Budget food/living

My selfie games is too strong for my booty.

I could sit here a long time trying to parse that.

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This week I have been mostly living off a slaw of shredded red cabbage, apple and olive oil vinaigrette. I'll add a squirt of salad cream if I'm feeling adventurous.

Slaw is pretty good all round. Good for getting rid of slightly bendy carrots etc. I make it quite a lot.
I buy a 2kg bag of baking potatoes for £2. Bake, let go cold, then they can be wedged and fried or rebaked in chilli oil. This with the slaw.

Slaw is ridiculously cheap here as well.

It's a lot of lentils here at the moment!
Dal, dal, dal!

Made a red cabbage, apple, fennel and carrot slaw last night.

Dressed with mayo, lemon juice, vinegar, mustard and honey.

Fennel is £1 a pop in our local Sainsbury's

Fennel in budget food thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>

Talking about shopping in Sainsburys in the budget food thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Grow my own
Innit

Ahhh, nice. It's definitely top of the list when I get a veg patch. That and a huge herb/salad garden.

Soup: cheap, easy, delicious, nutritious.

Fill ya boots!

Slow cooker: performs the culinary equivalent of transmuting lead into gold.

Bosh!

salad cream

At the least, uncouth.

At worst, borderline psychopathic.

Salad créamè

Better?

fuck fennel

word

Dal

..actually I dug up this thread as I remembered there was talk about tsampa in it way back (I'm back in the "energy-ball" game at the moment and wanted to see what people came up with back then) -
didn't find much, but stumbled over @danb mentioning Dal Bhat -
We eat loads of this when hiking in the Himalayas a couple of years ago - very cheap and nutritious, the staple diet of the Nepali for a good reason :)
..and while I have been making a lot of indian dal type dishes in the past I just made this tibetan recibe and it's satisfying on so many levels, just perfect for this weather right now:

https://www.yowangdu.com/tibetan-food/dal-bhat.html

Not the greatest photos on that blog but trust me it's fucking delicious!

Zombie thread AWAKE!

I've bought two of Miguel Barclay's (The One Pound Chief) books.

They are pretty good from my cooking through them so far (although the pea cannelloni was a bit meh). I like that all the ingredients are all readily available in most supermarkets, although Aldi doesn't stock Orzo pasta yet.

Best thing is that it's all 1 portion meals, not that fussed about under a quid a potion.