Basic Curry (Living on £10 for one week)
I had the second of my cheap meals yesterday as part of this exciting ‘living on ten pounds for a week’ blogging venture, and it actually wasn’t that bad, at least in comparison to the previous night’s pasta. It was a chicken curry with sauce analogous to the curry sauce you get in chip shops, only with sultanas. It reminded me a lot of something similar we used to have for school dinner at primary school sometimes, back when they were like proper old-fashioned school dinners in metal trays on proper plates, before the school changed catering contractors and started serving turkey drummers on plastic trays.
The curry I had just tasted of generic mild curry, with a better flavour than the sauce’s 7 pence price tag would have suggested. As for the chicken, which was again of the budget variety that didn’t taste any different from any other packaged chicken breast once it was cut up and cooked. I also threw in a Basics Naan bread, which made it basically like a proper curry only cheaper.
Apart from that there’s not a lot I can say about the curry: I can’t berate
it like the pasta sauce, and neither can I commend it on any outstanding qualities, except the price: I’m reckoning that the curry I made is about three portions, so that works out at about £1.07 per portion.
That breaks down as:
7p for the sauce
£2.39 for the chicken
59p for the Naan breads
about 30p worth of rice
So anyone needing to save money on food, a cheap curry is a fairly viable proposition.
It’s beginning to look like I’m going to be eating this curry at least twice more this week and not a lot else: it’s possibly a little harder than I imagined to live on £10 for a week, since the curry and the pasta were my two main planned meals, and all I seem left with is an amount of pasta, potatoes, rice, cheese and eggs, which will most likely lead to some rather bland meals without supplement.
I have been helped along however since my housemate came back from work at the Co-op on Monday with a bag of about fifteen or twenty packets of out-of-date ‘Rainbow Cookies’. Looking at the amount of E-numbers in them, I can see why they didn’t sell, but, hey, they’re free, so we’re all eating them.
Tags: blogging, cheap, curry, save money, school dinner, sultanas, ten pounds one week
