Reviewing ICELAND £1 Battered Fish! BUDGET MEALS: Fish, Chips, and Mushy Peas for UNDER £1
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6 ай бұрынIn today's video I look to cook a delicious fish, chips and mushy peas for less than £1 using Iceland's new battered fish fillets.
Round my way, that would cost you a tenner at any chip shop, but I can knock it up at a fraction of the cost, you read it right, under a pound a portion. And a few pence left over for some bread and butter. All washed down with a nice mug of tea.
Having some budget meals up your sleeve is really important these days too. But will it taste any good?
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@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Do you have any ideas for budget meals I could try - ideally for less than £1.00 a portion - let me know!!
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
What do you reckon to this effort - I think it was decent for a £1.00 meal!!
@davidjones6470 6 ай бұрын
Definitely matey, I have 2 PLEASE, For that price, bargain,
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@davidjones6470 more bargains to follow in the coming weeks my friend!
@timspencer3348 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats Quality video mate! For under a pound, that was really good.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@timspencer3348 thank you good sir!
@kateking1980 6 ай бұрын
I made a chilli earlier in the slow cooker. It made 5 portions. Cost £5.50 including the rice and was delicious and full of goodness! Plenty of cheap options if you are creative and use cheaper cuts etc. Making a chicken and leek and mushroom filo pie tomorrow but using skinless, boneless drumsticks, £1.99 a pack and way tastier! Great video as always Greeno ❤
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Slow cooker is a great way to make a chilli, let those flavours really get going. Where can you get skinless and boneless drumsticks from? I bet they're tasty. I like the sound of the pie, well apart fromt he mushroom bit ha ha!
@kateking1980 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats Asda or Aldi do them! Super tasty and cheaper than the skinless thighs! Forgot about the mushrooms 🍄 😂 I agree a slow cooker is such an economical way to cook! 🙌
@lesleyfarrington4809 6 ай бұрын
Asda Essentials battered white fish fillets are really nice. 4 for £2.45. Their Essentials mushy peas are ok too at 32p. Given 15p for potatoes, Comes out about 90p with a fillet rather than flakes
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I'll have to check those out Lesley, thanks for the tip! I was going to pick up some cheaper mushy peas, but knowing I had some in the cupboard at home thought it would be best to use them. At 55p a tin though when I checked it did limit my options for the rest of the meal. If I could do that plate for 90p then I could add a pickled onion too and still be under a quid :-)
@user-mo3wx8ut4t 2 ай бұрын
No less then amazing. A great price, the fish is so decent for the price, I'll have that with baked beans, and some mash. The chips looks as good as the chippie. I seriously really like these videos.
@GreenoEats 2 ай бұрын
That’s very kind of you to say so. I have a few more ideas for these £1 meals up my sleeve which I will drop into my schedule time to time.
@timspencer3348 6 ай бұрын
My go-to budget tip is to get a whole chicken as opposed to portions of chicken. The portions ALWAYS have the grotty stringy sinews, and more often than not need loads of minging bit cutting off before starting. A whole chicken tends to be cheaper anyway, and once you have used the meat, you can make a fantastic stock out of the carcass. which I use to cook risotto, in curries, cottage / shepherd's pies, in casseroles etc.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
We have a whole chicken at home at least every couple of weeks. Easy for a midweek roast or chicken and chips etc. Almost always make a stock out of the bones. One of our favourites then is to get a dried soup mix (the kind with barley in), use some leftover chicken, onion, carrots and make a really hearty and healthy soup. Yum!
@davidjones6470 6 ай бұрын
Looks Absolutely Banging, Love Fish chips and Mushy peas me !!!! And as they say, CHEAP AS CHIPS 😉😁👍
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Yeah, I know the fish isn't the poshest, but it tasted good - and a meal like that for under a quid, can't go wrong!!
