The cheapest meal going. Do you think I could have mine lightly done with dripping.
And a bit of salt n' pepper on mine please ;D
What's this an economy drive Ace?
It was on breakfast TV this morning...............Mrs Beeton :o
It's making me peckish thinking about it :D
Can I have cheese on mine?
Of course ;D
Why did I choose to read this at 4:45am in the morning!! ::)
I couldn't sleep so thought I might just as well get up. Next on went the PC to look for van hire to move my parents into a new place in a few weeks time. (Just one of the several things I had on my mind).
Van hire saved to favourites.....and then I nipped to A4A to see if anyone else was awake.
Right now I'm considering a sandwich.
My dad (the world's greatest cook - Not!) used to open a tin of condensed milk at 5 in the morning and we would share that before we went off down the road to a prefab at the bottom of the hill where I went back to bed and was looked after until it was time to get up for school. He, of course, went off to work. Those were the days!
They seem not to have done me too much harm. Nor did the dripping sandwiches we sometimes had for tea. ;D
He seems to have done OK too.
Sugar on toast anyone ;D ;D ;D?
Ray's dad used to like chocolate sandwiches :o he was 91 when he died ;D
I had cheese and tomato on toast last night ;D
It's lovely now these memories of sandwiches/something to eat on bread come out of the woodwork! It may well be a generation thing? My childhood was directly after the war, and I have lovely memories of brown sugar (and butter or perhaps it was marge) on bread, condensed milk on bread (yum, yum, yum, yum, yum!) and dripping jelly on toast, 'cos I didn't like the fat but loved the jelly. Not long after that my mum started to make jam, presumably because the sugar became easier to obtain, so it was then various home-made jams on bread. But I still LOVE condensed milk and spoon the remains of a tin happily into my mouth. We also buy it in tubes here in France, and it has become known as ointment!
I used to have dripping on toast on sunday after my bath!! I also love a slice of bread dipped in the meat juices . No wonder I'm not a size 0 ;D ;D
X Chas
My daughter doesn't eat anything on toast. The nearest she gets is crumpets with chocolate spread or jam.
I remember having cheap suppers of beans on toast, cheese on toast, pilchards on toast, cauliflower cheese, macaroni cheese but, until recently, I had to do a 50 mile round trip to the nearest Heinz Beans supply so she's grown up with pasta and fresh home made sauces and cheap dinners for us are pasta or cheaper cuts of meat or fish with home grown veggies and salads whenever possible.
I tried her on beans on toast a couple of years ago but she hates the beans and won't go near cheese on toast either - unless it's a Croque Monsieur when we're out and need a quick snack and then she's just as likely to have a Croque Madame with a fried egg on top.
I remember having marge on our toast, but we would always get 'mucky fat' for monday breakfast. When I had to stay with an aunt once, she put real butter on a toasted teacake. A taste that remains with me to this day. I will not have these healthy spreads in the house they turn the toast all soggy.
Our meals when we were kids were pretty predictable.
Porridge or toast in the winter, cornflakes in the warmer weather for breaky
Egg and chips, spam fritters and baked beans, cold meat left over from sunday usually rabbit, loads of spuds and cabbage. If it was really cold we got stew and dumplings thickened up with lentils for our midday meals. After the sugar rationing stopped we would sometimes have a jam roly poly for pud but that was usually made from the leftover suet mix that made the steak and kidney pudding.
Bread and jam for tea, but tinned fruit and jelly with a drop of carnation milk on sundays.
Always ovaltine or milk sop for something warm before heading up the wooden hill.
Didn't do to bad on that diet, but I was glad when they gave us free school dinners.
You cleared your plate if you didn't it was put in front of you for the next meal. No waste allowed at all.
I remember having bread and dripping. I love it especially if it has a bit of the meat juices underneath. Feel bad I do not think my children have ever had bread and dripping.
It was supposed to be fattening, but as a child I was as skinny as a rake. Those were the days. :o
Quote from: ACE on November 17, 2011, 14:28:20
I remember having marge on our toast, but we would always get 'mucky fat' for monday breakfast. When I had to stay with an aunt once, she put real butter on a toasted teacake. A taste that remains with me to this day. I will not have these healthy spreads in the house they turn the toast all soggy.
Our meals when we were kids were pretty predictable.
Porridge or toast in the winter, cornflakes in the warmer weather for breaky
Egg and chips, spam fritters and baked beans, cold meat left over from sunday usually rabbit, loads of spuds and cabbage. If it was really cold we got stew and dumplings thickened up with lentils for our midday meals. After the sugar rationing stopped we would sometimes have a jam roly poly for pud but that was usually made from the leftover suet mix that made the steak and kidney pudding.
Bread and jam for tea, but tinned fruit and jelly with a drop of carnation milk on sundays.
