DFW - Recipes

Aj_eye

Morning Good people.....

As a die hard DFW I'm constantly looking for ways to incorporate the DFW lifestyle into everyday living.....

So with this in mind I'm looking for your favorite DFW recipe.....It can be anything, the more imaginative and nutirtional the better.... lets try to resist from posting the obvious beans on toast (which is as nutritional as eating cardboard).

Also tell us how much it costs and how many people it will feed....

immoral_angeluk

Sausage casserole costs pence to make. Lump in some value sausages, value frozen veg and add a packet of sausage casserole mix and voila! Healthy nutritious meal for no money at all!

highguyuk

Have a look on the Old Style Moneysaving board - lots of recipes over there. This isn't the old board on the site!!! :P

winkle1

immoral_angeluk wrote: »

Sausage casserole costs pence to make. Lump in some value sausages, value frozen veg and add a packet of sausage casserole mix and voila! Healthy nutritious meal for no money at all!

this would be even more nutritious if you cut out the sausage casserole mix and made your own with stock, dried mixed herbs and spices such as chilli. and the spices and herbs last longer! i also had a teaspoon of mustard to my casseroles to give them a kick.

oakdale_minx

Mixed bean casserole.

Onions
Value tinned Tomatoes
Dried Herbs/chilli powder/garlic
stock cube
mixture of dried pulses/lentils/split peas

Buy the bags of dried pulses/lentils etc from the supermarket at about 45p a bag and soak them, boil them for 10 minutes and pop in the slow cooker all day.
Serve with rice/pasta/potatoes/HM crusty bread.

You can feed the masses for literally a couple of pounds and freeze the leftovers for another day.

NekoZombie

Yes, definitely get down to old style - there's loads of stuff there including how to make meringues!

tight_jock

winkle1 wrote: »

this would be even more nutritious if you cut out the sausage casserole mix and made your own with stock, dried mixed herbs and spices such as chilli. and the spices and herbs last longer! i also had a teaspoon of mustard to my casseroles to give them a kick.

And even more nutritious ( but slightly more expensive ) if you put decent sausages in it.

Value sausages are full of rubbish I`m afraid, and unless they state pork, or beef or whatever, they dont actually have to have any "proper" meat in them.

NekoZombie

tight_jock wrote: »

And even more nutritious ( but slightly more expensive ) if you put decent sausages in it.

Value sausages are full of rubbish I`m afraid, and unless they state pork, or beef or whatever, they dont actually have to have any "proper" meat in them.

I must admit you would never catch me eating a value sausage - skin, connective tissue, fat, breadcrumb and food colouring. Ugggh

tight_jock

NekoZombie wrote: »

I must admit you would never catch me eating a value sausage - skin, connective tissue, fat, breadcrumb and food colouring. Ugggh

My point exactly.
To eat cheap, you don`t need to eat rubbish.

tyllwyd

Aj_eye wrote: »

... beans on toast (which is as nutritional as eating cardboard).

Why do you say that? OK, it doesn't make a balanced diet on its own, but I read a book on Food for Sport (by Jane Griffin) and it mentioned beans on toast several times as a useful high carbohydrate snack.

sammiboo

I make sausage casserole. I use low fat sausages and add mushrooms, onion and a can of chopped tomato. Then make some mash for my OH and a jacket for me

Chilli is also a great one for cheapness.

I also use own brand curry sauces and add some curry powder to give it a kick.

Also colemans Honey chicken is good. Asda has been doing 2 colemans packet sauces for £1. you cant really go wrong. With the honey chicken we stick in 4 chicken breast and serve with pasta. can get two meals each out of that

tyllwyd wrote: »

Why do you say that? OK, it doesn't make a balanced diet on its own, but I read a book on Food for Sport (by Jane Griffin) and it mentioned beans on toast several times as a useful high carbohydrate snack.

beans on toast (brown toast) have been in many of the low far diets I have read about, I think you could eat a whole lot worse!