help me please

[Mytwopenceworth]

Now I am a settled sahm, my dh has decided that I should cook all our meals 'from scratch' - no processed stuff!

Everything from actual, unprocessed, as pure as the day they were picked / dug up / electrocuted, foodstuffs.

HELP ME!!!!

What is the best book to help me do this - and bear in mind my ENTIRE household budget, food and household sundries, is £50 per week MAX!!! so recipies involving caviar and half a chinchilla is of no help!

[waterfalls]

Did you have a say in this?? How many kids??

[collision]

Use your imagination.

Sausages.
Chicken
Minced Beef
Salmon
Pasta
Rice
Vegetarian

All of these are cheap. So one week you could have....
Sausage, mash and onion gravy
Roast Chicken with all the trimmings
Poached Salmon with saffron sauce and veggies.
Pasta with tomato sauce and parmesan
Red Rice (as we call it) Cooked rice stirfried with all the stuff you have left over and tomatoes.
Stuffed Pancakes with mushrooms and cheese sauce.

HTH

[gingernut]

Well, it depends what your family like to eat!

I have a couple of basic cookery books which were a good start e.g. Delia's original 3-volume one (Basic cookery course?) and an old M&S one. They tell you things like how to make gravy, how long to boil different types of veg, how to make roast potatoes etc. as well as including lots of nice fairly easy recipes, no complex ingredients like half a chinchilla called for .

[Anteater]

Vegatble soup is fantastic at this time of year, or green soup as the kids call it, dirt cheap and does for 2 days...

[Mytwopenceworth]

waterfalls - 2 kids and no say in cooking changes! dh picked the kids from school today and said he had been chatting to a mum who's daughter has AS and had said her daughter was much improved when they started cooking from all fresh - no packets, processed - which would include shop bought sausages collision, or anything that wasnt a raw fruit, vegatable or carved straight from an animal!

collision, unless i make the sausages myself from the meat, thats out - and so are things like shop boughts sauces or gravys!

Is this even possible i am asking myself!!!!

[looneytune]

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