Always ovaltine or milk sop for something warm before heading up the wooden hill.
Didn't do to bad on that diet, but I was glad when they gave us free school dinners.
You cleared your plate if you didn't it was put in front of you for the next meal. No waste allowed at all.
You remember.
You just reproduced our weekly menu....... More or less.
The hard times are biting.
Thank goodness for our allotment. If we can afford meat, we have a complete meal a king would be happy with.
If not, a beautiful vegetable soup, or roasted veg.... Whatever.... The family will manage between ourselves..... and school dinners really do help the kids grow.
I'm just glad my lot listened to me instead of sending the boring old bloke that always warned of hard times a'coming, to bed....
Well if you are having steak and kidney pudding, where do you live? a few of us might just pop in about lunch time ;) I will bring my own knife and fork.
Thats what we have tomorrow tomorrow Ace.
You would be very welcome think it might be a long journey though ;D ;D
x Chas
What is milk sop?
Quote from: Duke Ellington on November 17, 2011, 19:10:51
What is milk sop?
No idea But I'll pass if that's ok. Would prefer Horlicks!!!
X Chas
the second shows what many people who post on bbc site think about the old toast
sandwich
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15760897
Quote from: Duke Ellington on November 17, 2011, 19:10:51
What is milk sop?
half and half hot milk and water mixed with bread and sometimes sugar or usually malt extract, I could not touch it now bit it warmed you up and stopped your belly rumbling at bedtime.
I still had a 28 inch waist when I was 21 and never went over 9 stone. Making up for it now though ;)
Milk pobs in Barnsley, loved them with sugar on.
Thanks for reminding me of Ovaltine. Haven't had it in years but can taste it now. That was sometimes a before bed snickersnack. Sometimes Dad would crush crackers in milk or oyster crackers in milk.
I can also remember lying in bed on my stomach with my fist pressed against me to "fill up the tummy" when I got hungry in the middle of the night. That makes it sound like my parents never fed me which wasn't the case at all...just hunger pangs.
Quote from: Duke Ellington on November 17, 2011, 19:10:51
What is milk sop?
It's one food I'd sooner avoid. I remember being fed this by an elderly well meaning landlady when I was ill at college. It really did make things worse...bless her. ::)
Bung is a drop of cider and....I'm feeling yuck all over again.
Quote from: northener on November 17, 2011, 22:03:04
Milk pobs in Barnsley, loved them with sugar on.
We always had pobs but this is the first time I've come across anyone who knows what they are. I was beginning to think I was imagining them.
Oh's Gran used to put bread pieces in a bowl with tea poured on sprinkled with sugar and put in the oven
My kids favourite was fried bread and jam ;D
Quote from: pansy potter on November 18, 2011, 07:39:03
My kids favourite was fried bread and jam ;D
I'd forgot about that treat, if it was covered in batter it tasted a bit like a doughnut.
They are asking for ideas on the cheapest meals, I think we have come up with quite a few ideas on here.
When my kids asked what was for tea it was always "bread and to it" ;D
Green pea and duck ;D
I grew up with predictable weekly meals and hated it so am determined not to do it to my daughter. We had roast lunch on Sunday with left over cold meat and some veggies on Monday evening. Tuesday was curry made with the rest of the cold meat and, if needed, added hard boiled eggs if there wasn't enough meat. Wednesday might be liver and onions or kidneys till things got better and we might get steak and kidney with suet dumplings. Thursday was cauliflower or macaroni cheese and Friday was tripe and onions until things got better and we might have a bit of gammon if we were lucky. On Saturdays, mum boiled a ham for the week's sandwiches and Saturday dinner and baked scones but they weren't good. Lunches were pea and ham soup from the ham water, beans on toast, spaghetti on toast, scrambled eggs on toast............
For me the cheapest meal is surely made from home grown veg - healthy, nutritious, tasty and versatile as soup or bakes or braises or stir fry with just a bit of oil or butter with added beans or lentils or grated cheese for protein. Home made cakes and biscuits are also cheaper and tastier than bought ones full of unknown chemicals.
I also think people lack basic cooking skills and don't know what to do with cheaper cuts of meat and, of course, rely too much on supermarkets who do not offer the cheapest cuts of meat such as cheeks, shin and so on. It doesn't have to take agreat deal of time, just some planning ahead. I braised two pork hocks with chopped onions, carrots and celery on Wednesday then left them to cool. Yesterday I took the meat off the bone and added it to onions and mushrooms with a dab of mustard, some tarragon from the garden and the stock from cooking the meat. It gave us enough for two meals for 3 people and cost all of €7 which means I can afford to treat my daughter to her favourite lamb this weekend.
My kids favourite was fried bread and jam Oh yes...what is called here as eggy bread..in Finland its 'poor knights'. Egg whisked in milk and bread soaked in it..fried in butter and big dollop of strawberry jam...
