by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 5, 2019 | Saving Money
A myriad of 5 Things Many newer readers may not know that I helped to build a wonderful site called cheap family recipes which was written to feed your family for £100 a month. It has disappeared twice and I have spent a while re-creating it with a fresh new design I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 21, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches
A Month of Low Syn Budget Meals. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, the lot Are you following Slimming World? Or maybe you’d like too, but can’t see how you can because you’re on a tight budget as well? That’s not an easy combination. Dieting is...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Vegan Savoury Loaf Cake Following on from the last post about a savoury loaf cake, I experimented today and came up with this vegan version. My silicone mini loaf tins arrived today. I said yesterday that I wouldn’t use all 12, but that’s exactly what I did do today!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Dinners Dinners Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVegetarian VeganGluten free Broccoli Pesto (for the whole batch of pesto)1685 cals158g fat26g protein57g carbs Nut Balls in a Tomato Sauce Greek Fried Cauliflower Tapas - Patatas Bravas, Butter Beans with Lemon...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Lunches Lunches Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVeg/Vegan Broad Bean & Feta Wrap Sardine & Tomato Sandwich Paste10p Tzatziki & Lettuce Sandwich14pveg/not vegan Welsh Rarebit Chestnut Soup - Nigella Lawson Parsnip Soup, with scone & mince pie -...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 2, 2019 | Round Up Post
Breakfasts Breakfasts Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVegetarian VeganGluten Free Cooked Muesli Overnight Oatsveg/vegan with appropriate subsuse gf oatssquillions of variations Plummy Oatsveg/vegan with appropriate subsuse gf flourlots of different...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 23, 2019 | Budgeting, Meal Plans, Saving Money
Would generic weekly meals help you meal plan? Generic weekly meal plans As many budgeters know, there are certain generic meals that can be endlessly modified, as well as all the wonderful recipes for these generic recipes, they will swallow whatever you have...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 25, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
Jacket Potato Fillings Jacket potatoes, or perhaps you know them as baked potatoes, are a very popular lunch or dinner. Properly frugal, very versatile, filling, a good dieting meal if you want it to be and can be prepared in advance for convenience. What do you have...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 19, 2018 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
There is a Facebook group set up for people expressing an interest for extremely cheap meals, not a £1 a day, but an even more frugal 50p a day. So if you’re saving really hard for a house deposit, a special holiday, a new car perhaps, or maybe illness, redundancy,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2017
This meal plan is a celebration one. I wouldn’t usually suggest this much sugar. The plan is based around a leg of lamb, and so costs more than our usual plans, but at just £1.60 each per day, it’s still flipping cheap! You can cut the cost even further...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2017 | My Diary
Blooming fat demo’s? Well not quite! I’ve got three separate things to report and I was just playing with the title Long lasting poinsettia In the middle of December, Mike and I were walking in Eastbourne. We had a little browse round the Christmas market there, along...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 3, 2016 | All Recipes, Love Your Leftovers, Lunches, Other
This recipe was given to me by a friend, although, I must admit, she didn’t call it Dead Good Old Tarts. The name just popped into my head when I was wondering what to call them, so Dead Good Old Tarts it is 🙂 I have been looking at ways of using up bread for a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 19, 2015 | Dinners, Love Your Leftovers, Lunches, Round Up Post
Went to a U3A meeting this morning on Science. One of our number talked about Astronomy. We discussed the immense distances involved and moved on to the possibility of life elsewhere. The presenter is a chemist, so we had a very interesting discussion around why...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 20, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
I was cruising round the Abel & Cole recipe pages last night and came across a recipe using dark greens in a pasta sauce. I had a head of spring greens I wanted to use, so that was my lunch sorted for today. Abel& Cole are a great source for inspiration. A...