Food writer and campaigner against poverty, Jack Monroe has shared three meals that you can cook for a total of £1.20. Yes, you read that correctly, a TOTAL of £1.20.
According to the 'bootstrap cook', breakfast, lunch and dinner all add up to just over a quid, meaning breakfast comes in at 16p, lunch 43p and dinner 64p. And looking at the images shared on social media, they all look delicious.
Monroe, who breaks down the meals, costs and reveals how to make them, adds to the list, "The time, mental health, skills, equipment & physical ability to create them: Priceless."
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So, what can you make? Well, breakfast kicks off with a slow-release energy oat-based meal. Carrot cake baked oats, which comes out at just 16p.
You'll need to put in a little effort to reap the rewards of these recipes but they all look easy enough to create. The breakfast recipe requires you to grate carrot and apple into a bowl, add oats, yoghurt, dried fruit and cinnamon. Monroe then says: "Melt peanut butter in a mug in the microwave, add the milk slowly, stirring to loosen. Mix this with everything. Top with sugar and orange peel. Bake at Gas Mark 5, 30 mins".
Moving on to lunch. Soup is on the menu and it's kidney bean, black bean and coconut soup with bread - cost, 43p. Taking to Twitter to share the tips, Jack says: "And the soup was another jazzed up leftovers recipe - one portion of kidney & black bean daal stretched into two soups - one of my fave things to do with a small portion of almost anything is to blitz it with stock and make it into soup! (When I’m not stuffing it in a pie)."
Dinner steps up the prep and cooking but it is doable although it does include instant mash, so if you're not a fan you could swap this out but it may alter the costing. Cannellini, bacon and pork belly pie, instant mash, sweetheart cabbage and peas, costing 64p.
This recipe may be for those following Jack's regular meal updates as the pie includes two portions of the leftover cannellini, bacon and stuffing gratin. The food writer adds: "Padded out with the leftover pork belly, in homemade shortcrust pastry".
Again all the ingredients are given on the post, including those for the shortcrust pastry. If you have a go, let us know what you think.
