I made a chilli earlier in the slow cooker. It made 5 portions. Cost £5.50 including the rice and was delicious and full of goodness! Plenty of cheap options if you are creative and use cheaper cuts etc. Making a chicken and leek and mushroom filo pie tomorrow but using skinless, boneless drumsticks, £1.99 a pack and way tastier! Great video as always Greeno ❤
Slow cooker is a great way to make a chilli, let those flavours really get going. Where can you get skinless and boneless drumsticks from? I bet they're tasty. I like the sound of the pie, well apart fromt he mushroom bit ha ha!
@@GreenoEats Asda or Aldi do them! Super tasty and cheaper than the skinless thighs! Forgot about the mushrooms 🍄 😂 I agree a slow cooker is such an economical way to cook! 🙌
Asda Essentials battered white fish fillets are really nice. 4 for £2.45. Their Essentials mushy peas are ok too at 32p. Given 15p for potatoes, Comes out about 90p with a fillet rather than flakes
I'll have to check those out Lesley, thanks for the tip! I was going to pick up some cheaper mushy peas, but knowing I had some in the cupboard at home thought it would be best to use them. At 55p a tin though when I checked it did limit my options for the rest of the meal. If I could do that plate for 90p then I could add a pickled onion too and still be under a quid :-)
No less then amazing. A great price, the fish is so decent for the price, I'll have that with baked beans, and some mash. The chips looks as good as the chippie. I seriously really like these videos.
Thank you Greeno, looked good value and tasty. My Mother-in-Law used to make Prat Pie, which is NOT a pie!! 3 medium potatoes, 1 medium onion, 500g pork mince and 3 medium carrots diced. Cut the potatoes into 1 inch cubes, put some oil in a heavy pan and sautee, add the onions then the mince, then the potatoes and carrots, cover with water and once boiling, turn to simmer. Around 35-40mins checking on the liquid, so it not dry out. If need be top slightly add 2 spoons of Soya Sauce and thicken with cornflour. That will cost for a family of 4 around 70-75p per serving. I asked my Mother-in-Law, why is it called Prat Pie? To which she replied, cause any Prat will eat it!! Try it and let me know. Regards to the family, it can also be made in a slow cooker, but takes longer. 😋😋🤗🤗
Diolch David! I have actually picked up a couple more items from Iceland in this £1 range to try, so will film them too. When the channel was new I did a few videos on Asda Essential products, maybe I should also revisit that range too, and see what Tesco etc. have to offer.
My go-to budget tip is to get a whole chicken as opposed to portions of chicken. The portions ALWAYS have the grotty stringy sinews, and more often than not need loads of minging bit cutting off before starting. A whole chicken tends to be cheaper anyway, and once you have used the meat, you can make a fantastic stock out of the carcass. which I use to cook risotto, in curries, cottage / shepherd's pies, in casseroles etc.
We have a whole chicken at home at least every couple of weeks. Easy for a midweek roast or chicken and chips etc. Almost always make a stock out of the bones. One of our favourites then is to get a dried soup mix (the kind with barley in), use some leftover chicken, onion, carrots and make a really hearty and healthy soup. Yum!
I've not done a sit down Indian yet, but I did a takeaway curry a good while back - in fact they have asked me back to review some new items they have on the menu. This is the original video ua-cam.com/video/yY0n3AvbdKE/v-deo.htmlsi=Lb1XOuR_cHJcyXrW I am heading to London early February, so an Indian restaurant there could well be a good option to film.
That looked absolutely fine. One of my favourite treats, however, it is £12 for fish and chips at my chippy these days. The savoury mince that you make is good with small scones/biscuits as they say in America/cobblers / dumplings etc and mash. Cheese and onion pie with baked beans and chips, egg and chips, potato pie done in the oven with stewing steak and a huge crust on the top, chicken broth using chicken thighs or whatever are the cheapest on the bone then cooled down and the flesh taken off, sausage and mash and onion sauce with carrots and swede. Fish finger butty with tomato ketchup for lunchtime. Rice pudding made with carnation milk and a blob of jam. Spaghetti Bolognese, my son and his friends loved this when they were young. I used to add a can of baked beans and slow cook it. A pound of mince went a long way. Would probably cut down on the cheese these days. Be interesting to see other cheap meals that are suggested. 👍
Some great ideas there Denise, as well as some things that remind me of meals my Mum (and even my Nan) would knock up when I was a kid! We often had spaghetti bolognese, and the leftover sauce would have chilli powder and kidney beans added so the next day was chilli and rice! I'be got a recipe of Mum's that I am going to make for the channel at some point that I can't find written down anywhere, butit was my absolute favourite as a kid. BTW, £12 for fish and chips is crazy isn't it. I think us Brits need to look at cheaper (and more sustainable) fish than the standard cod or haddock. A few chippys near me have started selling hake as a slightly cheaper alternative, might go review that too !
