Four days into my week of cheap food, I’m starting to run out of ideas and am left with little more than rice, pasta, potatoes and eggs, apart from the leftovers of the cheap curry from a couple of nights ago. So I thought, maybe some sort of omelette with a side of potatoes? Before embarking on this I typed ‘potatoes and eggs’ into google, which lead me here. Apparently, you can combine the two; it’s called a Spanish omelette.

Well, I got bored of reading the recipe, and decided I could go forth and forge something edible. So I chopped up a couple of large potatoes and began to fry them (keeping them moving so they wouldn’t stick, as I was informed to do). Once they were all brown and nice, I threw in some sliced mushrooms, mushrooms being the kind of cheap ingredient you should always have to hand, and then two eggs.

Oh, I also poured in what was left of my Basics Herb Mix following the copious amounts I used to make the pasta sauce edible. Finally, I threw in some cheese for extra flavour. Then I was worried there mightn’t be enough food in the pan, so I fried some bread as an extra.

Well, for a recipe I’d never tried before, it worked well. It actually looked pretty appetising, and, since it had both protein and carbohydrates, was a fairly well-balanced meal. Admittedly, it could have used some bacon or some ham or something just to add a little more flavour, maybe even onions or something, but it was still tasty, and it was what I would call ‘good food’, which is a term I have a little difficultly qualifying. By it, I mean food that you can shovel down and it fills you up, like stew or curry or egg-fried rice or fish-shop chips; food that doesn’t assault you with flavour or require fiddly manipulation like steak or peas, but just warms you from the inside and leaves you feeling full.

So I’m thinking, I’m going at add this ‘Spanish Scrambled Eggs’ to my roster of meals, particularly as it’s also pretty cheap. Let’s see… about 30p for the two eggs, 10p worth of mushrooms and maybe 15p of cheese, and about another 15p worth of potatoes, this might even be the cheapest meal yet, and possibly the tastiest this week. If only my luncheon had been as successful: that consisted of Basics 45p Baked Beans and Sausages. They didn’t taste too bad while I was eating them, but afterwards they leave your teeth feeling sort of coated, while you just feel dirty.

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