After last weeks attempt to follow the Sainsbury’s Feed your family for £50 challenge, I’ve decided that we do need a bit of variety on our menu. Apparently nine out of ten people make the same eight meals over and over again and looking back at my recent menu plans it looks like I’m one of those nine. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but we did enjoy the variety of last week so I’m going to try and introduce some new meals to my rather limited repetoire….
Monday: Sweet and sour chicken
Tuesday: Macaroni cheese
Wednesday: Jambalaya
Thursday: Sausage pie (see below)
Friday: Home made wraps with cajun chicken and home made potato wedges
Saturday: Sausage, tomato and canellini pot
Sunday: Sunday Lunch – Chicken, roasties, veg and Yorkshire puddings
Sausage Pie
I love sausage pie and we often have a last minute change of menu when I pick up some reduced sausages from the supermarket. It’s really wasy to make and you can add loads of extras to it depending on what you’ve got in. I’ve added chopped apples, beans, grated cheese and even some sage and onion stuffing mix to it in the past. You can also top the sausage mix with mashed potatoes if you can’t be bothered to make pastry and seeing I’m not a good pastry maker I usually do this or I use ready made pastry which I tend to buy and freeze whenever I see it reduced in the supermarket.
Ingredients:
2 packets of whatever sausages you have in
1/2 chopped onion
Tomato puree
Pastry / Mashed potatoes
Worcester sauce to taste (optional)
- Lightly fry the onions and while you’re doing that squish the sausages out of their skins into a bowl.
- Add the onions and the sausagemeat into a bowl and add in tomato puree and worcester sauce to taste.
- Line a lightly greased pie tin with pastry, pour the sausage mix into the dish and top with another layer of pastry or you can pour the mix into a casserole dish and top with mash and grated cheese.
- Bake in the oven at about 180 c for about 30 – 35 minutes.
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Loving your list of favourite recipes *bookmarked*. Got here via your recent post on managing finances and meal planning. I'd be really good at meal planning if my husband bought into it too. He's rubbish at doing as he's told, and uses things I've bought for specific meals/days before I have chance to. I'll be getting a padlock on the fridge/freezer soon ;0)
It's just a glorified sausage roll.
I've never tried a sausage pie. Cant wait to try it. Thanks!
This sausage pie looks wonderful! Thanks for the recipe.
thank you! You've saved the day, I have frozen sausage meat left over from xmas and wondered what to do with it, so for a Saturday treat I will make the kids sausage pie! If you want a pheasant stew I have a great one. We get pheasants for £1.50 for a brace (know a few gamekeepers) and it is a really delicious, balanced stew loved even by my 2 half yr old. Charlotte x
That sausage pie sounds great!
Thanks very much x
I struggle to vary our menu so your suggestions will be very useful.
By the way I have come across a free day at a selected farms next sunday which the 2 little frugals might enjoy – I think mine will. You can find the details and website on http://twinsmumplusone.blogspot.com/ as they seem to be pretty much nationwide so there should be somewhere near you if you are free.
I've just had a look at the website (and commented on your blog) and it looks fab – thanks for letting me know about it x