Cheap Mediterranean recipes

Greek, Spanish, Turkish and Middle Eastern dinners on a budget.

These dinners use plenty of vegetables, beans, chickpeas and spices with smaller amounts of meat, which keeps the cost down without losing flavour.

70 recipes, cheapest first. Prices are per portion for a family of 4.

Money-saving tips

Chickpeas and butter beans make stews and salads more filling.
Smoked paprika and cumin add big flavour for pennies.
Wraps and pittas turn leftovers into a new meal.

Questions

Which recipe is the cheapest?

Patatas bravas with fried eggs, at about £0.46 a portion for a family of 4.

How much do these dinners cost?

From about £0.46 to £1.81 a portion, with most around £1.08, based on typical UK budget supermarket prices. What you pay depends on where you shop and the brands you choose.

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Yes. Tell it your weekly budget and how many people you're feeding, and it picks a week of dinners, writes the shopping list in whole supermarket packs and uses up what's already in your cupboards. It's free to use.

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