cooked meals from scratch for as little as 62p a portion.Mum of two, Laura Light, often whips up popular family favourites such as carbonara, chicken chow mein and slow cooker peach chicken for pennies.Her recipes even leave her with enough leftovers for her husband to enjoy at work the next day.READ MORE:Man makes KFC-style fried chicken in just 25 minutes and here's how to do itLaura, from Southampton, has been shopping on a budget for years, after bringing her weekly spend down from £215 a week to just £40 following the birth of her second daughter eight years ago.
Now she shops at discount retailers, relies on own brand products and uses meat in great value hampers from online food retailer MuscleFood.com to help keep her costs down.
Laura also meal plans each week, and never goes shopping without writing a list or checking what's already in her cupboards to ensure nothing goes to waste.
One of her favourite classic meals to cook is carbonara at just 62p per portion, slow cooker peach chicken coming in at 67p each, Chinese beef stir fry at 99p per portion and maple and honey pork loin traybake that costs just a pound each to make.
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