Healthy Quick Meals on a Budget -- Will add more as we go along! So check back for more ideas :)

Roast Chicken with potatoes

1 whole organic chicken (sometimes also called "Probio chicken")
Balsamic Vinegar
Olive Oil
Salt and Pepper to taste
Potatoes
Lemon

Generously rub chicken with salt and olive oil. set aside.

In a separate pot, bring water to a boil and put in the cut out potatoes along with the lemon in. Boil potatoes to the consistency you want it (really soft, medium soft, anyway you want them). Drain potatoes and lemon.

Lay the potatoes on a square or rectangle glass oven safe dish ware. Stab the lemon with a fork and stuff it inside the chicken. Put the chicken in the middle of the potatoes. Pour some balsamic vinegar on the chicken. Cover loosely with a tin foil and roast it in the oven on 4 for 45 minutes, remove the tin foil and continue to roast on 6 for another 15 minutes.

In the last ten minutes, steam some vegetables (carrots and/or broccoli) or make a side-dish of salad.

(Plan for some roast chicken sandwiches or chicken fried rice for lunch the next day using the left over chicken)

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Steamed fish

1 whole salt water fish (or fillet if your kids are yet ready to navigate the bones)
Spring onions
garlic
fish sauce
sesame oil
sweet soy sauce
Steamer

Rinse the fish and put it on a plate. pour some of the fish sauce, pinch of salt, some sesame oil, some sweet soy sauce and chopped garlic. Put it in the steamer for 20 minutes. Put the roughly cut spring onions on top and steam for another 10 minutes.

Serve with steamed rice and stir fry vegetables.

For a touch of spice for the adults, chopped up some chili with salted soy sauce on the side.

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Baked Mac and Cheese

A package of macaroni
1 cup of cheese
1 cup of carrot puree (this is a healthy substitute for the yellow cheddar in traditional mac and cheese and a sneaky way of putting in some vegetables in the family's diet)
mozarella cheese

Bring the macaroni to boil and cook it to the consistency you like. drain.

In a medium saucepan, melt butter, put in the macaroni, carrot puree, cheese, and half a cup of milk. add some salt and pepper to taste. Pour it in a glass dish ware, spread some mozarella cheese on top and bake until the mozarella melts.

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Ogre-ina shake

Inspired by Shrek, my kids drink this every morning.

2 bunches of lettuce, or spinach, or broccoli (whatever green vegetables you can find, really)
Plain yoghurt
Honey
Bananas
lemon

Put all ingredients in a blender and voila!

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