Publisher's Synopsis
Planning to cook family meals from scratch can help families eat well and keep food costs down. All the recipes in this guide are designed for busy families. The recipes are cost-effective, healthy and delicious. And you don't need lots of equipment or lots of cooking experience to make them.
This Cooking Guide features:- Tips for keeping food shopping costs down
- General advice Eating sustainable food, Good hygiene and food safety
- Recipes:
- Soups: Chicken and sweetcorn soup, Easy minestrone soup, Leek, potato and pea soup, Lentil and carrot soup
- Jacket potatoes: Jacket potato with beef stir-fry, Jacket potato with scrambled egg and spinach, Jacket potato with tuna sweetcorn and soft cheese, Jacket potato with vegetable chilli
- Potato-topped pies: Chicken and mushroom pie, Fish pie, Mediterranean pie, Shepherdess pie
- Stews and hotpots: African sweet potato stew, Baked bean and veggie sausage hotpot, Creamy chicken and leek hotpot, Goulash
- Rice recipes: Egg-fried rice, Jerk chicken with rice and beans, Turkey and vegetable pilaf, Vegetable biryani
- Pasta recipes: Green mac and cheese, Pasta with green beans and peas, Spaghetti Bolognese, Tuna pasta
- No-cook meals: Peanut and banana sandwiches with carrot and cucumber, Pitta with houmous and cucumber with carrot salad, Savoury couscous salad with tuna, Mexican bean and cheese wrap with red pepper and celery
- Puddings: Apple crumble, Banana custard, Poached pear with Greek yoghurt and honey, Rice pudding with raisins
- Additional information Energy requirements by age and gender Buying fruit and vegetables in season