@davidjones6470 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats yes, and you could feed a family of 4, with it, £4,
@GaryG1974 4 күн бұрын
Before I say anything "constructive", I know this was mainly a budget exercise and for that it is a clear 10/10. All that for less than £1 is unquestionably amazing. Thank you for demonstrating that these things are possible. Also, the salad cream is a great idea, it is far cheaper than tartar sauce but still adds a bit of creamy tartness to the fish. "Constructiveness"...OK, I cannot think of many negatives except I dislike pollock. Maybe I have been unlucky, but I have found pollock to be a bit soapy compared to cod. But going back to budget and price, for the difference in price pollock does serve an important purpose. Personally for my cheaper budget days, I do like the 90p Stamford Street meals for one from Sainsbury's. A whole meal (excluding an obligatory slab of bread on the side) for 90p is excellent value and they are not short on options either: hotpot, cottage pie, lasagna, spag bol, etc. Also, as it is an all-in-one ready meal, it is quick and easy too for lazy people like me.😝
@GreenoEats 3 күн бұрын
Glad you enjoyed the concept of the video - of course pollock is used by Iceland in those battered fish portions as it is available at a fraction of the price of cod. Clearly you have a more discerning palate, as I reckon in a blind taste test on frozen fish I would struggle to tell the difference ha ha 🙂 I’d not considered Sainsbury’s for a budget frozen ready meal, I might have to have a look at that, as you say, with a good slab of bread those ready meals can provide a quick and easy option at the end of a busy day.
@denisemotley6639 6 ай бұрын
That looked absolutely fine. One of my favourite treats, however, it is £12 for fish and chips at my chippy these days. The savoury mince that you make is good with small scones/biscuits as they say in America/cobblers / dumplings etc and mash. Cheese and onion pie with baked beans and chips, egg and chips, potato pie done in the oven with stewing steak and a huge crust on the top, chicken broth using chicken thighs or whatever are the cheapest on the bone then cooled down and the flesh taken off, sausage and mash and onion sauce with carrots and swede. Fish finger butty with tomato ketchup for lunchtime. Rice pudding made with carnation milk and a blob of jam. Spaghetti Bolognese, my son and his friends loved this when they were young. I used to add a can of baked beans and slow cook it. A pound of mince went a long way. Would probably cut down on the cheese these days. Be interesting to see other cheap meals that are suggested. 👍
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Some great ideas there Denise, as well as some things that remind me of meals my Mum (and even my Nan) would knock up when I was a kid! We often had spaghetti bolognese, and the leftover sauce would have chilli powder and kidney beans added so the next day was chilli and rice! I'be got a recipe of Mum's that I am going to make for the channel at some point that I can't find written down anywhere, butit was my absolute favourite as a kid. BTW, £12 for fish and chips is crazy isn't it. I think us Brits need to look at cheaper (and more sustainable) fish than the standard cod or haddock. A few chippys near me have started selling hake as a slightly cheaper alternative, might go review that too !
@denisemotley6639 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats Interesting regarding the hake being cheaper now. Back in the 1960s dad took us to the original Harry Ramsdens, it was amazing, it is a brand name now and is proper crap. I'm sure the chips are frozen ones. Anyway we never actually ate in the Restaurant there but there were tables and chairs set up on the other side of the building with a plastic roof over them. I remember Mum getting a huge lump of Hake. We just got the haddock and chips children's portions. They were cooked in beef dripping. It was in Guiseley and the original hut that Harry Ramsden started from was on the premises. Beautiful. Which reminds me, when there wasn't much left in our cupboards on the day before pay day, mum would make quite thinly sliced potatoes and put onions in between two slices of potato, then dip in batter and fry in dripping. Deelishuss!!! And we got to eat them wrapped in parchment paper after loads of salt and vinegar was shook on. No fridges back then. Anyway I shall look forward to your mum's recipe. 👍🙏🏼
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@denisemotley6639 I think every household had those dead cheap recipes that would be rolled out when the money got tight at the end of the month didn't they. I remember a lot of lentil soup cooked up in a pressure cooker. Cheap and probably the healthiest thing we ate all month!
@GaryEats 6 ай бұрын
Great video 😀 enjoyed that one Greeno.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Cheers Gary, with ad revenues in January being as they are I need budget meals 🤣🤣🤣
@Daniellelee852 6 ай бұрын
Great value meal there are definitely worse meals out there. Bolognaise or chilli con carne can be cheap meals bulked with lentils and the other ingredients like tin tomatoes onions and others. Some family’s hide carrots and veg into as well for fussy kids
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I used to play that trick on my kids too, amazing what good stuff you can hide in a lasagna!!
