Meal 7: Chickpeas and Chips with Curry Sauce

CALORIE DENSITY: 20% = 726kcal/(895ml x 4)

(Compare with Sugar: 95%, butter: 180%)
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COST: 63p (So don’t tell me that eating healthy food is expensive!)
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INGREDIENTS
  • Chickpeas 240g drained: 306kcal (400ml) Chickpeas 240g drained: 306kcal (400ml) Asda Good & Balanced Chick Peas in Water 400g can for 35p
  • Potatoes 500g: 375kcal (450ml) Potatoes 500g: 375kcal (450ml) Asda Grower’s Selection British White Potatoes 2.5kg for £1.19 = 25p
  • Mild Curry Sauce: 60ml: 45kcal (60ml) Mild Curry Sauce: 60ml: 45kcal (60ml) Asda SP Mild Curry Sauce (no hydrogenated fat) 440g for 23p = 3p
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Cut potatoes into chunky chips
  2. Place in large plastic container and sprinkle with turmeric, salt – the turmeric is to make chips look brown as if they were fried
  3. Heat for 10 minutes in the microwave at 800W (I do it in 2 5 minute goes with a shake in between to ensure the chips don’t stick together too much.)
  4. Open the can of chickpeas & drain them.
  5. Add 60ml of Mild Curry Sauce from Asda if you fancy it as I almost always do as a more tasty alternative to just seasoning. It’s very low in sugar & fat and gluten free so it’s perfectly safe to eat as a part of Natural Low Density Eating.
  6. Place in medium plastic container, sprinkle with salt to taste and heat in the microwave for 3 minutes at 800W.

Serve as required – on one plate for an athletic man or on 2 plates for ladies!

NOTES

I used to use dried chickpeas (rehydrated of course) but having discovered Asda’s own brand 400g can costing only 35p, I started using them instead – saves a lot of boiling time and always tastier. Previously the cheapest can of chickpeas I could find was around 6op.

This makes one meals for a man like me (large frame and vigorously active) or two meals for a lady. I don’t mention the calories for each meal because when you indulge in eating natural low density food  which has a density of less than 25% you just eat as much as your appetite dictates and then stop eating. This meal tastes equally delicious with any of the pulses although I have to say that chickpeas are my favourite! The pulses I regularly use are: chickpeas, butter beans, cannellini beans, borlotti beans, haricot beans, pinto beans, black-eyed beans, black beans and kidney beans. You could add some green vegetables if you like but I just take multi-vitamins because they’re more effective and a lot cheaper.

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