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Valentine’s Day on a Budget

Jan 30, 2019 | 1 Comment

You really really really DO NOT HAVE TO SPEND ANY MONEY AT ALL. Please do not get sucked into that idea that it doesn’t count unless you have bought an expensive gift and splashed out on an expensive Valentines meal out

Cabbage, sultana and nut pasta bake

Jan 23, 2019 | 10 Comments

This pasta bake is delicious! Very filling, packed full of vegetables and likely to be enjoyed by the kids as well. Great cold too the next day in lunchboxes.

Another Trio of Vegetable Hummus – Beetroot, Parsnip and Swede

Jan 23, 2019 | 0 Comments

I make chickpea hummus and different flavours all the time. This week I found the joys of vegetable hummus. Made using beetroot, parsnip and swede. Many more flavours to try still. Vegan and low Syn too!

A Trio of Vegetable Hummus

Jan 22, 2019 | 4 Comments

I make chickpea hummus and different flavours all the time. This week I found the joys of vegetable hummus. Made using green peas, or butternut squash or sweetcorn. Many more flavours to try still. Vegan and low Syn too!

Lentil ragu with spaghetti

Jan 19, 2019 | 0 Comments

Utterly delicious! Deeply savoury, filling and satisfying.

Couscous Snacky Lunchbox Bites

Jan 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

I’ve been enjoying these Couscous snacky lunchbox bites for a couple of weeks now. I thought I’d explore making them from scratch. You know me, I don’t use ready made stuff if I can avoid it.

Sugar Free Chocolate, Cranberry and Walnut Tea Bread

Jan 3, 2019 | 0 Comments

This rather wonderful tea bread started life as an extremely simple ordinary bread loaf

Spiced Broccoli Soup. Delicious with tomato scone or herb bread

Dec 29, 2018 | 0 Comments

This is a delicious soup. Mildly spicy and creamy, a lovely cold weather lunch, filling, warming and tasty. It is exactly the same as the Spiced Parsnip Soup recipe on meal plan 4, except that I have swapped the parsnip for broccoli. Whist enjoying the parsnip version, I thought that it would probably work for all kinds of different veg. So as I had a yellowing head of broccoli to use before it was unusable, broccoli was the first one I tried.