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« on: February 20, 2013, 05:21:42 PM »
I'm also a single parent with 2 kids - teenagers! Here are a few ideas..
Buy some mixed salad leaves, they'll keep well for a few days in a plastic bag n the fridge - darker green are more nutritious - and have salad with the leaves and celery and tinned fish. Kids like this and they get to choose their own tin, sardines, mackerel, tuna, cods liver, mussels...whatever . Fresh fish is also good and quick to cook if you have a good source - fish fried in tallow is lovely.
You could also get in the habit of buying minced beef and
1, make burgers and salad - kids like this and they can help make the burgers and salad.
2. make mince and root veg - fry an onion, brown the mince, add roughly chopped celery and root veg and water or stock and cook until the veg is done - you're aiming for a fairly dry consistency in the end. Kids like this.
3. make a stock out of a fresh turkey carcass and any odd bits of veg you have - a whole head of garlic is good... then drain it, keeping the stock and removing all the meat from the carcass. Put the meat back in the stock along with the crushed up garlic then put in some meatballs made with your mince and cook them - serve stock, turkey and meatballs in a bowl with some freshly chopped parsley or basil. Kids also like this.
chicken wings fried in tallow with some rock salt are cheap and wonderful - kids love them - all kids
Tallow - find a way of getting some good grass fed beef or sheep fat and make your own - get a crock pot, use it to make your tallow and to stew meat and veg - mine is on an almost constant turnover now, with yesterday's stock making the basis of today's stew - and I often have the leftovers for breakfast.
Use your tallow often and freely.