by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 17, 2014 | My Diary
I’m afraid I can’t tell you how to make this delectable pudding, called Our Currant Tart. Three friends and I have taken to trying different restaurants, and this week, we were on a mission to go somewhere that did lovely vegetarian food and we went to Terre a Terre...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2014 | My Diary
Having this for lunch today, Toasted Nan and Dahl. I will be using dried chickpeas from my store, some of the coconut milk powder that I have masses of and I shall make a nan using the magic dough in the fridge. For the squeeze of lemon, I shall use a few drops of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 14, 2014 | Cakes and Bakes
I have a migraine hangover headache this week, which means that after the migraine on Friday, for the rest of this week, I will wake up feeling pretty crappy, off-colour and with a sore head, until about 10am. I’ll feel increasingly well through the day. Then at...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2014 | Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
Pizza for dinner tonight. Oops, forgot to take any pictures, the picture was taken after dark and is the last remaining portion. Remember the magic dough kept in the fridge? When we got back from the bread course we went to at River Cottage, I made a bread mix. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 12, 2014 | My Diary
Yeurgh, woke up this morning with a burgeoning migraine, and after getting up really early, soon had to go back to bed having popped an Imigran. It’s now almost 6pm and although almost all the pain has gone, every muscle aches. What a waste of a day Was...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 11, 2014 | My Diary
I have now updated the 4th meal plan with current prices. A couple of things have come up while I was doing this and the other ones. mySupermarket totals are inaccurate! I had no idea, did you? I only noticed because I was creating the shopping list simultaneously...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 7, 2014 | My Diary
This is where we are up to today. The picture above was taken this evening, showing the 300mm pullout unit in place, without the metal baskets. To go back a few steps, the corner, emptied out. The corner with some floor tiles down to go under the unit as it is a walk...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 5, 2014 | My Diary
We have kitchen units!!! Yay!! They arrived this morning and after all the unloading, we had to sort out the boxes needed to fit the first one, the larder unit. I then spent the next half an hour trying to work out which was part A, part B, part C etc and stuck post...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 3, 2014 | My Diary
I’m pretty tired right now. The kitchen units are due to arrive on Friday, so today, we started taking out the old ones. The capacious new larder unit will be fitted first, so the corner where that will be going was where we began. HOW much stuff was in those...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 2, 2014 | Cakes and Bakes
Migraines If you have been reading my ramblings for long, you will know that sometimes I get a migraine. I have had them for as long as I can remember and they are triggered by many things. Coffee, chocolate and alcohol are the food ones, then there is not enough, or...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2014 | All Meal Plans, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
I based this on a recipe I devised whilst doing the LBLUK challenge earlier this year. The picture comes from then, and I apologise for the blocky image it is! 50g soft cheese, Asda Smart Price (SP) 200g/88p, 22p 50g bacon, Asda SP 500g/75p, 8p 200g onion, Asda SP...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 31, 2014 | My Diary
We went to the boot fair at Polegate this morning. First time I’ve been for ages. I was on a mission to score some more purple themed fabric for the quilt I am making, I had decided I needed some more variety. Within a few minutes, I had found 5 fat quarters and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2014 | Dinners, Meal Plan 11
Here is the recipe I promised you yesterday pastry 150g self raising flour, value flour 45p/1.5kg, 4p 75ml vegetable oil, £1.25 litre 9p filling 130g chicken, priced as in this post 99p 160g carrots, Asda SP £1.18p/2kg 9p 100g onion, Asda £1.08/2kg, 5p 3 eggs, Asda...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 28, 2014 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 1
For lunch today, I made the smelliest hoummous sandwich I have ever done! I purposely cooked extra chick peas last night so I could make hoummous today. I put the chickpeas in the food processor with a large tblsp of garlic/ginger paste, 2 tblsps of mustard oil...
