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# £1 costed meals per portion 46,901 Best Seller Rank Portion-controlled recipes for one One Pound Meals: Delicious Food for Less

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## Key Features

- • **Visual Feast:** Full-page, vibrant color photos opposite each recipe for foolproof cooking inspiration.
- • **Portion Perfected:** Recipes tailored for single servings to eliminate waste and support weight management.
- • **Trusted & Trending:** Highly rated with 4.6 stars and featured on TV, making it a must-have for savvy home cooks.
- • **Budget-Savvy Gourmet:** Delicious meals designed to cost just £1 per portion, perfect for mindful spenders.
- • **Streamlined Simplicity:** Clear, easy-to-follow instructions with minimal side dishes—just what you want to eat.

## Overview

One Pound Meals by Miguel Barclay is a bestselling cookbook offering budget-friendly, portion-controlled recipes designed for solo diners. With clear instructions, vibrant photos, and meals costing around £1 per portion, it’s perfect for professionals seeking tasty, economical, and waste-free cooking solutions.

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Review: So Good I bought it twice! - I had never heard of Miguel Barclay - I don't have an Instagram account - but since purchasing this book I have discovered him on YouTube where he demonstrates making some of the recipes, well worth a look. I have become so tired of trying to scale down recipes for dishes I have really enjoyed which are designed for 4,6 or even 8 people. Even when amounts are given for 2 people it isn't always easy to freeze the other half and boring to eat the same thing the next day. I struggle with my weight and portion control plays are large part in weight loss, here he has sorted out portion sizes. In the past I have ended up with expensive ingredients that I have never used again, I am confident this won't happen. This book is the answer to all my problems and I am looking forward to working my way through these appetising looking recipes. A big thank you to Miguel Barclay! I liked this so much on Kindle I bought the paper copy, I can write out my own variations of the recipes given and even my own recipes and work out my own costings. I cannot recommend this book highly enough for anyone cooking for one.
Review: Food that appeals, sensible prices, easy to follow, original. Costed per portion, meets the brief of being a 'One Pound Meal'. - 4.5 stars I do love this, but I would add what is probably a fairly obvious statement. The costings of £1 Meals are done using the cost of the amount of ingredients used, per head, in order to meet this brief. So the pancake batter quantities given along with three rashers of streaky bacon will give a single breakfast portion. The £1 does not cover the cost of the packet of bacon or the 6 pack of eggs. These aren't the amazing feed four people for under a quid costings of Jack Monroe, who is just inspirational and whose A Girl Called Jack: 100 delicious budget recipes is still rightly a best-seller three years after publication. Miguel first came to many people's notice on the TV programme This Morning when it was presented by Eamonn and Ruth Holmes. and his Chicken Katsu Curry recipe as cooked on that show puts in an appearance here on page 56. Personally speaking I use cornflour rather than flour for this recipe as it gives a glossier sauce, but it is a good one. What helped to make this book five stars is that unlike some cookbooks the recipes for main meals aren't extensively padded out with recipes for what turn out to be side dishes or light snacks. There are a few of these, and some are decidedly offbeat. Miguel's hangover cure involves making a thick portion of macaroni cheese, then making a stacked sandwich with it with slices of toast. I'll pass. Most recipes however are food you do want to eat, and the full page colour illustrations of the finished dish are a visual treat. I liked the fact that these were the finished dish, not some in between stage, and being opposite the recipe they made for a handy visual reference. Miguel may be on trend enough to use hashtags like #meat #casual #chicken #posh at the top of each page as a quick reference guide for readers but essentially this is a cookbook that sticks to the rules of what makes a cookbook valuable. Instructions you can follow easily for food you will want to cook, with an idea of what the dish should look like at the end (although I learned to cook with a lot of books that didn't have pictures too).

## Features

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## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | 46,901 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 58 in Personal Finance Budgeting 73 in British Food & Drink 86 in Food Reference & Gastronomy |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 848 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ So Good I bought it twice!
*by V***R on 22 February 2017*

I had never heard of Miguel Barclay - I don't have an Instagram account - but since purchasing this book I have discovered him on YouTube where he demonstrates making some of the recipes, well worth a look. I have become so tired of trying to scale down recipes for dishes I have really enjoyed which are designed for 4,6 or even 8 people. Even when amounts are given for 2 people it isn't always easy to freeze the other half and boring to eat the same thing the next day. I struggle with my weight and portion control plays are large part in weight loss, here he has sorted out portion sizes. In the past I have ended up with expensive ingredients that I have never used again, I am confident this won't happen. This book is the answer to all my problems and I am looking forward to working my way through these appetising looking recipes. A big thank you to Miguel Barclay! I liked this so much on Kindle I bought the paper copy, I can write out my own variations of the recipes given and even my own recipes and work out my own costings. I cannot recommend this book highly enough for anyone cooking for one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Food that appeals, sensible prices, easy to follow, original. Costed per portion, meets the brief of being a 'One Pound Meal'.
*by A***H on 23 February 2017*

4.5 stars I do love this, but I would add what is probably a fairly obvious statement. The costings of £1 Meals are done using the cost of the amount of ingredients used, per head, in order to meet this brief. So the pancake batter quantities given along with three rashers of streaky bacon will give a single breakfast portion. The £1 does not cover the cost of the packet of bacon or the 6 pack of eggs. These aren't the amazing feed four people for under a quid costings of Jack Monroe, who is just inspirational and whose A Girl Called Jack: 100 delicious budget recipes is still rightly a best-seller three years after publication. Miguel first came to many people's notice on the TV programme This Morning when it was presented by Eamonn and Ruth Holmes. and his Chicken Katsu Curry recipe as cooked on that show puts in an appearance here on page 56. Personally speaking I use cornflour rather than flour for this recipe as it gives a glossier sauce, but it is a good one. What helped to make this book five stars is that unlike some cookbooks the recipes for main meals aren't extensively padded out with recipes for what turn out to be side dishes or light snacks. There are a few of these, and some are decidedly offbeat. Miguel's hangover cure involves making a thick portion of macaroni cheese, then making a stacked sandwich with it with slices of toast. I'll pass. Most recipes however are food you do want to eat, and the full page colour illustrations of the finished dish are a visual treat. I liked the fact that these were the finished dish, not some in between stage, and being opposite the recipe they made for a handy visual reference. Miguel may be on trend enough to use hashtags like #meat #casual #chicken #posh at the top of each page as a quick reference guide for readers but essentially this is a cookbook that sticks to the rules of what makes a cookbook valuable. Instructions you can follow easily for food you will want to cook, with an idea of what the dish should look like at the end (although I learned to cook with a lot of books that didn't have pictures too).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Meals for £1 that work! Just buy it, it's an incredible book to have!
*by T***R on 20 May 2017*

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!

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