Quick 30-minute dinners

Cheap dinners on the table in 30 minutes or less, for busy weeknights.

A proper dinner on a busy evening, without reaching for a takeaway. Stir-fries, pasta, wraps and egg dishes are the quickest of all.

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

Money-saving tips

Get everything chopped and ready before you turn on the hob.
Use quick-cooking ingredients like egg noodles, couscous, prawns and tinned beans.
Cook a little extra pasta or rice and use it in tomorrow's dinner.

Questions

Which recipe is the cheapest?

Penne arrabbiata with mozzarella, at about £0.47 a portion for a family of 4.

How much do these dinners cost?

From about £0.47 to £2.36 a portion, with most around £1.07, based on typical UK budget supermarket prices. What you pay depends on where you shop and the brands you choose.

Can SupperSmart plan a week of these for me?

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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