Meal Plan 3 Archives - Thrifty Lesley

Oaty Apple Crumble, swap the topping for just oats or breadcrumbs

by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 25, 2024 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plan 7, Puddings / Desserts | 7 Comments

Oats are a great addition to any crumble topping. This one is from a 7 day, £1.22 a day meal plan. Lots of ideas for other flavourings too

Meal Plan 3 – chorizo, chick peas and dried mash

by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2023 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plans For 2 | 0 Comments

A weekly meal plan based around chorizo or salami, chick peas and dried mash. Feed yourself all week for £1.22 a day – priced in October 2023

Oaty Biscuits. Delicious, very versatile and totally irresistible!

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 1, Meal Plan 11, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plan 8 | 23 Comments

Very, very variable oaty biscuit recipe, much, much too moreish

Meal Plan 3 – Farl (made with dried spud) with sauted veg and salami or chorizo, 39p

by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3 | 2 Comments

Farl made with dried potato with sauted veg and salami or chorizo. When I was testing the recipe today, I tried a bit hot and straight out of the pan with some apricot curd, oh me oh my, it was delicious!

Gnocchi made with dried mash! Served with tomato sauce

by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 6, 2013 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3 | 9 Comments

Delicious, light gnocchi made with dried mashed potato! Very versatile when you make them yourself, lots of different flavourings can be used

Jammy Flapjack. This vegan oat bar can be savoury too

by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 3, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 11, Meal Plan 3 | 26 Comments

These vegan oat bars are delicious. Filled with my favourite, raspberry jam. Or try ginger, garlic and chilli instead!

Salami & Mixed Vegetable Soup with Croutons

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 3 | 0 Comments

You can add any veg you like to this soup, cabbage, finely shredded and cooked for just a few minutes in the soup at the end – a handful of frozen peas and/or sweetcorn – broccoli or cauliflower stems or stalks – spinach or sorrel, wilted in at the end – sliced mushrooms

Cauliflower and chick pea soup with little dumplings

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 29, 2013 | Lunches, Meal Plan 3 | 3 Comments

This tasty veggie soup makes use of an ingredient that perhaps you haven’t before, the stems and stalks of a cauliflower head. I actually prefer the taste of the stems to the florets!

Meatless Sunday Lunch

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2013 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3 | 4 Comments

I accidentally had a Sunday lunch without the meat when I was a child. My parents didn’t miss it, no-one else noticed – would you?

Pizza, 32cm, chorizo and roasted vegetable

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3 | 1 Comment

Oh my goodness, this was SO good. Soft roasted vegetables, spicy paprika chorizo, smooth tomato sauce, crispy thin pizza base. Yum YUM This mixture made two 32cm pizzas, you could make both and have one the next day, or freeze one, ready made up to pop in the oven. 1...