What's For Dinner Today ???

poorandindenial

Oooh, I haven't seen this thread before.

I am having Dal for the next goodness knows how long - I had a first attempt at making it last night and it is fair to say that it will need some refinement (it is a little minging) - today I have lobbed in some coconut milk and will see if that improves matters - lol

Waste not want not though, I shall soldier on and as I made a huge vat off the stuff that is what I will be eating pretty much forever (well until I go on holiday on Friday) with some flatbread from my local Turkish shop.

ETA: I am going to run back through and steal everyone elses food ideas - I LOVE food :T

In my Dal was (in no particular order):

Channa Dal
Toor Dal (I can't remember how much these were but probably each 500g bag was less than a quid, I used maybe just less than half of each)
Cumin seeds
Coriander seeds
Fenugreek seeds
Chillis
Cardamom pods
Onion
Ginger
Garlic
Black pepper
Cloves
Turmeric
That bark that you get in indian food but I can't remember the name
Tin of value toms from my cupboard - 40p or less??? they have been there a while so can't remember how much

All the spices were in my cupboard anyway and the ginger, onion and garlic would have come in at less than £1.50, possibly less than £1 although they were in my fridge)

I cooked the lentils and made a paste of ginger, onion and garlic and fried it off then I added the tomatoes and started to cook it out. I toasted the spices (except the turmeric and cardamoms and that bark that you get in Indian food but I can never remember what it is called) and ground them in a pestle and mortar. ThenI added the lentils tot he tomato mixture and stirred through the ground spices and cooked through.

Now this should be delicious but is not so I need to work out what went so wrong - all suggestions gratefully recieved???

For approx £3 I have got enough to do at least 8 lunches!!!!

lilian1977

Hi all

Today:

Cous cous salad:
Tesco discount brand meditteranean tomato cous cous (80p for 2 sachets which will make 4 portions)
1 chopped up Quorn fillet (2 bags for £2 in Tesco at the moment, 6 in a bag)
6 cherry tomatoes (bought loose)
Handful of spinach
Peas
Olive oil, pepper and lemon juice

YUM. Have brought a slice of HM bread too.

Also have the famous flapjack, small tub of nuts (inspired by Graze), apple and clementine, yoghurt with pineapple and kiwi.

I have also brought pasta with tomato sauce in case I go out tonight but looking at the weather I probably won't so that can go in the fridge at work to be eaten tomorrow.

Enjoy your lunches everyone!

anniestar

lillian do you have a Morrisons near you? They have the bags of Quorn chunks on for £1 at the moment.:j :j :j :j :j

lilian1977

Thanks for that Ann, that's great to know

jungliemac

Well I just sliced open my red pepper to make a lovely soup only to find a massive caterpillar inside. No holes in the pepper though. How did it get in? Think I'll have a sandwich.

jennyred

wow - what a fab thread!!

I always struggle to decide what to take to work, especially when i'm on nights ( which i am from tonight!)
the thing is i can only eat what i take as we are locked in at night (a prison) so if i get hungry there is not a lot i can do!
I eat all my meals at work (breakfast, dinner and tea) as it is a 12.5hr shift and I spend nearly 2 hrs driving so my time at home is spent in bed!
I usually take a box of cereal for the week, a microwavable meal and lots of snacks. - i try and make them healthy but usually there are not!
my last set of nights i made some soup, pre cooked some jacket pots and ate lots of beans on toast! but I'd like to get a little more adventurous.
love the receipe for flapjack - gonna make some of that this afternoon. might also make a batch of stew/casserole for the week.
will be keeping an eye on this tread with interest!!

jenny

MrsPorridge

For lunch I had cous cous, salad, ham and a hard boiled egg plus a banana and satsuma.

tonight its Sausage Pie which is sausages cooked with benas and tomatoes then put into individual pie dishes and topped with mashed potatoes. Lovely and filling and real comfort food. I made a big batch of them at the weekend and froze them. Served with mixed veggies.

Gemmzie

Forgot again Thanks for the reminder!

My turn to make tea tonight too, no idea what to cook.

piglet6

Am not at work today (have had hours cut to 2 days a week) but on reduced salary to match so now more important than ever to reduce food bill where possible... :eek:


Mr P's parents came to stay this weekend (its FIL's bday today!) but although they were planning to travel back this evening, the London snow has put paid to this idea, and it looks like they will be staying a little longer! :rolleyes:

So, meals for today were a big cooked brunch (bacon, scrambled egg, hash browns, tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans and toast) at about 11am this morning, and we are cooking a big roasted vegetable pasta bake for this evening (courgettes, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, red/green/orange peppers) which we will serve with garlic bread, followed by a chocolate fountain (Mr P and I were bought one for Christmas and haven't used it yet, so have bought pineapple, strawberries, raspberries, marshmallows, breadsticks, and some cubes of fudge and thought we'd try it out in style tonight! :beer:).

Not a particularly cheap day shopping-wise, but I have frozen the leftover bacon from this morning, which will end up in a pasta sauce at some point. I will also make "too much" pasta bake this evening and freeze the leftovers in portions for Mr P and I to have for lunches at a later date. However, as we would usually take FIL/MIL out to a restaurant for a birthday celebration and in London, with wine, this would mean we would be looking at a lot more than the cost of the shopping for today’s meal, although it may seem a bit extravagant, it is really a money saving version of “normal”.


Just need to re-jig my menu plan for the rest of the week now, to take into account 2 extra people for the foreseeable future... Good job I love my in-laws!!!:rotfl:

Piglet

jennyred

lilian1977 wrote: »

Private and Confidential - don't throw your bananas away! Make these:

http://www.cookeryclub.co.uk/recipes/13/370

And add a mashed up banana to the mix - keeps them much more moist and you're not wasting them. Then you can bring flapjack to work as a treat. Add chopped nuts, raisins, dried fruit, anything you've got

EDIT - oh and for my lunch, I have HM stew with HM flapjack (yes, the above one!) and my free Graze box fruit with an Activia 8 for £1.57 yoghurt. Going to the cinema (free tickets from PT job) after work so have also brought in a slice of Quorn pie (OOD but should be fine), mashed potato and baked beans.

just made these - it is now baking away in the oven - smells lovely and soooo easy to make. have added some almond flakes and broken hazelnuts that i found at the back of the cupboard as well so fingers crossed they turn out ok!!!