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Vegan Broccoli Pesto

Vegan Broccoli Pesto

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 8, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2

Vegan Broccoli Pesto First published in August 2013, revised and updated in September 2021. Have you ever made pesto using fresh vegetables? It was quite a revelation when I discovered it. I’ve found that I can make something that I like to call pesto (Italians...
Vegetable Muffins

Vegetable Muffins

by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 19, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories

Vegetable Muffins Are you looking for a savoury vegetable muffins recipe? I recently made some with some friends. We all made the same recipe, then met up on Zoom to compare results. Great fun! The use of the term to describe what are essentially cupcakes or buns did...
Panzanella with lovely sun ripened tomatoes.

Panzanella with lovely sun ripened tomatoes.

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Panzanella with lovely sun ripened tomatoes. I’ve rewritten this post a bit, and taken some new pictures. Panzanella is gorgeous with very ripe, full flavoured summer tomatoes. In 2013, I tried Panzanella for the first time. I was looking through one of Hugh...
Green lentil, mushroom, raisin and cucumber salad, with a brinjal pickle and yoghurt dressing

Green lentil, mushroom, raisin and cucumber salad, with a brinjal pickle and yoghurt dressing

by Thrifty Lesley | May 7, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Green lentil, mushroom, raisin and cucumber salad, with a brinjal pickle and yoghurt dressing Two very yummy meals today. First up was breakfast after Fitstep class, so I was pretty hungry. