Easyfast dinner and what you didn't know about ingredients in Australia

Harvest time can be very busy and does not necessarily leave much time to think what to have for lunch or dinner. Usually it is ham and cheese sandwhich with a leaf of lettuce and slice of a cucumber or tomato. I had this also for a while until I got fed up with it and decided to have something else. These two dishes are invented in couple of minutes by just looking at current resources available but both of them turned  out very well. The way I prepared these is merely result of the idea of cooking faster.

                                                                       Pork stew
The amount of each ingredient depends on you. I used as much as I needed =)

You need:

• Potatoes 

•  Diced meat 

•  Onion 

•  Diced vegetables
•  Tomato sauce

The cheapest possible B&G frozy vegs and dolmio!

Add water in a pot/pan just above the potatoes (estimate) and leave it to warm up as you slice potatoes. Add the sliced potatoes into the boiling water. After the water has reduced to about half, add diced meat and keep boiling until almost all water have steamed out and start frying.

As the water level reduce and all the pieces of meat are not red anymore, add cut onion and later on the vegs. Finally pour in your sauce. Add salt to taste. 

For additional luxury you can add grated cheese

This is basically the same concept.  Just replace potatoes with spaghetti and leave sauce off. I added champignons also. Only imagination is the limit!

Water crackers, cheddar with sweet chili sauce, devon, cucumber and lettuce makes very tasty, fast and cheap snack.

I usually pkeep an eye on the ingredients ad what they are made of in terms of sweeteners and colours. If you are one of those who pay attention to these details too and travel to Australia, you might find it very surprising how many product contains ingredients which are prohibited in the EU. For example, Azo dye group which was prohibited many years ago in EU seems to be used in varous produtcts such as candies/lollies, drinks and cordials, chewing gums, dairy products such as yoghurt and so on. Unfortunately in many of my former favourite cordial producer Cottees ae azo dyes and it says clearly in the ingredients: "colours: TARTRAZINE (102) and some brilliant blue FCF". Propably does not kill me, but I have made a decision to avoid these if possible. 

In the sweeteners section I often encounter sucralose. To my knowledge it is prohibited in some contries in EU and classified as sme ind of poison. Again, does ot seemm to be as lethal as local brown snakes but if i have another option, I rather leave sucralose at the store.