feeding 3 hungry children on a budget, hotdog stuff crust pizza home made with photos. yummy food for kids

I am always looking for a way to feed my kids good food and there is one way I know how and that is by making it myself, as a trained chef of 15 years I have plenty of mad cooking skills.

I like to budget so on a weekend we can spend the money we have saved through the week on something else, like going to the pictures, bowling or even a drive to the coast.

Today I made pizza from scratch this is the recipe I used and as was around at Hive account@wrongjohn house I had no access to the internet so I had to scratch my head and make it up as I went along.

Now there were a few challenges I had to face while cooking up these tasty treats.

1. There is no rolling pin.
2. I had to bring my own pan to make my pizza sauce.

Now the recipe I made was kid-friendly as my kids like a sweat pizza sauce otherwise they will not eat it.

The sauce
passata full carton of 400mls this cost 50p
2 tablespoons of tomato puree tube cost 64p
and a good squirt of ketchup £1.00

The dough
2 cups of flour bag cost 45p
7g of yeast 12p
2 teaspoons of sugar
salt freshly ground
and warm water. eyeballed to make a rubber-like dough

and a tin of hotdogs 74p
grated cheese £1.50 I used about 120g between all 3 pizzas and there are loads left in the bag.

so to feed 3 kids with this recipe it cost about £1.90 to make for 3 pizzas.

Now,l this will be less as I also made meatball bbq pizza which is in my next post and used the remaining sauce and dough to make that so it might be even £1.20 to make. but you get a rough idea that this is cheap. and tastes better than a takeaway

here we go.

so for the dough, I mixed all the ingredients together and needed together to make a large dough ball and left to rest on the side for about an hour.
While this was rising I made the sauce which was just putting the 3 ingredients in a pan and leaving to simmer and mixing when needed.

No rolling pin so I used a Pringles tin haha

I chopped the hotdogs in half then lengthways

I started to wrap the hotdogs in the dough making sure I pinch it down to keep them in the dough.

The sauce had cooked down to make a lovely sweet sauce

Popped the 3 bases on a pizza tray

and started to load it up with the sauce and cheese

chopped the remaining hot dogs into little slices and place them on top of the pizza and baked at gas mark 6 for 25 minutes until golden and bubbly

As you can see the kids are loving it.

My wife said she didn't want my kids faces on the net so I blacked them out, but you can still see the smiles.

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