What's your favourite, cheapest home-made meal?

Porrige made with salted water and a splash of milk on top, nothing else, certainly nothing sweet.

If it's dinner then pasta and pesto with a few mushrooms, some courgette and brocolli.

Pea and mint soup, soak a packet of dried peas over night, cook until soft, and a big chopped potato and cook that down, whiz it up with a couple of teaspoons of mint sauce and season to taste and make it the consistency you want.

TheCatWoman said:

hiz it up with a couple of teaspoons of mint sauce

That's a nice piquant touch - thanks for that/

I use mint sauce to make a quick raita, just add a spoonfull, to half a pot of yogurt along with a pinch of salt, some finely chopped cucumber if you have it and bobs your uncle.

I use mint sauce to make a quick raita, just add a spoonfull, to half a pot of yogurt along with a pinch of salt, some finely chopped cucumber if you have it and bobs your uncle.