Did I tell you my rent is going up £200 per month? I am determined to cut down on my spending, every way I can this year, to continue to afford our housing. It blows my mind how expensive renting and buying is here in Swindon. I moved here to be closer to my Mum and Dad. I rented a 3 bed semi when I lived up North for £425 per month. I am renting the same size, end of terrace house here for £1050 now. That is well over 1/2 my take home pay. As the only wage earner you can imagine that is rather concerning! These wartime recipes sure are coming in handy!
This is an authentic wartime recipe for Vegetables en Casserole from a WW2 booklet produced by The Country Life Home Front. I used winter vegetables for this recipe plus lentils, and it made 5 large portions served with bread.
Based on Aldi prices, this costs around £2.50 to make 5 portions. Served with 1 slice of bread this is around 425 calories per portion and around 18g of protein. Next time I would add double the amount of lentils to add more protein and calories.
Ingredients for 1 person
- 1 medium potato
- 1 medium carrot
- 1 medium parsnip
- 100 g swede
- 1/2 celery stick
- 1/5th of an onion
- 1/10th of a cabbage
- 40 g red lentils
- Any other veg that needs using up!
Plus herbs/spices/gravy browning/Marmite to taste
Method
Simple really! Chop up the veg as per my video above, adding the cabbage in towards the end. I used vegetable stock and mixed herbs, pepper and salt to my own preference/taste.
I cooked in a big pot rather than in the oven in a casserole as it uses less power!
C xxxx
