next to nothing. I can get organic spaghetti (500gm) for under $2, which will do 3-4 servings (depending on how hungry you are). So, with the olive oil and salt added in, it's probably 60-80 cents per serving.

This is the herb salt I use ... www.avogel.com.au/avogel-products/health.../herbarmare_250g.php