@@GreenoEats Interesting regarding the hake being cheaper now. Back in the 1960s dad took us to the original Harry Ramsdens, it was amazing, it is a brand name now and is proper crap. I'm sure the chips are frozen ones. Anyway we never actually ate in the Restaurant there but there were tables and chairs set up on the other side of the building with a plastic roof over them. I remember Mum getting a huge lump of Hake. We just got the haddock and chips children's portions. They were cooked in beef dripping. It was in Guiseley and the original hut that Harry Ramsden started from was on the premises. Beautiful. Which reminds me, when there wasn't much left in our cupboards on the day before pay day, mum would make quite thinly sliced potatoes and put onions in between two slices of potato, then dip in batter and fry in dripping. Deelishuss!!! And we got to eat them wrapped in parchment paper after loads of salt and vinegar was shook on. No fridges back then. Anyway I shall look forward to your mum's recipe. 👍🙏🏼
@@denisemottley22705 I think every household had those dead cheap recipes that would be rolled out when the money got tight at the end of the month didn't they. I remember a lot of lentil soup cooked up in a pressure cooker. Cheap and probably the healthiest thing we ate all month!
I've been struggling further out from each pay day recently - my little girl eats dinner every night but sometimes me and my wife don' the closer to pay day it gets I've been in the mindset I cant afford anything so what's the point - we batch cook but have a fairly small freezer. Ive done some overtime this month so tomorrow when I'm paid I'm buying a 2nd hand chest freezer and I'll be filling it with things like this - can't go wrong with fish chip and mushy peas ! I tend to buy a takeaway on payday as a treat but thinking about it could prob have 10 decent cheaper dinners. Thanks for the review dude Edit - something I've done for years as a hobby is foraging - You find loads of very very nutritious food for free. I'm quite deep into it now but even basic stuff like nettle soup (everyone knows what nettles look like) is extremely tasty & very nutritious 👍
Sorry to hear it's a bit of a struggle at the moment. Batch cooking is certainly a good way of putting together some good and healthy meals, so I commend you for that, and there are a lot of good recipes online that you can tweak to your personal tastes (I know first hand that kids won't always eat everything!!). Soups, veg curries, pastaare good examples I guess of what can be done relatively inexpensively. As for the takeaway, I understand, it's always tempting to want to treat yourself, especially when you're working hard. But if you're not eating some days then as you say it might be better to forego those treats for now, and make sure you get fed more regularly. Your health is the most important thing! I hope things get easier for you and your family (change of government later in the year won't hurt in that regard!)
@@GreenoEats thanks mate :) Yeah I'll bin off the takeaway - I gave up vaping, I don't drink, I used to enjoy a can of Coca Cola every day, but now just have water. All those things you can do without but food not so much lol 😂 My wife lost her job last year so income halved whilst expenses shot up, similar story to millions of others at the mo.
Top video here Greeno! Making people aware of how cheap you can produce a meal. This was a bargain when you think about it! There have been times I’ve nipped across to Morrisons and spent a tenner or more on my tea for the evening. Keep up the good work my friend …. Smithy
It's so easy to spend money on food without really thinking about it isn't it Smithy! I am planning to make a few more videos on a similar theme, so let's hope people find and like them :-)
Funnily enough, even a lot of the branded battered 'fillets' actually say 'formed' somewhere on the packaging... These look pretty decent for a cheap freezer backup honestly!
I just looked on the Tesco website. For the attered and breaded fish fillets the Teso range, Youngs and even Birds Eye note that it's FORMED ! And the Bird's Eye cod ones are £6 for 4 - £1.50 each. Goodness me. Think I made the right call getting these 2 for a quid!
Great value meal there are definitely worse meals out there. Bolognaise or chilli con carne can be cheap meals bulked with lentils and the other ingredients like tin tomatoes onions and others. Some family’s hide carrots and veg into as well for fussy kids
Before I say anything "constructive", I know this was mainly a budget exercise and for that it is a clear 10/10. All that for less than £1 is unquestionably amazing. Thank you for demonstrating that these things are possible. Also, the salad cream is a great idea, it is far cheaper than tartar sauce but still adds a bit of creamy tartness to the fish. "Constructiveness"...OK, I cannot think of many negatives except I dislike pollock. Maybe I have been unlucky, but I have found pollock to be a bit soapy compared to cod. But going back to budget and price, for the difference in price pollock does serve an important purpose. Personally for my cheaper budget days, I do like the 90p Stamford Street meals for one from Sainsbury's. A whole meal (excluding an obligatory slab of bread on the side) for 90p is excellent value and they are not short on options either: hotpot, cottage pie, lasagna, spag bol, etc. Also, as it is an all-in-one ready meal, it is quick and easy too for lazy people like me.😝
Glad you enjoyed the concept of the video - of course pollock is used by Iceland in those battered fish portions as it is available at a fraction of the price of cod. Clearly you have a more discerning palate, as I reckon in a blind taste test on frozen fish I would struggle to tell the difference ha ha 🙂 I’d not considered Sainsbury’s for a budget frozen ready meal, I might have to have a look at that, as you say, with a good slab of bread those ready meals can provide a quick and easy option at the end of a busy day.
