Thrifty Lesley | Cheap, healthy and delicious meals

Chocolate Fudge Cake, made with/out eggs

May 12, 2020 | 11 Comments

A moist chocolate fudge cake recipe that can easily convert to a vegan chocolate fudge cake

Chicken liver parfait

May 11, 2020 | 0 Comments

Chicken liver parfait that’s smooth unctuous and rich. Vary it around the amount of ingredients you have, it’s very accommodating

Stuck in limbo in a loft extension

May 6, 2020 | 1 Comment

We had a large loft and decided that we’d like to convert that as well. We wanted a bedroom each end and a bathroom in the middle. Nothing complicated, but my goodness, it took us a long time to get the go-ahead.

Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan

May 3, 2020 | 0 Comments

These noodles don’t take too long and you can really stretch out a few shreds of chicken or keep it vegan

Faggots and gravy

Apr 26, 2020 | 6 Comments

A delicious, nutritious, old fashioned recipe that’s super cheap too

Weekend Baguette Recipe

Apr 8, 2020 | 6 Comments

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?

Chocolate Scones

Mar 30, 2020 | 4 Comments

Chocolate scones are a bit different and very delicious. We had one with thick cream and bottled dark cherries. Rock on Black Forest revival!

Bacon & Sweetcorn Pie, mash and peas, 32p a serving, Meal Plan 1

Mar 24, 2020 | 19 Comments

This recipe is one of those extremely variable ones. You can bake this as a pie, or steam it as a pudding and change the filling in a great many ways. This version costs just 32p a serving, including all sides

Onion Bhajis

Mar 23, 2020 | 2 Comments

In these times of stripped supermarket shelves, recipes using minimal ingredients are even more useful that normal

Love your Leftovers – Bananas

Mar 17, 2020 | 7 Comments

Over ripe bananas, we all get them. We buy nice, ripe bananas, and blink, before we know it, they’re over ripe, and not nice to eat. We waste an incredible 162 MILLION of them, every year. In Britain alone! Wow!

Easter Giveaway

Mar 16, 2020 | 0 Comments

Some of the UK Money Bloggers have teamed up to offer you a fantastic prize selection this Spring. There are five M&S Easter hampers up for grabs, worth £50 each. That means five lucky winners will receive a hamper in time for Easter 2020!