{"id":714,"date":"2016-06-29T20:31:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/?p=714"},"modified":"2021-08-25T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T12:56:19","slug":"delhaize-food-challenge-a-fancy-menu-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taoofstefan.com\/blog\/main\/lifestyle\/delhaize-food-challenge-a-fancy-menu-on-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhaize Food Challenge – A Fancy Menu On A Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my take on the Delhaize food challenge. This article hosts a fancy menu on a budget and is sponsored by Delhaize. You will find the recipes to the 3-course menu in this article.<\/p>\n

Delhaize<\/h2>\n

Delhaize<\/a>\u00a0is collaborating with\u00a0people who blog about food. I managed to become one of the people in Luxembourg who can participate in this project. Therefore I am very happy to present to you articles and recipes that are sponsored by Delhaize Luxembourg.<\/p>\n

On a monthly basis, Delhaize hands out a food challenge<\/strong>, specifying the general outline of what has to be done this particular month. This could be the ingredients, a theme or similar things. But also the budget or which brand to use (e.g. the house brand).<\/p>\n

Unlike many other companies, I like how they freshen up their brand (It was founded in 1867!<\/a>) by participating in\u00a0current trends. Collaborating with bloggers is one thing, but they also have a great client magazine. This magazine, of course, is marketing material, but the information you can gather there, about products in general and Delhaize products in particular, is amazing. What’s even better is that they have great and interesting recipes as a part of the magazine, too. The quality of those free recipes is much higher than in many dedicated food magazines. There you have plenty of advertisements, too, and on top of that, you pay for regular magazines.<\/p>\n

Delhaize Food Challenge<\/h2>\n

Please note that this series of articles has been published in collaboration with Delhaize. They sponsored almost the entire stock of ingredients used in my recipes. They set up a challenge every month, outlining a few guidelines.\u00a0For the June 2016 challenge, the given theme was “Summer<\/strong>“. Furthermore, they ask to mainly use products of their home brand<\/strong> and set a budget<\/strong>. In this case, I had a maximum of EUR 25,– and I’m free to use this amount freely within the guidelines.<\/p>\n

How to Plan a Menu on a Budget<\/h2>\n

When I received the guidelines for the June challenge I wanted to do something big and fancy to hit it off right away. A budget of 25 EUR isn’t that much if you want to be fancy. So I thought about it and quickly realised that I wanted to go ahead as I saw an interesting challenge for myself in this idea.<\/p>\n

That’s how I ended up working on a fancy 3-course menu on a budget<\/strong>. Next, I decided that it should be not only fancy for me but also my fianc\u00e9e. So I imagined a menu with a starter, a main dish and dessert, that you can do for date night and all you need is 25 EUR and a few basic items in your kitchen.\u00a0Considering that a date night in a restaurant in Luxembourg easily goes beyond a limit of 12,5 EUR\/person (well, you can, of course, get a pizza and a glass of water for that money), I thought this was a veritable challenge.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that when you work on a menu, you have to have several things present:<\/p>\n