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Cheesypoof said:
you jokin me? Tinned crab is really expensive (at least in the UK and Ireland it is....). About 4 quid at least for a tin...and if its a skint day, the salmon would need to be pink salmon, as that only costs about 2 quid (in Lidl, its only €1.19, but red salmon would be out of the question...you may as well fork out for a ready meal...)
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Miss Caphat said:
oh, they're not as much here, sorry. also I always have some random cans lying around - I thought we were talking about making meals out of odds and ends you have already
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You can get cheap crabmeat from Home Bargains/Quality Save.

I bought three tins the other day for 49p each. It wasn't the nice whole lumps that I would buy if buying from a proper supermarket, but it does the job.

Crab Linguine

Boil some pasta up and in the mean time chop a few cloves of garlic and fry in olive oil. Add a chopped chilli to the oil (or more if like it hotter). Let it fry for a bit and then add a handful of cherry tomatoes, sliced in half. As soon as the toms are warmed through, add a few splashes of lime juice and a bit of salt. And stir in the crab meat. Take off the heat as soon as the crab is warm.

Put your linguine/generic pasta in a bowl, and spoon your crab/tom/spicy oil over the top. Serves two per tin (24.5p per serving of crab in my case). A bit of basil over the top works great, too :)
 
Cheesypoof said:
and dont have kids! :thumbs:
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You see this is your biggest mistake. Cos as I always tell mine. "When the cupboards are empty I'm going to eat the kids" :D

Corn beef hash.
Egg chips and beans.
Liver and onions with mash.
Braising steak yum yum
Bacon cabbage and potatoes.
Hotpot
Scouse.
Blind scouse.
Veg soup. (Whatever s left on the tramps buffet boiled and blended with a little salt and pepper)

These are all the things my mum brought us up on :D

I once live with a hod carrier in Bournemouth. He was a real hard-knock scouse lad and he bought a sack of potatoes, two trays of eggs and a 24 can slab of beans from the wholesalers every first Saturday of the month. I cooked all sorts of wanky stuff like spag boll, lasagner, fish stew (I was down south and experimenting like Floyd) :D

Every month about two weeks into it I'd of spent all my money and Danny the Pan would always be there "Want sum egg and chips La?"
 
Fez909 said:
You can get cheap crabmeat from Home Bargains/Quality Save.

I bought three tins the other day for 49p each. It wasn't the nice whole lumps that I would but if buying from a proper supermarket, but it does the job.

Crab Linguine

Boil some pasta up and in the mean time chop a few cloves of garlic and fry in olive oil. Add a chopped chilli to the oil (or more if like it hotter). Let it fry for a bit and then add a handful of cherry tomatoes, sliced in half. As soon as the toms are warmed through, add a few splashes of lime juice and a bit of salt. And stir in the crab meat. Take off the heat as soon as the crab is warm.

Put your linguine/generic pasta in a bowl, and spoon your crab/tom/spicy oil over the top. Serves two per tin (24.5p per serving of crab in my case). A bit of basil over the top works great, too :)
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Thats good stuff!! I find cheap tinned tuna and salmon absolutely fine. I use them all the time to make salmon pie for my Mam, and take a really good look at the meat from the tin - it looks pretty good (even the mega cheap tinned pink salmon from Princes or Lidl)
 
Cheesypoof said:
I couldnt eat frozen mince...if you mean the own brand nasty stuff in a bag!! :eek:Lentils and mixed beans from Poundland would be more palatable.
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ahh, but i like meat a lot more than pulses. yeah, the own brand stuff - it's fine. fuckit, i've eaten saveloys and doner kebabs and burgers from vans in lay-bys on the side of the road. I'm no stranger to eyelids and arseholes.
 
friedaweed said:
You see this is your biggest mistake. Cos as I always tell mine. "When the cupboards are empty I'm going to eat the kids" :D

Corn beef hash.
Egg chips and beans.
Liver and onions with mash.
Braising steak yum yum
Bacon cabbage and potatoes.
Hotpot
Scouse.
Blind scouse.
Veg soup. (Whatever s left on the tramps buffet boiled and blended with a little salt and pepper)

These are all the things my mum brought us up on :D

I once live with a hod carrier in Bournemouth. He was a real hard-knock scouse lad and he bought a sack of potatoes, two trays of eggs and a 24 can slab of beans from the wholesalers every first Saturday of the month. I cooked all sorts of wanky stuff like spag boll, lasagner, fish stew (I was down south and experimenting like Floyd) :D

