Change4Life: Supermeals: Vegetarian Shepherd Pie

Today you can get a voucher from The Mirror to redeem against the Supermeals cookbook in Asda. To whet your appetites Change4Life sent me this recipe today:

Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie: Ingredients: 2 carrots, chopped 300g swede, chopped 600g potatoes, cut into small cubes 1 tsp vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 300g vegetarian mince 300ml reduced salt vegetable stock 1 courgette, grated 100g frozen mixed vegetables or frozen peas Ground black pepper 1 tsp cornflour  Approx cost: £2.72 Per head: 68p for 4 adults Nutritional Info: 411kcals / 1720kJ 38g protein 8g fat of which 1.5g saturates 49g carbohydrate 14g sugars 6g dietary fibre 3564mg sodium 8.5g salt 1 Cook the carrots, swede and potatoes in a large saucepan of boiling water until tender, about 20 minutes. 2 Meanwhile, heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan and gently fry the onion for 2-3 minutes, until softened. Add the vegetarian mince and stock. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and add the courgette and frozen mixed vegetables or peas. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 4-5 minutes. Season with black pepper. 3 Preheat the grill, warming a baking dish underneath for a few moments. Meanwhile, drain and mash the carrots, swede and potatoes, seasoning with black pepper. 4 Blend the cornflour with 1 tbsp cold water and add it to the mince mixture, stirring until thickened. Transfer it to the baking dish and spoon the vegetable mash on top. Grill for about 5 minutes, until browned. Serve.

 You can watch Ainsley Harriott cooking a Supermeal and talking about healthy eating here:

Change4Life: Supermeals

I have rather neglected my blogging for Change4Life recently so thought I'd better get cracking as they have recently launched their Supermeals campaign. In order to help parent change their families diets they have brought out recipes for meals that are:

• low cost
• quick and easy to make
• tasty

I ordered a paper copy of some of their meal ideas but they also have an online Supermeals recipe finder. With this you can search by ingredients, create a shopping list and make a 7 day meal plan.

If that doesn't appeal then you can have recipe ideas e-mailed to you instead. All you need is to register and then wait to see what pops up in your inbox. All the recipes cost about £5 to make 4 adult servings.

You can get the children to join in by creating their own Cookbook crammed full of their favourite healthy recipes. Think I need to try this with my 2!

The  final part of the Supermeals programme is a free cookbook featuring Ainsley Harriott. All you need to do is buy a copy of the Daily Mirror on Friday January 20th and hand the voucher in at your local Asda store. The book has 30 easy, healthy and tasty recipes which all cost around £5 to make.

So what are you waiting for get over to the Supermeals site now and start changing your families diet!