We still have so much food left! Can we fit it all in one dish?
After a weekend break at home, we arrived back yesterday fresh and keen for the last 2 days of our challenge. Yesterday was the standard sandwich and leftover bean stew, so we decided not to bore you with that. However, for our final meal together we made a marrow extravaganza, in a bid to use up our remaining ingredients…
Recipe for stuffed oven-baked mammoth marrow:
Mammoth marrow dish
1 onion
3 garlic cloves
2 potatoes
2 carrots
300g couscous
half a yellow pepper
buckets of cumin
fresh coriander
black pepper
a sprinkling of grated cheese
1 mammoth marrow
Simply cook up the veg and couscous, then stuff inside the scooped out marrow halves and bake in the oven for 20 minutes. We went on a shopping splurge and bought some Somerset cheddar from the Co-op with the remaining funds in our budget, and grated it on top of the dish just before serving.
We’ve had a wonderful week, and hopefully have shown that you can live on tasty, local, and organic food for less than 3 pounds a day, not to mention having a lot of fun doing it! We totaled up our final costs: £19.99 pounds each, which works out at £2.86/day. We also have lots of leftover couscous, lentils and muesli, so in effect we underpaid and overbought! Which means we did actually have a little money spare for money for cheeky snacks, which we will remember when we do the challenge again in October.
If you’ve been following our progress, thank you so much for reading, and for all the emails that have been sent in and the comments that have been left.
We look forward to blogging again in October, with an army of fellow students behind us. See you then!
Posted by Harrison