Budget Recipes and
Cheap Dinner Ideas
Longer nights, turning leaves and the occasional chill in the air - time to break out
those jumpers and welcome autumn! If you’re looking for warming, welcoming recipes
that use delicious seasonal products, you’ll find them here…family-friendly meals
that don’t break the budget.
Energy saving Meals Budget recipes Food waste tips
Energy saving meals
Everyone wants to keep their bills down, so our tasty one-pot meals and casseroles for energy-
saving slow cookers and air fryers are ideal. Win-win!
One Pot Recipes
Slow Cooker Recipes
Air Fryer Recipes
Microwave Recipes
Try something new this week!
Autumn’s a time to bring the family together over delicious,
wholesome meals – and these budget-conscious recipes from
@Cardiff.Mum are just perfect.
Our friends over at social media food sensation MOB
know a thing or two about simple, tasty food made easy.
These autumn recipes are packed with flavour.
Meal Planner
Delicious autumnal meal ideas to set you up for weekly meal planning. Budget friendly,
amazing value food for all the family.
Five ingredients, stacks of flavour
Just 5 ingredients - that’s all it takes to make a delicious meal that saves you time and
money. Easy midweek meals for the whole family at amazing Aldi prices!
Gorgeous and easy home-made sausage rolls with an extra flavour
twist, made from just 5 ingredients - these would be a hit at any
time of year!
Tasty and warming, autumn meals don’t come any more comforting
than this delicious Toad in the Hole – and it’s dead easy to make!
Budget doesn't mean boring
Autumn’s a great time for wallet-friendly meals using inexpensive cuts of meat and
seasonal fruit and veg packed with flavour!
There’s only one supermarket where
every price is an Aldi price.
We’ve been Which? Cheapest Supermarket three years in a row. And you’ll save on your
weekly shop with our Super 6 fruit & veg and Super Weekly Offers on quality meats and fish!
Food Waste Tips
Enjoy more taste and less waste with helpful ways to make the most of your weekly
shop and care for the environment.
• Place food that’s next to expire at the front of your fridge to remind you to use it next.
• Buy easily perishable foods, like fresh fruit and herbs, in smaller quantities to reduce food waste
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Add your weekly meal plan to the fridge so everyone knows what needs to be eaten when.
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Let people plate up their own meals to account for how hungry they are, avoiding portion sizes too big to be finished.
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If you only want to eat half the contents of pre-packaged food, add the rest to a Tupperware to keep in the fridge until needed
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Look out for refill options in store for essentials such as nuts, cereal, coffee and granola
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Make sure to recycle single use packaging
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Create a shopping list based on your planned meals and aim to stick to it
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Avoid shopping when you’re ravenous to avoid impulse pick-ups and bulk buying
• Transform roast chicken leftoverds to create a delicious broth or homemade stock
• Add leftover veg peels, stems and other food scraps to your compost
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Revive stale bread to create croutons, stuffing or a breadcrumb topper for pasta bakes
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Love your leftovers and use as tasty lunches to take to work or school.
• Check the best before dates on your food before creating a weekly meal plan to make sure you use up those perishable ingredients in time.
• Divide large packs of meat into zip lock bags and freeze until needed for a quick mid-week meal.
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In easy terms, ‘use by’ is a deadline and ‘best before’ is a guidance
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Can also check quality of food by inspecting for mould, discolouration, sours smells and texture changes such as with soggy stale biscuits.