@starilvara 6 ай бұрын
Funnily enough, even a lot of the branded battered 'fillets' actually say 'formed' somewhere on the packaging... These look pretty decent for a cheap freezer backup honestly!
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I just looked on the Tesco website. For the attered and breaded fish fillets the Teso range, Youngs and even Birds Eye note that it's FORMED ! And the Bird's Eye cod ones are £6 for 4 - £1.50 each. Goodness me. Think I made the right call getting these 2 for a quid!
@starilvara 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats Yup!
@jasonh9518 6 ай бұрын
I've been struggling further out from each pay day recently - my little girl eats dinner every night but sometimes me and my wife don' the closer to pay day it gets I've been in the mindset I cant afford anything so what's the point - we batch cook but have a fairly small freezer. Ive done some overtime this month so tomorrow when I'm paid I'm buying a 2nd hand chest freezer and I'll be filling it with things like this - can't go wrong with fish chip and mushy peas ! I tend to buy a takeaway on payday as a treat but thinking about it could prob have 10 decent cheaper dinners. Thanks for the review dude Edit - something I've done for years as a hobby is foraging - You find loads of very very nutritious food for free. I'm quite deep into it now but even basic stuff like nettle soup (everyone knows what nettles look like) is extremely tasty & very nutritious 👍
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Sorry to hear it's a bit of a struggle at the moment. Batch cooking is certainly a good way of putting together some good and healthy meals, so I commend you for that, and there are a lot of good recipes online that you can tweak to your personal tastes (I know first hand that kids won't always eat everything!!). Soups, veg curries, pastaare good examples I guess of what can be done relatively inexpensively. As for the takeaway, I understand, it's always tempting to want to treat yourself, especially when you're working hard. But if you're not eating some days then as you say it might be better to forego those treats for now, and make sure you get fed more regularly. Your health is the most important thing! I hope things get easier for you and your family (change of government later in the year won't hurt in that regard!)
@jasonh9518 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats thanks mate :) Yeah I'll bin off the takeaway - I gave up vaping, I don't drink, I used to enjoy a can of Coca Cola every day, but now just have water. All those things you can do without but food not so much lol 😂 My wife lost her job last year so income halved whilst expenses shot up, similar story to millions of others at the mo.
@davidjones6470 6 ай бұрын
Excellent upload Excellent Thumbnail How about more videos like this from Iceland or other supermarkets??? The cheaper range, 😮👍
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Diolch David! I have actually picked up a couple more items from Iceland in this £1 range to try, so will film them too. When the channel was new I did a few videos on Asda Essential products, maybe I should also revisit that range too, and see what Tesco etc. have to offer.
@davidjones6470 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats yes, good idea, that will get them subs up, 😁👍👍
@FossaBooks 6 ай бұрын
When you mentioned dhal that got me wondering if you've ever done an Indian restaurant review..? I'd like to see that Greeno..!
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I've not done a sit down Indian yet, but I did a takeaway curry a good while back - in fact they have asked me back to review some new items they have on the menu. This is the original video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r79goZZy28jIe3k.htmlsi=Lb1XOuR_cHJcyXrW I am heading to London early February, so an Indian restaurant there could well be a good option to film.
@jessicanippes1730 6 ай бұрын
Hey Greeno, looked very delish! Chips and vinegar are great, some fish is okay ( not a fan) but I really need fresh lemon and tatar sauce 😊 aww, chip butty, what a lovely word ❤ My collegue, she is from Turkey, she loves crisps sandwiches 😂
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Yes I do prefer tartare sauce myself, but simply didn't have any in the house. So salad cream is a good budget alternative - have you ever tried it? Crisps sandwiches are a favourite of mine too - the quickest and easiest lunch imaginable!
@theabandonedhunter3604 6 ай бұрын
I must admit Jessica I love a wedge of lemon 🍋 and Tartar sauce myself!
