Fried Rice
Pasta with pasta sauce with a diced chorizo sausage cooked in the sauce, gives a lovely smokey flavour, chuck in a handful of diced bacon to add meaty ness if thats what your kids want.
Dahl with sweet potato and spinach.
I made a super yummy diced ham and lentil soup the other day , not as gluggy as pea and ham, but mega filling.
Admittedly chorizo and bacon are not low fat, but its in the quantity, I am talking 1 sausage and 100gms of diced bacon between the whole familiy.
We are trying to cut down on our meat consumption and up our veges and am finding that, if you can make it meat flavoured, its really like having a meat meal.
We are also back eating veges with carbs in them, and this makes plumping out a meal soooo much cheaper.
Tuna is something I just found in my calorie king book (from years ago!). That and kangaroo. Kangaroo is really low in fat but I just don't know if I can bring myself to eat Skippy....
Yeah it was a suggestion in a healthy eating book I had/have somewhere - you boil it in water until the fat comes to the surface and then drain and brown it as normal. It doesn't smell real nice though to start with!
Simply frying off the mince like normal, but then straining it will serve the same purpose and leave you with a much more edible product at the end of it.
Fried rice here is a go to. It is seriously scarey how cheap and easy it is to make and how many veggies I can convince the girls to eat when I make it. You can put almost anything in it, but even just a bag of frozen, small dice veg like the carrots/corn/caps/peas mixes work well. Soy and oyster sauce on and it will last us days. A batch with fully fresh veg, ham and egg will cost me about $10, and probably serve 6-9 serves depending on how much the girls eat. If I can, I buy a few prawns for DD1, she lurves them, I can get a good 8 for only a couple of dollars.
There is a chowder recipe I posted a couple of years ago, I'll see if I can find the link.
Cooks in the microwave in about 20 minutes, is delicious and costs about $5 to make. Seriously cheap and awesome.
Look for any recipes that work with long slow cooking for meat - they will use whole cuts of meat, rather than mince or sausages, and they will be almost as cheap, like gravy beef. Less fat for you, more flavour for your food, and less fillers.
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