How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three … by Gill Holcombe, a jobless single mum, who is currently outselling Nigella, Jamie Oliver and works by US President Barack Obama.
Veggie Burgers
Ingredients
1 tin chick peas, 1 courgette, 2 onions, 2 carrots, 6 tbsp porridge oats, 2 garlic cloves, thyme, salt and pepper, tomato puree, Vegemite, olive oil, wholemeal flour, 1 egg to bind (optional).
Method
Fry finely chopped onions and grated carrot and courgette in a little oil over a medium heat. Add crushed garlic and thyme.
Drain and mash chick peas in a large bowl. Add oats and when vegetables have softened, add them, too.
Add some squirts of tomato puree, Vegemite, salt and pepper and olive oil and mix together.
Shape the mixture into burgers using your hands and the flour and place on an oiled baking tray.
Brush the burgers liberally with oil and bake in the oven, gas mark 6 (200C) for 15 minutes.
Cost: £2.04
Makes: 6-8 burgers
Shepherd’s Pie
Ingredients
1lb (450-500g) minced lamb, 1 onion, mushrooms, carrot, 2 handfuls of frozen sweetcorn, a stock cube, garlic clove, 1tbsp tomato puree, gravy granules, dried rosemary, potatoes, butter, milk, grated cheese
Method
Peel and quarter potatoes and boil in a saucepan of water.
Dry-fry the meat in a large pan on low heat, breaking up with a wooden spoon. Add chopped onion and garlic, then mushrooms and grated carrot.
Drain off fat then crumble in stock cube. Add rosemary, sweetcorn, tomato puree and 1tbsp gravy granules to thicken. Transfer into large oven-proof dish.
Drain and mash potatoes with knob of butter and splash of milk. Add grated cheese then spread over meat.
Cook at gas mark 5 (190C) for 15-20 minutes.
Cost: £4.20
Serves: 4-6
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