Inexpensive Meals - Your Recipes

We all need ideas for inexpensive meals, especially when food costs a fortune these days. Feeding a growing family and keeping within our household budget, means we need to be frugal with food. Help is at hand though and there are plenty of ideas to go around.

You don't have to spend a fortune on food for the family. It's possible to cook healthy, low cost meals that are quick and easy to prepare and cook - saving you money and time in the kitchen.

Here you'll find our readers quick and easy recipes for inexpensive meals for the family. If you're looking for real ideas, then jump to the list of recipes below. Or share your ideas here too.

We love new ideas and recipes for budget meals. So share your best recipe here and help others save too.

We've also got some ideas tucked away elsewhere on Budgeting Steps, including the basics of budget cooking and how to make meals on a budget.

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We're looking for all sorts of recipes, including hot dishes, one pot dishes, casseroles, pasta dishes, salads or soups. Anything goes, as long as it feeds a family of four, it's easy and most importantly, it's cheap.

• Tell us details of the ingredients including quantities
• Tell us how many it feeds
• Tell us if it freezes (great for saving money)
• Tell us if you can make any variations of it (i.e. change or add an ingredient to make other meals)
• Tell us in your own words how you make it, and if you copy it from a book then let us know the book so we can be nice and attribute the author.

A few minor points

All recipes must be tried and tested by you. No links please!

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Your recipes for inexpensive meals

Here are the best recipes published by our readers.