Thursday 8 December 2016

CHRISTMAS 2016 IN GOOD HEALTH & AVOIDING BANKRUPCY: SIDES

Wallelt-friendly healthy Side dishes for impressing guests 

SPICY SESAME NOODLES: it hits several spots:
easy-peasy, prep-ahead, frugal and diet-friendly 

These recipes are either easy, prepare ahead, wallet-friendly -- or all three. 

HOT


Two-potato champ, skinnier, healthier: 'great way to perk up a classic and so easy to prepare'  


Stir-fried peas, corn & bell peppers
colourful, quick & easy (vegan)

Garlic Wedges a lower fat version of
garlic fries, popular with foreign correspondent  (vegan)




 Zucchini Courgette 'Fries' 


COLD

Spicy Sesame Noodles, see photo at top, a please-yourself salad (vegan)

Sweetcorn & Plum Slaw, 'light in texture but very satisfying; 'dieter's delight', make-ahead, keeps 3 days (vegan)


Tomato, Mushroom & Grapefruit Salsa,
unusual but exceptionally tasty combination for meats but also salad or salad dressing (vegan)



LIGHT BUT LOVELY BITES
Memorable Croutons with the perfect ratio of fat to bread
Roasted & marinaded bell peppers, these cost the earth in the shops but are easy to make yourself


SOUP AND STEW SCOOPS
15-min Flatbread, 2-ways, tasty as all get out
Savoury Pinwheel Biscuits



And some popular choices from 2015
Tomato flavour bombs astonishingly wonderful & astonishingly easy
Perfectly pretty salads - knock-em-dead with as little as four salad ingredients
Stir-fried sprouts with sweetcorn - kids and kidults should enjoy these
Cheese & Walnut Tear & Share Bread, incredibly easy






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