YUM..it was regular thing and always done with stale bread..sometimes bread was left purposely untouched so we could get the dads master piece of cookery for tea.. ::) ;D..the one of two dishes he could russle up, other one was pan cakes.. ;D....and the air was 'gray' with butter smoke when he was at it.. ;D Once he started he didn't just do few..it was army size load pancakes or knights on counter and we had them next day cold too ::) ;D
Today OH ordered for tea tray of yorkshire pudding..One biggen..to eaten with milk and jam.. ;D
Never heard of eggy bread till I became an au paire in Belgium where it's called Pain Perdu and flavoured with cinnamon and/or vanilla sugar.
Sunday pud at home was always rice pudding which I loathed. A cheap tea was drop scones. Never met any of the traditional English puds such as bread and butter pudding at home though we did get spotty dick at school and sometimes jam roly poly or Manchester tart. I've made up for it since and now have a fine repertoire of British cakes and puds which my Belgian friends adore.
Quote from: pansy potter on November 18, 2011, 08:21:12
When my kids asked what was for tea it was always "bread and to it" ;D
"Bread & pull it"... ;)
mum used to mash corned beef into mashed potato, make it into balls and eg and breadcrumb them, then deep fried in lard. Mrs Miller's great balls of fire ;D
no wonder I have cholesterol problems ;D
Quote from: manicscousers on November 18, 2011, 10:06:46
mum used to mash corned beef into mashed potato, make it into balls and eg and breadcrumb them, then deep fried in lard. Mrs Miller's great balls of fire ;D
no wonder I have cholesterol problems ;D
Corned beef hash!! Lovely.
"Bread and point"...
Anymore?
MrPKL's friend had "bacon shapes" -don't know bread and point-sorry
Any takers on bacon shapes?
Egg and chips if the money is tight............Love it ;D
Mum often had a stew pan on............no money but never hungry.
If I could choose any food in the world it would be my Mum's stew. ;D
Quote from: goodlife on November 18, 2011, 09:26:39
My kids favourite was fried bread and jam Oh yes...what is called here as eggy bread..in Finland its 'poor knights'. Egg whisked in milk and bread soaked in it..fried in butter and big dollop of strawberry
That's called French Toast in the states except we serve with maple syrup and side of bacon as a breakfast or supper, tea or whatever you call the small meal. Also Toad in a Hole which I guess must be UK origin- fried toast with egg cooked in the center.
Peanut butter and grape jelly=standard cheap lunch we took to school and didn't require refrigeration. Still have that sometimes.
Oh forgot FLITCH! Pennsylvania Dutch for bacon grease made into a white gravy served over toast. NOT MY FAVORITE growing up ugh but did fill us up.
Also Toad in a Hole which I guess must be UK origin- fried toast with egg cooked in the center.
In the UK Toad in the Hole is Yorkshire pudding with sausages - something I no longer make being on my own. shame!
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Tricia
Oh- that looks much more interesting!
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on November 18, 2011, 13:14:54
Quote from: goodlife on November 18, 2011, 09:26:39
My kids favourite was fried bread and jam Oh yes...what is called here as eggy bread..in Finland its 'poor knights'. Egg whisked in milk and bread soaked in it..fried in butter and big dollop of strawberry
That's called French Toast in the states except we serve with maple syrup and side of bacon as a breakfast or supper, tea or whatever you call the small meal. Also Toad in a Hole which I guess must be UK origin- fried toast with egg cooked in the center.
Peanut butter and grape jelly=standard cheap lunch we took to school and didn't require refrigeration. Still have that sometimes.
[/quote I have French Toast made with just bread soaked in beaten egg, tho' I've not tried it mixed with milk. I suppose that'll help make the egg go further as I use 2 eggs for 3 slices just for myself (i know, it's a lot for one, but i love it) and served with Lyle and Tate's Maple Syrup.
It's also known as Gypsy Toast too..
I think it is generational - my parents were "working class" Brits, from families of 5 and 7 kids, and when they were small, dinner was often bread and sugar with hot milk thrown over it! or so they used to say. Bread was never wasted, they would have bread pudding, and there were always filling puddings like rice or (erk) tapioca or semolina puddings or steamed puddings and custard which I think were a substitute for dinner with a cup of tea! My mum still loved condensed milk on bread and used to also soak up the dripping on bread after a roast. I think they were brought up on very plain, cheap food, stews, minced meat stewed with veg, potatoes at every meal, cabbage and carrots and of course things like fried eggs, bacon, sausages, chops, and everything possible on toast or bread. Salad was just a load of raw food, lettuce, tomatoes, spring onions, pickled beetroot and cheese, with salad cream. Their diet was a lot more basic than ours is now! Not sure it was as healthy but there was no money for convenience food, except a few tinned goods.