@@GreenoEats one thing with those very cheap frozen fish products...if you have sensitive stomach you really can have toilet trouble lol. They use cheap fillers and poor quality ingredients to bulk it up
Bramwells corned beef from Aldi £2.09. A pack of their jacket potatoes to cut up , 65p. An onion 33p, Carrots if wanted 10p. 5p stock cube. Chop up veg add water and stock cube. Cube corned beef and put in at end. Meal for 4 for way less than £1 each. Maybe some bread to dip in potato hash
@@lesleyfarrington4809 I had pickled beetroot at the weekend! We had a bit of a picky lunch, bread, cheese, cold meat etc. so I brought out the pickles. Little'un loves it. And pickled onions. In fact she ate 5 big pickled onions. Definitely my daughter ha ha!
Hey Greeno, looked very delish! Chips and vinegar are great, some fish is okay ( not a fan) but I really need fresh lemon and tatar sauce 😊 aww, chip butty, what a lovely word ❤ My collegue, she is from Turkey, she loves crisps sandwiches 😂
Yes I do prefer tartare sauce myself, but simply didn't have any in the house. So salad cream is a good budget alternative - have you ever tried it? Crisps sandwiches are a favourite of mine too - the quickest and easiest lunch imaginable!
If you had a meat pie 🥧 and heated up some mushy peas 😋 Greeno you would have our Aussie Pie Floater very filling 😋 the mushy peas are put in first abit like a soup...then put the meat pie on top then add some tomato 🍅 sauce!! Eureka 🎉🎉
I haven't tried the Greggs range in Iceland yet, but I will at some point for sure, do a comparison between the Iceland stuff and the actual Greggs one.
Morrisons "Savers" range is really good value. I buy a lot out of that range. I always buy the 500gr Cooking Bacon which is £1. Also the fresh pork belly slices 400gr for £2.87. Of course the bacon doesn't come in nice little neat slices, but we don't care. It tastes good just the same!!
I’ll have to take a look at that range in my local Morrisons, thanks for the tip! I reviewed Asda Just Essentials bacon a while back, which at the time was 75p (I think it’s about 90p now) and it was decent. Offcuts and misshapes, but plenty good enough for a bacon sarnie!
I reckon that you could do a banging sweet potato, spinach and chick pea curry for way under a pound. Bulk cooking is always going to be a cheaper option, especially if you can batch cook and then freeze one or two portions.
4 Oct 24 Hi 👋 Greeno another great homemade video 😅❤ first time I have ever seen a tin of mushy peas greeno lol 😅😅 Am definately going to invest in a airfryer too...❤🎉
Hi the best I find is a bbq chicken which you can have a good meal out of it and make sandwiches for the next day and can make chicken soup out of the bones 3 meal for 3 days cannot be bad at this large bbq £8
Yes, a whole chicken is such a versatile ingredient isn't it - we usually make stock from the bones at Greeno Towers, great for using for soups, sauces, gravy etc.
Great meal for £1 and decent nutrition. The fish didn't look grey at all did it and TBH does it matter if it's not flakes of fish? Still the same nutrition. I wonder if you could so a Spanish omelette for under a pound per portion?
It’s interesting, another comment mentioned that even the big brands used “formed” fish in their frozen fillets. So I checked a couple of the market leaders Young’s and Birds Eye, and they do indeed use formed fish. Birds Eye are £6 for 4, treble the price of those Iceland ones. That’s cod, but if it’s just formed fish in frozen batter does it really matter? Spanish omelette is a good idea, although you’d have to make a few tweaks to keep it in budget. Fresh herbs and olive oil might have to be subbed for dried herbs and veg oil, but I will look into it, thanks for the idea 😀
@@GreenoEats Just goes to show, by looking at the ingredients on the back, all is revealed. There will be people deciding to pay more for an item believing it to be an actual fish fillet.
