romantic home: What we bought, spent and ate this week

الجمعة، 9 نوفمبر 2018

What we bought, spent and ate this week

Hello Dear Reader,

We had a casual Friday night family get together last night, I didn't feel like cooking so we pushed the easy button and got take away pizzas. I know, not very frugal but easy and stress free. Sometimes it's just nice not to have to cook, you know!

But apart from this splurge we cooked and ate at home as usual, we had a couple of our favourite meat free dinners rounded out by a couple of cheap and cheerful meat dishes. It always amazes me how far 500 grams of mince goes when you serve it with rice or pasta.

On this occasion we made what we call "Mince and Egg" it is simply 500 grams of lean beef mince with a healthy dose of ABC sauce (Kecap Manis), half a finely diced onion and 2 teaspoons of cornflour. You mix this all together really well and then fry it off, mixing and smooshing the mince as you cook it so be breaks down into fine crumbles. You can then either pour over about 4 beaten eggs and cook till set or as lovely hubby likes to do, once he has served his rice and mince he breaks over an egg and mixes it through, he and our son loves it like this, but we girls do not. This was one of the first dishes I learnt to make from my late MIL and it's still one we enjoy.

Now on with what else was on our family table this week-

What we bought

Shopping from the Northside Discount Fruit Barn

Shopping from Coles.

The pasta sauce was 1/2 price, so we stocked up. We also bought some frozen green veg for the dogs to make their dinners a bit healthier. I simple steam one cup of the veg in the microwave for 3 minutes then cut up the veg really finely and mix it into the mince and dry dog food. They love it.