Store cupboard challenge

cydney65

I was also going to suggest bubble and squeak nom a nom a nom

mardatha

Ta for all help, will do cauli cheese with fried tatties and bacon tomorrow

mi_jardin

I'd make bubble and squeak. Cook the cabbage, add in mash, chopped bacon and a grating of cheese on top. Yum!

mardatha

If I could keep this up then we would save a fortune. Been eating far too much meat

Mrs_Chip

Mard- I know your natural antipathy towards veggies (:D), so this might not go down too well, but here are the proportions that we are supposed to be eating - I don't think you can get away with leaving half your plate empty!

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mardatha wrote: »

If I could keep this up then we would save a fortune. Been eating far too much meat

The real question isn't "if I could keep this up"; the real question is - "think hard why you CAN'T keep this up?"

So, in this thread you have been given suggestions which could, if you wanted, formulate one weeks worth of a menu plan (albeit, a very limited/repetitive one but certainly do-able)

It's all about how you think of "meat". Do you see it as an animal product? One which should be served at each main meal?

Or, do you see it as the PROTEIN element of a meal? In which case, for example, your cauliflower cheese, it is the CHEESE in the sauce which provides the protein element Or, if you have an egg curry, the EGG provides the protein element. Or, in a lentil Dhal, the lentil provides the protein element (all cheaper than meat, btw )

If the thought of a "meat free" meal is totally unpalatable (which for some people it is, and I get that!) then perhaps, in your mince example, you substitute half mince with half soya protein? That effectively, halves your meat element, halves your grocery bill and halves the associated health consequences Yet, it does not make you a vegetarian :rotfl:but it does discount your shopping bill and it does improve your health benefits to boot!

Pulses, eggs, cheese, nuts are all proteins to equal meat content but with far less fat/calories/ill effects on your system

mardatha

Welll...I dont mind veggies at all as long as I canny taste the bloody things
I usually throw anything and everything in soup and get them that way. We try to have HM soup every day.
I don't really think of meat as a protein, or as an animal, or anything at all really. I find life a lot easier if I just dont think at all - I just whack out something easy and throw it onna plate.:rotfl::rotfl:
Between us, we cant or wont eat pasta/rice/curry/chilli/anything at all made from lentils or any foreign stuff
I can and do and would live on good old-fashioned plain cooking - but I struggle to cope at all when am ill. I think that gets to me and bothers me. I will cert use cauli cheese and fried cabbage more often now. I think throwing more veg in and les meat in, as long as I can pick yur brains in here :A

Fruball

You could even progress to fried kale with bacon... Or kale with cheese sauce

:rotfl:

Mrs_Chip

What are you views on omlettes Mard? they are quick, and very versatile. In the summer I make spanish omlette with lots of veggies in and veg-phobic OH happily scoffs it. In winter a nice cheese and ham omlette, or fried mushrooms is good. And if you use a meat filling you dont need as much as if it is on the plate.

mardatha

Yea doing sa lot of them and quiche since we got the hens cos we got too many eggs . Am not mad on eggs meself but I can eat a small portion
Miss PIcky Mard