All the personal posts this week... This is for one of my 2 year old's carers, Annaliese, who asked about the food when I was showing her a video of him counting at the dinner table. We eat this ALL the time for vego night (every 4th night for us...). It's a great fridge clear out, we always have veg and instant or vermicelli noodles and it's pretty bloody quick.

STIR-FRY NOODLE OMELETTE, 4 serves
364 calories per serve

spray oil
8 eggs
pepper and salt
1 tablespoon sesame oil
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 teaspoons/cm ginger, crushed/grated
2 cups of stir fry veg, thinly sliced (I used onion, capsicum, gai lan, mushrooms, broccoli)
2 serves instant noodles
4 tablespoons water
2 tablespoons Kecap Manis
Kecap Manis & chilli sauce/paste to serve

​Boil a few cups of water and pour over noodles for 5 minutes. Strain and pop to one side.

Heat a non-stick frying pan to med-high and spray with oil. Whisk 2 eggs with 1 tablespoon water and pepper and salt. Tip egg into pan, turn down to med-low and cover with a lid or plate (it makes it fluffier). Cook until top isn't wet, slide onto lid/plate, flip back into frying pan. Repeat x 3 in between preparing rest of meal.

Heat sesame oil to med-high in a non-stick wok. Sauté onion, garlic and ginger for 2 minutes. Add firm veg and 2 tablespoons water, cook for 2 minutes with the lid on. Stir in leafy veg, noodles and kecap manis, cook for another 2 minutes with lid on.

Serve stir-fry in omelette with kecap manis and chilli to taste (we use sambal for us, the kids have thai sweet chilli)

My recipes used this below...
We'll be using the chunky tartare Saturday's fakeaway fish and chips (I'll try to write up the omelette by Tuesday too)

As always the days are about 1600 calories and we rotate meat, chicken, seafood and vego dinners

My published recipes in the food plan this week...

Its apple's best time of year again so this year I've been mucking around with crumble recipes & techniques. This wasn't the easiest but it won the family's crunchiness vote so here it is, it's still pretty quick mind. And I know it's over 300 calories but 105 of that is just apple... plain old fibre filled, in season, fruity, warm winter mmmmm.

APPLE CRUMBLE serves 6
Per serve: 313 calories

6 large apples
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup oats
2/3 cup flour*
80g butter*, diced
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Quarter, core and roughly dice apple. Place in an oven proof dish, cover with foil and bake while preparing crumble topping (no more than 15 min). Mix dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Rub in butter until bread crumb consistency (well... breadcrumbs with rolled oats in it). Remove foil from apples, stir and press down as much as you can, tip over crumble topping, bake for 30-35 minutes.

*can replace with gluten or dairy free option of your choice

This soup is so easy & cheap I don't know why I forget about it so often..? When I say easy, I use the biggest onions I can find and use a mandolin to slice them so there's less crying prep time. This one was borne out of left over stock but it works just as well with Massel cubes and is THE BEST with a cheese toasty (the one in the picture has left over mustard sauce under the cheese for extra deliciousness).

FRENCH ONION SOUP serves 4
Per serve: 107 calories

500g onions, peeled and sliced
1 tablespoon of butter
2 litres beef stock*
30ml brandy
Salt and pepper

In a soup pot, cook onions in butter over a low heat, stirring occasionally, for at least 30 minutes until very soft. Add stock and brandy and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer for 5 minutes. Season and serve... cheesy toasty optional (bahahaha, just kidding!! Add about 165 calories for a thin slice of bread & 20g of tasty cheese)

*can use Massel or other vegetarian beef stock