by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
Fed up with plain cheese sandwiches? How about flavoured potted cheese? Do you have cheese sandwiches for lunch? Are you a little tired of them, or maybe wanting to ring the changes a little? How about making a potted cheese. I have lots of little bits and pieces of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2017 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches, Round Up Post
8 Sandwich Pastes for super cheap sandwiches and toast toppers I have made lots of different sandwich pastes and toast toppers. This round up post gathers together 8 of them. I’ve really liked each of them. They are quick and cheap to make, freeze well and can be used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, Round Up Post
The dreaded chore of school packed lunches – can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head? The brand new school year is upon us and every parents dream job starts up again – the packed lunch – nooooooo! Yes, that post title is a rhetorical question. I could...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 21, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 10
2 sandwiches, 2 toasty breakfasts and 2 pasta dinners from 1 tin of sardines. Just 83p for all 6 meals!! First of all, apologies for the recent lack of posts. I have been well and truly bugged over the last 10 days or so. Where I am, there has been a virulent virus...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 17, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches
Chicken and Sun Dried Tomato Sandwich Paste, 14p a sandwich After yesterdays flavoured and potted cheeses, todays sandwich filler is a chicken and sun dried tomato paste. Simple and delicious. My sun dried tomatoes came from a big container of them with a best...
by admin | Jul 22, 2014 | My Diary
Coconut powder, and lost pictures Archives Archives Just a very quick post now, more later, to say that Approved Food have just emailed to say that they have the boxes of coconut milk I use, for £1.20 for 2 boxes of 150g. So if you like the mango and coconut curry,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 22, 2014 | My Diary
Glass ramekins and what to do with them I am an active member at my local WI and, can you guess? I do the catering at our lunches. Were you surprised 😉 I recently saw a Freegle post offering 30 Gu ramekins, which I picked up. I thought they would be perfect...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Lunches Lunches Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVeg/Vegan Broad Bean & Feta Wrap Sardine & Tomato Sandwich Paste10p Tzatziki & Lettuce Sandwich14pveg/not vegan Welsh Rarebit Chestnut Soup - Nigella Lawson Parsnip Soup, with scone & mince pie -...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 2, 2019 | Round Up Post
Breakfasts Breakfasts Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVegetarian VeganGluten Free Cooked Muesli Overnight Oatsveg/vegan with appropriate subsuse gf oatssquillions of variations Plummy Oatsveg/vegan with appropriate subsuse gf flourlots of different...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 6, 2018 | All Recipes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
Christmas Leftovers – part 1. Soup, a Turkey & Cranberry Toast Topper, a Cheesy Tart So there you are, a few days after Christmas Day. Don’t know about you, but I’m drawing breath right about now and sticking my head in the fridge wondering what I’m going...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 20, 2017 | My Diary
Getting lost 3 miles from home, lots of digging and a few flowers Getting lost 3 miles from home I forgot to say last time, that I had a frustrating thing happen on Monday. I was supposed to go to the U3A committee meeting. It wasn’t at the usual venue, as that person...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2017 | My Diary
Bugs, diets (again!) bargain mangoes and books It’s still germ central here. I had a hacking cough, a week off, then a head cold. Now Mike has a cold. I’m hoping it isn’t different to the one I had, or I might get that one. On the other hand, I was at my daughters on...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 15, 2016 | My Diary
The first, or is it the thirty ninth anniversary? today On this day, last year, Mike and I got married after 38 years together. So today is our first anniversary – everybody go aaah And it also means that next year it will be 40 years together. We need to organise...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 24, 2015 | My Diary
Bargain hats, freebies and dead dough I’ve bought a hat In actual fact….. I bought two This week has been extra manic, with lots going on, too much really, but in a good way. Monday saw me trying to catch up with paperwork, so much has piled up during the six weeks I...
