What's for dinner/tea?

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
For @littleme

This recipe is from “The Dairy Book Of Home Cookery” which was given to me in 1978.
I think the milkman used to sell them.
It’s still my favourite cook book, well used, and now held together with masking tape.

I use a 340g tin of corned beef instead of the 175g in the recipe and I double all the other ingredients.
I then pile it on a 10” plate (Hedge Rose from Boots, we all had these in the 80’s).


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I had that book, used it quite a lot when we first got married. God knows where it is now x
 

Trumpet

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Hitting the Pinch of Nom book tonight.
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Haven't had a bad meal from this book yet and all diet friendly apparently.
 

littleme

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Hitting the Pinch of Nom book tonight.
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Haven't had a bad meal from this book yet and all diet friendly apparently.
You can't really go wrong with pinch of nom, the only one recipe that I haven't loved was last night's Cajun Dirty Rice, but then I'm not a fan of minced beef (except for in my homemade pies, and homemade my cottage pie) it wasn't horrible, but I wouldn't rush to make it again.
 

littleme

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Cheap & easy tonight.

1 pack Four Cheese Tortellini (£1.25)
Chunky Veg pasta sauce (75p)
1 x pepper, 1x courgette, half a small box of button mushrooms (all left over from other meals)
1 Garlic Baguette (reduced to 24p a couple of weeks ago, I bought a few & they're stored in the freezer)
Sprinkle of parmesan.

Lovely healthyish meal for 3 for under a fiver.
 

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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Cheap & easy tonight.

1 pack Four Cheese Tortellini (£1.25)
Chunky Veg pasta sauce (75p)
1 x pepper, 1x courgette, half a small box of button mushrooms (all left over from other meals)
1 Garlic Baguette (reduced to 24p a couple of weeks ago, I bought a few & they're stored in the freezer)
Sprinkle of parmesan.

Lovely healthyish meal for 3 for under a fiver.

It completely baffles me when people say eating healthy is expensive!
 

littleme

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It completely baffles me when people say eating healthy is expensive!
It really isn't! Years, ago as a single working parent I worked out it was cheaper & healthier to cook homemade food, often in batches with some to eat and some to freeze, early on I invested in a decent sized freezer & a slow cooker & I wouldn't be without them. Also although I eat meat, I'm not a great fan of meat, in any meal I can I reduce the amount of meat and add extra vegetables, it's cost effective & healthier.

Any left over veg that I think I won't use in time I either chop & freeze (peppers), or grate & freeze (carrots, sewde, courgettes) the grated veg is lovely if you reduce the amount of meat in Chilli's, Spag bol, or pie fillings including shepards and cottage pies, and make up the amount of reduced meat with the grated veg. It makes for lovely thick flavoursome sauce, and if you have fussy kids, it's a way of getting hidden goodness into them.

I'm also lucky that I work in a supermarket, when I finish for the day, anything that has its price reduced and can be used the same day or frozen for another day comes home with me. :D
 

That-Crazy-Rat-Lady

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Made a chilli con carne pie!
(Inspired by a Facebook video I now can't find!)

Layed a dish with tortillas, rice, chilli con carne (well my beany version!) red onion, jalapenos and crushed salted Doritos - topped off with another tortilla and baked for 20mins!

Deeeeelish!!

THEN the husband had the nerve to say 'Is turning everything into a pie your new thing?!'

As he went back for seconds...
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
We had chicken korma. The chicken came from Lidl, or it might've been Aldi, haven't got a clue, can't remember which 1 I got it from.
The sauce from Sainsburys.
I had mushroom rice with mine and youngest had egg fried. Both out of a packet because I couldn't be arsed make them myself.
 
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