Frugal Chicken Pot Pie 85p per quarter of pie!

I've always wanted to make a chicken pot pie, I have no explanation for this, I have just always wanted to.

At the weekend I bought a whole chicken and roasted it...it was quite flavourless so decided it was the perfect time to use the meat for a pie!

I found a recipe online and more or less followed it...

Ingredients and costing:

Items bought:
Chicken (whole £3) only half was used = £1.50
1 tin of carrots (yes tinned...asked me if I care) = 20p
1 tin of garden teas = 20p
1 tin of sweetcorn = 20p
Single cream (not even half used) = 60p
Pastry (total £1.39 - half used rest frozen) = 69p

= £3.39 / 4 (portions)
= 85p (rounded up)

In the cupboard:
1 chicken stock cube
flour (for rolling the pastry)
butter

I followed the recipe which is linked above, in summary:

1. Cream + stock + veg - boil for a bit
2. Drain off the liquid and keep this
3. Melt butter, add flour + stock/cream broth
4. Once thickened add veg and chicken
5. Allow to cool
6. Pre-heat over (180-200C)
7. Roll out pastry and put cover the bottom of the baking tin in pastry
8. Fill pastry shell with the cooled pie mix 
9. Roll out top and put on top of the pie mix. 
10. BAKE (20-25 mins)
11. Cut and serve

The pie was really full and really tasty - the pastry cooked well on the bottom as well.

For more information about the instructions. 

Budget Friendly Veggie Lasagne

For the grand total of £1.66 per portion I made a veggie lasagne this evening. I would also class this as a quick dinner.

I made it and ate it before thinking it would be worth blogging about, then realised at £1.66 a portion how couldn't I!

Through the wonder of Google I was able to find a photo of the main ingredient:

It is simple to cook; you add a pint of cold water and boil/simmer it till thick (approx 20 mins). I bought dried lasagne sheets and boiled them in water (, with a pinch of salt and a dash of olive oil (5-8 mins) so they don't stick together, I layered the bolognese, pre-cooked lasagne sheets and then some grated cheese. And baked it for 10-15 minutes.

Cost break down:
Beanfest bolognese £1
Dried lasagne sheets 43p (these will last the alternative was fresh sheets £1 which wouldn't last)
Block of cheese £1.89 (not all used for this meal).

I ate this with sweet potato wedges (99p for a bag of them) for tea and have a portion left for lunch.

Everything was bought from Morrison's and nothing was on deal or at a reduced price.

To make this to feed four I would suggest buying two packs of the bolognese as there was enough lasagne sheets left over for many more meals.

Lasagne on a budget - mastered!!