Just cook using fresh ingredients rather than ready meals are cost effective, healthier and they’ll last you longer to make other things with - fresh to frozen vegetables are even cheaper 👍 Pasta dishes per portion can be really cost effective - people just need to learn to cook 😐
Cannot complain at that for a quid! Might not be high class snob food, but you could eat that everyday for over a month or you could have one "slap up treat" at the Highway Robber Rick Steins seafood vomitorium!
You get what you pay for and for that price you can’t expect much!! 😂 Chips at 68p p/kilo is 17p - so all together rounding up that’s 95p - not bad 👍 Fish needs to be proper fish - can’t skimp on that 👎 Bread and butter and salad cream will take you over £1 😛
Oh I love the stuff! When I was about 8 or 9 I used to walk round to my Nan's after school. Every day they'd have a fresh uncut loaf, and she'd make me a salad cream sandwich. My brother used to have a ketchup sandwich ha ha! I still occasionally will have a salad cream sandwich now, white bread, lashings of butter and a good squeee of salad cream, it's great :-)
@@paulhopewell8141 mushy peas are a decent source of fibre and protein, low in fat. The air-frier chips are a healthier alternative to oven or fried chips. I am not saying that it's a healthy option, but it's not as unbalanced as it could be. In my "under a pound" mini-series I also made a homemade vegetable curry and a soup, so maybe those might be more appealing?
@@GreenoEats I understand that Greeno, Air fried chips are amazing,and low in fat. I thoroughly enjoy your videos, especially the one in St Michael's Mount. Can't beat a pasty, good old Tim miner's grub. Take care.
It's fish, so maybe you'd feed it to your cat? 😂 Just trying to highlight a meal that's tasty enough and can be made by those on a tight budget - not sure why that's a problem?
@@j.albion1659 everyone is entitled to their opinion, I never expect my videos in terms of content or style to be to everyone’s taste, that’s fine. But as you say, if they choose to express that via a comment it’s a tiny little push in the right direction of the YT algorithm 😂
Do you have any ideas for budget meals I could try - ideally for less than £1.00 a portion - let me know!!
What do you reckon to this effort - I think it was decent for a £1.00 meal!!
Definitely matey, I have 2 PLEASE,
For that price, bargain,
@@davidjones6470 more bargains to follow in the coming weeks my friend!
@@GreenoEats Quality video mate! For under a pound, that was really good.
@@timbospencer thank you good sir!
I made a chilli earlier in the slow cooker.
It made 5 portions.
Cost £5.50 including the rice and was delicious and full of goodness!
Plenty of cheap options if you are creative and use cheaper cuts etc.
Making a chicken and leek and mushroom filo pie tomorrow but using skinless, boneless drumsticks, £1.99 a pack and way tastier!
Great video as always Greeno ❤
Slow cooker is a great way to make a chilli, let those flavours really get going.
Where can you get skinless and boneless drumsticks from? I bet they're tasty. I like the sound of the pie, well apart fromt he mushroom bit ha ha!
@@GreenoEats
Asda or Aldi do them! Super tasty and cheaper than the skinless thighs!
Forgot about the mushrooms 🍄 😂
I agree a slow cooker is such an economical way to cook! 🙌
Us Americans don't know what we missing. I have made myself chip butties, astounding. Now if I can find an easy recipe for mushy peas. Good vid.
Mushy peas are wondrous, if you can find a recipe you should definitely try it!
@@GreenoEats Anxious to, thanks!
Asda Essentials battered white fish fillets are really nice. 4 for £2.45. Their Essentials mushy peas are ok too at 32p. Given 15p for potatoes, Comes out about 90p with a fillet rather than flakes
I'll have to check those out Lesley, thanks for the tip! I was going to pick up some cheaper mushy peas, but knowing I had some in the cupboard at home thought it would be best to use them. At 55p a tin though when I checked it did limit my options for the rest of the meal. If I could do that plate for 90p then I could add a pickled onion too and still be under a quid :-)
No less then amazing. A great price, the fish is so decent for the price, I'll have that with baked beans, and some mash. The chips looks as good as the chippie. I seriously really like these videos.
That’s very kind of you to say so. I have a few more ideas for these £1 meals up my sleeve which I will drop into my schedule time to time.
Thank you Greeno, looked good value and tasty. My Mother-in-Law used to make Prat Pie, which is NOT a pie!! 3 medium potatoes, 1 medium onion, 500g pork mince and 3 medium carrots diced. Cut the potatoes into 1 inch cubes, put some oil in a heavy pan and sautee, add the onions then the mince, then the potatoes and carrots, cover with water and once boiling, turn to simmer. Around 35-40mins checking on the liquid, so it not dry out. If need be top slightly add 2 spoons of Soya Sauce and thicken with cornflour. That will cost for a family of 4 around 70-75p per serving. I asked my Mother-in-Law, why is it called Prat Pie? To which she replied, cause any Prat will eat it!! Try it and let me know. Regards to the family, it can also be made in a slow cooker, but takes longer. 😋😋🤗🤗
Sounds alright as a cheap filling meal that!!
