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Doing one really big dinner over the weekend means leftovers all week. But I space them out over 2-4 weeks by freezing them. I don’t do it very often right now, but it does help.

So if there is a roast or something similarly too big for one or two people at one time, then I cut up the rest into 2-3 containers, dish some starch and frozen vegetables and put 1 in the fridge for the next day and all the rest into the freezer.

Wow, it looks like you’ve all got plenty of suggestions.

Group cooking would be ok, as it’s fine to cook for other people I’ll have to try and scare up some friends to do that with.

Slow cookers aren’t something I’ve ever considered, but maybe they would work. Presumably they’re kind of larger capacity - leftovers maybe? And batching up leftovers into complete meals sounds like it would make meal preparation quicker.

And I’d forgotten all about baked potatoes and fish fingers so I’ll probably add them to my shopping list.

I know what you mean … the idea of being ‘frugal’ with food can seem a little dull but love your ideas and thanks to Suzie’s comments as well - amazing how you can eat like a Kind for very little money indeed!

I adore my slow cooker-a little prep and you get 4-6 servings. (althoug they sell smaller ones for 2-3 people-I have a medium to large one myself, as I love leftovers). I often make a pot of soup or stew in the slow cooker on the weekends and freeze those for lunches. These dishes stretch ingredients quite a bit-a little bit of meat for 6 servings. I don’t know what’s available in the UK, but here there are packages of pre-cut veggies for soup/stew. They are obviously more money than the raw ingredients, but I would bet buying those and making up a big pot of soup would still be cheaper than buying canned soups (and healthier too!) Good luck with your frugal eating efforts.

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Probably the least healthy suggestion I could make, but why don’t you buy larger bottles of diet pepsi, which you often find on offer anyway, and get a bottle you can reuse everyday and fill that up?

Think of it in the same way as all the tips about buying a thermos cup and making your coffee at home instead of buying it on the way to work, it’s a small saving on a guilty pleasure.

Well, I love food and cooking, and it’s very important to me to eat delicious, healthy food… so even though there’s only two of us I cook from scratch almost every weeknight, plus I make special stuff to take in my lunch.

But my one tip is, when you do cook a proper meal, cook enough for 4+ people, and put the leftovers into individual serving containers, and freeze for later use. That way you can have homemade, healthy food later on (and not the next day and the next day until you’re sick of that dish).

Actually, I do have a second tip. I have a list of quick meals on the fridge that I refer to when I need inspiration for things I can make that don’t have to roast in the oven for an hour and a half. My list includes things like stir fry, chicken fajitas, omelette, but yours might be quite different.

I also found this AskMetafilter thread you might get ideas from:
http://ask.metafilter.com/94414/Eat-food-not-too-much-mostly-vegetables-and-with-as-little-effort-as-possible

@Canadian:
I love that AskMetafilter thread, thanks. And the list of meals idea is a good one - saves on the thinking time.

@Janet:
Non-healthy suggestions are just as good as healthy ones. I’m not sure why that’s never occurred to me before

@suzie.. thanks a lot.. your comments motivated me to take up cooking again.

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