Delicious Meals on a funds - In these austere times we are living in, with the price of all shooting through the roof, can we still allege a happy healthy lifestyle for our families. Of policy we can, I have dozens of recipes handed down through the generations, lots of them used to be ready by my dear old Mum, while she was here on earth.
But what happened to them I hear you ask, nothing they are still with us, but we have passed them by with the coming of the supermarkets, telling us we are too busy to put in order food ourselves, and we should be eating their processed products. Rubbish! We can make any meal they make and cheaper, oh by the way do you realise it is economy to use that local butcher in the neighbourhood than buy meat from a supermarket.
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I can see you laughing now, but think about it the local butcher doesn't use all of that containers does he, that is another recovery "the environment" and that bit of extra weight from the containers itself, you receive as meat. And you can be sure that there will be more meat in the fridge than would have been with a processed meal.
The supermarkets use economy meats than we could buy granted, just think about the bulk they buy in. Look at the ingredients on one of these meals, take chicken nuggets for example, personally I would not eat them, not when we can absolutely cook them ourselves
It may say on the package 45% or 50% meat, what is the rest then, oh only the legal process they are permitted to use, you know put all of the skins bones heads any part of the bird through an commercial sized food processing engine heat it up to the correct temperature, and add the resulting goo as an ingredient, very tasty, Not.
Everything else is flavouring to take your mind off what you are eating, have a look at the sugar and salt content, and then what else will it say, added glucose fructose or other words they try to fool you with. Do not be suckered in this is not healthy food, chicken nuggets are the easiest thing to make, " ever " and because you made them for the kids yourself you know what is in them.
Here you go try this it only takes minutes to do:
* Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
1egg
½ a teaspoon garlic powder
4 slices of bread brown or white will do.
¼ pint milk
2lb diced chicken
¼ teaspoon paprika
Method:
First, preheat the oven to gas mark 6 200 degrees c.
Toast bread until a light brown,then break up into small pieces,use the crusts too.
Reduce to fine crumbs in the food processor, if you don't have one break up with a rolling pin. Add garlic powder and paprika, and whiz again.
Place the breadcrumbs in a large plastic bag or a deep tray.
Beat the egg in a large bowl with the milk, and add the diced chicken, in batches if necessary.
Transfer the chicken pieces to the bag or tray of breadcrumbs and toss to coat evenly.
Arrange the crumbed chicken on a lightly greased baking sheet, and bake in a preheated oven for practically 10 minutes until browned and crisped, and cooked through.
Nothing easier than that folks, and they this will absolutely feed four hungry kids,
If you don't already have them spend in a rack of dried herbs, shop colse to you should be able to buy one for about six pounds, when they run out top them up from the supermarket shelves, buy the herbs in cardboard containers to save a few pennies.
They are invaluable in a kitchen folks unless you grow you're own, fresh herbs are expensive from the supermarkets.
Why not cook some potato wedges and serve those up with the chicken nuggets, again make sure they are you're own don't be spending a lot of money in the supermarket. There is nothing hard about cooking this cracking recipe, go on treat those taste buds have a go you will not regret it.
Serves 4
4 Large Potatoes or 8-10 New Potatoes
Half a Teaspoon (To Teaspoon and a half depending on how spicy you like it) Each of -
Chilli Powder
Coriander Powder
Cumin Powder
Paprika Powder
Teaspoon - Tablespoon of Turmeric
Pinch of Salt
Pinch of Black Pepper.
Wash the Potatoes but don't Peel them. Parboil until slightly soft 5 to ten minutes. Meanwhile mix the spices in a bowl.
Coat the Potatoes evenly in the spice mixture, the turmeric acts as a bulking agent and for colour and helps evenly coat the potatoes with the spice mixture. Drizzle with olive oil
Place in an oven on a oiled baking tray, on gas mark 7 or 425 F 220 C for colse to 15 minutes or until potatoes are crispy and golden brown, turn them once while they are cooking. Serve up with the nuggets and you have a great healthy meal, for those wee darlings, good for Mums and Dads as well folks.
Every recipe I mention has been cooked by my wife, my house or myself.
Some of the supermarkets are coming up with good deals on funds food, you must have seen the adverts on the television. Make use of this cheap food have a look at my recipes, you will find you can absolutely use these ingredients to make a superb meal for that house of yours. And you never know you may enjoy being back in the kitchen, feeding that house healthy nutritious food.
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