by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan These peanut butter noodles don’t take too long and are really yummy, we’ve had them several times now. You can really stretch out a few shreds of chicken with this. I’ve done it with noodles and...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners
This post was last revisited, repriced and updated in April 2018 Inspired by the Great British Budget Menu, I thought I would have a look at the Carbonara sauce recipe I use and see how much it costs. One of my favourite recipe books, and I have a few! is the Italian...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 26, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Salsa di noci, or walnut sauce, originates from the Italian region, Liguria. It is made using walnuts and olive oil from the region, along with garlic, butter and cream, and finished with the specialty hard cheese Parmigiano-Reggiano or Grana Padano. Traditionally,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2014 | Lunches, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
This is a lunchtime soup used on 2 days on Meal Plan 7. 100g onion, chopped, Asda, 2kg/£1.08, 5p 100g white cabbage, Asda, 6p/100g, 6p 100g carrots, Asda, 2kg/£1.18, 6p 50g spaghetti, value 20p/500g, 2p 50g red lentils, 20p/100g, 10p tbslp oil, 1p? makes 2...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 26, 2014 | Dinners
I am very sad that the site I first got involved in with helping to write cheap family recipes is no more. If you like the recipes on cheap-family-recipes.org.uk, hop on over to here and print any off that you like. I don’t know how much longer it will be there...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 2, 2014 | Meal Plan 6, Meal Plans
Week Six Meal Plan – Oats, Pepperoni & EggsAs yesterday, this plan is an extended version (2 more days added) of a Live Below the Line 2014 plan I did for ActionAid. It looked quite nice, so I thought I would add it to our meal plan list. It is harder to do...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Had one of those pricing surprises I talk about today. I made a Spaghetti Bolognese using a recipe, not one of those mince splodge things I do, when I add all kinds of things to stretch the mix. I used the recipe from a book called Silver Spoon, which is the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 18, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
I was inspired yesterday by Jack Monroe’s ingenious use of fish paste to make a pasta sauce, it isn’t an ingredient I have ever given a passing thought to and had a look on mysupermarket.co.uk to see what other varieties were available. At that price there were...
