Typical lunch box

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Mrstim wrote: »

Will try lentils thanks, put them in the chicken curry the other day and yummmmm! and it bulked it out. Never thought of grated carrot! I but lot of carrots as they cheap but tbh I hate carrots cooked, and kind of force myself to eat them because they cheap, never thought of grating them into stuff, I bet I would hardly notice it.

My recipe for spag bol is very similar. Into the food processor (or grate by hand) goes

3 large onions
whole punnet mushrooms (about 250g)
3 large carrots
2 cloves garlic
any old veg thats needing to be eaten (ive put peppers, leeks, courgettes in too)

The food processor turns it into a bit of a mulch.

then fry that up and add
about 100g dried red lentils
500g quaility mince
worchestershire sauce
Herbs
2 cartons passata/ or tins tomatoes

I leave it to simmer for about half an hour or so.
Once cooled this then can be frozen into portions,
I end up getting about 10 good sized portions out of 1 pack of mince. Good handy ready meal to have in the freezer,

When reheating you could also add small tin sweetcorn/kidney beans and some chilli powder and you have a chilli

My toddler and my OH would never eat lentils unless well hidden so this is the perfect recipe.