by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 20, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
Fishless kedgeree, 64p, or use it as vegetable rice, 25p After the recent report on the need for all of us to reduce the amount of red meat and minimise our intake of processed meat, I have been looking for alternative sources of protein. We didn’t eat massive amounts...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 15, 2020 | Sides
Coconut & Lime Rice – vegan I have been doing tandoori chicken quite often lately. A very easy dish, that is just diced chicken, tossed in tandoori spice, and pan fried in a little oil, just enough so it doesn’t stick Normally, I do an Indian spiced...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Hazelnut Butter Vegetable Bake – GF, DF & Vegan Just had lunch and made something different. I’ve got some lovely nut butters in the fridge that I got from SousChef.co.uk. I love that site, it’s got masses of lovely cheffy things! I got big 1kg...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Vegetable Fritters Vegetable Fritters I found this recipe book in a charity shop recently – The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Sarah Brown. It has some cracking recipes in it. Including this one for Spiced Vegetable Fritters. Others I’m going to try include Layered...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 17, 2019
Weekly Meal Plan TwelveFor this, our twelfth weekly meal plan for 2 adults and 2 children (up to around 10 needing 1700 calories each), we base it around a whole chicken, bacon, sausage and lots of vegetables.As at 16th February 2019, you will need £37 in your purse...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 13, 2019
Weekly Meal Plan Eleven For this, our eleventh weekly meal plan for 2 adults, we base it around a whole chicken, bacon and lots of vegetables. As at 11th February 2019, you will need £20.28 in your purse at the checkout, but the amount of food actually consumed (if...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 22, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
A Trio of Vegetable Hummus A Trio of Vegetable Hummus The U3A cookery group met at my place on Tuesday this week. One of the many things we did was a vegetable hummus made from green peas from Izy Hossacks book, The Savvy Cook. It was utterly delicious and has...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
Vegetable and hummus pie This lovely and very easy to make pie is the one we made in my cookery group this week. I found the recipe in Delicious, but have changed it a bit. Very flexible and very delicious, doesn’t take very long and is vegan too for those that want...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 22, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Sides
Gajar Matar. Everyday vegetables wearing a sari Many, many years after getting the recipe for the Sweet Bean Curry from my lovely friend, I got this recipe from much the same place. His partner was making this recipe using a book I soon bought, The Food Of India. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Other
Home made Nutella. Improved nutrition for the same price! Do you like Nutella? It’s gorgeous stuff, kids can be addicted to it, it seems to go with everything and can be eaten straight out of the jar with a spoon. And probably often is! But… and there’s always a but...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 20, 2016 | All Recipes, Other
Freeze dried fruit and vegetables. Tasty? Economical? Desirable? I have been on a journey that began with Google and ended with kitchen experiments, and you know how much I love those! I have been making mueslis and granolas for a while now and one day a few weeks...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches
Percy Pumpkin Soup, version 2, 15p a portion, and top quality singing for the price of an internet connection A variation on Percy Pumpkin soup today. We don’t really ‘do’ Halloween, so after the fun of yesterday, Percy was roasted off in the oven this morning, peeled...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Chicken & Vegetable Tart, delicious hot or cold, 44p a serving Here is the recipe I promised you yesterday pastry 150g self raising flour, value flour 45p/1.5kg, 4p 75ml vegetable oil, £1.25 litre 9p filling 130g chicken, priced as in this post 99p 160g carrots,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Leftover chicken and vegetable crumble A damp bank holiday What a very damp Bank Holiday that was! And it’s set to be much the same all through this half term week. I am looking out of the windows at the front and the back of the house and there are big weeds that...