@@GreenoEats Great in the winter as filling and warming, my boys used to ask me to make it once a week!!
Excellent upload
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How about more videos like this from Iceland or other supermarkets??? The cheaper range, 😮👍
Diolch David! I have actually picked up a couple more items from Iceland in this £1 range to try, so will film them too. When the channel was new I did a few videos on Asda Essential products, maybe I should also revisit that range too, and see what Tesco etc. have to offer.
@@GreenoEats yes, good idea, that will get them subs up, 😁👍👍
Looks Absolutely Banging,
Love Fish chips and Mushy peas me !!!!
And as they say, CHEAP AS CHIPS 😉😁👍
Yeah, I know the fish isn't the poshest, but it tasted good - and a meal like that for under a quid, can't go wrong!!
@@GreenoEats yes, and you could feed a family of 4, with it, £4,
My go-to budget tip is to get a whole chicken as opposed to portions of chicken. The portions ALWAYS have the grotty stringy sinews, and more often than not need loads of minging bit cutting off before starting. A whole chicken tends to be cheaper anyway, and once you have used the meat, you can make a fantastic stock out of the carcass. which I use to cook risotto, in curries, cottage / shepherd's pies, in casseroles etc.
We have a whole chicken at home at least every couple of weeks. Easy for a midweek roast or chicken and chips etc. Almost always make a stock out of the bones. One of our favourites then is to get a dried soup mix (the kind with barley in), use some leftover chicken, onion, carrots and make a really hearty and healthy soup. Yum!
When you mentioned dhal that got me wondering if you've ever done an Indian restaurant review..? I'd like to see that Greeno..!
I've not done a sit down Indian yet, but I did a takeaway curry a good while back - in fact they have asked me back to review some new items they have on the menu. This is the original video ua-cam.com/video/yY0n3AvbdKE/v-deo.htmlsi=Lb1XOuR_cHJcyXrW
I am heading to London early February, so an Indian restaurant there could well be a good option to film.
That looked absolutely fine. One of my favourite treats, however, it is £12 for fish and chips at my chippy these days. The savoury mince that you make is good with small scones/biscuits as they say in America/cobblers / dumplings etc and mash. Cheese and onion pie with baked beans and chips, egg and chips, potato pie done in the oven with stewing steak and a huge crust on the top, chicken broth using chicken thighs or whatever are the cheapest on the bone then cooled down and the flesh taken off, sausage and mash and onion sauce with carrots and swede. Fish finger butty with tomato ketchup for lunchtime. Rice pudding made with carnation milk and a blob of jam. Spaghetti Bolognese, my son and his friends loved this when they were young. I used to add a can of baked beans and slow cook it. A pound of mince went a long way. Would probably cut down on the cheese these days. Be interesting to see other cheap meals that are suggested. 👍
Some great ideas there Denise, as well as some things that remind me of meals my Mum (and even my Nan) would knock up when I was a kid! We often had spaghetti bolognese, and the leftover sauce would have chilli powder and kidney beans added so the next day was chilli and rice! I'be got a recipe of Mum's that I am going to make for the channel at some point that I can't find written down anywhere, butit was my absolute favourite as a kid.
BTW, £12 for fish and chips is crazy isn't it. I think us Brits need to look at cheaper (and more sustainable) fish than the standard cod or haddock. A few chippys near me have started selling hake as a slightly cheaper alternative, might go review that too !
@@GreenoEats Interesting regarding the hake being cheaper now. Back in the 1960s dad took us to the original Harry Ramsdens, it was amazing, it is a brand name now and is proper crap. I'm sure the chips are frozen ones. Anyway we never actually ate in the Restaurant there but there were tables and chairs set up on the other side of the building with a plastic roof over them. I remember Mum getting a huge lump of Hake. We just got the haddock and chips children's portions. They were cooked in beef dripping. It was in Guiseley and the original hut that Harry Ramsden started from was on the premises. Beautiful. Which reminds me, when there wasn't much left in our cupboards on the day before pay day, mum would make quite thinly sliced potatoes and put onions in between two slices of potato, then dip in batter and fry in dripping. Deelishuss!!! And we got to eat them wrapped in parchment paper after loads of salt and vinegar was shook on. No fridges back then. Anyway I shall look forward to your mum's recipe. 👍🙏🏼
@@denisemottley22705 I think every household had those dead cheap recipes that would be rolled out when the money got tight at the end of the month didn't they. I remember a lot of lentil soup cooked up in a pressure cooker. Cheap and probably the healthiest thing we ate all month!
