Great value dinner meal plan

Here’s a dal that’s smart with your money and your time, and full of ingredients that’ll make the whole family feel fantastic – red lentils, sweetcorn, cucumber and lemon. It’s zingy, cosy, subtly spiced and super fresh, and it’s finished with golden cubes of salty halloumi, tossed until sticky-sweet in everyone’s favourite condiment: mango chutney.

This cheesy, chipotle-spiced one-pan taco rice recipe is here to warm your family’s bellies. It’s packed with Remarksable Value ingredients (long grain rice, brown onion, garlic, chopped tomatoes, vegetable stock pot, mature cheddar cheese), keeping each portion at £2.50. And that even includes a Tex Mex dip selection to serve.

This ‘meatball’ recipe offers a new, Mediterranean-esque way to use your tinned tuna, beyond the pasta bakes. These basil-enhanced, crispy-edged beauties are simmered with sprightly sweet peppers, and hearty cannellini beans, all with a tomato and herb base. It’s the midweek pick-me-up nobody was expecting.

That this crispy chilli beef peanut noodles recipe comes in at £2.05 per person is something to be celebrated this Thursday and beyond. It’s a riot of flavour, made largely with store-cupboard ingredients, along with some super-speedy crispy beef. Just add M&S Stir Fry crunchy chilli topper and some chopped Remarksable Value spring onions.

This is a chic, Italian-inspired, late-summer plate to round off your eating week, and it’s made with our M&S Remarksable Value Oakham Gold chicken leg portions at its heart. The pepperonata is made by roasting sweet peppers until sticky, and then combining them with chilli, garlic, tomatoes and herbs. Serve with M&S green olive ciabatta rolls and be transported to Napoli.