by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 18, 2014 | Christmas, My Diary
Had a simple pea soup for lunch today. I used butter in place of the veg oil for a little extra flavour. It was served with a small Sharwoods nan bread from Approved Food, one of several packets that I have in the freezer. I have been serving these as accompaniments...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 17, 2014 | My Diary
Had a pitta stuffed with soft cheese, carrot and lemon zest for lunch, along with a bit of leftover coleslaw from yesterday. Followed by a handful of grapes and a pear. So super healthy lunch today. I have taken to doing coleslaw dressing the Slimming World way as I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 15, 2014 | Bready Things, My Diary
If I said to you I was going to bake a loaf, what would you think of? I would think of mixing flour, water, yeast and salt, giving the dough a good mix, leaving it to prove, knocking it back, shaping it, leaving for a second rise, then baking it in a hot hot oven....
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 14, 2014 | My Diary
I have just been doing my meal planning for the week and this week, I shall be trialling some recipes from Miss South’s book, Slow Cooked. The book is packed with delicious sounding recipes and I’m pretty sure some of them will cost out to our budget, or...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 13, 2014 | My Diary
Several things to report back on today. I have been quiet I know for a week, but I have an excuse Miss! There is a lot of colon cancer in my family, much of my Dad’s family dying from it, so I am monitored on a regular basis. Two years ago they found something that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 5, 2014 | Christmas, My Diary
Saw these cutest of cute little knitted mini Christmas Stockings on Elaine Colliar’s blog, Mortgage Free In Three on Monday. I made the tiny pink one, and will be making a tiny toy to go in it so that DGD can give it to her dolly. How cute is that! Then I thought I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 3, 2014 | My Diary
More lovely family times were had this week. Both daughters, a DGD and a SIL, and myself went off to Dunorlan Park on Saturday night to watch the charity firework display held there every year. I love fireworks, the smell of the gunpowder, the crump that you feel in...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 30, 2014 | My Diary
Went to Sharnfold Farm on Wednesday to do some pumpkin carving and go on a Zombie walk with DD1 and DGD. Last year it was freezing cold and pouring with rain. This year it was pleasantly mild and absolutely torrentially raining. My top half was dry with my walking...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2014 | Bready Things, Dinners, Lunches
A little experiment today with the fridge dwelling Magic Dough. I thought I could almost certainly make crumpets with it. So I put a little in a bowl and beat in some water, so it looked like a Yorkshire pudding batter, greased some rings and poured a little batter...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 25, 2014 | Less than 500 calories, Lunches
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 and turned into soup. Forgot to weigh him, but he was a small one. I used 200g red lentils, twice as much...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 19, 2014 | Breakfast, Lunches
The simplest of simple breakfasts this morning. I got some yellow stickered smoked mackerel this week. So this morning I toasted a slice of granary bread, slathered on some soft cheese and flaked half a mackerel fillet on top. Simples! Slice toast, a 22 slice 75p...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 15, 2014 | Dinners
We had these home made chicken goujons this evening. I used 250g chicken, half of a pack. But there was plenty, and a third of a pack would have been fine, so that is what I have priced it at. It works out 92p for the meal per person, which is more than we usually do...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 14, 2014 | My Diary
We had a little visitor tonight. DP had gone to the bathroom and after a small interval, I heard an exclamation, laughter and talking. He had lifted the loo seat and found this little frog tucked into the back and looking back at him! Goodness knows how the little...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 13, 2014 | Cakes and Bakes
The lunching lady theme continued right through last week, right up to yesterday! I have been out for seven days on the trot, I can’t tell you just how much I need to catch up on. I was going to say I have a much less sociable diary this week until I glanced at it....
