Thanks SS, I feel great now, must have been a 24hr thing luckily.
I feel for you moneywise Emma, it's really terrible how cheap the bad naughty food is, while healthy stuff is so expensive. Doesn't make sense how you can buy a giant bag of frozen oven chips for £1 while a tiny punnet of raspberries is £3+!
We usually buy a few tins of tesco value tomatoes and blend a tin up with cheap stock for a basic sauce. Then buy a big bag of frozen veg to bulk it up. Then we buy the cheapest dried pasta/rice and the cheapest potatoes for SW chips. From these ingredients we make basic pasta, bolognese, lasagne, cottage pie.
After that we buy Quorn which makes it expensive but obviously you don't need to do that!
We only do green, I don't know if red or EE is cheaper as I'm a veggie! But I hope this helps. Xx