by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2024 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 1
This recipe came about when I was challenged to create an 8th day on Meal Plan 1 using remaining groceries. It was indeed quite a challenge trying to come up with a days eating from this and that. I’m really quite pleased with these! What do I need to make vegan...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 18, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
I made this salad with chicken and mango in one of the Cooking Up A Storm groups that I do with my local u3a. It was very simple, quick to make too, and very delicious! This is one of the more expensive recipes on Thrifty Lesley, so if funds are short, maybe something...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 15, 2024 | Round Up Post
Would you like to eat using seasonal fruit and vegetables but don’t know where to start? This list of things that are in season in November might help, and the links are to recipes etc in Thrifty Lesley that have the item mentioned Vegetables in season...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 12, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 1, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plan 4
This recipe for sweet corn fritters is made with very basic ingredients, is very quick and easy, and a very cheap meal. The sweetcorn can be swapped out for many other vegetables and changed around in many different ways. This particular sweet corn fritter recipe is...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 12, 2024 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 14, Meal Plans For 4
The Fourteenth Meal Plan – wow, that’s three and a half months worth! Plus all the celebration and 5 day ones! This one, as per usual shows 3 meals a day, plus some cakey extras to fill any gaps, for 7 days, for 2 adults, and this time, two 15 year old...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 5, 2024 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Post originally written in January 2014, refreshed and updated October 2024. When I did a demo a while ago, I did a soup that we have often. The original recipe came from Feasts From The Place Below, Amazon currently (October 2024) selling 2nd hand copies for £2.90,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 4, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 2
This couscous salad is filling and sustaining, keeping me going until dinner (I usually have it at lunchtime). Very versatile, you can add all kinds of bits and pieces to it from those little dishes in the fridge What do I need to make vegan couscous salad This recipe...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 4, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners
I recently made a really good lentil ragu which I thought would work well as a lasagna. It did and it was very good indeed. This led me to think of other vegetable based mixes that I could substitute for the lentil ragu layer. The first one is a mushroom ragu,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 1, 2024 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 12, Meal Plans For 4
Weekly Meal Plan Twelve For 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 11th October 2024, you will need £55.68 in your...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 22, 2024 | All Recipes, Other
Brazil nut butter is incredibly easy to make, very delicious, and ones like this Brazil nut butter are a third of the price of those in the shops. Many things can be added – pumpkin seeds, raisins, hot or sweet paprika What do I need to make Smoking Hot Brazil...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 22, 2024 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Sides
Post first written in January 2015, refreshed and updated November 2021 Onions are a flavour powerhouse. They are sweet, savoury and pungent all at once. Caramelised onions have all that umami flavour concentrated and are very useful In Meal Plan 2, there are 750g of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 22, 2024 | Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Meal Plan 14
I have lots of home made jam in the larder, but we don’t use much any more as we’ve stopped having jammy toast. This jam cake is a fabulous way to use it up, especially those half used jars that have gone a bit winey. Damson and walnut jam cake I tried...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 12, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
If you are like me and grow tomatoes in your garden, you are likely to have large amount of them at this time of year. I was looking for ways to use a lot in one go and came up with tomato risotto which used 400g for me and my husband. Oh my goodness, was it good! The...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories
If you grow tomatoes, it’s odds on that you will have green ones to do something with at some point. This year (2024) had prolonged periods of rain which combined with warmth, when we had it, is perfect conditions for the blight virus. And sure enough, my large...
