Budget cuts

We eat for $150 a week. We eat healthy, quality, gourmet, organic food, on $150 a week. That's a family of 2 adults and 2 littlies. One of the secrets to eating well on a budget, is eating the cheaper cuts of meat. And stay with me here, I'm talking organ meats. Along with the fat, they are the most nutritious part of the animal. And yet our modern society shuns them! Gives them to the pets! Our ancestors would shudder. They used to eat the fat and organ meats first, they revered them. Then the muscle meat last, if they ate it at all (they would sometimes feed the muscle meat to their pets).

So, dinner last night was lamb's fry (liver). I know what you're thinking. The yucky stuff your mother used to feed you once a week. But it doesn't have to be that way. It CAN be delicious. What you do, is first, buy organic. The stuff's cheap as chips. It costs about $2.50 to feed a family for one meal. Buy a bunch of it and store it in the freezer. Once thawed, peel the thin membrane off the liver, cut off the vein-y bits, slice it as thinly as you can, and soak it in lemon juice for a few hours. Then pat dry, dredge in flour/salt/pepper, heat your fry pan to high, and only just cook through (or leave a bit of pink). Eat immediately. We had ours with roasted veges. Total meal cost probably $6. And our chickens (meat eaters too) had a feast on the offcuts.

Lunch was very yummy. Had heaps of veges in the fridge, so stirfried brocolli, snow peas, cauliflower, onion, pumpkin, with some pepita and sunflower seeds in ghee and coconut oil. Added sweet chilli sauce at the end, and feasted. Delicious and very quick. Might have cost $5.

The porridge (soaked the previous night) got burned (we were distracted by kids) so we had eggs on toast for breakfast - always a favourite anyway. Not just eggs either, but we also had fried tomatos, fermented ginger carrots, and parsley and chives from the garden.

Snacks - Our mulberry tree is laden with fruit at the moment. So any chance we get we pick a big bowl full and gorge out with mulberries and cream. Our little person just loves them. She has a huge red mulberry smile afterwards. Just about free, cream maybe 20 cents.