Very great ideas. Pasta is always a winner,cheap and quick. I love a mushroom and spinach white sauce pasta. Just need some cream, garlic and grated parm for the sauce and simple veg. A bit indulgent, too.

Pizza and spag bowl are too simple, yummy and cheap meals. Perfect for those on a budget.

I’m a huge fan of meal planning; it saves so much wastage.

Kids seem to love anything with pasta and there are so many things you can make with pasta.

After reducing my hours at work due to illness I am on the hunt for budget friendly meals. Thanks.

I make a lot of these budget meals already, but I do love the look of that Asian chicken. Cant wait to try that out

We make many of these budget friendly meals especially fried rice and spagetti.

A lot of good recipes thanks for sharing

We love all of these recipes!

Thanks for the ideas! Could also prepare certain meals in bulk and freeze to save time.

Fussy eaters are the worst. My kids are only averagely bad, but it still makes me crazy.

some great ideas, my kids are not huge fans of soup, except on of my kids loves french onion soup! – other things to try that can be budget friendly is apricot chicken, honey mustard chicken and a simple stir fry with frozen veg, honey and soy sauce.

Also look at alternate ways to use up the left overs like a left over casserole makes a great pie!

There are so many cheap meals that are delicious and satisfying to make and eat! There are some great examples of that

Any kind of pasta and sauce goes down well here and it’s always good value!

Have been looking for a good recipe for fried rice. I’ll certainly be trying out this recipe and some of the others as well.

I make some of these already I will check out the others, anything that helps to budget is ok with me

A lot of Mums put spices & herbs, onion & garlic etc. in their meals. Some children don’t like them or perhaps just a little. Not the amount we like A lot don’t like vegetables such as swede, turnip, spinach, broccoli. brussell sprouts etc because of their strong flavour. If your family likes Tuna Mornay use canned tuna, white sauce and put crumbs on the top if you want to. fresh or frozen tuna is too expensive. Some people sue salmon but it is more expensive,

Love all of these. Spag bol is always my easy go to and zucchini slice.

Wonderful ideas, we had Spaghetti Bolognaise last night.

Thank you for sharing, I am a big fan of making soup when trying to save money. I hadn’t thought of homemade pizza. That would be a fun activity as well.