Chicken crêpes with pea and avo sauce
Looking for fun and creative ways to add your favourite veggies to meals? These chicken crêpes pair perfectly with a refreshing and creamy pea and avo sauce! Make them for a yummy work lunch or brunch treat.
Spicy chicken skewers with charred corn salad
Make lunch simple yet satisfying this week with some spicy chicken skewers with charred corn salad. It's also an amazing meal prep option.
Cream cheese, chicken and chutney rolls
Looking for a more exciting sarmie option to up your work lunch game? Look no further than our cream cheese, chicken and chutney rolls.
Laid-back lunching at Steenberg’s Catharina’s Restaurant
Set back on the manicured lawns of the Steenberg Estate, tucked beneath the towering oak trees, is Catharina’s Restaurant, a hidden gem of a lunch spot. You might be in the middle of residential Cape Town, but you feel a million miles away.
Chicken koftas, butterbean hummus and dip
Chicken koftas, butter-bean hummus and dip
Something between a meatball and a sausage, chicken koftas are great as an appetiser for when you have guests over. But you can make a meal of them as well with a few fresh flatbreads and a salad.
Meat-free everyday – on a budget!
Choosing to become vegetarian takes a lot of discipline and can be challenging when you’re surrounded by meat-eaters. But let’s go back for a second. We all know that meat is a food product that eats through our wallets, and it’s especially difficult when you’re on a rather tight budget. So, why not try out a vegetarian diet? There are plenty delicious veggie products that’ll save you money, and they’re all available at your nearest food store. Nowadays, more and more people are choosing the vegetarian (and vegan) route, so grocery stores are supplying more alternative food options at lower prices!
Corn and mushroom chowder
Corn and mushroom chowder
Chowder is a hearty, milk-based soup thta was brought to the shores of New England in the US. The original calls for seafood, but it can be made with chicken, vegetables, cheese, peas or potatoes (Manhattan chowder even uses tomatoes). We devised a yummy veggie option perfect for meat-free Monday.
Camping on a budget
Camping eats for the budget-conscious
Once you have all the necessary equipment, a holiday in the great outdoors can be an amazingly cost-efficient venture. And just because you’re kicking it outdoors, doesn’t mean you have to resort to unhealthy and expensive readily-prepared supermarket meals. A little planning can go a long way, and we’re here to help you make your summer camping trip a fun, cheap and healthy endeavour.
Meal planning
The secret to low-cost meals? Set up a meal plan
Another dinner is done and you’re sitting with leftover rice and a few stray pieces of broccoli that will inevitably end in the garbage bin before the end of the week. So how do you cook meals without wasting any food or paying through your teeth for perfectly portioned pre-cooked options? Let us show you.
Batch cooking
Batch cook! Your budget will thank you
As January rolls around, it’s not only our clothes that seem a bit tighter, but our budgets too. Don’t let the holiday spending and Christmas gift-buying get in the way of your weekly food shopping - plan your meals cleverly and you’ll be saving as you cook.