Food Budget

KittyeeTrix

My hubby shops for our family each week between Aldi, Lidl and a local family run butchers...... Butcher costs 25e and then he spends between 70 - 90e on the rest of the shopping.

We are a family of 6 with 2 monster eaters of teenage lads (14 and 17) and 2 younger kids (9 and 13)....... Not too bad I suppose

LaLucy

Sleepy wrote: »

No need to add the extra vegetables to the tomatoes for your sauce: just a bit of salt, pepper, basil and oregano. A few glugs of wine helps a bolognese as well (dregs from the night before are so good for this, I've gotten into the habit of saving the last glass in a bottle of red for the next day's dinner!).

My usual recipe:

Brown mince in the stock pot, add one chopped onion, one red pepper, half a pack of sliced mushrooms and the blended tomatos, good pince of oregano, similarly liberal pinch of basil, season with salt and pepper, add a glug of red wine and simmer the whole thing for about 20 minutes stirring constantly.

Other things I do occasionally: add more veggies to make the bolognese go further, slow cook it at a low temperature for a few hours, replace the tomatoes with cherry tomatoes (makes a much sweeter bolognese), add some chilli powder / flakes to give it some warmth.

Only saw this now. The main reason I add vegetables is to make sure my toddler is getting some. Yeah I add chilli powder/tobasco sauce and garlic.

Ill give your recipe a go, with the wine for the adults :-)

Thanks again