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arohanui 
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 Posted: 04 December 2008 at 7:09pm |
Awesome, I have so many good ideas now!! DH didn't end up doing the shopping last night so is doing it tonight instead. I'm gonna print this page out and we're gonna sit down and plan our menu 
(Bobbie and Freesia just bringing your stuff over from the other thread so I can have it all together  )
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Burgers:
1) use mince
2) use veges
3) baby can eat the patty as well so no separate meal required.
4) soooo easy
Pita pockets:
cube steak and cover in greggs morroccan mix. Fry up and then put in halved pita pockets with hummus and taboleuh and/or tomatoes/lettuce. |
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Liz, we do quick stirfrys with those 3 min to cook egg noodles. Buy a little piece of meat and cut it thin to cook fast and we use those frozen stir-fry vege pkts. They're on special a lot and you only need 1/2 the pkt each time. Make your own sauce with soy sauce, hoisin sauce, honey/sugar and cornflour. 10 min max to cook entire thing.
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Posted: 04 December 2008 at 8:28pm |
Sausage meat pie has been a very cheap and easy meal for us... Its $2.50 for the sausage meat and $1.58 for the pastry, and it makes so much you can have it over 2 nights 
1 tube of sausage meat,
1 Onion
Half teaspoon curry powder
1 cup of cooked rice (You can just use the uncle bens pre-cooked stuff)
1 egg
Pastry (I use the pams stuff that you have to roll yourself as its cheaper)
Optional : Add parsley and grated apple
Roll pastry out to about 40cm x 20xcm, Mix the sausage meat, onion, cooked rice, egg, parsley and apple with a fork and place in the centre of the pastry, then fold each end (similar to a sausage roll
) Glaze with an egg and cook at 180 for about 30 mins.
And yes, its massive!
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caitlynsmygirl
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Posted: 04 December 2008 at 8:32pm |
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I love sausage pie , but I have a much quicker recipe for me
1) ring my dad who makes the BEST sausage pie ever
2) say "dad , i believe you should make me a sausage pie "
3) wait until he calls back and says "ivemadeyouabloodysausagepiecomeandbloodygetit"
4) go round ,pick pie up , ignoring his "oh ive worked SO hard " look
5) get home and eat it !
*right, off to ring my dad *
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Posted: 04 December 2008 at 8:42pm |
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ha ha, wish that worked for me.
Hey jaz could you post that satay chicken salad with crispy noodle recipe?
We make a bacon pesto pasta...one piece of bacon per person with a red onion fried up then add a pottle of Meditereanian (sp) basil pesto with cashews to it then mix in your fettucini or spag noodles...takes about ten mins to make.
We are also eating a lot of salad from the garden with new potatoes and whatever meat we have.
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Posted: 04 December 2008 at 9:48pm |
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Satay chicken salad with crispy noodles (serves about 4 and uses about $7 worth of chicken)
Dice one double boneless chicken breast
Stir fry until cooked through
Add 1/3 to 1/2 a bottle of watties bit on the side satay sauce and stir until totally coated
Make a salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, capsicum, lightly steamed asparagus or whatever)
Put crispy noodles on top of the salad, top with the satay chicken, and eat straight away.
You can make the salad while the chicken cooks so dinner is on the table in about 15 mins. You will only have to wash your plates, forks, pan and chopping board.
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Glow
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Posted: 05 December 2008 at 7:30am |
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mmmm lots of tasty sounding meal ideas
I can add Fried Rice & /or Sausages & peaches
For Sausages & Peaches, brown sausages, add flour, worchestershire sauce to thicken, add peaches & Juice & serve with pasta spaghetti
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arohanui
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Posted: 05 December 2008 at 11:03am |
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Brilliant. Well I sat down and planned our meals, turns out we bought enough food for 17 dinners and only spent $200! That included 2 things of formula too, and fruit and vege. I'm so impressed.
And it's so good having all these ideas to go from, will def keep referring back to this thread when we're stuck for ideas!
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My3Sons
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Posted: 05 December 2008 at 1:12pm |
Just had a quick read through, wow what great ideas!! Wonder if this could be stickied Id love to refer back to it too!!
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Danash
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Posted: 05 December 2008 at 3:31pm |
I just found this and am printing it off too!!!
But this is an easy one for your meat free:
Sweet corn fritters - the recipe is in the Edmunds Cook Book. I normally add peas, capsicum and bacon to ours and make them for lunches and sometimes dinner. I always make double the batch. So cheap and easy and Daniel loves them. Yummy with sour cream and sweet thai chilli sauce.
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Posted: 05 December 2008 at 4:41pm |
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Mmmmmmm yum!! What a great idea!! And 17 meals for $200! Wow! I'm so going to have to start doing this!!
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Posted: 05 December 2008 at 6:18pm |
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taste has a great meatloaf recipe - we use ALL the time
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arohanui
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Posted: 29 January 2009 at 5:15pm |
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Posted: 29 January 2009 at 5:49pm |
Check out the food in a minute site food in a minute
I love it for really simple cheap meals.
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Easy dinner ideas - help!