I've been struggling further out from each pay day recently - my little girl eats dinner every night but sometimes me and my wife don' the closer to pay day it gets
I've been in the mindset I cant afford anything so what's the point - we batch cook but have a fairly small freezer.
Ive done some overtime this month so tomorrow when I'm paid I'm buying a 2nd hand chest freezer and I'll be filling it with things like this - can't go wrong with fish chip and mushy peas !
I tend to buy a takeaway on payday as a treat but thinking about it could prob have 10 decent cheaper dinners.
Thanks for the review dude
Edit - something I've done for years as a hobby is foraging -
You find loads of very very nutritious food for free. I'm quite deep into it now but even basic stuff like nettle soup (everyone knows what nettles look like) is extremely tasty & very nutritious 👍
Sorry to hear it's a bit of a struggle at the moment. Batch cooking is certainly a good way of putting together some good and healthy meals, so I commend you for that, and there are a lot of good recipes online that you can tweak to your personal tastes (I know first hand that kids won't always eat everything!!). Soups, veg curries, pastaare good examples I guess of what can be done relatively inexpensively.
As for the takeaway, I understand, it's always tempting to want to treat yourself, especially when you're working hard. But if you're not eating some days then as you say it might be better to forego those treats for now, and make sure you get fed more regularly. Your health is the most important thing!
I hope things get easier for you and your family (change of government later in the year won't hurt in that regard!)
@@GreenoEats thanks mate :)
Yeah I'll bin off the takeaway - I gave up vaping, I don't drink, I used to enjoy a can of Coca Cola every day, but now just have water.
All those things you can do without but food not so much lol 😂
My wife lost her job last year so income halved whilst expenses shot up, similar story to millions of others at the mo.
Why is junk takeaway a treat? More of a punishment. Think of what you could respect buy a cook up for the price. 🤔🤷♀️🦘
Top video here Greeno! Making people aware of how cheap you can produce a meal. This was a bargain when you think about it! There have been times I’ve nipped across to Morrisons and spent a tenner or more on my tea for the evening. Keep up the good work my friend …. Smithy
It's so easy to spend money on food without really thinking about it isn't it Smithy! I am planning to make a few more videos on a similar theme, so let's hope people find and like them :-)
@@GreenoEats without a doubt! These kind of videos are so beneficial to people in the current times we are living in. Well done mate 👍
@@theabandonedhunter3604 thanks pal, I appreciate the kind words and support as always!!
@@GreenoEats always Greeno 👊
Funnily enough, even a lot of the branded battered 'fillets' actually say 'formed' somewhere on the packaging... These look pretty decent for a cheap freezer backup honestly!
I just looked on the Tesco website. For the attered and breaded fish fillets the Teso range, Youngs and even Birds Eye note that it's FORMED ! And the Bird's Eye cod ones are £6 for 4 - £1.50 each. Goodness me. Think I made the right call getting these 2 for a quid!
@@GreenoEats Yup!
Great value meal there are definitely worse meals out there. Bolognaise or chilli con carne can be cheap meals bulked with lentils and the other ingredients like tin tomatoes onions and others. Some family’s hide carrots and veg into as well for fussy kids
I used to play that trick on my kids too, amazing what good stuff you can hide in a lasagna!!
Looks like a total winner, cheers Greeno.👍💯💥✨️
Cheap and tasty - just what's required these days right!! Thanks for watching :-)
Great video 😀 enjoyed that one Greeno.
Cheers Gary, with ad revenues in January being as they are I need budget meals 🤣🤣🤣
Before I say anything "constructive", I know this was mainly a budget exercise and for that it is a clear 10/10. All that for less than £1 is unquestionably amazing. Thank you for demonstrating that these things are possible. Also, the salad cream is a great idea, it is far cheaper than tartar sauce but still adds a bit of creamy tartness to the fish.
"Constructiveness"...OK, I cannot think of many negatives except I dislike pollock. Maybe I have been unlucky, but I have found pollock to be a bit soapy compared to cod. But going back to budget and price, for the difference in price pollock does serve an important purpose.
Personally for my cheaper budget days, I do like the 90p Stamford Street meals for one from Sainsbury's. A whole meal (excluding an obligatory slab of bread on the side) for 90p is excellent value and they are not short on options either: hotpot, cottage pie, lasagna, spag bol, etc. Also, as it is an all-in-one ready meal, it is quick and easy too for lazy people like me.😝
Glad you enjoyed the concept of the video - of course pollock is used by Iceland in those battered fish portions as it is available at a fraction of the price of cod. Clearly you have a more discerning palate, as I reckon in a blind taste test on frozen fish I would struggle to tell the difference ha ha 🙂
I’d not considered Sainsbury’s for a budget frozen ready meal, I might have to have a look at that, as you say, with a good slab of bread those ready meals can provide a quick and easy option at the end of a busy day.
