Chorizo fried then added to Ainsley Thai couscous. With sh*tloads of crisps and Sports Mix because couscous isn’t very filling.
If you look in the isle where you get tinned beans (not baked beans but beans like cannelini and butter beans etc) you’ll find sachets of pre cooked pulses and grains with some nice flavours in. Merchant Gormet do some and in Sainsburys you’ll also find some Jamie Oliver branded ones.
Nice and flavoursome (the merchant gormet porcini and thyme one is nice and dark and savoury and meaty tasting – theres a Jamie Oliver morrocan one with apricots thats very fresh and light tasting) and much more filling/satisfying than the instant pasta and couscous packs. You can just sit the pack in a pot of boiling water for ten mins.
Not quite a meal on its own, but you don’t need to add much and just adding something like chorizo/saucisson from the deli counter does the job. A bit of the Tesco Finest Chorizo rings chopped and fried makes a nice quick flavouring for things, its better than other varieties/makes/models for rendering down a nice colourful, spicy oil so you get nice crunchy meat crutons and a dressing you can pour over the rest of your dish,
You can also get chickpeas in cartons rather than cans now which are more transportable – and whatever pasta/couscous dish you do, just adding the chickpeas in with it makes it substantial
