If you’ve cooked too much, try to use the leftovers for another meal. To help, it might be worth keeping your fridge, freezer and cupboard stocked with basic food staples so you can rustle something up when you need to and use items up e.g. pasta, stock cubes, and bread.
Children don’t always like what they’re given so having a range of food items at hand to make different meals is important to satisfy their taste buds and keep them interested in what they are eating.
Serve this nourishing and cheap dish with rice or naan bread. Mango chutney or yoghurt are great accompaniments.
Carmela Tomkins is of Italian origin and lives in West Byfleet, Surrey. She owns her own catering business and believes that cooking should be fun, economical, quick, easy and appeal to adults and children alike. Over a number of years she has run cookery demonstrations in Surrey for charities and other organisations. She became involved in the "Love Food Hate Waste" campaign because she believes it is an important element of sustaining the environment. Find out more at www.carmelaskitchen.co.uk.
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