What a portion. Such a healthy portion!
Not bad for less than a quid huh!
@@GreenoEats one thing with those very cheap frozen fish products...if you have sensitive stomach you really can have toilet trouble lol. They use cheap fillers and poor quality ingredients to bulk it up
@@jamesmartin4500 right, I didn’t know that!
@@jamesmartin4500 right, I didn’t know that!
Hi Greeno a cheap tasty thing that does it for me is Bubble and Squeak. So easy to make and you can put it with almost anything. 🤠
I always think of bubble and squeak as either a breakfast item or Boxing Day side. Great way to use up some leftovers mind!
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Bramwells corned beef from Aldi £2.09. A pack of their jacket potatoes to cut up , 65p. An onion 33p, Carrots if wanted 10p. 5p stock cube. Chop up veg add water and stock cube. Cube corned beef and put in at end. Meal for 4 for way less than £1 each. Maybe some bread to dip in potato hash
That sounds decent, I reckon a good dollop of brown sauce on the side with that!
@@GreenoEats pickled beetroot and red cabbage
Shove it in the slow cooker and forget about it for a couple of hours lol
@@lesleyfarrington4809 I had pickled beetroot at the weekend! We had a bit of a picky lunch, bread, cheese, cold meat etc. so I brought out the pickles. Little'un loves it. And pickled onions. In fact she ate 5 big pickled onions. Definitely my daughter ha ha!
Hey Greeno, looked very delish! Chips and vinegar are great, some fish is okay ( not a fan) but I really need fresh lemon and tatar sauce 😊 aww, chip butty, what a lovely word ❤ My collegue, she is from Turkey, she loves crisps sandwiches 😂
Yes I do prefer tartare sauce myself, but simply didn't have any in the house. So salad cream is a good budget alternative - have you ever tried it? Crisps sandwiches are a favourite of mine too - the quickest and easiest lunch imaginable!
I must admit Jessica I love a wedge of lemon 🍋 and Tartar sauce myself!
If you had a meat pie 🥧 and heated up some mushy peas 😋 Greeno you would have our Aussie Pie Floater very filling 😋 the mushy peas are put in first abit like a soup...then put the meat pie on top then add some tomato 🍅 sauce!! Eureka 🎉🎉
Sometime simple comfort food is the best. We have similar to your Pie Floater here, but it’s less imaginatively called Pie and Peas 😂
Chips, eggs and beans. Cheap and nutritious
I love egg and chips, a nice dippy yolk to dunk the chips in, yum!
Great value for a quid Greeno, have you tried Greggs from Iceland?
I haven't tried the Greggs range in Iceland yet, but I will at some point for sure, do a comparison between the Iceland stuff and the actual Greggs one.
Ok for a couple of fish butties 👍or fish and garden peas and bread and butter 😋
Yeah, perfect for a quick, cheap dinner. A fish butty, now that's a treat isn't it !!
@@GreenoEats oh yes especially if I do my own fish sandwich 😋
Morrisons "Savers" range is really good value. I buy a lot out of that range. I always buy the 500gr Cooking Bacon which is £1. Also the fresh pork belly slices 400gr for £2.87. Of course the bacon doesn't come in nice little neat slices, but we don't care. It tastes good just the same!!
I’ll have to take a look at that range in my local Morrisons, thanks for the tip! I reviewed Asda Just Essentials bacon a while back, which at the time was 75p (I think it’s about 90p now) and it was decent. Offcuts and misshapes, but plenty good enough for a bacon sarnie!
I reckon that you could do a banging sweet potato, spinach and chick pea curry for way under a pound. Bulk cooking is always going to be a cheaper option, especially if you can batch cook and then freeze one or two portions.
Sweet potato is rubbish though... Discuss
@@GreenoEats It is an excellent thickener... Perfect for things like soup.
@@timbospencer yeah, in a soup it’s ok, but on its own, baked, roasted, chips… absolute garbage!
4 Oct 24 Hi 👋 Greeno another great homemade video 😅❤ first time I have ever seen a tin of mushy peas greeno lol 😅😅 Am definately going to invest in a airfryer too...❤🎉
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
@@GreenoEats Lol I always feel hungry when I watch your videos Greeno!
This looks quite good to me, but I am missing a bit of fresh tartar sauce, and the peas are missing a bit of mint for my liking.
Yes, unfortunately given the budget I couldn't make a homemade tartare sauce - that would probably have been almost a pound in itself!!
