School's back in session which means mountains of sandwiches. Ran out of mayo today a key ingredient to any sandwich but even more important for the cheapest fillings (egg salad, tuna salad, chicken salad...). Why not make it from scratch?
HOMEMADE MAYONNAISE
Homemade mayo is way better than store-bought. Any recipe will do, for example:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/mayonnaise-recipe/index.html
Granted I have these ingredients lying about the house already so today it's free for me.
For those concerned about using raw eggs, I've found this info:
http://www.christonium.com/culinaryreview/How_To_Make_Pasteurized_Eggs_Cooking_With_Raw_Eggs
http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/eggsdairy/ht/pasteurize_eggs.htm
For dinner tonight - soup, soup, soup! Cheap, healthy, filling. Great way to stretch expensive ingredients like meat.
BEEF BARLEY SOUP - £0.50 per person
Tesco value stewing steak - £4
Carrots/onions/celery/barley/spices - £2
Stock pots - £2.50
Toast - free. Leftover bread from a promotion for a recent show, my freezer is full of bread! This combined with the toast rack I got from a charity shop for 50p and we are golden.
There are 6 of us but we eat like 10. £8.50 will feed us for 2 meals or 20 servings. Most soup freezes well so you can make a heap and spread it out to break up the monotony.
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