@lesleyfarrington4809 6 ай бұрын
Chips, eggs and beans. Cheap and nutritious
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I love egg and chips, a nice dippy yolk to dunk the chips in, yum!
@snowysnowyriver 6 ай бұрын
Morrisons "Savers" range is really good value. I buy a lot out of that range. I always buy the 500gr Cooking Bacon which is £1. Also the fresh pork belly slices 400gr for £2.87. Of course the bacon doesn't come in nice little neat slices, but we don't care. It tastes good just the same!!
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I’ll have to take a look at that range in my local Morrisons, thanks for the tip! I reviewed Asda Just Essentials bacon a while back, which at the time was 75p (I think it’s about 90p now) and it was decent. Offcuts and misshapes, but plenty good enough for a bacon sarnie!
@christianboutell7112 6 ай бұрын
Looks like a total winner, cheers Greeno.👍💯💥✨️
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Cheap and tasty - just what's required these days right!! Thanks for watching :-)
@timellam1918 6 ай бұрын
Hi Greeno a cheap tasty thing that does it for me is Bubble and Squeak. So easy to make and you can put it with almost anything. 🤠
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I always think of bubble and squeak as either a breakfast item or Boxing Day side. Great way to use up some leftovers mind!
@timellam1918 6 ай бұрын
😂😄😄
@theabandonedhunter3604 6 ай бұрын
Top video here Greeno! Making people aware of how cheap you can produce a meal. This was a bargain when you think about it! There have been times I’ve nipped across to Morrisons and spent a tenner or more on my tea for the evening. Keep up the good work my friend …. Smithy
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
It's so easy to spend money on food without really thinking about it isn't it Smithy! I am planning to make a few more videos on a similar theme, so let's hope people find and like them :-)
@theabandonedhunter3604 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats without a doubt! These kind of videos are so beneficial to people in the current times we are living in. Well done mate 👍
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@theabandonedhunter3604 thanks pal, I appreciate the kind words and support as always!!
@theabandonedhunter3604 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats always Greeno 👊
@sarahillingworth2718 6 ай бұрын
Ok for a couple of fish butties 👍or fish and garden peas and bread and butter 😋
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Yeah, perfect for a quick, cheap dinner. A fish butty, now that's a treat isn't it !!
@sarahillingworth2718 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats oh yes especially if I do my own fish sandwich 😋
@lesleyfarrington4809 6 ай бұрын
Bramwells corned beef from Aldi £2.09. A pack of their jacket potatoes to cut up , 65p. An onion 33p, Carrots if wanted 10p. 5p stock cube. Chop up veg add water and stock cube. Cube corned beef and put in at end. Meal for 4 for way less than £1 each. Maybe some bread to dip in potato hash
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
That sounds decent, I reckon a good dollop of brown sauce on the side with that!
@lesleyfarrington4809 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats pickled beetroot and red cabbage
@lesleyfarrington4809 6 ай бұрын
Shove it in the slow cooker and forget about it for a couple of hours lol
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@lesleyfarrington4809 I had pickled beetroot at the weekend! We had a bit of a picky lunch, bread, cheese, cold meat etc. so I brought out the pickles. Little'un loves it. And pickled onions. In fact she ate 5 big pickled onions. Definitely my daughter ha ha!
@timspencer3348 6 ай бұрын
I reckon that you could do a banging sweet potato, spinach and chick pea curry for way under a pound. Bulk cooking is always going to be a cheaper option, especially if you can batch cook and then freeze one or two portions.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Sweet potato is rubbish though... Discuss
@timspencer3348 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats It is an excellent thickener... Perfect for things like soup.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@timspencer3348 yeah, in a soup it’s ok, but on its own, baked, roasted, chips… absolute garbage!
@ianmurphy9955 6 ай бұрын
Great value for a quid Greeno, have you tried Greggs from Iceland?
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
I haven't tried the Greggs range in Iceland yet, but I will at some point for sure, do a comparison between the Iceland stuff and the actual Greggs one.
@KPWHU 6 ай бұрын
Great meal for £1 and decent nutrition. The fish didn't look grey at all did it and TBH does it matter if it's not flakes of fish? Still the same nutrition. I wonder if you could so a Spanish omelette for under a pound per portion?
