Supper on a budget!

I am always saying that you can eat well and spend little and today's supper is another example of this.

My friend wanted to visit Aldi today so I went along for the ride. I wasn't really planning on getting anything but you never know.

My friend picked up a tin of new potatoes and said she uses them sliced up and fried with bacon for a quick working breakfast.  As the tin of potatoes cost £0.15 I decided to try some.

 

 

I also bought a large pack of mushrooms for £0.69 (and I used about 1/2 of the pack) and made some creamed mushrooms. I sauteed the sliced mushrooms in about 1 Tablespoon butter and one of sunflower oil. When they had cooked down I added some flour and cooked it for 2 minutes then milk to make a creamy sauce.  A few taste additions like chilli, salt & pepper and the result was lovely.

 

For the fried potatoes I sauteed two small onions and two sticks of celery that I had in the fridge (the cost of these would not have been much but we could assign a value of £0.60 for arguments sake) and sliced up the tin of potatoes.  I didn't have any bacon but I did have some left over bacon fat from some outstanding bacon we had on the weekend from Farmisons. At the end of cooking I sprinkled half a pack of corriander chopped up (the pack had been reduced to £0.45 so that was about £0.20 worth).

Both of these dishes were served with an Aldi pack of German Bratwurst which cost £1.79 and which I shallow fried in my griddle pan so didn't need much oil, in fact just a drizzle.

 

So all in all, with a quess as to the cost of the cupboard/fridge incidentals I would say that dinner tonight cost £2.85-£3.00 for two of us, that's approximately £1.45 per portion.  A delicious dinner and it didn't cost a fortune just a little imagination!