by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 28, 2020 | All Recipes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
Christmas Leftovers – part 1. Soup, a Turkey & Cranberry Toast Topper, a Cheesy Tart So there you are, a few days after Christmas Day. Don’t know about you, but I’m drawing breath right about now and sticking my head in the fridge wondering what I’m going...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 13, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Love Your Leftovers, Lunches
Bean Burgers I went to Canterbury Christmas Market with the U3A last December. One of the things I did there was to browse in the Oxfam book shop. Lots I wanted, of course, and I bought 3, couldn’t carry any more! One of the books I bought was a very sweary one...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 23, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Cabbage, sultana and nut pasta bake This recipe is inspired by one I found in a recipe book first published in 1994 – The Vegetarian Pasta Book. I’ve been making, and adapting, lots of recipes from it. Amazingly, it’s still in print, and, as a bonus, extremely...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 23, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Another Trio of Vegetable Hummus – Beetroot, Parsnip and Swede Another Trio of Vegetable Hummus In the last post (goodness, how long ago was that!) I spoke about vegetable hummus inspired by Izzy Hozzack. Today, I’m going to tell you about the next three...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
Savory vegetarian pie recipes are always popular and this version is one we made in my cookery group. This is not only a vegetarian recipe but just happens to be a vegan vegetable pie too. I found the recipe in Delicious, but have changed it a bit. Very flexible and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2017 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Round Up Post
8 Sandwich Pastes for super cheap sandwiches and toast toppers I have made lots of different sandwich pastes and toast toppers. This round up post gathers together 8 of them. I’ve really liked each of them. They are quick and cheap to make, freeze well and can be used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 12, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Bean and Quinoa, Lemon and Herb Salad This recipe was one that the U3A made when the group came to my house for our monthly meeting. I had been looking through Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty More for inspiration and found this lovely salad. This is my version of it Bean...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 11, 2017 | All Recipes, Lunches, Other
30+ different flavours for baked bean hummus / paté, a LCHF recipe, or fat free! Whilst gardening on Saturday, I was musing about baked bean paté / hummus and what different flavours could be achieved. I came up with over 30 without trying very hard at all! And as I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 1, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
Goan Fish Curry, made with chicken, 56p. Plus the original fish recipe the budget cookery group Had the budget cookery group round this afternoon. We had our usual laugh, then made some Carrot and Tahini Hummus, a Mixed Nut and Seed Butter, then a glorious Goan Fish...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
5:2 Salmon Fish Cakes, 39p a serving When I was last in Aldi, I picked up a tin of their pink salmon. Wondering which of lots of things that can be done, I wondered what to do with it. I thought it could well price up to make fish cakes, which I love! So I had a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 10
Veggie Lasagna 43p a serving – Meal Plan 10 This is for Meal Plan 10 and is a version of the Cheesy Bean Lasagna. I can’t use the same ingredients as they aren’t all available on this plan. So it’s a tweak of a tweaked recipe. The bean sauce layer2 onions,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Meal Plan 10
Herby Pancakes with a Poached Egg 14p – Meal Plan 10 This is breakfast on Meal Plan 10 on days 1 and 4 Serves 2120g value self raising flour, 45p/1,5kg, 4p2 eggs, mixed weight £70p/6, 23pPinch or so of dried mixed herbs, 1-2p15ml veg oil to cook, 2pTotal cost...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 13, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
I was sure I had blogged this recipe before, but I can’t find it, so I can’t have done. It is yet another recipe from this months Slimming World – a good haul of recipes I like this time. Their recipe is called Cheesy Lentil Lasagna. They use cottage cheese, just on...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2015 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
This was my tea tonight, the tuna pasta salad from Meal Plan 9. On the meal plan, this salad is used as a lunch, but it could just as easily be a dinner, and in fact, it was What you need to make tuna pasta salad half a tin of tuna, Aldi, 49p, 25p 80g onion, Aldi 59p...
