I like colourful food.
I thought that I'd done a post about colourful food not long ago but when I searched it turned out to be back in May 2024, so nearly two years and I'm still eating colourful, mostly made from scratch, food..
I thought this meal looked very colourful. It was a home made Scotch Egg, using own dried breadcrumbs and baked in the oven rather than fried. A handful of orange sweet potato fries cooked at the same time as the scotch egg. Then lots of green salad leaves, celery and mini plum tomatoes with a small splodge of mayo.
Warm pasta salad includes peas, baby plum tomatoes, olives and feta cheese and a spoonful of mayo.
A quiche made using one portion of that cheap bacon mentioned earlier, onions and cheese and 3 eggs feeds me for 4 days, twice with carrots and broccoli
and twice with home made potato salad and mixed salad leaves, celery and olives.
Lots of colour in a chicken stir-fry below. The veg were carrots, onion and chopped cabbage leaves. I buy the pack of British chicken mini breast fillets for £3.99 for 600g from Aldi - these were bought in February- and were divided up into 5 portions before freezing.
Carrots and cabbage again this time with my penultimate piece of nut roast made several weeks ago - probably just before Christmas and some quick gravy.
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Gosh Sue that all looked so tasty, all foods I like. Going to have a go at the scotch eggs, can I ask how long you cook them for in the oven and on what number? June
ReplyDeleteI think about 220 for about 15 minutes and then turn it down for another 15 minutes. Sorry I'm very vague about cooking times and temps - tend to wing it until it's cooked! I put my Scotch Egg on a piece of parchment paper in whatever I'm cooking it on and pour over a few drips of cooking oil and turn it over a couple of times too.
DeleteMy Biology teacher, Mrs Rowlands - "Always have as many colours on your plate as you can." There's scientific proof!
ReplyDeleteCarrots cheer up any plate!
DeleteCheap and healthy meals, all by your own fair hand too :) I buy the Aldi Chinese stir fry mix as I like beanshoots but have the mung beans to grow my own. (Smacks wrist for them gathering dust!!)
ReplyDeleteA Very long time ago I even had a special bean growing thing and have tried jam jars etc - usually the beans went mouldy.!
DeleteI'm impressed you go to so much time and trouble to prep such delicious meals for yourself. Yum yum! 😋
ReplyDeleteThe few times I've bought a microwave ready meal I've been disappointed so I like to make an effort and it's cheaper too
DeleteThese look gorgeous. This week I am determined to make some pizza bases for the freezer using my bread machine - following your recent inspirational photograph of rectangles. They will stack and store so much more easily than the traditional circles!
ReplyDeleteI'm making a batch of pizza topping tomorrow, couldn't do it before as I was right out of freezer boxes with lids that fitted.
DeleteThen pizza will be another colourful meal!
🎶🎵 Food glorious food ! 🎵🎶 You're making me feel hungry ! lol ! 💐x
ReplyDeleteHopefully another week of colourful food ahead
DeleteLots of variety there and very appetising, too.
ReplyDeleteThe best thing about starting from scratch is that if the ingredients are good then the meal is rarely a failure
DeleteThose are some lovely looking meals. Can I ask about the size of the plates you eat off? I eat off a 'side' plate these days, I have done for a few years actually, and I find that the size of portions shown in your photos (if also on a side plate) are about the same as I am eating at the moment. Your meals really are very colourful, and very healthy looking.
ReplyDeleteIt's a dinner plate for my main meal . I used to have coffee and biscuit mid morning but cut that out a couple of years ago and now have a bigger meal between 12.30 and 1.30. Plenty of veg or salad usually with whatever.
DeleteThanks. xx
DeleteSome lovely colourful meals there, and so reasonably priced.
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
Trying to do home made as much as possible and luckily I love fresh veg
DeleteYou have a nice variety of meals. Sometimes I get in a rut making the same dishes several times a month...
ReplyDeleteBatch making is handy as I can pull out different things from the freezer
DeleteLovely meals. I may copy a few for my me.u in the coming weeks. I love a good quiche.
ReplyDeleteA quiche means not thinking for 4 days meals!
DeleteI agree, cook well for yourself, eat all the colors. You really do that, with plenty of variety. No wonder you're fit.
ReplyDeleteNot sure I'm very fit
DeleteYour meals look colorful and very well balanced.
ReplyDeleteI also like my plate to look appealing and by having lots of color, it works well.
You cook in batches and freeze very efficiently. Making meals ahead works well.
Batch cooking is very handy for one person - makes things much easier
DeleteNever had much joy getting sweet potato fries crispy. Do you have any tips?
ReplyDeleteI've decided they aren't meant to be crispy as they burn rather than crisp up
DeleteLovely colourful meals-featuring some of my favourite veg. Catriona
ReplyDeleteThere aren't many veg I don't like- I try to buy in season if I can and always carrots!
DeleteYou had some good eating!
ReplyDeleteI like to have tasty and colourful food. Cooking it myself is the answer
DeleteColourful food is the way to go. One gets all their vitamins and minerals that way. You had some great meals.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Has to be good to look at as well as good to eat I think
DeleteLooks some lovely eats!
ReplyDeleteI've really got into the way of cooking batch meals and cooking for one now
DeleteA colorful plate really is enticing. I much prefer eating on something nicely presented! (Even if the food isn't so good.)
ReplyDeleteThis all looks excellent and healthy!
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