Recipe ideas

Cooking with FOOD Club items

Our Food and Nutrition Officer visited our Birmingham and Notts FOOD Clubs recently and spotted lots of tasty items available for members, such as bread mix, salmon, eggs, tuna, spaghetti, tomato, herb paste, yoghurt, oats, fruit and cornflakes. Here are a few suggestions from Gill on how to cook with the ingredients she found.

• Apple and cabbage slaw
• Cauliflower curry
• Cheesy herby scones
• Eggy bread
• Pancakes with fruit
• Peachy overnight oats
• Sun dried tomato and herb bread
• Salmon and pea quiche
• Salmon and scrambled eggs
• Sun dried tomato and salmon pasta
• Sesame bread
• Tuna pasta bake
• Yoghurt crunch

FOOD Club members at our Let’s Get Cooking in Cardiff project have been busy experimenting with different ways to cook with beans and pulses, fruit and veg, pasta, meat, and so on. Here are some ideas suggested by nutritionist Gill Kelsall.

• Baked beans
• Beetroot
• Butternut squash
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Fennel
• Green beans
• Mince
• Sweet potato
• Tinned chickpeas

Some recipe ideas for …

• Basic pasta sauce
• Basic vegetable soup
• Bread
• Curry
• Risotto
• Smoothie

Ideas for blender recipes …

• Blender – banana bread with chocolate chips
• Blender – carrot and ginger soup
• Blender – fruity ice cream
• Blender – green breakfast smoothie
• Blender – herby pesto sauce
• Blender – hummus dip
• Blender – roasted tomato soup

Ideas for brunches and breakfasts

• Breakfast burrito
• Eggy bread
• Overnight oats

Here are some further breakfast recipes, many of which can be made using a blender.

Ideas for slow cooker recipes …

• Slow cooker – carrot and lentil soup
• Slow cooker chicken korma
• Slow cooker – chilli
• Slow cooker – lamb stew
• Slow cooker – ratatouille
• Slow cooker – ratatouille with an egg
• Slow cooker – rice pudding
• Slow cooker – butternut squash and chick pea soup
• Slow cooker – vegetarian sausage casserole

Using veg in meals and snacks

We’ve had a lot of carrots and potatoes at our Birmingham FOOD Club. Here are some tasty ways for using up veg in meals and snacks and reducing food waste.

• Apple-and-cabbage-slaw
• BBQ Veg Skewers
• Bombay potatoes
• Carrot Bunny Cakes 
• Carrot and coriander soup
• Carrot and courgette muffins
• Carrot-and-ginger-soup
• Carrot and sultana mini pancakes
• Carrot-and-swede-soup
• Colourful salad
• Easy fish pie
• Extra veg sausage pasta
• Old school bangers and mash
• Pork-and-chickpea-chilli (swap sweet for regular potato)
• Vegetable jalfrezi

Spice up your dishes using …

• Basil
• Cinnamon
• Mint
• Rosemary
• Turmeric

Protein rich recipes

FOOD Clubs members at some of our Nottinghamshire clubs have been enjoying trying out a wide range of recipes as part of their Take and Make project. Below are a few examples. For more about the project, read an interview with Natalie, a Notts Support Worker.

• Apple and blackcurrant pancakes
• Beef and broccoli chow mein
• Butterbean Salad
• Butternut squash gratin
• Cauliflower and pasta bake
• Chicken curry and rice
• Chicken jambalaya
• Chicken pesto pasta
• Chilli stuffed – baked sweet potatoes
• Corned beef hash
• Easy chicken curry
• Easy fish pie
• Fruity cheesecake
• Fruity meringue
• Kebabs with BBQ sauce
• Luscious quiche lorraine
• Mackerel pasta
• Naravin of Lamb
• Omelette
• Orange baked chicken
• Pasta bolognese
• Pork & Apple Casserole
• Quorn coronation wraps
• Quorn and mushroom stroganoff
• Sausage and lentil casserole
• Sausage fried rice
• Spicy roast cauliflower
• Stuffed peppers
• Sweet and sour pork
• Stuffed butternut squash
• Summer stir fry