I am so embarrassed. I already commented on the food but I totally missed the fact it was part of the Greeno under £1 meals. Greeno, I apologise.
Absolutely no need to apologise for anything 🙂
Hi the best I find is a bbq chicken which you can have a good meal out of it and make sandwiches for the next day and can make chicken soup out of the bones 3 meal for 3 days cannot be bad at this large bbq £8
Yes, a whole chicken is such a versatile ingredient isn't it - we usually make stock from the bones at Greeno Towers, great for using for soups, sauces, gravy etc.
I agree that mushy peas that are some sort of gleaming light green are suspicious.
Very suspicious indeed!
Great meal for £1 and decent nutrition. The fish didn't look grey at all did it and TBH does it matter if it's not flakes of fish? Still the same nutrition. I wonder if you could so a Spanish omelette for under a pound per portion?
It’s interesting, another comment mentioned that even the big brands used “formed” fish in their frozen fillets. So I checked a couple of the market leaders Young’s and Birds Eye, and they do indeed use formed fish. Birds Eye are £6 for 4, treble the price of those Iceland ones. That’s cod, but if it’s just formed fish in frozen batter does it really matter?
Spanish omelette is a good idea, although you’d have to make a few tweaks to keep it in budget. Fresh herbs and olive oil might have to be subbed for dried herbs and veg oil, but I will look into it, thanks for the idea 😀
@@GreenoEats Just goes to show, by looking at the ingredients on the back, all is revealed. There will be people deciding to pay more for an item believing it to be an actual fish fillet.
@@The-KimP absolutely, I assumed that both of those brands would be offering a premium product, but seems it’s just a name and a fancier box!
Just cook using fresh ingredients rather than ready meals are cost effective, healthier and they’ll last you longer to make other things with - fresh to frozen vegetables are even cheaper 👍
Pasta dishes per portion can be really cost effective - people just need to learn to cook 😐
True, people should cook from scratch more, but for those who can’t (or just fancy fish and chips on the cheap) this could be a decent budget option
Cannot complain at that for a quid! Might not be high class snob food, but you could eat that everyday for over a month or you could have one "slap up treat" at the Highway Robber Rick Steins seafood vomitorium!
Yeah, a decent cheap eat that right! Not sure I'd use the funds saved to line Rick's pocket mind!!
You get what you pay for and for that price you can’t expect much!! 😂
Chips at 68p p/kilo is 17p - so all together rounding up that’s 95p - not bad 👍
Fish needs to be proper fish - can’t skimp on that 👎
Bread and butter and salad cream will take you over £1 😛
Basic meal, but pretty tasty for the money!
Salad cream!? lol
Oh I love the stuff! When I was about 8 or 9 I used to walk round to my Nan's after school. Every day they'd have a fresh uncut loaf, and she'd make me a salad cream sandwich. My brother used to have a ketchup sandwich ha ha! I still occasionally will have a salad cream sandwich now, white bread, lashings of butter and a good squeee of salad cream, it's great :-)
I must admit Greeno salad cream wouldn’t of gone on mine either 😂
@@theabandonedhunter3604 you gotta try it Smithy, salad cream on chips of the food of the gods!
Sorry, you need to turn up the volume !!!!
The volume was too low on the video? It sounded fine in editing, but I did have the settings on a little lower than usual. Thanks for letting me know.
Lidl sell 4 fish fillets for £1.99 and look better than those.
Is that right? Maybe I should check them out then, thanks for the tip !
air fryers are not necessary says who?
Some lunatics!
Have a word with yourself.
For what, highlighting a product that might be useful to families struggling to put food on the table currently?
@@GreenoEatsYou are promoting,junk food, what nutrition is in that inept meal. Like I said before, have a word with yourself.
@@paulhopewell8141 mushy peas are a decent source of fibre and protein, low in fat. The air-frier chips are a healthier alternative to oven or fried chips. I am not saying that it's a healthy option, but it's not as unbalanced as it could be. In my "under a pound" mini-series I also made a homemade vegetable curry and a soup, so maybe those might be more appealing?
@@GreenoEats I understand that Greeno, Air fried chips are amazing,and low in fat. I thoroughly enjoy your videos, especially the one in St Michael's Mount. Can't beat a pasty, good old Tim miner's grub. Take care.
Too much fried food on the show
I literally fried nothing in this meal!
Why would you even review food that most of us would not feed thier dog? Madness and the views on these videos is even madder.
It's fish, so maybe you'd feed it to your cat? 😂 Just trying to highlight a meal that's tasty enough and can be made by those on a tight budget - not sure why that's a problem?
Says someone who grew up wi a piano in their house!
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