The Cheapest Healthy Meal Ever!

parki

Anyone with the yorkshire pudding tins the 4 big onesin one tray ,cut 4 slices if bread into rounds to fit these place in oven till starting to get crispy like toast .
1.Fry onions & mushrooms
2.Grate cheese
3.Microwave scrambled egg
4.Bring the tin out of oven
5.Fill with the above ingredients
6.Top with a little grated cheese
7.Put back in oven till brad crispy & cheese melted.
Lovely and very filling use your old bread for these and add diffrent fillings like chopped bacon onion & mushroom.They come out like a basket ive been doing these for breakfast.Hubby loves them.you could even slice cooked sausages in them but add some cheese to bind things together.Takes about 15 minutes all in.We need a name for these i said to hubby heres your breakfast baskets.Sounds posh.

Jaydee36

Butternut Squash
1 or 2 (depending on size of butternut squash) Onion
Vegetable Stock

Peel butternut squash, scoop out seeds and cut into cubes. Chop onion. Add ingredience to pan and cover with vegetable stock. Bring to boil and simmer for 20 mins. Allow to cool for a few mins then zap in food process or use food blender.

Cheap and delicicious. Hope you enjoy

Rummer

Roasted veg grown in the garden, a drizzle of olive oil and some seasoning, or a fresh salad again out the garden!

Boomdocker

Bumping this thread that I just saw linked in a different thread. Be great if we can get a few updates.

apple_mint

I also came across this thread through a link from another one and it has inspired me to have a go again at the potato recipes and also to hunt out a few more frugal recipes from other older threads.

Money is going to be a bit tighter this year for the two of us in the apple_mint household. We intend to continue to eat seasonal fruit and veg, buy good quality meat from the butchers and to cut down on fuel costs a little bit more. My main plan is going to be to stre ...... tch my ingredients and to use my trusty remoska and slow cooker as much as possible.

We have a grande remoska and I do tend to batch cook in it (cook 4-5 portions of a main course element and freeze the rest) and do my veggies separately. However this week I've done the potato bake in a few shallow layers in the bottom of the remoska tray (remoska on for approx 1 hour) and produced a lovely lunch time savoury bake with a crispy top which I served with peas (from frozen and zapped for 2 minutes in the microwave).

I used up bits and pieces from the fridge and veg rack.

Thinly sliced 3 medium red potatoes (left skins on). Placed one layer on bottom of shallow remoska pan. Sprinkled with some milk and a grinding of black pepper.

Thinly sliced a half an onion that was sat in a tupperware box in the fridge. Layered this on top of the potato with a sprinkling of mixed herbs.

Chopped up three rashers of streaky bacon. Sprinkled this on top of the onions.

Sliced up half a leek and layered this on top of the bacon - adding another sprinkling of herbs.

Then layered the rest of the sliced potatoes on top. Drizzled this with oil. Found the last remains of the blue cheese and chopped this into small cubes (it was only a small amount - barely enough to go on a cream cracker) and scattered these on top.

Into the remoska for an hour. Result a lovely filling savoury bake that was nice and soft on the bottom and crispy on top. It was lovely hot, but I think it would also be nice cold in a lunch box.

This further inspired me to make pancakes. I made a batch that made us two pancakes each last night (OH had lemon and syrup topping and I had HM bramble jelly) and will make us another batch tomorrow. Not really healthy with the toppings but very nice all the same

thriftlady_2

apple_mint wrote: »

This further inspired me to make pancakes. I made a batch that made us two pancakes each last night (OH had lemon and syrup topping and I had HM bramble jelly) and will make us another batch tomorrow. Not really healthy with the toppings but very nice all the same

They're nice with mincemeat as a filling too;)

lotstolearn

thriftlady wrote: »

They're nice with mincemeat as a filling too;)

I've never tried that, thriftlady, but will, it sounds really tasty. It did remind me of savoury pancakes I used to do though with minced meat and onions which I'd first tasted in a hotel in Newcastle - must cook those again ... I love pancakes.

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I used to this for the girls when they were young,I also scrunched up a bag of crisps and mixed it in with grated cheese to top it of,gives a lovely crunchy flavour

apple_mint

thriftlady wrote: »

They're nice with mincemeat as a filling too;)

Oh yes

I'm also tempted to try them with lemon curd and a little ice cream too

Welsh_Poppy

Yes I found this thread we are going to live as frugal as we can and have the potato bake in the over as i type:-)

Something I do is chop a cauliflower into a caserole dish(break the floreats) add 25gms rice and I use a tin of condensed mushroom soup then fill tin with water add and bake in oven lovely with vaggie sausages or anything really we love it.