by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
An occasional series on how to make basic recipes. There are lots more of this type of post in the pipeline. Is there anything you’d like featured? Basics ....... How To Make Soup Making Pastry With Oil How to make bread ...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Round up of posts on a theme, from pestos to jacket potato fillings What's in season in November What to do with leftover bread School packed lunches - the dreaded chore! Can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head? Cheap Valentine's Day Ideas Need some ideas for...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Do you normally buy pesto? Or fish cakes, mustard and ice cream? Would you like to be able to make them? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Things You May Never Need To Buy Again - Gourmet Ice Cream Things You May Never Need To Buy Again - Fish Cakes Things...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Lots of delicious treats, cakes, biscuits and bakes for tea-time, packed lunches and hungry tummy fillers Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££'s Damson Jam Cake Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap Weekend...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
101 ideas for dinners. Most are fairly easy, all are very inexpensive, and everything is something I’ve made and eaten for dinner. Hope you find something useful. Spinach Dumplings with Spicy Tomato Sauce Kounoupithi Yiahni or Tomato Stewed Cauliflower. A...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Here are all the lunch recipes on Thrifty Lesley, soups and sandwiches, hummus, sandwich pastes/toast toppers and jacket potato filling ideas. Hopefully, you’ll find something you’ll love! Kounoupithi Yiahni or Tomato Stewed Cauliflower. A traditional...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 2, 2019 | Round Up Post
All kinds of different ways to start your day, savoury and sweet, hot and cold. And several that would work in a packed breakfast box. Peanut Oat Cakes with Roasted Onions and Green Pea Hummus Damson Jam Cake Chicken and Sun Dried Tomato Sandwich Paste Chicken liver...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 2, 2019 | Round Up Post
This series starts off with a roasted chicken and stretches that chicken out to last a family of four for a whole week. Yes, 7 days of recipes from 1 chicken! Chicken & Onion Pie How to stretch a chicken to last the whole week Spicy red lentil soup- Stretch A...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 26, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
It is a dark and dank day today and I did what I often do when at a bit of a loose end, I had bit of a play in the kitchen. I made some almond ‘Nutella’ then started thinking about uses, as I do, and thought, bet it would work well in a tart. Note that the mix I make...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 23, 2019 | All Meal Plans, Budgeting, Saving Money
Generic weekly meal plans As many budgeters know, there are certain generic meals that can be endlessly modified, as well as all the wonderful recipes for these generic recipes, they will swallow whatever you have available, help in the weekly fridge clean out and use...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 22, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
I recently made a really good lentil ragu. The flavour was strong enough that I thought it may well make a good lasagna. This is the result and it was very good indeed! It will freeze well, so is something you can batch make. Lentil Ragu Lasagna The prolonged cooking...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 21, 2019 | My Diary
I haven’t done a review of good books I’ve read and am reading for ages, so I thought I’d do a few today. I have read many other books, these are just some of the more recent ones. The Tattooist of Auschwitz I belong to 2 book clubs. One with the U3A...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 20, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
I haven’t made this for the longest time. It’s a recipe from my notebook that I got from Weezl, she of Cheap Family Recipes fame. I made it again this week and am enjoying it on a slice of my home made granary bread, toasted, for breakfast. Do give it a go, super...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Valentines Day Ideas
Vegan Valentine Meal I’ve been thinking about a celebration meal for this years Valentines Day and decided to do a vegan one this year. Two courses are from the archives, one, the starter, is a new, although very simple, invention. So we have a black olive and tomato...
