by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 3, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Some lovely food today! I decided to use the bargain, 20p, chicken livers for lunch. I fried them all off in 10g of butter until tender. We don’t want to cook liver too much, it goes tough and dry. Then I simply stirred in half a pack of value soft cheese that needed...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 2, 2015 | My Diary
4pm yesterday, just as I was thinking, phew, it’s blimmin’ hot, what on earth can we have to eat, don’t want to cook, etc, when, bang, off went the power. After a couple of hours and it still hadn’t come back on, I took myself off to Sainsbugs...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 28, 2015 | My Diary
Took myself off for a 4 mile walk this morning. Just me, myself and I. I fancied some time on my own, just walking, so off I went. It was lovely. A good day for walking, sunny and warm, not too hot. It was the same one I did with DP a few weeks ago. Saw some lovely...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 27, 2015 | All Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan, Recipes Using No Power
Well this first recipe tested ok, good start. It has quite a lot of oil in it to get the calories in. If you don’t need that, you could cut the oil down quite a bit. If you have it, you could use olive oil here. There are 2 servings of fresh vegetables per person. It...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 26, 2015 | My Diary
These are the lovely lampshades. The boxes had the opaque bulbs in, and I had bought 2 of the clear ones. The clear one went in last night to the one shade that was up and it isn’t particularly bright. I think that’s fine as there will be hidden LED lights...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 25, 2015 | My Diary
I had two little parcels arrive today. One was the magazine, Woman and Home, the other was a packet of flavoured couscous. Both were freebies bagged over on LatestFreeStuff, or rather, from the daily email they send me with the day’s freebies up for grabs....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 23, 2015 | Dinners
Arrgh, the pictures simply won’t size properly, it’s driving me nuts! Doing some gardening today, I pulled up a self sown Pink Fir Apple potato that was in the way of the spinach and it had several little potatoes on, so I had those with my lunch. They were really...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2015 | My Diary
The roses are just starting to look their best this week. This is a Jude the Obscure, beautiful fragrance, a real seasonal treat. I sprayed against black spot this year for the first time and they are really clean. They are usually riven with black spot and yellow...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2015 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 9
This was my tea tonight, the tuna pasta salad from Meal Plan 9. On the meal plan, this salad is used as a lunch, but it could just as easily be a dinner, and in fact, it was What you need to make tuna pasta salad half a tin of tuna, Aldi, 49p, 25p 80g onion, Aldi 59p...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 18, 2015 | Dinners, Meal Plan 9
This delicious pie is from Meal Plan 9. The Meal Plan is for 2 people, providing everything needed for the week except drinks. I tried to update the prices today, but mySupermarket isn’t showing Aldi and the Aldi site itself is showing a limited selection of what they...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 17, 2015 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 9
We had a power cut this morning, which was a pain as I wanted to test a couple of recipes. It went off in the small hours for an hour or so, making the phone by our bed bleep very loudly every now and then to tell us it was running out of charge. Then it came on for a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 15, 2015 | Dinners, Meal Plan 8
Finally, the last recipe for Meal Plan 8, a simple stir fry. This plan has taken months to finish. I have another one lined up ready to go, just need to check the nutrition What you need 120g cooked chicken, 680g meat gleaned from a 1.3kg/£3.22 bird, 57p 200g egg...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 13, 2015 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 1
Kathryn challenged me to do an eighth day using the leftovers from Meal Plan 1, or even a ninth. An eighth is possible, but there aren’t enough calories available in the leftovers for another day after that.So, how about this Breakfast – make porridge with 60g oats...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 8, 2015 | My Diary
What an amazing, incredible day it was yesterday. Everything went perfectly, the weather was a perfect English summers day, the bride and groom enjoyed everything hugely and weren’t nervous at all. The ceremony was beautiful, I cried, of course. They each said...
