Food shopping today. Wasn't really in the mood, but it had to be done, so I galvanised myself and went. It cost £121.19, but I did have to stock up the toiletries cupboard and we were low on stocks too as it was the end of the month. I've divided the amount by the number of meals it will create (taking into account people being out etc) and it amounts to £1 per head per meal across the eight days, so although it falls well short of Sue's eat for £1 a day, I'm happy enough with it.
On the menu this week:-
Spicy chickpea and potato stew
Spiralised courgettes with tomato and basil sauce
Veggie chilli and rice
Butternut squash and tomato posole
Curried root vegetable soup and home made bread
Sweetcorn pakoras, red onion relish and raita
Carrot and butter bean burgers and chips
Sweet potato fritters with smoky pinto beans
Many of these recipes came from the website eatingwell.com, which I found when I googled "cheap vegetarian meals". I like to try and vary what we eat, especially as it almost entirely revolves around vegetables and pulses!! If I didn't have my spice collection, I'd be lost!
I'll try and remember to post some pictures!
The menu looks delicious, I am off to check out the web site, I do like to eat veggie at least 4 days a week and as my freezer stock of meat runs down I will up that to 5. Gradually I intend to remove meat from my diet, I seem to feel more energetic when I am not eating meat.
ReplyDeleteI havlove to say, my general health has improved significantly with a predominantly vegetarian diet. X
DeleteDelicious!!! Will check them out :)
ReplyDeleteThere was a whole variety of recipes on there. I made the pea fritters a few weeks ago - yummy!
DeleteSome nice sounding ideas there. The posole sounds nice, I make porotos granados from River Cottage Veg Everyday which is pretty much the same thing, it's delicious. Will you be serving the pakoras with anything else? The recipe sounds right up my street but I'd be really hungry if that was it (or am I just greedy?).
ReplyDeleteI'll often do sweetcorn and cauliflower pakoras and serve them with a red onion side relish, soy yoghurt raita and green salad. I guess you could wrap them in chapatis? Or maybe have Bombay potatoes too?????
DeleteI think it sounds like a lovely menu, I've googled the site & the recipe for the posole. I was intrigued to see what it was x
ReplyDeleteI've never had posole before, but it looked good - always willing to try out new recipes. Not always successful, but on the whole I can tell by the ingredients whether the brood will like it or not! X
DeleteYour menu sounds lovely.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand you seem to have bought your food in your budget.
Adore posole, but the traditional kind I grew up with.
I just checked several sites and the one you mention sounds great to me.
Will try this one or similar one soon.
cheers, parsnip
I normally have a food budget of up to £100 a week, but with it being the very beginning of the month, I needed to re stock, so it went over my normal budget. I'll have to take the extra £20 off the budget for the rest of the month, which will be fine. I'm always looking for new websites with good recipes. I used to like the BBCGOODFOOD website, but they 'improved' it and now it crashes all the time!
ReplyDeletePlease post the Spiralised Courgettes - I'm intrigued! Sadly I can't persuade OH to give up meat. Jx
ReplyDeleteHa! Have had to quickly snap a photo of the last portion of my daughters tea as we'd already munched our way through the rest! My eldest made it with her spiralising tool. It makes yummy courgette 'pasta'. I'll pop the photo at the end of tomorrow's post!! Mr D and my son still like their meat, but seem to have got used to a lot less.
DeleteI'll check out that website. Thank you. Little L doesn't eat meat so I'm always on the lookout for new recipes. X
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