Budget meals and how to use up vegies.. what are yours?

[soulmama]

Quiche here (although not for egg allergic DS3!)
Macaroni cheese with mixed vegies.
Spring rolls using rice papers with sweet chilli or tamari dipping sauce.http://intuitiveparenting.info/images/smilies/001_smile.gif

Tonight Calen whipped up a great curry.....:great
Bit of olive oil in the pan, 2 tablespoons of curry powder/paste whathaveyou and half a diced onion. Fry off for a minute. Add diced vegies of choice (we had around 2 cups worth). Stir and toss in curry mix. Fry for 2 minutes. Add a tin of diced organic tomatoes and simmer for a few minutes before serving with rice.

My favourite Hurry Up Curry is just olive oil, curry powder and onion fried together and add diced vegies and coat well with mix and fry for a few minutes (usually until the cubes of potato are just cooked) and serve with papadums, sliced banana and shredded coconut. http://intuitiveparenting.info/images/smilies/drool.gif

ETA: I forgot Fried Rice! :rofl

[michelle_j_r]

the other night for dinner we had 2min noodles stirfried up with some grated zucchini and carrot and a dash of ketjap manis. Jordy did the grating so he was happy to actually eat some of it.
:clap

[mama_bel]

If I have heaps of veg to use up I make one of a couple of dishes in the Thermomix - Cyndi's Veg Stew comes to mind...

I also make quiche with everything fairy finely chopped. We eat a crustless version and have it hot or cold for any meal.

Stir-fry. With some left over to do rice paper rolls for next day's lunch (just 'raw', not fried, with chilli dipping sauce).

Vegie soup - and freeze some.

Pasta sauce - and freeze some.

Veg curry - and freeze some.

I have heaps of leafy greens right now, so sneaking them into everything!

[Merlion]

pasta sauce with mince which i buy in bulk and cut up veggies and toss it into the sauce and cook it up which i did tonight. and i will freeze some for later

[marmee]

Bel - can you post Cyndi's vege stew for me?? xx

[Ethereal]

Lol, I do the same as you SM! Not always successfully :2lol

[mama_bel]

Marmee, I think I can't post it on the forum 'cos of copyright? But I'll show you the page in the book that it's on. PM me your email addy. :)

[mamma]

fried rice
soup
dahl

um, all we eat is fruit and veg and beans, lentils, tofu etc so i guess everynight is budget how to use up veggie night :rofl

[bubbalove]

I get a f&v box delivered weekly, so anything we haven't used the night before the new ones comes is put into the slow cooker. This then gets used in lasagna, cannelloni, with rice, with mash....all good :)

[Joey]

slow cooker - and fritters with besan flour!

[Rinelle]

We don't really have any veg left to use up, since we only buy what we need. Unless you count feeding leftovers to the chooks or guinea pigs?

Budget meals for us are fried rice, scrambled eggs, ham and cheese on toast etc. They also have the benefit of being really easy and quick to prepare, so good for days when we're home late.

[ali_celt]

Normally curry or soup. In summer it's a whole different kettle of fish - or um, slowcooker of curry LOL - because it's too damn hot to eat hot stuff here then.

We normally have leftover salad stuff in summer, not so much the veg anyway, and if it doesn't get gobbled by people the chooks or the guinea pigs get it.

I don't have any official recipes for curry. I just cook stuff. I like using whole spices ground. I like a fragrant curry more than a hot one. I LOVE overdosing my curries with fenugreek and lately have been going a little left-field with them and substituting sumac for garam masala. I think it reminds me more of Mum's curries, which were ALWAYS left over roast diced, cooked in a mixture of mashed banana, sauteed apple, lemon juice and keen's curry powder. There's just something about a fruity curry - and sumac adds an extra tang of fruitiness.

[sarah bean]

crustless quiche
pumpkin & kumara (ok ummmm, sweet potato?) & carrot mashed together with cheese
chunky stir fry
random sushis with all manner of veges that probably should never be in sushi in it (personal fave is a BLT sushi roll :2lol )

my quick lazy meal is plain rice with a poached egg on top - which I never realised wasn't totally normal that everyone eats until a friend told me it's really weird and slack last year, but not long after a chinese friend mentioned having that but with a fried egg as a regular meal in her house so haha. I'm not weird in china.

[Merlion]

Not on the subject but i see you Sarah Bean. Waiting to see you if you found your way back on IP

[Lee]

Yah she couldn't stay away. The faerie lure was just too TOO enormous.

And ON topic for a change, I do the curry thing. Chuck them all in a pot and cook for a bit and add some spices. And there you are.

Or soup/stew.

Actually I'm going to make some soup today.

So. Yummers. It's pumpkin town.