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Protein packed Quinoa burgers, 32p for a 2 burger portion
I have been thinking about using quinoa for ages, and have had a packet in the cupboard, also for ages, but never got round to using it. SW has a recipe for the ‘the best ever veggie burgers’ using quinoa, so I thought I would have a go.
Hotdog & Blackeye Bean Salad Bowl, 41p – No Power Meal Plan
This is dinner on 2 days on the No Power Meal Plan. Use this same amount on both days, using the tin of blackeye beans on one day and the kidney beans on the other. Serves 2 half a tin hotdogs, Asda 49p, 25p 30ml oil, Asda £1.25/litre, 4p 100g carrot, Asda £1.18/2kg,...
Balls, Bums and Wedding Pics
Well Wimbledon is finished for another year. I have seen some exciting tennis and been on the edge of my seat lots of times. I love this tournament and watch as much of it as I can. It's strange tho, I don't watch tennis at any other time, it's just Wimbledon that...
No Power Plan sandwiches
Hummus and carrot sandwich. My girls loved these in their school lunch boxes!
Bircher Muesli, from 24p
This lovely Bircher muesli is from Rose Elliot’s book, Vegetarian Cookery, which I’ve had for ever. I use lots of recipes from it and it was one of my standby books when we were both vegetarian. The muesli is wonderfully delicious. Rose recommends having it with...
Home made muesli, 9p
Had a lovely day yesterday afternoon. The U3A budget cookery group came round and we did some puddings. We started off with Delia’s Chocolate Roulade, then Oaty Apple Crumble, Easy Cheesecakes and Chocolate Ice Cream. With a detour via making garlicky Boursin using...
Lots of pink, bees and raspberry ice cream or mousse, 31p
Picked lots and lots of raspberries and loganberries from the canes in the garden this afternoon, they’re doing really well. Lots more to come yet. So, you know what I’m going to say now don’t you! Yes, I made some raspberry ice cream! It thickened up so nicely in the...
Another successful experiment. Mandarin ice cream, 17p
Although I have four extremely large tins of mandarins, I opened a much smaller one yesterday to try mandarin flavour ice cream. I had the second pot of double cream to use, but no more yogort. So I thought I’d try it with just cream to see what the difference was....
Creamy chicken livers on toast, 58p
Some lovely food today! I decided to use the bargain, 20p, chicken livers for lunch. I fried them all off in 10g of butter until tender. We don’t want to cook liver too much, it goes tough and dry. Then I simply stirred in half a pack of value soft cheese that needed...
No power, bargains and giant bargains
4pm yesterday, just as I was thinking, phew, it's blimmin' hot, what on earth can we have to eat, don't want to cook, etc, when, bang, off went the power. After a couple of hours and it still hadn't come back on, I took myself off to Sainsbugs to get some salady bits...
Walks, books and muesli
Took myself off for a 4 mile walk this morning. Just me, myself and I. I fancied some time on my own, just walking, so off I went. It was lovely. A good day for walking, sunny and warm, not too hot. It was the same one I did with DP a few weeks ago. Saw some lovely...
No Power Meal Plan – Couscous Salad 50p a serving
Well this first recipe tested ok, good start. It has quite a lot of oil in it to get the calories in. If you don’t need that, you could cut the oil down quite a bit. If you have it, you could use olive oil here. There are 2 servings of fresh vegetables per person. It...