rabbit stew, garden courgettes and the much-maligned fennel
Heather and Harrison are a hard act to follow! This is the second time I’ve done the Eating Well on a Budget (£21 per week) challenge, and you’d think I’d be able to keep within the £3 per day limit, but on my first day I spent £3.67! (Actually, I could plead a special case, as I had to include 40p for some roasted fennel and also 27p some red currants, which I needed to use up…. if I exclude that, I was just on target! – let’s see if I can manage to keep within the £21 limit over the whole week!
So what did I have?
Breakfast: gluten-free porridge oats with blackberries from the garden fence,those annoying leftover red currants (see above) and one or two cherry plums (free from my daughter). Tea: a clove of garlic and some free lemon balm with a tiny bit of local honey. Total cost: 80p
Lunch: if you have read my blog posts before, there are no prizes for guessing that my first lunch was a wild rabbit casserole! For a meat-eater, this has the advantage of being local and comparatively cheap (£4 for a rabbit which provides four or five portions) and is pretty much zero-carbon, as nobody has intentionally fed them and farmers treat them as pests! And they are fat-free and very nutritious (and delicious, in my view!). I get them from Angie and Brian’s stall at the Sunday market (Hawthorn Farm in Cottenham), but they don’t always have them, although they always have eggs and chickens. I casseroled the rabbit with carrots, celery, onions from Mayflower Organics as usual) and a tin of organic chopped Suma tomatoes from Arjuna (89p). (This is where the money comes in – I can actually buy local cooking tomatoes from the market at this time of year (our garden ones didn’t do well – we just have a few salad ones) but they are too expensive for this challenge.) The total cost of the casserole was £5.50, so around £1.40 per portion (if 4 portions). I also had some garden courgettes sauteed in garlic and rapeseed oil and the above-mentioned roasted fennel, followed by a handful of cherry plums. Total cost of lunch: £1.87
Supper: bowl of delicious veg soup (tinned tomatoes, red lentils,
veg and lentil soup
carrots, celery, onions, garlic: 30p per portion); baked potato with butter and red onion/cucumber/tomato salad. Followed by cherry plums again! Total cost of supper: £1.
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