Food

The boys love pies and frequently request them. This particular easy chicken pie recipe is quick and affordable to make. It is also easy to change some ingredients to use up food you have left in the fridge.

In this recipe I used chicken breast, because I managed to get it really cheap in the yellow sticker section of the supermarket. However, I have also used left over roast chicken and skinless chicken thighs (chopped up). You could skip the bacon and add more vegetables if you wish. The basic process is the same when you swap around the ingredients. You can even skip the puff pastry and use mash potatoes or slice some potatoes in to thin crisps and top the pie with them.

How to cook the perfect gingered gammon. After all the fuss of Christmas Day, Boxing Day is often a more chilled and relaxed affair. We often won't have a fixed meal, rather graze slowly all day on cold meats, cheats and dips and pate. This ginger glazed gammon recipe is easy to prepare and because the slow cooker takes care of the actual cooking. You get more time to spend with the family.

Easy Noodle Soup - This is a one of my go to recipes. Its quick, healthy and super easy. I normally have everything in stock too. The flavours can be adjusted to suit any taste. Plus the whole process takes no time at all and creates very little washing up.

Simple, cheap and a lot better than the stuff you find in jars. I needed something to accompany the belly pork I recently cooked as part of my budget Christmas dinner recipe. So thought I would share it with you guys too.

Easy, healthy and delicious cabbage. Kids won't eat cabbage? Want to add some sparkle to dinner? Try this tasty cabbage that the kids will love. Give cabbage a fresh new look with this easy and quick recipe. Perfect for your Sunday Lunch.

My lot have never been a fan of cabbage, so I decided to jazz it up a bit. Since trying this amazing recipe, they now ask for it every week. So, if your lot won't eat their greens, why not give it a go. It takes no time at all to prepare and only ten minutes to cook.

No more needing to disguise or hide cabbage, plate it up and wait for them to ask for more. I can honestly say this recipe has made my job of getting them to dive into what was once a boring vegetable, so much easier.

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We are fairly traditional at Dad's Delicious Dinners HQ and tend to go for a roast most Sundays. I found this piece of belly pork in the yellow sticker section of the supermarket and decided to keep the meat element simple and bring other flavours to the plate with the vegetables.

With this roast pork recipe going down so well, I decided to use it for my budget Christmas recipe also. Aare you bored of turkey every year for Christmas? Fancy something different? Do you find yourself getting frustrated with the price of meat and poultry in and around December?

To fit with the remit of the blog, I decided to attempt to make a Christmas Dinner for a budget price. Over the last few weeks, I have been eagerly studying the contents of the yellow sticker section in the supermarket. Patiently waiting for the perfect opportunity to arrive.

Belly pork is a relatively cheap cut of meat anyway, but when reduced can be even better value for money. But when I saw a 1.1kg piece for £3.48, I knew that I had found my budget Christmas meat.

Half term completed and the countdown to Christmas has begun. Well, for the kids at least! In a vain attempt to get me more into the spirit, I decided to do a few Christmas related recipes, that are not a Christmas Dinner. Christmas food that isn't Christmas food! So to start this series off. I have updated the traditional bangers and mash, to festive bangers and mash with pigs in blankets. This took no time to prepare and only 20/25 minutes to cook.

The kids had been on at me for a while to have pork ribs again. So tonight's meal was going to be sticky and sweet pork ribs, still on the rack and it didn't disappoint.

Pork ribs, do take a while to cook. However, this recipe takes no time to prepare, leaving you more time to relax while the oven does the work.

I didn't price up this recipe because we were given the pork ribs by a neighbour. I have seen them in the yellow sticker section of the supermarket, but realistically we probably wouldn't have had these if we needed to pay the full price. So tonight's meal was a bit of a treat.

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Although fairly cheap to make, these do cost more than the frozen (processed) fish fingers you can buy from most places. However, With only, fish, flour, egg and bread they are a lot healthier and you know exactly what is in them. So in my opinion worth the little extra.