Meat-free Monday - Feta salad, Veg hash with eggs

This should have been posted yesterday, but I got sidetracked ;-)

Incidentally, I have no (nearly said beef but that's not very appropriate under the circumstances!  haha) grumble, quarrel, problem etc with vegetarians or vegans, each to their own.  As I said, we do try to have vegetarian meals a couple of times a week (yesterday being a case in point)….we probably don't have many vegan meals though, unless it's by accident.  So vegetarians and vegans are welcome on my blog, but only polite comments will be published.

Anyway, yesterday's lunch was salad, as it was a warmer day.  It was mixed leaves with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, peppers and grated carrot, topped with crumbled feta and a blob of mayo.  Ok but a bit boring, to be honest - I'm not really a salad lover, but husband is.  I'd have liked some olives but didn't have any, and husband's not a fan of those anyway.

For dinner, I did a sort of veg hash thing.  Had some roast potatoes and parsnips left over from the Sunday roast, I diced them, along with a small orange pepper, some mushrooms and a large courgette.  I fried them all in a little oil in a non stick pan, then made 4 dips in the mixture and cracked an egg into each dip.  Cooked for a minute on the hob, then put the pan into the pre-heated top oven for another couple of minutes.  Pulled it out and sprinkled on some grated Cheddar, returning it to the oven for another 5 minutes.  Lovely.  

Today I'm making faggots (sort of large meatballs made from pork, liver and bacon all minced together - I whizz it all up in the food processor - and mixed with dry sage & onion stuffing).  The mixture should make a lot, so plenty to freeze.  We'll have them with mashed white and sweet potato, Savoy cabbage and the onion gravy that I'll be cooking the faggots in.

We did our first shop for this £100 food shop challenge yesterday, went to Lidl and spent £22.31, which I was pleased with.  I discovered they do boxes of 40 Redbush teabags, which is my favourite tea, for 75p - amazing price, it's usually £1.80-£2.15 in other supermarkets...different brand admittedly, but I expect it tastes much the same.  I got 2 boxes, which was all they had....I'd have bought more if they had them.  They're doing 6 weeks of opening offers (the store is a new one which opened around last Christmas), you get a free product every week for the 6 week period if you spend £20+.  We missed the first 2 weeks as we didn't know this offer was on...it hadn't been publicised anywhere, well, not that we'd seen.  The free thing this week was a 1l bottle of olive oil, price £2.89 - I use olive oil often for cooking so was happy to be given that.  Next week it's soap powder, apparently.

Thank you for the comments on my last post.