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Food vouchers and Meal Plan 8, Lentils, chilli and coconut with salad
On Monday I went to Tunbridge Wells to use the BBC Radio Kent studio there for a live transmission to BBC Radio Coventry. While I was there, it’s 17 miles from home, I decided to pop into M&S. We use an Amex credit card everywhere they are accepted as they give a...
Haggis Lasagna
Recipe today from the lovely Deborah who contacted Thrifty Lesley on Facebook with lots of ideas for haggis. This is one of them. Asda has 454g haggis for just £1.50 right now. So if you want it, now’s your chance. This is Deborah’s recipe for Haggis Lasagne. This...
Meal Plan 8 – Lentil salad with soy, 24p
This salad, or indeed the soup, will travel well for a packed lunch, and if you aren’t following meal plan 8, extremely variable. You could use any other pulse or grain, depending on what you have. Pearl barley is cheap at the moment and would make a tasty salad. Add sliced sausage/chorizo/salami, any other veg you fancy. Add some fine chopped parsley, rosemary, sage, basil, thyme or a mixture of whatever you like. If you’ve got any in the cupboard, a drizzle of sweet chilli sauce would go well.
Working up Meal Plan 8 and Haggis & ideas on using it on £1 a day
I’ve had a little play with the shopping list ingredients, shared them out over the 7 days and this is what I’m thinking of at the moment Breakfast Lunch Dinner day 1 porridge lentil burgers with oriental salad chicken casserole with dumplings day 2 pancakes...
Bannocks with roasted veg hoummous
You can sprinkle a little spice on the top of the bannocks before they are baked. So a pinch of paprika, sea salt, ground pepper, tandoori spice, curry powder, celery salt whatever you have in the cupboard. Maybe that five spice that never seems to get used for anything?
Book Clubs and wide ranging discussions
The diet is going well. I’m going to the gym on Mon/Tues and Thurs/Fri. Yesterday, I procrastinated all day until 7pm, when I finally found the impetus to get my bum out of the door and up the road to the gym. Of course, I felt better once I was there and working...
Using what I’ve made, leftovers soup and make do and mend repairs
This was breakfast this morning, or rather lunch, as it was noon and I had not felt hungry enough to eat before then. A couple of slices of granary toast. One with Olive and Tomato Curd, the other with Mackerel Pate. Both were scrumptious. Rest of the day was a bit...
Olive and tomato savoury curd
Wondering what to talk about today, I thought I would have a go at a savoury curd, as discussed in the cranberry curd post. I had lots of olives in the fridge, so now was a good time. I mulched them up with a hand blender and mixed them with the eggs and butter and...
An outstanding chocolate roulade
This is a quality pudding, that really will serve 10. Lovely on its own, even better with a dollop of cream or ice cream.
Weights, weight and mattresses
Woke up this morning feeling my old self, hooray! Went up the gym and did my new workout. Phew, it was hard! But then it's supposed to be, and will get easier over the six weeks it will be in place. Lots of lifting weights in this one. After the six weeks, I will get...
Sheeps pluck, two weddings and …….
I thought it would be fun to have a go at making haggis seeing as it’s Burns Night in a couple of weeks. So in that spirit, I cruised the interweb looking at recipes. I know that it is made using sheeps pluck and a cows stomach, but I was hoping to find a couple of...
Springing in the garden
How’s the garden? Mine is very wet with all the rain we have had here. But there are stirrings of life. The daphne will be flowering in a couple of weeks and has some lovely fat flower buds. The clematis is a bit confused and has had the odd flower or two on it for...