Chicken

Do you need something quick and delicious for dinner? Do the family like Chicken Kievs? Well look no further! This simple chicken Kiev recipe is just for you!

Mango Chicken Bake. This was a really simple one pot dish from the BBC good food magazine and a bit of a crowd pleaser too. Except for the little lady, who was in a ‘I only like cereal mood’, although she reluctantly ate it all very quickly and asked for more of the fruity chicken, whilst saying it wasn’t good because it wasn’t cereal.

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.

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.

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.

Knowing that I had a manic day at work today and the kids had activities planned for after school, I decided to dig out the slow cooker for todays meal and did a little preparation before the morning school run.

This is full of flavours from the Mediterranean, with chorizo, tomatoes and peppers. The chicken literally falls of the bone and we really enjoyed mopping up the sauce with bread.

Searching through the freezer this morning I found some chicken legs I must have picked up from the yellow sticker section of the supermarket. We had a hectic afternoon after school so I needed a quick and simple dinner plan

After a bumper haul of yellow sticker bargains the other day, I grabbed some chicken drumsticks out of the freezer before the morning school run, in readiness for tonight's dinner.

I need quick and simple for tonights dinner, we had loads going on and lot's of homework to catch up on. This dish certainly didn't fail us. Simple and bursting with Mediterranean flavours.