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Just minimal ingredients and effort required to fix this toasty. Add black pepper or chili powder for a bit more bite!

Recipe is from Beetons 1893 cookery book. A tasty way to use up bread and jam either at home or on camping trips.

Budget friendly and easy to make lunch.

Minimal effort to make also very budget friendly. to make

A time honoured and versitile recipe from Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery 1893. It was popular during WW1, Great Depression, WW2 and remains still popular today when camping or if funds are low.

Recipe from Beeton's 1893 cookery book. Great way to use up bread and jam on camping trips.

Just leftover roasted garlic and a slice of cheese made into a toasty. Added a few veggie scraps to make a lunch. Very tasty.

Just a nice, warm gooey mix of baked beans in a toasted sandwich - budget friendly and very tasty.

Leftover Mac'n'Cheese makes a tasty lunchtime toasted sandwich. Serve with salad vegetables.

A tasty garlic and cheese toasty always hits the lunchtime spot. Just serve with fresh salad vegetables.

Easy to make and budget friendly soup. Freezes well.

• Ingredient.

• 1- 2 tbsps. sun dried tomato oil or oil.

• 100g well, diced onion

• 3-4 grated or well, diced cloves garlic

• 1 stick/rib of celery.

• 2-3 bay leaves

• 125g peeled and thinly sliced carrots.

• 250g red lentils

1 litre chicken or vegetable stock.

Method.

• Heat the sun dried oil or oil in a large saucepan.

• Stir in the garlic, onion, celery and carrot - saute unti soft.

• Add the bay leaves with the stock, mix well to combine.

• Bring to a boil, cover then lower the heat and simmer for 20 minutes.

• Turn off the heat, cool slightly then remove and discard the bay leaves

• Blitz with a stick blender until a desired consistency has been achieved - adding more stock or water if required.

• Serve topped freshly snipped leaves, black pepper and crispy bread.

• Leftovers freeze well.

Just a nice warm gooey mix of baked beans and cheese in a toasted sandwich - gooey and very tasty.

Just a gooey mix of baked beans and cheese in a toasted sandwich - bit messy but very tasty.

Ingredients.

• 2 slices of bread

• 1 ripe, mashed banana

• Strawberry or blueberry jam

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Method

• Spread jam over both slices of the bread.

• Top one slice of the bread with the mashed banana.

• Close sandwich with the remaining slice of bread.

• Eat as is or can be lightly toasted in a sandwich press.

• Enjoy.

Easy meal - just toasted fruit bread, topped with a slice of cheese and a mug of hot coffee. Tasty and budget friendly when life's a struggle. 🇦🇨

Easy and budget friendly soup made from dried green peas and chicken stock. Leftovers freeze well for a quick meal to enjoy with a cheese sandwich.

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Ingredients

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• 1 tbsp. oil

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• 1 large, well diced onion

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• 2-3 diced, garlic cloves

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• 2-3 bay leaves

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• 1 large, well diced stick/stalk celery

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• 2 cups dried green peas.

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• 1 medium, peeled and well diced potato.

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• 1.5 litres chicken or vegetable stock.

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Method.

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• Cover and soak the dried peas in stock for approx. 1 hour.

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• Heat oil in a large a large saucpan, saute the garlic, celery and onion until soft.

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• Do not drain the soaked peas, just add to the pot with the soaking fluid.

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• Stir in the potato and the remaining stock with the bay leaves.

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• Give a good stir to combine and bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer until the peas are soft.

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• Cool slightly and then blitz to achieve a desired consistency - carefully add more water or stock if required.

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• Serve topped with black pepper, grated cheese and bread.

Make up a batter with 100 grams SR flour, 1 tbsp sugar, 75 ml milk - mix until smooth. Grease a hot griddle with a little butter. Dollop on a tbsp batter, cook for 2-3 minutes, flip and cook other side. Serve hot with jam, syrup or butter.

Just a simple fried egg on dry toast - minimal lunchtime struggle.🇦🇨

Just the bread butts lightly toasted with grated cheese inbetween and a black coffee, makes a tasty lunch.

Make up a batter with 100 grams SR flour, 1 tbsp sugar, 75 ml milk - mix until smooth. Grease a hot griddle with butter. Dollop on a Tbsp. batter, cook for 2-3 minutes, flip and cook other side. Serve with jam or whatever!