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Easy and Cheap 2-Minute Noodle Steak Stir-Fry Recipe

I am always after a cheap and easy meal to throw together when I am travelling, I also love watching cooking shows. Therefore I like the challenge of taking a recipe I have seen and making a cheaper and healthier version of it. This 2-minute noodle steak stir-fry recipe was …

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$5 Feasts – Smoky Black Bean Lettuce Wraps with Goats Curd

This month I am launching my new segment of guest posts from fellow food and travel bloggers who also try and find a way to create healthy $5 Feasts. A great way to get even more inspiration and ideas for cooking up a storm using different ingredients in different locations and …

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Easy Asian Style Warm Lamb Salad Recipe

Ever look at your hostel ready meal and think “gosh that looks ugly”. It’s often the case with meals we whip together in ramshackle kitchens late in the evening, no matter what you do they just look ugly. Which is why this Asian style warm lamb salad recipe is one …

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French Provincial Vegetables and Mussels Recipe

Looking for an easy, yet delicious Sunday night meal while you are travelling. Then check out my French Provincial Vegetables and Mussels Recipe. Although it is French-inspired, you can pick up these ingredients all over the world and many different markets.  Markets! I can’t rave enough about markets, about the …

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An Easy Breakfast Steak Sandwich on Portugese Bread

A big part of travel is about eating like the locals, trying out new dishes and flavours at different times of the day. A Portuguese breakfast steak sandwich has fast become one of my favourite foods. Every culture has a different breakfast food… every region in fact. Choosing what to …

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Healthy Mexican Steak with Veg Salsa – on a camping stove

Cooking in hostels is always a challenge. Cooking something healthy and delicious is even more of a challenge… one might even call it an experiment. You have to deal with limited utensils, stoves that either burn too hot or not at all, lack of spices and oil and other people …

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Lime and Chilli Chicken Salad

I am chilling out on the Mexican island of Cozumel in order to complete my open water PADI diving course… as you do. Cozumel is a relaxed place with the whole island revolving around the scuba diving trade – which is obviously why I am here. Most people visit the island …

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From Pintxos to a Basque Style Chorizo Stew – San Sebastian has it all

As I wander through the old town in San Sebastian, all of my senses are pleasantly confronted by food. First, it is the sight of the cobbled streets – so different from anything we have back home in modern Sydney. Then its the sound of glass chinking, old friends greeting …

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Singapore Stir-Fry: a Cheap Hostel Meal

Cooking in hostels isn’t always easy but it is always worth it! In Singapore, we stayed at the Green Kiwi Backpackers in Bugis.  Which was only a short walk from Little India home of massive fresh food and wet market. Lingo: Wet Market, is where people kill (usually) and butcher …

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Vegetarian Nachos – perfect for that night in!

When I am travelling for long periods of time, I make sure that I give myself a ‘rest’ day or evening, a couple of times a week.  You may wonder why? When I am off gallivanting around the world having the time of my life?  Well, gallivanting can be exhausting …

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  • Easy and Cheap 2-Minute Noodle Steak Stir-Fry Recipe
  • $5 Feasts – Smoky Black Bean Lettuce Wraps with Goats Curd
  • Easy Asian Style Warm Lamb Salad Recipe
  • French Provincial Vegetables and Mussels Recipe
  • An Easy Breakfast Steak Sandwich on Portugese Bread
  • Healthy Mexican Steak with Veg Salsa – on a camping stove
  • Lime and Chilli Chicken Salad
  • From Pintxos to a Basque Style Chorizo Stew – San Sebastian has it all
  • Singapore Stir-Fry: a Cheap Hostel Meal
  • Vegetarian Nachos – perfect for that night in!
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Hello, I’m Helen, AKA The Lite Backpacker – an Australian with an English accent (thanks to having one English parent) on the 30 side of my 20s. Like so many Australians, at 18 I packed up my backpack and headed to Europe, flittering from museum to bar for nearly a year. When I came home I thought I had gotten the “travel bug” out of my system as well as putting on an unhealthy amount of “backpacking weight”. Instead, within 6 months I had booked my next trip, with a vow of finding a way to enjoy travel food without the weight gain. Read More about “About Me”…

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