Ah Frugal, I am definitely not amazing but I am quite greedy into food and I do cook a lot, though not usually quite this much! Let’s see if I can keep it up!
i used these Vietnamese rice wrappers, big supermarkets sell them. You dunk them in cold water for about 20 seconds (less time than the packet says, they keep softening as you are working) and then pop a little pile of ‘stuff’ on them - combinations of chopped veg, rice vermicelli noodles (cooked and rinsed in cold water), fresh herbs, especially mint and coriander, and then a few prawns if you have them, or a bit of chicken or whatever. The wrappers are very fragile so you have to wrap carefully without any pokey-out bits or they rip - the wrapper is stretchy but very thin. I stuck them in Tupperware with some parchment paper between them or they do stick together. For veg I used combinations of stuff cut into very thin matchsticks: finely shredded red cabbage, spring onions, lettuce, carrot, red pepper… that sort of thing. I put avocado in some too. If you google it you’ll see some very beautiful ones that are a lot neater than mine were, lol! It’s a really nice lunch, especially for summer but whenever you fancy some raw veg crunch. Cheap to make if you have veg in anyway because you don’t need much of anything. You can make a peanut dip, or sweet chilli dipping sauce is good too.
Half a ‘nest’ of rice vermicelli noodles was enough for two portions of rolls, I found.
NSD, though I took delivery of some new lovely sharp tweezers for effective chin tweezing (ESSENTIAL!) and also a new lunch bag for DD. Had some Amazon credit so that was £12 yesterday, plus a bag of salad £1.60.
Eating our second roast chicken of the week as I somehow ordered two last week by mistake. It’s been chicken for every meal! Roast with trimmings, then a risotto with proper stock, then a spicy pasta thing. Today is another roast (but with salad and new pots), tomorrow I’ll make a chicken broth and Saturday we’re having chicken, lime and squash laksa. Thus will end the Great Week of Chicken.