There are lots of ways to save money and make your food go further.
- Luton Foodbank recipes: make dishes with the ingredients you get in a food parcel or are cheap to buy.
- Healthy recipes: healthy eating doesn’t need to be dull. Whip up tasty, affordable family meals with easy step-by-step recipes for NHS Better health, healthier families.
- Love Food hate waste, food and recipes search: food top tips and the best food saving recipes.
- Cooking on a bootstrap: healthy recipes and meal plans for individuals or families on a budget.
- Full Time meals with Marcus Rashford and Tom Kerridge: pocket-friendly, easy-peasy recipes for mega-tasty, super-filling, hearty home cooked food.
- BBC Family £1 recipe meal plan: this budget-friendly meal plan covers a week’s worth of dinners for four adults, coming in at under £28 in total. Also available budget meal plans for six, and vegetarian meal plan.
Helpful tips
- Beans: adding tinned lentils or beans to meat dishes can make your meal go further, and is a cheap protein.
- Soak your grains: items such as pasta, rice, noodles, bulgar wheat and couscous can be soaked in water in the fridge overnight or for a few hours before cooking. This reduces cooking time.
- Freezer: the freezer is your friend! Frozen vegetables and herbs can often work out cheaper, and reduces waste.
- Smaller bites: cutting meat into smaller pieces makes it go further in your meals.
- Batch cook: if you know there’s a meal the whole family love, make extra! You can keep leftover portions in the fridge or freezer to reheat at another time. This will save on energy used to cook, and save time for some of those busy days.
