Cheap & easy meals?? Budget Tips??

[luna moth]

Lentils! They are so cheap and so good for you!

Lentil soup - onion, canned tomatoes, lentils, stock, any soup vegies you have. Serve with toast
Dhal - onion, garlic, curry spice, lentils/split peas. Serve with rice. Comes out around 80c per serve.

[ss_storm]

Soup and casseroles are great in winter as they stretch a long way, and there are so many variations!
Casseroles are great, especially if you have a slow cooker, as you can use chuck steak which is best slow cooked to make it nice and tender (not chewy and grissly!), and other cheap cuts like chicken drumsticks/wings.
Pasta dishes are good, sausages & vegies (although boring sausages are reasonably cheap to buy in large quantities, could also make curried sausages/sausage casserole/devilled sausages/sausages & gravy for something a bit different).

Substitute canned beans/chickpeas/lentils etc if you can stand them, instead of having meat, even if it's only one night a week. Make as much as you can from scratch! If you have the time that is, even things like pizza dough you can make yourself and is cheaper than buying takeaway pizza or plain pizza bases.