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
It’s interesting, another comment mentioned that even the big brands used “formed” fish in their frozen fillets. So I checked a couple of the market leaders Young’s and Birds Eye, and they do indeed use formed fish. Birds Eye are £6 for 4, treble the price of those Iceland ones. That’s cod, but if it’s just formed fish in frozen batter does it really matter? Spanish omelette is a good idea, although you’d have to make a few tweaks to keep it in budget. Fresh herbs and olive oil might have to be subbed for dried herbs and veg oil, but I will look into it, thanks for the idea 😀
@KPWHU 6 ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats Just goes to show, by looking at the ingredients on the back, all is revealed. There will be people deciding to pay more for an item believing it to be an actual fish fillet.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@KPWHU absolutely, I assumed that both of those brands would be offering a premium product, but seems it’s just a name and a fancier box!
@whoflungdung1046 Ай бұрын
Lidl sell 4 fish fillets for £1.99 and look better than those.
@GreenoEats Ай бұрын
Is that right? Maybe I should check them out then, thanks for the tip !
@johnnerding8551 6 ай бұрын
Sorry, you need to turn up the volume !!!!
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
The volume was too low on the video? It sounded fine in editing, but I did have the settings on a little lower than usual. Thanks for letting me know.
@GaryG1974 2 күн бұрын
I am so embarrassed. I already commented on the food but I totally missed the fact it was part of the Greeno under £1 meals. Greeno, I apologise.
@GreenoEats 2 күн бұрын
Absolutely no need to apologise for anything 🙂
@BETHEBEST21 6 ай бұрын
Salad cream!? lol
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
Oh I love the stuff! When I was about 8 or 9 I used to walk round to my Nan's after school. Every day they'd have a fresh uncut loaf, and she'd make me a salad cream sandwich. My brother used to have a ketchup sandwich ha ha! I still occasionally will have a salad cream sandwich now, white bread, lashings of butter and a good squeee of salad cream, it's great :-)
@theabandonedhunter3604 6 ай бұрын
I must admit Greeno salad cream wouldn’t of gone on mine either 😂
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@theabandonedhunter3604 you gotta try it Smithy, salad cream on chips of the food of the gods!
@paulhopewell8141 Ай бұрын
Have a word with yourself.
@GreenoEats Ай бұрын
For what, highlighting a product that might be useful to families struggling to put food on the table currently?
@paulhopewell8141 Ай бұрын
@@GreenoEatsYou are promoting,junk food, what nutrition is in that inept meal. Like I said before, have a word with yourself.
@GreenoEats Ай бұрын
@@paulhopewell8141 mushy peas are a decent source of fibre and protein, low in fat. The air-frier chips are a healthier alternative to oven or fried chips. I am not saying that it's a healthy option, but it's not as unbalanced as it could be. In my "under a pound" mini-series I also made a homemade vegetable curry and a soup, so maybe those might be more appealing?
@paulhopewell8141 Ай бұрын
@@GreenoEats I understand that Greeno, Air fried chips are amazing,and low in fat. I thoroughly enjoy your videos, especially the one in St Michael's Mount. Can't beat a pasty, good old Tim miner's grub. Take care.
@PianomanMusic96 6 ай бұрын
Why would you even review food that most of us would not feed thier dog? Madness and the views on these videos is even madder.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
It's fish, so maybe you'd feed it to your cat? 😂 Just trying to highlight a meal that's tasty enough and can be made by those on a tight budget - not sure why that's a problem?
@leanndurnan7903 6 ай бұрын
Says someone who grew up wi a piano in their house!
@j.albion1659 6 ай бұрын
Comments and views help the channel. Your contribution is appreciated, come back anytime Pianoman. Your superpower is the snarky comment.
@GreenoEats 6 ай бұрын
@@j.albion1659 everyone is entitled to their opinion, I never expect my videos in terms of content or style to be to everyone’s taste, that’s fine. But as you say, if they choose to express that via a comment it’s a tiny little push in the right direction of the YT algorithm 😂
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