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winkle1

NekoZombie wrote: »

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

I agree 100%, i was just modifying an recipe that someone else posted.

winkle1

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

you can make all these cheaper by cooking them from scratch. you only need to buy the herbs and spices once and they will laster longer then a sauce or packet mix!

try https://www.bbc.co.uk/food for recipes

lynsayjane

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.

I have to agree, I work for a gym and one of the meals we sell in the snack bar is beans on toast. it has many nutritional benefits and is fairly low in cals.

mioliere

Two of my family favourites now are Lemon Chicken and Paprika Pork - both found on the recipe index. In fact, I'm doing the Lemon Chicken tonight - except it's not lemon; I'm using spices to make a sort of southern fried flavour but the coating is brilliant and can easily be adapted and I will serve it with new potatoes and salad. Pudding tonight is a fresh pineapple cut into wedges but generally I chop up left over fruit - and stew it if it's really on it's last legs - which I serve with natural yoghurt and a drizzle of honey - lovely! We used to have Fruit Corners or something else just as expensive but, since I've joined MSE, I can't bring myself to buy them. My lot also love a good old beef stew with dumplings. I make loads at the same time so the rest can be frozen. I also find minced beef is so adaptable - add onions, garlic, tom. puree, stock and whatever spices take your fancy. Great with mash, sauted, boiled, jacket, wedges - in fact just about any potato variation. One other thing that we like is chicken and bacon - cut into bite-sized pieces and mixed with a teaspoon of cumin and a teaspoon of coriander (or fresh if you have it though you need to use more - the flavours of fresh are not as strong as dried) stir-fried and piled on top of salad with a lemon and olive oil dressing. Yummy! I've just thought of a brilliant pud we like! From Nigel Slater's Fast Food - slices of bread and butter (I use brown bread) placed in a dish butter side up, halved and stoned plums on top sprinkled with sugar and dotted with a bit more butter then baked in oven - about Gas 5/6 - for approx forty-five minutes. Lovely with cream as a treat or natural yoghurt. Hope this isn't too long?!

pooranddesperate

lynsayjane wrote: »

I have to agree, I work for a gym and one of the meals we sell in the snack bar is beans on toast. it has many nutritional benefits and is fairly low in cals.

Thought i'd just add my two pence worth in favour of beans on toast too - I was taught in home economics lessons at school that if you have it on wholemeal bread its actually a fairly nutritious meal. Apparently there are 12 (or maybe 14?) different things that make up protein (it was a long time ago that i was in school!) and beans on toast contains all of them - if you top it with a little cheese, you also get a boost to your calcium intake too.

Long live beans on toast