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Quinoa Jambalaya with Soya Strips & Spinach

It’s really important to have a back up for when you don’t feel like cooking & you’ve run out of homemade freezer portions, and to don’t need to compromise your nutrition to do so.

This is my favourite frozen steam meal from Aldi’s. It costs £1.49 and takes 9mins in the microwave.

Just add a fistful of spinach or any salad, and you’re good to go!

Spinach & Red Pepper Penne

Serves 2

200g pasta

2tbsp cooking oil

1 onion

2 vegetable stock cubes

2tbsp tomato purée

1 red pepper

1 tin chopped tomato’s

2 large fistfuls of spinach

Salt

Pepper

Cook & drain pasta without shaking off excess water, set aside.

Fry onion in oil, add stock cubes & continue to fry for a minute. Add peppers & fry for a few minutes before stirring in tomato purée, then add chopped tomato’s. Simmer & reduce for 20-30mins.

Stir in pasta, mix well. Add spinach & cover to steam for 5mins. Stir in wilted spinach & serve.

Baked Potatoes with Posh Beans & Simple Side Finger Salad

Simple & cost effective comfort food.

Serves 2

4 small potato’s

1 tin baked beans

1 stock cube

Heaped tbsp butter

2 tbsp cooking oil

Salt

Pepper

2 carrots, grated

1/4 cucumber, sliced

1/4 green pepper, chopped

Use a fork to prick deep holes in the potato’s, rub in cooking oil, and season with salt & pepper. Wrap in foil & bake for 50mins at 220•c/200•c fan/430•f, remove foil 20mins before end.

Slowly heat beans with stock cube, butter, and black pepper, to a soft boil then remove from heat. Heat for a few minutes before serving.

Serve with grated cheese & simple side finger salad.

Mediterranean Eggs & Toast

Fast & tasty protein boost.

Prep: 15mins, Cost: 63p per portion.

2 eggs

1 tomato, deseeded & chopped

1/2 pepper, chopped

1/2 small leek

2tbsp milk

2tbsp olive oil

Salt

Pepper

Fry the pepper, tomato, and leek in oil for 5mins, then add the whisked eggs & milk. Add salt & pepper, and stir for another 5mins until eggs are cooked.

Serve with toasted crusty bread.