Outdoor Cooking with The Bay
There's lot's of ways to eat cheaply - by knowing a few key recipes, and how to grow and forage some foods.
As part of our Outdoor Cooking sessions in Wyre, Chloe has been hard at work making recipes and videos to share her tips and tricks for cooking cheap and easy meals and sourcing affordable ingredients - in some cases free!
Foraging
Foraging for wild food might have never occurred to you before, but it's a great way to find some extra bits of food for free!
Take a look at our foraging videos over the next couple of weeks, and in the meantime check out our foraging calendar to find out whats coming up in the natural world.
Remember the three golden rules of foraging:
1. Only take what you need for your personal use
2. Only take what you are 100% sure is edible
3. Remember it's illegal to dig up a whole plant - leave it there and just take the leaves/ flowers etc
Foraging Calendar
Unsure about what grows throughout the year?
Chloe from our Wyre team has you covered with her foraging calendar! Download it here.
Recipes
These recipes are all designed to save you money, and are really simple to cook. We've also included some suggestions of additions which you can either forage or grow yourself, and ways to make your food last longer.
Butternut squash curry
A lovely warming curry, perfect all year round!
You can even add some nettles for some extra immune system boosting vitamins.
Download the recipe here.
Sausage and bean stew
A proper winter warmer which will definitely fill you up!
Download the recipe here.
Double bean chilli
A firm favourite of The Bay team, a chilli is quick and easy to make, and goes with all sorts of sides from potatoes to rice to tortillas.
Download the recipe here.
Curried noodles
This is a great recipe to turn packet noodles into a satisfying and healthy meal.
Download the recipe here.
Wild garlic pesto pasta
Wild garlic is prolific throughout woodlands in spring, and you'll no doubt smell it before you see it!
This recipe makes use of that lovely garlic taste for a bright green pesto.
Download the recipe here.