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Budget-friendly and comforting carrot and lentil soup.

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14 budget-friendly dinners to warm and fill you up this week

Ahead of the federal budget on Tuesday night, keep your household budget in check with these comforting wallet- and family-friendly dinner ideas.

14 recipes
Budget-friendly and comforting carrot and lentil soup.
EASY

Monday: Katrina Meynink’s spiced carrot and lentil soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Adam Liaw’s ABC chicken soup.
EASY

... or Adam Liaw’s easy-as ABC chicken soup

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Easy, speedy stovetop beans.
EASY

Tuesday: 20-minute stovetop beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Spicy tomato and salami pasta with borlotti beans.
EASY

... or tomato and salami pasta with borlotti beans

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Thai red curry fried rice recipe for RecipeTin Eats Good Food online column March 2020. Good Food use only. Not for syndication. Must credit RecipeTin Eats. Image supplied by Nagi Maehashi.

Wednesday: RecipeTin Eats’ Thai red curry fried rice

  • Nagi Maehashi
Carbo-loading: Fried rice-filled jaffles.
EASY

... or these nasi goreng-inspired jaffles

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Roman-style chicken.
EASY

Thursday: Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Roman-style chicken drumsticks

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
This simple chicken roast is a one-tray wonder.
EASY

... or Karen Martini’s roast chicken thighs with potato, garlic and rosemary

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Karen Martini
Chickpea and potato curry.
EASY

Friday: RecipeTin Eats’ chana aloo (chickpea and potato curry)

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
Adam Liaw's chicken and egg curry.
EASY

... or Adam Liaw’s mild chicken and egg curry

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Danish-style meatloaf wrapped in bacon.
EASY

Saturday: Adam Liaw’s bacon-wrapped Danish meatloaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Six-ish ingredient Greek lamb meatloaf.
EASY

... or Katrina Meynink’s six-ingredient Greek lamb meatloaf

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
This sausage sizzle stew is perfect children and their parents to make together.
EASY

Sunday: Adam Liaw’s sausage sizzle stew

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Roman-style gnocchi with sausage ragu.

... or Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s potato gnocchi with sausage ragu

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
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