Mardathas meal planning thread

buxtonrabbitgreen

jcr16 wrote: »

sausages and pasta is really nice espesh with grated cheese on top. we made this once to encourage our daughter to eat pasta and it work. since then we have done loads of variation'.s things like frying an onion, mushrooms and bacon. add it too cooked sausges and pasta and mix in tin of baked beans with grated cheese on top. it gorg

I had sausage pasta at pizza hut. It was very nice though not what I had ordered.

mardatha

I'm struggling like mad here with the cost of food, going over budget every week now and not pleased :mad: I remember reading the wartime threads and thinking of trying the recipes - but some were a wee bit outlandish & too frugal for us
What I really (really) want is plain old fashioned food, that uses less meat and more veg for cheapness, but yet gives a solid filling normal dinner !! I make porridge every day and soup, we cant have puddings cos OH diabetic, but its the main course that I'm stuck for. No pasta, no curries, no chillies - when I say plain O/S I meant it lol cos he wont eatit and I wont cookit!
I mind my mum making stuff with fried cabbage that tasted ok (and OH needs iron), also hot pot/type things with tons of potato and onion, anything like that , if anybody has a fav recipe I'd be glad of it.

westcoastscot

Hi Mardatha what about things like corned beef hash, bubble + squeak, stewed sausage with loads of veg which you can eat over two days??? I make it with one lot of sausages, loads of veggies, onions and a packet of stuffing mix - we pick out the sausages on the first day and just have the rest of the it the next day with mash and gravy - very tasty!

Other dishes we like are sausage and stuffing loaf with baked beans and mash, mince and sweetcorn roll - again with veg and mash and loads of gravy, rabbit and cabbage casserole (also nice with other meat), liver and bacon casserole and carrot and barley casserole. Also, have you thought about making a cobbler??? fills them up and stretches a stew. ditto dumplings.

I'm looking for new ideas as well - grocery prices are outrageous here, but i'm feeding a fisherman who eats his bodyweight in food each evening . He also eats bread with everything! Will your other half have mac n'cheese??? that's nice with A & B if he'll eat it.
WCS

Ches

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but I was brought up after the war and my mum cooked sausage toad,shepherds pie, steak and kidney suet pudding, hot pot, mince and tatties, liver and bacon, belly of pork strips and meat pies. Until her death 12 years ago I don't think she ever cooked savoury rice or any sort of pasta except rice pudding. I also think that during the war people were eating smaller portions and filling up on bread to soak up the leftover gravy. I also think that with a starter of soup and bread you can get away with serving less of the main course.

rachbc

shepards pie with loads of veg in the mince - celery, onion, carrot, swede, tinned toms and around 80-100g pp f mince/ leftover roast

stew/ casserole - onions, root veg, 100g each diced beef and some herbs if you fancy, stock - cook long and slow then thicken with flour and butter

use the above to fill a pie or suet pudding

BitterAndTwisted

Hi Mardatha. I hope you're making Stovies at least once a week. My mother (who wasn't a Scot but learned to speak English up there and retained a delightful Scottish accent all her life) used to serve us Stovies made with sausages. I think we kids used to get one sausage each and the adults two. It was one of our favourite everyday meals.

Family legend has it that my very "careful with money" Granny could make a small tin of Heinz baked beans stretch to feed five adults which probably worked out at about eight beans per person or something. I think they must have eaten quite a lot of bread and marge in that house.

Miss_Piggy_2

Hi there

Don't know how many you are feeding in one sitting, but when my Mum and Dad were struggling many moons ago we used to eat a lot of sausage hotpot:

Pack of sausages (if cheap ones then fry first to stop them getting too big in the hotpot)
Tin value baked beans
Cheap tin of Vegetable soup
Vegetable stock cube
Water

Basically just mix all the above together and cook in casserole in oven till sausages cooked through.

If you have chilli etc you can make it more interesting. Mum used to serve this with a cheap loaf (whoopsies are good for this) or boiled rice. I still love it now!!

Miss P
xx

annie123

http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/index.html
http://www.vegsoc.org/cordonvert/recipes/pielist.html
http://www.veggie-recipe.com/recipes/vegetable-hotpot.html

serve any of the above with more veg, might make a veggie out of him yet, but I doubt it;)

Pink.

Hi mardatha,

If you read through these threads there are lots of recipes that may help:

easy lamb hotpot advice

Just the weather for stew

Sausage casserole recipe (merged)

Chicken Casserole

Beef casserole

how do i make a pork Casserole, with tender meat!

lamb casserole

Stovies?

Sausages recipes please!

Was the meal your mum made with cabbage possibly a hash? If so, these threads may help:

Hash glorious hash

Corned Beef Hash

If it is stew/casserole type food you prefer then this thread has lots of good advice on cheaper cuts of meat that may bring the cost down:

cheaper cuts of meat


Hope this helps.

Pink

LilacLouisa

mardatha wrote: »

I'm struggling like mad here with the cost of food, going over budget every week now and not pleased :mad: I remember reading the wartime threads and thinking of trying the recipes - but some were a wee bit outlandish & too frugal for us
What I really (really) want is plain old fashioned food, that uses less meat and more veg for cheapness, but yet gives a solid filling normal dinner !! I make porridge every day and soup, we cant have puddings cos OH diabetic, but its the main course that I'm stuck for. No pasta, no curries, no chillies - when I say plain O/S I meant it lol cos he wont eatit and I wont cookit!
I mind my mum making stuff with fried cabbage that tasted ok (and OH needs iron), also hot pot/type things with tons of potato and onion, anything like that , if anybody has a fav recipe I'd be glad of it.

Have you thought about adapting woolton pie to your own liking? A selection of root veg simmered until tender, added to a sauce e.g cheese, tomato, parsley. Then add a topping, we use a savoury crumble, but the original uses pastry, and brown in the oven. It goes down very well here.