One Pound Meals: Delicious Food for Less
£8.60£16.10 (-47%)
Miguel Barclay’s new recipe book, GREEN ONE POUND MEALS, is available for pre-order now!
Over 80 super-simple and tasty recipes that will save you both time and money. Here is delicious food for less.
So much more than cheap dinner ideas – here are meals that cost under £1 but look and taste a million dollars! Recipes for the whole family without breaking the bank, including lots of favourite and familiar storecupboard ingredients.
Instagram chef sensation Miguel Barclay is taking the world by storm with his delicious meals that cost less than £1 per person.
‘I’ve always loved cooking but I’m not a fan of needlessly over-complicated recipes that waste time and money.
So I’ve created my own style of cooking: simple ingredients, straightforward recipes and mouthwatering meals, all on a budget.
Now you can eat the food you love – from meatball marinara to chicken katsu curry, lamb moussaka to aubergine dal – all for under £1 per person.’
Miguel’s easy-to-follow, ready-in-minutes recipes are for a single serving, and can all be cooked for under £1 per person – just multiply them up for more servings.
‘As you would expect from such a relaxed style of cooking, the book is laid out in a similarly laidback manner. There are no chapters or themes. Just flick through the pages and cook whichever dish you fancy. But, as a nod to my Instagram roots and to help you identify types of dish, I have labelled each recipe with hashtags, so if you want to find veggie food, just look out for the veggie hashtags.
One Pound Meals are designed to use a core group of ingredients, and this is the key to eliminating waste. Just start with one recipe, and depending on what you have left over, choose your next recipe accordingly. I want you to bounce around the book on a sort of never-ending random journey as you use up those leftover ingredients. It also means you can plan a week’s worth of meals in one go and shop more efficiently.’
With savvy supermarket shopping swaps and time-saving tips, One Pound Meals makes cooking quicker, easier and tastier, and with less waste.
One Pound Meals includes:
* Lasagne
* Crab mac & cheese
* Chicken katsu curry
* Pork chop in a mustard & leek sauce
* Spaghetti carbonara
* Mushroom risotto
* Quiche lorraine
* Aubergine dal & chapati
* Scotch Egg
* Ultimate £1 burger
* Ham & mushroom pizza
* Pancake stack
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Additional information
| Publisher | Headline Home (26 Jan. 2017) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 208 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 147224561X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1472247384 |
| Dimensions | 18.7 x 1.9 x 23.5 cm |
by KJC
Highly recommended. Great cook book with easy to follow recipes all without a high amount of ingredients as per a lot of cook books.
by Eszter Browning
I haven’t been following Miguel on instagram for too long, only 2 months – tops 3 – but I really liked his approach to food. Also, I was just complaining to my boyfriend that all of my really good other cook books tend to create meals for 4, 6 or even 8, and since I share a flat with 3 girls and only responsible for my own meals with one single drawer of freezer space, that was a no go, however strongly I felt I wanted to meal prep and store portions or leftovers for months.. so here’s my honest review of ‘One Pound Meals’ (the cook book):
1. I love how simple it is. Many times I ring my mom or grandma for a recipe and somehow it sticks better than rereading a list of directions 4x.. and with Miguel friendly guidence throughout the book I honestly feel like I need to read it once and realize how quick it is to make and then remember how to make a meal.
2. I love how the leftovers correlate with other ingredients from another recipe 4 pages later in the book. First I was like: “200g tomato can again?” But then I realized tomato cans are my way to go anyway even if I am cooking a meal from a “fancy” cookbook. The big difference here is that in One Pound Meals 3 out of 5 ingredients align with another recipe’s, while in another cookbook maybe 1 is the same out of 9 (and it is probably olive oil…).
3. I love that it is exactly the portion size I need! I hade a shikshak today for lunch and it was perfect. As it was also mentioned in the book, we could add or swap ingredients and I had some home smoked ham in my fridge that needed to be added to something! I am still a learning cook and tho I am getting more and more confident in swapping or adding stuff to a written recipe, with One Pound Meals I do not hesitate at all!
4. It could also easily be called ‘One Pound Meals in One Pot’ because how efficient all of the recipes are?! Honestly, my washing was a delight! I only used a chopping board and a pan. And maybe a spoon. That’s it. Amazing!
5. This final point of my review is not really a review, because I am not sure if I am right. If there was one thing I would suggest or make a bit differently is including prices within the recipes. I am sure Miguel spent hours deciding if he should do it or not, and maybe he has regretted many times that he ended up not adding it, but I don’t really care to be fair. It would be just nice to see and learn how to shop around when there are so many options, many with misleading advertising. But for someone who trying to eat healthy but also make sure that spends only an ok amount of her salary on food it would be a great help! But honestly, don’t even take this final review seriously, because I am really in awe of the greatness of this simple book! Less seems to be always more!
Happy cooking!
by Toby Taylor
4 words – I. Love. This. Book.
This truly is no gimmick, every meal averages out at a pound if not even less!!
The presentation of this book is great! It’s fun, happy, vibrant and is a pleasure to read and look at. All the photography work too is astounding, not something I can say for a lot of cookbooks. Above all else, the photographs of the food are realistic! When I was looking at these crazy colours and great tasting meals with extravagant presentations for the first time, I found myself very easily (and inexpensively) recreating them perfectly!
All the recipes here are written for one portion, but it is very easy to double all ingredients and create a meal for two. By making sure you have a few basic ingredients as well as some herbs and spices, every recipe is easy and great fun to create. Miguel’s personality shines through the book, with his little overviews at the start of every meal. I can tell he is a passionate chef and proud of his book. Kudos to him.
The basic premise of the book is to create meals for a pound(if you couldn’t tell). While it may cost £1 for a packet of flour and £3 for minced meat or £2 for a bag of potatoes, as the recipes are small, a 100g portion of flour used in the recipe averages as something like 10p. This gives Miguel another 90p to introduce every other ingredient and which he does very well. The recipes are all really great and innovative. There are many adaptions of very well known and popular meals stripped down to their one pound roots. However, they still taste just as incredible. There is a good variety of recipes to suit many people.
The only thing to bear in mind with this book is that it probably shouldn’t be used everyday. Ultimately, to get the best flavour out of everything, most of the recipes require olive oil and a frying pan. There is a lot of frying food. You can decide for yourself how much you would use this book everyday, but please be careful as this isn’t the most healthy alternative in the world. Don’t get me wrong – I love this book but I feel this in an important point to mention. For me, I might cook a meal one or two maybe three times a week and don’t feel guilty in the slightest for frying everything.
To conclude, I can only hope i’ve given the book as much justice as it deserves in this review. The book oozes joy and fun. It shows great looking
and realistic photos. It has been written in a great and fantastic way! Above all else – it works!! It’s eating cheap without compromising any great meals or flavours! Highly recommended to students (me) or for people living on budgets. However, if you don’t fall into those 2 categories I would still urge you to buy this book as its great fun to see how far Miguel takes your £1!