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Traditional meals can help feed a crowd within your budget

JUANITA ROSSITER

With today’s rising costs, Atlantic Canadians are looking at where every dollar is spent. One of the biggest areas they’re trying to cut is their grocery bills.

Some Atlantic Canadian home cooks and chefs are sharing budget-friendly cheap eats that can serve a lot of people without breaking the bank while still tasting great.

JIGGS DINNER

For Bonita Hussey, a jiggs dinner is an ideal way to fill a lot of bellies without breaking the bank.

Hussey, a home chef and founder of Bonita’s Kitchen, which she runs out of her home in Spaniard’s Bay, N.L., describes the popular Newfoundland dish as a good ol’ Sunday dinner from a long time ago.

“This recipe has been handed down from generations from our elders and is the type of meal that goes a long way,” she says. “One would say it can feed a big family and plenty for 20.”

Jiggs dinner is served without gravy and only pot liquor “juice” while a boiled Sunday dinner is served with gravy from protein like roasted chicken, beef, pork or turkey.

Hussey says it’s still affordable for a big family gathering.

Have some leftover veggies, salted beef and peas pudding from your jiggs dinner? It can be turned into four more meals, she says.

• Panfried veggies and salted beef with butter and chopped in small pieces, fried until brown and served with a slice of homemade bread. Go online: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=rYQaNFz1uts&featu re=youtu.be

The leftover peas pudding, salted beef and veggies can be cooked in a small boiler with leftover pot liquor “juice” and served with homemade bread

Couldnt’s or hash: Leftover pea soup:

or doughboys. Go online: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=M3AUQjJ51F8

• Is made from leftover potatoes and carrots from your jiggs dinner or boiled dinner and mashed with mayonnaise. Add other ingredients, like mustard and beet juice, to make different kinds of potato salads. Go online: https://youtu.be/

Cold plates:

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• Use your leftover potatoes to make these tasty little biscuits to serve with any meal. Go online: https://youtu.be/ qj6YQcr1DcE

Potato biscuits: COTTAGE PIE

Paul Routhier’s personal chef service, called Knife for Hire, is based in Halifax, N.S. His favourite cheap eat is cottage pie.

“It’s a recipe I’ve been making for years, which probably came from my mother,” he says.

Some may know this recipe as shepherd’s pie but Routhier says it’s traditionally called cottage pie.

“If you were to top the dish with bread crumbs it would be called a Cumberland pie,” he points out.

The big difference in the name of the dish comes down to the meat. Shepherd’s pie is traditionally made with lamb, often a braised lamb shank that’s shredded off the bone. The version most people have is made with beef, which technically makes it cottage pie.

Looking to make it a bit more affordable? Take advantage of frozen. You can substitute frozen diced carrots instead of fresh diced, he suggests, simply adding the frozen carrots when the peas and corn are added.

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