Hello Dear Reader,
I've been on a bit of a secret mission tonight; all will be revealed on Monday....come back on Sunday night for me to tell you where to 'read all about it'.
What, you may well ask, is flat packed food. Flat packed food is the Ikea of self assembly suppers. It's when you've forgotten to take anything out of the freezer, or you can't see anything you fancy and you don't want to resort to the take away. You heat up, assemble, reconstruct something really easily.
Here is my flat pack food or self assembly supper. Pack of savoury rice from the store cupboard, cooked for fifteen minutes in the microwave. Frozen peas and sweetcorn popped into the rice for the last minute. Veggie burgers from a pack mix, bought long ago from Approved Foods, a few chopped tomatoes and a spoon of coleslaw. Eat your heart out Jamie Oliver, here's my fifteen minute meal and my version of construct it in a few minutes flat packed food.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxxxxxxxxx
Those packs of rice are a godsend at times, this looks really quite nice aswell. Oh dear ive a hankering for some uncut bread with a pile of lurpak on it now :(
ReplyDeleteI did one of those after work last Friday. Cheese omelette and baked beans - Twiglet said it was gorgeous - why do I bother cooking from scratch :)
ReplyDeleteTwiggy x
Healthy, filling and gorgeous! xx
ReplyDeleteMy quick supper for me and the girly girl is eggy bread with beans or any thing on toast!
ReplyDeletesounds great, I would love some , right now!!
ReplyDeleteThat looks lovely!
ReplyDeleteQuick & tasty. Mmmm.
ReplyDeleteThat looks really nice. Our power went out midway through dinner cooking, so we ended up roasting sausages over a tea light. Your dinner looks way better!
ReplyDeletelooks good, especially on those nights when you are exhausted. but watch out for all the added salt that goes into processed foods. not bad for you every now and then, of course, but shouldn't be an every day thing, imho. my fifteen minute flat pack is the mountain of salad:all it requires is less than 5 minutes of mad chopping and opening a tin of chickpeas. in an enormous bowl add lettuce, cabbage, grated carrots, grated beets, a hard boiled egg, chickpeas (from a tin), cherry tomatoes, sweet onion, feta cheese, cucumber and top with blue cheese dressing. doesn't need meat as has full protein, but you can quickly stir fry some shrimp and add in if you like. enjoy!!
ReplyDeleteYou are such an inspiration
ReplyDeleteWhen you started your frugal journey, did you find it tricky at 1st or did you love it from the get go? I admire your discipline x
fried eggs, baked beans and hash browns is my flat pack meal...
ReplyDeleteGill in Canada
Now it is summer I have some salads and stuff ready to go in the fridge. Basically on hot hot days our meal is assembled out of those staples.
ReplyDeleteWe also have breakfast for dinner or BLT's as a quick meal.
I forgot to add I flat pack for the freezer. Lay your meat out as flat as you can. It saves space, is easier to stack and defrosts quickly.
ReplyDeleteWonderful froogs
ReplyDeleteYesterday I went and did my usual fridge meal before going to the shops had some parsnip sweet potato celery butternut squash and onion leftover pealed and rough chopped it popped it in a roasting pan sprayed on some fry light added a few teaspoons of grain mustard and 3 stock veg cubes. Pulled out a couple of chicken breasts and chunked them up a little bit of water in the pan and defrosted some sweet spud mash I had from the freezer. there were some very small new potatoes left in the dish so cleaned and prepped the cut them in half season and sprayed with fry light to have as a side oh and I sprinkled some mixed herbs and rosemary over the chicken veg mix. not only did I have lunch had dinner as well! if there is any leftovers after that I remove the chicken blits the veg so its soup heat up by adding back the chicken and spuds fab with a chunk of bread or some savory scones if there's no bread to be had.or if there are no spuds and you want to bulk it out like Cathrine a tin of chick peas mixed beans or the like will do just as well.
Omelettes are our 'flat packed' meal
ReplyDeleteWow, that is a new way of calling a meal u dont have any thing defrosted out for tea! Ours is tuna pasta! requires nothing from the freezer and it comes from our cupboards and our fridge, you have given me an idea for tonight!!!! cheers queenie!
ReplyDeleteLooks lovely.
ReplyDeleteYour news is intriguing I can't wait to find out what you've been up to now!!
Sue xx