Meals under a fiver

*Resuscitates blog*

BBC's mini-series Famous, Rich and Hungry, for Comic Relief got me thinking. It was a series of two shows about food poverty in the UK. Now I've never been in that situation, but there have been brief periods where I've had to watch my money - while I was a student and while I was out of work on welfare benefits. The program showed that eating healthily on a budget is damn hard. So much easier to buy tinned soup or baked beans.

So I'm going to try my hand at posting a few recipes which can feed a family of 4 for under a fiver, and some will have an option to be even cheaper by cutting out an ingredient or two.

I'm pricing these when I write up the recipe and some of the prices will be based on bulk-buying and splitting up.