An usual soup made with raw ingredients, served with a delicious walnut loaf
Raw Carrot, Apple and Cashew soup, with a Walnut Loaf & butter, 65p per serving. Plus how to stay on budget for the day
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Meal Plan 7 – Lentil & Veg Soup, 15p a portion
A good useful everyday soup
A freeform loaf and a broad bean & feta wrap
Made a loaf with the dough I keep in the fridge today. Thought I would try a freefrom one this time. Partly because I wanted to see if I could do one, and that it wouldn't flatten itself out on the baking sheet. Partly because I wasn't sure how much to put in a loaf...
Fresh tomato soup, 10p homegrown, 18p using tinned
Oh the delights of growing tomatoes. This little lot are destined for the lunch time soup. I make tomato soup often, but only about now in the year do I make it with fresh ones. The taste is completely different, especially if I also have some fresh basil, which, today, I do.
Another CFR recipe, walnut & seed butter
Here is another recipe from the CFR site, a delicious nut butter. Use it on toast for breakfast, or in sandwiches for lunch, maybe with a sliced tomato, or thick coins of cucumber in it too. A smear of jam would be a variation of the classic peanut butter and jam. You...
Butter bean, pepper and carrot salad, with a lemon juice and coconut dressing, 84p
Inspired by yesterday’s salady success, I had another one today. This one was 80g dried butter beans, soaked and cooked, Asda Great Scott 375g/£1.18, 25p I think this is the equivalent of a tin? Some lettuce and rocket from the garden Half a red pepper, very finely...
A quick lunch in the grit and grime
Snatched a very quick lunch today amongst the grit and grime. DP had bought a crispy baquette up the paper shop. He ‘goes to buy a paper’ every day, first thing, and he can be gone for an hour or more. He has a conversation with everyone he sees and comes back with...
Balti spring green pancakes for dinner, and one left over for breakfast
Had a scrummy dinner this evening. One of those made up things, but similar to the Spring Green Breakfast Pancakes. This time, I chopped up the inner, paler, leaves of a head of spring greens. Sliced up a couple of onions and sauted them until soft, added the...
A Salmon pasta lunch and other things
I had Smoked Salmon pasta for lunch today, with a slight variation in the sauce. I sauted the onion, boiled the pasta, adding a handful of green beans towards the end of the cooking time. Then I just mixed everything together, including the salmon trimmings,...
Sardines on Toast, from 38p, and most of the Omega 3 you will need for a week
A very simple and super quick lunch. A tin of sardines in tomato sauce on a couple of slices of granary toast. Just to up the tomatoeyness even more, I added a handful of cherry tomatoes as well. A tin of sardines in tomato sauce varies quite a bit in price. The...
Mango, coconut and feta pasta
Tried a variation of the Chickpea, Mango and Coconut Curry today. Made the sauce as usual, then added some green beans from the freezer. And then instead of rice, nan, or anything else like that, I stirred it through pasta. And popped some little bits of feta on top....
Fishy Tortilla, 19p plus salady bits
Tried a wholemeal flour tortilla today at lunchtime, just to see what it would be like, and it was scrummy I used the same ingredients as before, but made 2 larger tortilla, rather than 4 smaller ones. Needed my biggest pans to do it, and they were lapped up the sides...