by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2017 | My Diary
Blooming fat demo’s? Well not quite! I’ve got three separate things to report and I was just playing with the title Long lasting poinsettia In the middle of December, Mike and I were walking in Eastbourne. We had a little browse round the Christmas market there, along...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 9, 2017 | Budgeting, Other
The Thrifty Lesley U3A cookery group met on Tuesday. We made Spinach & Ricotta Pasta, Green Lentil Shepherds Pie and Carrot and Sesame Burgers. Comparing Two Tins of Tomatoes I also thought it would be an interesting exercise to directly compare two tins of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Darkness and Light January and February are such dark and gloomy months. I like to get outside whenever I can to get some daylight on my face. Can’t say sunshine as there probably wont be any! Yesterday, Mike had cabin fever and was pacing the house, it was dark,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 29, 2017 | All Recipes, Lunches
I posted a little while ago about the recipes we cooked at the last U3A cooking group, including a gorgeous Pad Thai, and this creamy leek and cheese toasty. I was sure I had also posted the recipe for the toasty, but apparently not! So here it is. Creamy Leek And...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
This is the pasta dish I spoke about last time. Its seriously good and with a little tweaking it comes in at an acceptable price for this blog. Spinach & Ricotta Pasta Priced at Asda using mySupermarket.com in January 2019 85g frozen spinach, £1.69/1.3kg, 11p 35g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2017 | My Diary
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 Sunday and during a vigorous...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 17, 2017 | Saving Money
Goodness, where did all those days go since I last posted! Well, some of those have been feeling ill. Again! I had a hacking cough that started on the 18th December when I went up to Northampton to see family at Christmas. That lasted a good two weeks. Then, after a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 8, 2017 | My Diary
Had a lovely day today. We wanted to go for a walk yesterday, but it was drizzling all day and we are both fair weather walkers. It was much nicer today, so off we went. We’re really enjoying getting out and walking, even if it isn’t proper walking, you...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
I bagged some lovely organic beef mince on yellow sticker last week and stashed them in the freezer for when I was ready to use them. They worked out, even on yellow sticker, at just a bit more than ordinary 10% fat beef mince, that’s the organic part I suppose. Today...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 1, 2017 | My Diary
Happy New Year to you and yours. Did you go out last night to ring in the new year? We didn’t, we very rarely do. We have had enough socialising by now, had enough of eating a lot and are feeling generally partied out. We watched a film on Freeview and by the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 24, 2016 | Christmas, My Diary
Had a lovely day at my eldest daughter’s today. We had a traditional turkey lunch, delicious! Nothing quite like it. There were 8 of us there, including a Bolivian EFL student staying long term, including over the Christmas period. I would have been quite overwhelmed...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 20, 2016 | My Diary
I’ve been bugged Yearggh, I’ve been bugged. On Monday we drove the 150 miles to my sisters house in Hackleton where many of the family were gathering. Mum, who also lives there, treated us all to a lovely lunch out at a local restaurant. It was a noisy party in a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 16, 2016 | Christmas
On Wednesday, we had our annual WI Christmas party. It was lovely! We all brought a plate of food to share. I was asked to hold a list of what people were bringing, as several years ago, we had far too many offerings with smoked salmon. Lovely as it is, there is such...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 14, 2016 | All Meal Plans, Christmas
On Monday evening, I hosted this weeks regular Twitter chat between the Money Bloggers using the hashtag #MondayMoneyUK. We tweeted from 9pm to 10pm, then for 10 minutes the next morning, I spoke about our discussion on Share radio. We were talking about...
