What I ate today - 9th August 2010

I'm still getting my act together on the organisational front, so today's lunch included yesterday's left overs. We'd had vegetarian hotdog sandwiches for tea and there were a couple left over to put in a salad.

With mayonnaise and wholegrain mustard.

Pulses wise I was down to my second to last tin of green lentils so I put them together with a tin of tomatoes spiced with the following.

• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp cumin
• Pinch of salt
• Pinch of tumeric
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1/2 garam masala spice blend
• Some fresh ground black pepper.

At first taste this was somewhat bland so I ended up putting a load more chilli powder in. Unfortunately this was something of a mistake. The sauce was very spicy when I came to eat it at lunch time. Nevermind, lesson learned!

Mmm spicy . . . maybe too spicy!

I will make it again though as it was very tasty and filling. The chopped up sausages made it really interesting as they have a very deep savoury flavour.

Financially speaking it wasn't so bad either. Around 20p worth of vegetarian hotdog about 70p for the tin of lentils and about 45p for the tomatoes and a couple of pennies worth of spices. It works out at about £1.50 in total so just £0.75 per portion. Bargin!