Food

Sausage and broccoli carbonara, cheap, quick and tasty dinner. With the middle boys school play looming next week he had extra after school rehearsals and the princess had brownies in the evening. With it being such a nice day me and the princess went to the park straight from school and then back to school to collect the other. Fortnite looked after the eldest until our return.

Chicken Hotpot - We had a little of our Sunday roast leftover from yesterday (yes, I know it was Monday, but thats how we roll around here)! So after a little rummage around the kitchen all I needed to buy was an onion. So, for 11p I made a delicious home cooked meal for everyone, with the boys going back for a second helping too (my lunch tomorrow)! If you had to buy all the ingredients it would still come in between £1.50 and £2.00! Super cheap and home cooked fresh food. Happy days. Plus it was quick and easy as well!

Back to basics cooking. This Easy Cheese Sauce recipe, is simple, quick and can be made from ingredients you already have lying around at home. You can add, cooked chicken, cooked bacon, green beans, other vegetables, almost anything you have in the fridge. It can be served with Pasta, rice dishes, over potatoes, over broccoli and other vegetable. This makes this easy cheese sauce super flexible and a handy recipe to have to hand for a quick, affordable and delicious dinner or lunch.

Making homemade bread is so simple. The results are super tasty too. Why not get the kids involved and make it together? We love getting messy together and the smell of freshly made bread lingers for hours after.

This Thai chicken recipe was a real crowd pleaser with the kids. It was really easy to prepare and because I would using the slow cooker it just cooked itself.

It was great to be able to chuck some stuff in the slow cooker and not have to worry about cooking in the evening. Which has also meant that we have got to enjoy the school holiday to the max.

Another day and another slow cooker meal! I had never cooked BBQ ribs in a slow cooker before and WOW WOW WOW, they melted in the mouth and because it was so simple to make, we got to spend all day having fun, without me having to worry about cooking.

Chinese Chicken with Hoisin Sauce - A budget version of Crispy Duck Pancakes. I actually purchased a large chicken for £2.05 in the yellow sticker section. Although if you have some chicken left from a Sunday roast you can use that.

Even with a chicken included in the price this came in at around £4.70, so still under the £5.00 budget.

The timings below don't include the chicken roasting time, so remember to include that in your calculations if you need to roast one.

After spotting two beef steaks at the yellow sticker section of the supermarket and with the kids at their mums for a few days, I decided to and some spice to my evening meal. This recipe covers two good sized portions and I actually had the second one for lunch the next day.

My Asian spicy beef salad is my take on a recipe found in many parts of South East Asia such as Vietnam and Thailand.

With the six monthly family visit to the dentist after school today I needed something fairly quick and easy to cook on our return. I already had the pork from a yellow sticker haul last week. So grabbed that out off the freezer this morning.

These Greek pork kebabs can be cooked on a BBQ, but the weather isn't quiet there yet, so I used the grill in the oven instead today.

Jamie's Sweet Chicken Surprise. The Eldest Lad found this recipe online and made a request it, so when I saw the chicken legs on a yellow sticker at the supermarket it seemed like a great idea to attempt it. It comes direct from Jamie Olivers 5 ingredient website and was super easy to prepare and cook.