meat versus veg

not much money, just enough, and belly's to feed.
i am not all that keen on meat at the moment though i did eat a steak and chips yesterday and it felt quite nutritional. speaking of money, i got the steaks- regular beef steaks (about five clean sinew-free fairly fat steaks) for about £3 from tescos , reduced from about £6, and needing to be eaten yesterday.
served it with chips, peas and buttered marrow, yum. daughter sometimes asks for chewy meat (since our regular diet consists of minced beef recipies and chicken mostly). But she didn't really finish it.
anyway today i am planning to make spaggetti bol because you can't really go wrong with that and it pleases most. it is easy. i have recently taken to buying the basic/value range of mince since it comes up ok, but i cook and drain off the fat first and pick out any bits of white chewy stuff-tiny bits- (yuk) if i see them. once met with onion, garlic, tomatoes herbs etc and stock and cooked till it marries nicely (with cheaper meat i cook for a few hrs...) it tastes lovely with some pasta and grated cheese.
however, this week i am skintalintos and i have decided to give meat to the fussy meat eaters in the family and i am gonna make some vege stuff and see how it tastes.

i am boiling up some green lentils and will cook with onions, garlic, courgettes, tomatoes, and maybe some other things and see if it is nice with pasta, and maybe as a sort of cottage pie.
as i type it sounds unappealing but i am gonna give it a try.

last week my dad got two humungus cauliflours from lewisham market and gave me one. i got two cauliflour cheeses out of it and i made a veg curry which i thought looked lovely....onion, ginger, garlic, tin toms, cauliflour, potatoes, carrots and peas...with spices cooked in oil first etc etc. however, for some reason it simply fermented in the fridge for five days and never got eaten and i have just thrown it away.
i think the gentle noises from the males (minus the littlest male of one) of how nice it would be with some chicken added and the general overload of cauliflour led it to it's fetid end, where even i could not face it. but i plan to make another just for me, while they can continue to eat their meat!

any way. thats it really.