A wide range of quick and easy recipes for standby vegetables from your freezer or pantry
Go directly to list of Essential Standby Vegetables After undergoing gastric or bariatric surgery, we still have to make sure we get all the nutrition we need, including our five veg and two fruit a day. One way we can make sure of this is, not only to include vegetables …
Vegetables are an essential part of our diet, but in our situation, it’s all too easy to bypass them altogether. I’ve found that a good way to ensure that I get enough vegetables in my diet is to have at least one all-vegetable meal every day. I also try to …
Go directly to recipes Frozen mixed vegetables are always handy to have on hand. They can be steamed, boiled or sautéed, or added to soups, vegetable medleys, stir fries and served with rice or pasta. The following recipes for vegetable medleys will help you get that all important all-vegetable meal …
Go directly to recipes Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing and dehydrating to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk. The practice of drying starchy root vegetables like potatoes most likely began even …
Go directly to recipes Peas are one of several legumes that were first domesticated in the Middle East around 11,000 years ago. Humans began gathering and eating wild peas from at least 23,000 years ago, and they were probably eaten by our Neanderthal cousins as early as 46,000 years ago. …
Go directly to recipes Closely related members of the cabbage family, broccoli and cauliflower have been cultivated in Italy since the early days of the Roman Empire. Popular in Italian cuisine, broccoli was taken to the rest of the world by Italian emigrants who made it a favourite vegetable in …
Go directly to recipes Corn, also known as sweet corn and maize, was first domesticated in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago, where it was derived from a wild grass called ‘Balsas teosinte’. Its cultivation had spread as far north as New England by the time of the European colonisation …
Go directly to recipes Pasta, rice and instant noodles can form the basis of a quick and filling meal, made quicker, and contributing to your vegetable intake, when combined with frozen mixed vegetables. The following recipes can get a tasty and hearty meal on your table in less than 30 …
Go directly to recipes Spinach originated in ancient Persia or today’s Iran and surrounding countries. From there it crossed into India and then China. It was brought to Europe by the Arabs through Sicily and Spain and had spread to Northern Europe by the 14th century. It was a particular …
Go directly to recipes The potato is a native of South and Central America and was brought to Europe by Spanish Conquistadors and English explorers. Distrusted at first by Europeans, the potato was eventually recognised as being not only a more reliable and hardier crop than wheat, but it could …
Go directly to recipes Frozen mixed vegetables are always handy to have on hand. They can be steamed, boiled or sautéed, or used to make vegetable medleys, stir fries, or served with rice or pasta. They can also be used to make a hearty soup, and there’s nothing nicer on …
Go directly to recipes A common food staple in Mediterranean countries, lentils are edible seeds from the legume family, known for their lens shape and sold with or without their outer husks intact. Lentils are usually categorized by their colour, which can range from yellow and red to green, brown, …