When I was small, my mum was a pretty hopeless cook and i think we had about 12 dishes that just were cycled round and round, between chops and 3 veg, roasts, fish fingers, fry ups, stews of various types, shepherds pies, steak and chips, salad and cold meat in the hot summer, and lunches were always just sandwiches! No wonder I have always been fat! ;D ;D ;D I admit that I do still loved cooked eggs on toast, baked beans and cheese on toast and my kids will eat some of those things but clearly they haven't been brought up like that (we now eat like Frenchies which is pretty healthy food) and some things they find astounding! The jam sandwiches always make their eyes open wide!
Quote from: ACE on November 17, 2011, 18:48:56
Well if you are having steak and kidney pudding, where do you live? a few of us might just pop in about lunch time ;) I will bring my own knife and fork.
Snake and Pygmy Pud, unfortunately, is a bit of a rarity nowadays.... But we'll gladly feed anyone that's hungry. Any time you need feeding, I'm sure we'll manage to set an extra place. :)
Flitch is a cut of bacon over here!
Quote from: Nigel B on November 18, 2011, 17:11:24
Snake and Pygmy Pud, unfortunately, is a bit of a rarity nowadays.... But we'll gladly feed anyone that's hungry. Any time you need feeding, I'm sure we'll manage to set an extra place. :)
Just finished ours was expecting Ace hope he isn't stuck in traffic cos it's all gone now!!!
Quote from: luckycharlie on November 18, 2011, 19:14:27
Quote from: Nigel B on November 18, 2011, 17:11:24
Snake and Pygmy Pud, unfortunately, is a bit of a rarity nowadays.... But we'll gladly feed anyone that's hungry. Any time you need feeding, I'm sure we'll manage to set an extra place. :)
Just finished ours was expecting Ace hope he isn't stuck in traffic cos it's all gone now!!!
Haha! Nom Nom Nom.....
Nig.
Quote from: luckycharlie on November 18, 2011, 19:14:27
Just finished ours was expecting Ace hope he isn't stuck in traffic cos it's all gone now!!!
Well what shall I do with these couple of bottles of wine I purchased specially for the occasion. I will have them tomorrow night with a bacon roly poly she has promised to make me for tea. ;D
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I shall just go have to go down the pub now and finish the evening in the kebab house and have a bit of a scoff off the old elephant leg.
Il Bastardo wine http://flic.kr/p/7d2Moj
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on November 18, 2011, 13:14:54Also Toad in a Hole which I guess must be UK origin- fried toast with egg cooked in the center.
A fried slice of bread with an egg in the centre of it was called "Egg-in-t-'ole" in my day and was a Lancashire dish.
My kids, adults themselves now, will ask for it whenever they remember, and as long as there's tomato ketchup handy.
It's a really handy, fast, energy-packed, snack.
Quote from: Nigel B on November 18, 2011, 20:33:17
Quote from: GrannieAnnie on November 18, 2011, 13:14:54Also Toad in a Hole which I guess must be UK origin- fried toast with egg cooked in the center.
A fried slice of bread with an egg in the centre of it was called "Egg-in-t-'ole" in my day and was a Lancashire dish.
My kids, adults themselves now, will ask for it whenever they remember, and as long as there's tomato ketchup handy.
It's a really handy, fast, energy-packed, snack.
Yes, it is a handy quick meal. Your name for it sounds like it got mixed up crossing the ocean somehow. To me it is tastier than a poached egg with a slice of toast though they're the same basically.
We had roast pork yesterday with all the trimmings. I did a most sinful thing. I ate all the crackling. I also did another sinful thing. I had pork dripping on toast for my breakfast, all I could think of was my high cholesterol. I was brought up with dripping butties as a child, only one thing better that pork dripping and that is lamb dripping. My OH won't touch fat so I get it all to myself. So my ideal toast sandwich would to have dripping on both sides of the toast with salt and pepper between two slices of bread.
My dad is 96. Through his childhood they ate mainly vegetables as meat was dear and rare in their household. Once in a very blue moon one of the goats was slaughtered and they had meat! They did have a small Sunday joint when money allowed but between all the children this amounted to a slice each. ::)
For years, as an adult, he would avoid vegetables if he could - lamb stews are his favourite. Now he continues to love fried potatoes and very basic cooking. My mother is a good cook - all the old fashioned foods and puddings.
During the war years my father's diet was very sparse as he was in Africa starting in Durban and driving through to North Africa. Next Italy and through to the Low Countries - eventually back to UK via Dunkirk. A hard life but, with a simple diet, he has remained both active and fit.
Fancy cooking and diets? ::) Stick to the basics and variety with tons of fresh veg. ;)
Had a nice slice of my home made 'facaccia' topped with Stilton, :)