Every month about two weeks into it I'd of spent all my money and Danny the Pan would always be there "Want sum egg and chips La?"
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I know hows to make all that, is the egg and chips thing Scouse and Blind Scouse?:D
 
spanglechick said:
ahh, but i like meat a lot more than pulses. yeah, the own brand stuff - it's fine. fuckit, i've eaten saveloys and doner kebabs and burgers from vans in lay-bys on the side of the road. I'm no stranger to eyelids and arseholes.
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fair play, when i was a skint student, i turned vegetarian for 9 months. I didnt miss meat much, it wasnt bad at all.
 
oh, and Pierogies. don't flame me, Cheesy, they're like 99c for a box of 20 frozen ones here. :D
I have made some awesome meals starting with a skillet, butter or oil, piegrogies, then toss in some veggies and onions and seasoning/ spices.
sometimes I've made a little sauce at the end w/ some cooking wine and a smidge of cream, then threw in some basil at the end. Now that's a meal that tastes expensive for very cheap. :cool:
 
spanglechick said:
whatnows?
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they're polish...generally little pockets of mashed potatoes stuffed in pasta. they can be fried, baked, or boiled, and are oddly very delicious.
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friedaweed said:
Scouse is just like your Irish stew, or your Lancashire hotpot . (All the leftovers from a Sunday roast in a pan with some gravy)
Blind scouse means it's got no meat in it ;) :D
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Probably tastes gorgeous too!! I think i accidentally made this the other week, but fried a few sausages and chucked em in, YUMMY
 
A deep fat fryer serves you well here or at least did in my student days. Fry only chips are really cheap, sometimes with some cheap Noodles on top.

Also all the really cheap sausages taste much better when deep fried, indeed most cheap meat products do. A bit of msg and paprika in the baked beans and everyone loves it.

As your to skint to change the oil all the meat fat will make it solidify. This will actually make the chips taste better.
 
Miss Caphat said:
they're polish...generally little pockets of mashed potatoes stuffed in pasta. they can be fried, baked, or boiled, and are oddly very delicious.
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I've had them in Poland....served with a mushroom sauce (or perhaps in a skint, homemade case, a can of mushroom soup) for extra yumminess.
 
Cheesypoof said:
I know hows to make all that, is the egg and chips thing Scouse and Blind Scouse?:D
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Oh yeah and even before Shirley:cool: Egg and Chips were Scouse ;)


We always had stake on Fridays. Egg and chips was Thursdays which was a little bit of scouse irony added to the script :)
 
Global Stoner said:
A deep fat fryer serves you well here or at least did in my student days. Fry only chips are really cheap, sometimes with some cheap Noodles on top.

Also all the really cheap sausages taste much better when deep fried, indeed most cheap meat products do. A bit of msg and paprika in the baked beans and everyone loves it.

As your to skint to change the oil all the meat fat will make it solidify. This will actually make it taste better.
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Lovin your work! was gonna say, if i had to go back to those days i'd get me a deep fat fryer. (I want one anyway) :oops:
 
Cheesypoof said:
I've had them in Poland....served with a mushroom sauce (or perhaps in a skint, homemade case, a can of mushroom soup) for extra yumminess.
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they probably are great w/ sausages too (and maybe mushrooms & onions), but I've never tried that combo.
 
Global Stoner said:
A deep fat fryer serves you well here or at least did in my student days. Fry only chips are really cheap, sometimes with some cheap Noodles on top.

Also all the really cheap sausages taste much better when deep fried, indeed most cheap meat products do. A bit of msg and paprika in the baked beans and everyone loves it.

As your to skint to change the oil all the meat fat will make it solidify. This will actually make the chips taste better.
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I love the spirit of this, though not, i realise, fond of deep-fried food except chips. ahh well, i had to have some healthier preferences, drop in the ocean though they may be.
 
Oh and bacon off cuts. About 80p for 500g and make really nice pasta sauces. Best then normal supermarket bacon in fact as it stays in nice chunks.

I suppose at this point I should probably say something boring and healthy like dahl.
 
Another product from Iceland is Birds Eye Southern fried chicken (usually 2 in a box for a quid, and not the dippers or what have you), with Icelands own curly fries, and a tin of beans or frozen peas. If you add oil to your baking tray and a few cloves of garlic, some mayo on the side (and maybe melt some cheapo cheddar on the fries towards the end), this turns out so well!! Its dirt cheap, and really alright!:thumbs:
 
Pingu said:
pierogi isnt pasta. its a type of dumpling and they are fecking lovely. you get various types of filling - most are savoury such as pierogi z mięsem but you can also get sweet fillings
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I didn't say it was pasta, and I'm quite aware of what they are and the fact that you can get different fillings. :confused:
They are pretty much as I described though, pasta dough stuffed w/ mashed potatoes
 
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