Cooking for the family

Cheap, tasty family meals

Meals for four, for £1.50, or less, a head! Saving money doesn't have to mean going without your favourite foods, or missing out on fantastic flavour.

Seasonal eating

Celebrate spring veg

The sun is out and the fields are ripe with lovely spring veg. So ditch the root veg and get your teeth into some spring time favourites.

Top 10 budget recipes

These clever weeknight dinners are quick to make and extremely tasty. To top it off, every dish costs less than £1.50 a head. Now those are the sort of budget recipes we like.

One-pot wonders

Dishwasher or not, cleaning dishes is always a chore. But these one-pot, one-pan and pot-roast recipes solve that problem, leaving you more time to do what you're meant to do after a long day... relax.

Credit crunch cookbooks

Hard times have brought a flood of books promising to help us eat more cheaply. But do they deliver? We ask three families to road-test three of the most popular credit-crunch cookbooks.

Cheap pasta

Cheap and cheerful pasta

Pasta is a great thrifty way to bulk up meals. Try our favourite cheap and cheerful pasta dishes and keep hungry tummies at bay!

Vegetarian

Spicy stuffed butternut squash

This colourful vegetarian recipe looks great and costs less than £1.50 a head to make. This is proof that a cheesy dish doesn't have to be a calorific dish.

Inspiring Rice