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Falafel with carrot salad
These falafel are pan fried and served with a super simple salad of carrot and peanuts. Add different spices to ring the changes
Baked Marmalade Sponge
A delicious marmalade sponge that can be baked in the oven, microwaved or steamed. Great after Sunday lunch!
Vegan Broccoli Pesto
A delicious vegan pesto using broccoli – use it to dress pasta, in a sandwich, on toast or a jkt potato. We need smelly-web!
Lemon Peel Jam
This delicious preserve uses the carcasses of zested and juiced lemons to make a wonderful, slightly bitter marmalade type jam. Love your leftovers!
Raisin Sandwich
Raisins in a sandwich and pan fried? Ooh, yum! Yes please. A super simple anytime snack
Chickpea Crumble
a delicious vegan crumble to serve 2 and only 52p a serving, part of a 7 day meal plan to eat on £1 a day
An Easy Fruit Loaf
A lovely, slicing, easy to make fruit loaf. Use any dried fruit you have. Cuts into 12 slices at 8p a slice
Chole Masala & Nan
I love this recipe, chickpeas in a tomato sauce. It can be spiced in any way you like, with whatever you have, and served with fresh cooked, fluffy nan
Potato, Sweetcorn & Onion Cakes
Delicious little patties with crispy bacon and ketchup. Or could be eaten cold in a lunch box, or use the same ingredients to make a soup
Apricot jam. Fresh and wonderful, and better than even the poshest versions you can buy!
Home made apricot jam that tastes better than Bonne Maman and is a lit cheaper! Fresh and zingy with lemon juice. Very easy to make
Honey Soy Chicken Drumsticks and Thighs
This easy sticky chicken recipe of honey soy chicken drumsticks or thighs is super tasty, quick to make and fits most budgets
Best Book Club Books
The book club I’m in has rules – we all take it in turns to choose a book; we can’t have read it before; and it must cost £5-£6 maximum. This month, we all had to choose three books and we’ll decide which ones we’re going to read. I liked the sound of many of them and I now have an enormous pile of books ‘to be read’!