by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2014 | My Diary
In addition to the soup post today, I thought I would give a bit of an update on the kitchen, and other things. As you can see from the picture, there was some ‘dobbing’ and ‘dabbing’ going on today as DP and SIL to be lined the new part of the kitchen with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2014 | All Meal Plans, Lunches, Meal Plan 7
This is a lunchtime soup used on 2 days on Meal Plan 7. 100g onion, chopped, Asda, 2kg/£1.08, 5p 100g white cabbage, Asda, 6p/100g, 6p 100g carrots, Asda, 2kg/£1.18, 6p 50g spaghetti, value 20p/500g, 2p 50g red lentils, 20p/100g, 10p tbslp oil, 1p? makes 2...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 17, 2014 | My Diary
Yesterday morning, we set out to watch the Eastbourne Airbourne. It is 17 miles, but we allowed extra time as it would be busy. Several roads were shut for resurfacing and the traffic was horrendous. DP made one mistake by not parking in the park and ride, he wanted...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2014 | My Diary
We are still waiting for the porting to the new host to be completed, nearly there now. It’s been ages since we spoke and I couldn’t wait any longer! There have been lots of things going on that I wanted to talk to you about and couldn’t. One of the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 5, 2014 | My Diary
Lovely girly day with DD2 today. We did some more of the wedding invitations, I’ll be able to show you the completed article soon. They’re looking really really good, and of course totally unique. Wonder how much you’d have to pay for a printer to do...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 4, 2014 | My Diary
After a day of this and that, I had done less than 1500 steps, so at 8pm, I took myself off for a walk. I was determined to hit that target! Within two minutes I was looking at this view, how lucky am I. Within a few more minutes, I spotted these early...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 3, 2014 | My Diary
Went to Beachy Head today for a walk around and to get my daily step count up to the 10,000 mark. What magnificent views there are from up there. Just enough of a breeze to blow the cobwebs away, lovely. Lots and lots of people all doing the same thing. Many of which...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2014 | Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches
Made a loaf with the dough I keep in the fridge today. Thought I would try a freefrom one this time. Partly because I wanted to see if I could do one, and that it wouldn’t flatten itself out on the baking sheet. Partly because I wasn’t sure how much to put...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 12
Oh the delights of growing tomatoes. This little lot are destined for the lunch time soup. I make tomato soup often, but only about now in the year do I make it with fresh ones. The taste is completely different, especially if I also have some fresh basil, which,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 31, 2014 | My Diary
Well yesterday was so full on, I didn’t have a minute to myself! It started at 6:30am and continued like the Energiser bunny until 10:00pm. One of the things we did was a trip to Wilderness Woods in Hadlow Down, a few miles up the road from us. It has a great...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 29, 2014 | My Diary
Picked up 6 yr old DGD today for a few days visit. We visited Pevensey Castle and had a good look round there. A nice visit. While we were looking down the oubliette, a nesting bird vented straight down the back of my top. Felt it warm and dribbling while DP was...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 28, 2014 | My Diary
Wow, what a weather day. I was hoping for a little gentle summer rain as the garden is either like dust, or in other parts, concrete. The summer sun is gorgeous, and I’m certainly not complaining, but such extreme heat sucks all the moisture out of the soil, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 27, 2014 | Breakfast, Lunches
Here is another recipe from the CFR site, a delicious nut butter. Use it on toast for breakfast, or in sandwiches for lunch, maybe with a sliced tomato, or thick coins of cucumber in it too. A smear of jam would be a variation of the classic peanut butter and jam. You...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 26, 2014 | Dinners
I am very sad that the site I first got involved in with helping to write cheap family recipes is no more. If you like the recipes on cheap-family-recipes.org.uk, hop on over to here and print any off that you like. I don’t know how much longer it will be there...
