I've discovered soup
It's part of my recent drive to wean myself off ready-meals. They's expensive, full of empty pointless fats and less satisfying than cooking for yourself.

I make one or two soups a week, each of which sort me out with five or six servings for around two quid. What I don't use within three days, I freeze either in freezer bags or in plastic pots from supermarket sauces and soups.

Ten fantastic, healthy meals a week for four quid is awesome! :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 16:46, 2 replies)

soup is good
I tend to buy tins for lunch, but it's possible to get cheap, tasty, healthy stuff.

I never seem to have the time to cook soup myself, possibly because I cook a proper meal every night.

Can't think of the last time I even bought a jar of sauce for some pasta.

I tend to look at something in the supermarket, look at the price, look at the ingredients, look at the price again and go "fuck that. I can make it better and for half the price"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 17:10, closed)

Dude, if you're making meat on the bone, use the leftover carcass for stock
and make soup by chucking in garlic, onion, carrot, then whatever else you fancy - it's simply a matter of simmering til the meat falls off then taking out the bones - if you're lucky you might even have some leftover stock for casseroles and such.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 17:16, closed)

*click*
Another one for the b3ta cookbook :)

Soup is one of those 'chop this lot, fry it, add stock, skin up, disappear for an hour and a half, blend a bit, enjoy' meals. Ten minutes work, a couple of hours cooking, ten minutes eating. Done!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 19:16, closed)

Chili FTW!
Hamburger (mince to you lot), tomatoes, chili powder, onions, peppers, salt, pepper, garlic, some red pepper, some chipotle, some cinnamon and a tiny amount of sugar and a few tablespoons of molasses. And if you're feeling like it, some cocoa powder to give it a mole-sauce flavor. (Mole sauce is essentially chocolate and chili powder, and is pronounced mo-LAY. It has nothing to do with rodents.)

Serve it over rice and it's filling and cheap.

Ditto on gumbo.

I keep my freezer well stocked.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 26 Jan 2009, 18:48, closed)