by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 26, 2024 | Budgeting, Saving Money
First published in 2017, still as relevant today. I find grocery shopping online is a good way to keep to a budget. I can happily fill my basket and if the total is what I deem to be too much, I can go back and take things out again that may be a bit of an indulgence,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 26, 2024 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Chocolate Muffins Recipe Mike was ‘needing some chocolate’ yesterday, so I decided to make some chocolate muffins. Haven’t made any kind of muffins for yonks. They are super easy in that it is just a bit of stirring, and not too much of that either...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 24, 2024 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
I first came across a recipe for chicken liver pate when I was working with Weezl on what is now Cheap Family Recipes. I recently made a BBC Good Food version of chicken liver pate that had lots of ingredients. Wondering how I could frugalise it, I stripped everything...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 20, 2024 | Saving Money
Like thousands of other people, I was very affected by the Blue Planet film showing the plastic soup that are our Oceans, and have been trying to think of ways to reduce our plastic use ever since How to reduce my plastic use? It’s really difficult to think of ways to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 9, 2024 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Baguette – crispy on the outside, light and fluffy on the inside, and with a lovely texture that’s chewy and delicious. Would you like a foolproof baguette recipe? And what’s more, it’s an incredible 9p per baguette. Weekend Baguette Recipe I’ve called it a weekend...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 7, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
These chicken and roasted pumpkin tarts are quick to assemble once you have roasted the pumpkin or butternut squash. A tasty dinner with a little salad of whatever you have handy, and you can have any extra ones in your lunchbox the next day. The chicken and pesto...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
All the recipes on Thrifty Lesley that are 500 calories or less per portion Chicken liver parfait Weekend Baguette Recipe Chicken with butternut squash and pesto tart Sweetcorn Soup Aubergine Ragu - Eggplant Ragu - Melanzane a Funghetto Swede Mash (Rutabaga) with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Want to see any vegetarian recipes on Thrifty Lesley? Here they all are Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap Vegetarian Christmas Wild Garlic Pesto Broccoli and Lentil Soup Healthier Nutella Alternative Raisin Pancakes Home Made Christmas...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Want to see any vegan recipes on Thrifty Lesley? Here they all are Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap Broccoli and Lentil Soup Raisin Pancakes Home Made Christmas Hampers Fresh Ginger Tea Homemade, fresh lime simple syrup Vegan Couscous...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
If you like following along with the bits from my life that I share – they’re all here! Free groceries from Marks and Spencer The final update It's nearly Christmas! This Weeks Catch Up Where We Are This Week A Hard Post To Write Books, Herons, Celandine...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 25, 2024 | Dinners, Poaching A Whole Chicken
How to poach a whole chicken to use for multiple meals Why poach a chicken? Two main reasons. Poaching means that your chicken meat will be beautifully moist, much more so than a roasted one, and with little effort on your behalf. And secondly, much less fuel is used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 19, 2024 | My Diary
We have a Marks and Spencer credit card that I use for absolutely everything to accumulate vouchers that I then use to buy lots of lovely M&S food. I had to go to Tunbridge Wells today, so I took the vouchers along and popped in the shop to use them. I got a meal...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
How to stretch a chicken to last the whole week Do I need to buy a whole chicken? Buying a whole chicken and jointing it yourself is cheaper than buying ready jointed chicken pieces. If you are going to roast a chicken, then a whole one is much nicer to present at the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 13, 2024 | Dinners
A very tasty chicken and chorizo casserole that doesn’t take very long to make. Freezes and reheats beautifully too. I first made this with my daughter, in her kitchen in Paddock Wood, where she was living at that time. We were playing and having fun. We...
