Light meals on a budget!

PasturesNew

Get him to either give you a list of menus .... or to do the cooking for a month so you can learn

cte1111

I was going to suggest that if your partner would like a change in meals, he has a search for recipes / ideas himself and cooks them. Perhaps he could do this once a week, keeping to your usual budget?

lucystardust

How about jacket potatoes and salad? You could do different (fairly cheap) fillings like baked beans, tuna, chilli etc.

Also stir fries with noodles are cheap. I get value noodles and those bags of frozen chopped veg. That saves me time on chopping and also means I only use what I need. Really nice with chicken or prawns and soy sauce.

sweetilemon

I love chicken fahitas with the mini wraps and salad. Chilli con carne with brown rice, chicken + cous cous and chicken curry made with veg and chopped tomatoes are also nice. goodluck - let us know how you get on.

TravellingAbuela

Using Quorn mince in things like chilli, bolognese, lasagne etc helps reduce the fat content considerably too.

Heisenberg_2

lynnysinger wrote: »

what about home made soups? fat free. uses all the veg hanging around?
i make a mean fat free beef/chicken curry soup . i should can it! everyone loves it, and its definately light calorie wise/ but thick and nourishing and good for a supper meal. you could serve it with some easy to make flat breads. chapattis are really simple. literally flour/pinch salt/ water make a stiff dough and knead then roll out into thinnish rounds and put onto a very hot griddle /heavy frying pan and cook both sides for about 2 minutes each side. you can brush the pan with a little oil and let it get really hot for an extra nice treat!!

making me hungry!:)

That would be a Mulligatawny soup. I too make a delicious version of this in the slow cooker. Couldn't be easier to make, is very easy, cheap and nutritious too.

brightonman123

poached salmon in pitta bread, with mayo / cucumber salsa?

Gillyx

If I fancy a light dinner I normally have a thinnish soup, nothing too chunky and a sandwich

Or sometimes just something like ciabatta with breaded chicken breast grilled, with ham, mozzarella and salsa.

madvixen

I made a light chicken dish last night and quite enjoyed it (and I don't like chicken).

1) Take 2 chicken breasts and butterfly them (cut through the thickest part of the breast stopping 1cm before the edge and open out like a book)
2) Mix together the juice of 2 lemons, 2tbsp olive oil, 1tsp dried chilli flakes and 3 crushed garlic cloves and place the chicken in the marinade for a couple of hours.
3) Tip the marinade into a frying pan and fry the chicken until cooked.

I served it with jacket potatoes but you could serve it with CousCous if you wanted a really light meal.

BitterAndTwisted

PasturesNew has the right idea imo. Hehe.

My idea of a light meal is exactly what you've always cooked but either omitting the carbohydrates or eating less of it.

This rather uncooperative attitude could be interpreted as a single person's view.