One of the things I find hardest to economise on is meat, the Minder is a Meat & Two Veg sort of person, as long as one of the veg is potato & the other veg is also meat! He is also a very fussy eater, probably caused by being bought up by someone who, to this day, cannot really cook.
When we met the only veg he would eat were broccoli & frozen peas, he now will eat a lot more as long as it the stuff he's grown himself.
The only sandwiches he will take for lunch are ham, This isn't too bad as I buy a gammon joint from the butchers for £4.99 slice it with my Kenwood slicer & there is enough ham for 1 to 2 weeks plus a meal of ham egg & chips. Depending on what shift he's on he either has a cooked breakfast, 2 rounds of sandwiches & no evening meal, or he has a cooked breakfast, 1 round of sandwiches & an evening meal, or no breakfast, 2 rounds of sandwiches & an evening meal.
Weekends he has a full English breakfast, weekdays he will have egg on toast or a bacon sarnie.
Unfortunately he doesn't like any of the normal meat stretchers like pastry, dumplings etc. I add lentils & oats to mince & also grated carrots/leeks/celery etc, he doesn't like any of these but since he doesn't watch me cook he doesn't know they are there. What he does like is bread, sliced, fancy, HM or shop bought, so I serve bread with almost every meal.
3 comments:
I'm a meat eater too so know there is little to do but eat less of it if you want to save...at least he's growing and eating veggies...
I really sympathise - I live with a meat & two veg chap and a veggie daughter, who isn't all that keen on vegetables....
Tawney
you could always give him a choice - take it or leave it !
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