Cottage pie
A ten-portion cottage pie costed line by line from dated wholesale pack prices: mince, mirepoix, mash, cheddar crust. Open it in the free tool and put your own prices in.
£1.90 ingredients per portion · 10 portions · 14 ingredients
Starter recipes, costed
Six classic UK menu dishes with every ingredient priced from a public pack price (source and date on each page). Open one in the free recipe tool, type your own supplier prices over ours, and scale it to tonight's numbers. They are starting points, not your spec: change anything.
8 oz beef burger and fries
A 227 g beef patty, brioche bun, burger cheese, lettuce, tomato, gherkin and a portion of fries, costed for ten from dated wholesale prices. Open it in the free tool and change the spec.
£2.64 ingredients per portion · 10 portions · 9 ingredients
Fish and chips
A 180-200 g MSC cod loin in beer batter with chips, crushed peas and a lemon wedge, costed for ten from dated wholesale prices. Open it in the free tool and put your fish price in.
£4.00 ingredients per portion · 10 portions · 10 ingredients
Chicken tikka masala with rice
Marinated chicken thigh in a tomato, cream and almond masala with basmati rice, costed for ten from dated wholesale prices. Open it in the free tool and price it from your own supplier.
£1.34 ingredients per portion · 10 portions · 18 ingredients
Sticky toffee pudding
Date sponge with a butter, sugar and cream toffee sauce, costed for twelve from dated wholesale and retail pack prices. Open it in the free tool and scale it to the tray you bake in.
£0.87 ingredients per portion · 12 portions · 11 ingredients
Roast tomato soup
Roast fresh tomatoes with tinned, onion, garlic and a little cream, costed for ten from dated wholesale prices. Open it in the free tool and swap the tomatoes for whatever your greengrocer has.
£1.18 ingredients per portion · 10 portions · 12 ingredients
Sweet chilli sauce
A working chef's own sweet chilli sauce: sugar, water and red wine vinegar reduced by half, then diced chilli, pepper and garlic, finished with fish sauce. About 1.5 litres, costed from dated wholesale prices.
£0.16 ingredients per portion · 30 portions · 8 ingredients
Prices are wholesale or supermarket pack prices as published on the date shown on each recipe; your supplier will differ. Labour, overheads and VAT are not in the per-portion figure — it is ingredients only, the number a kitchen calls food cost.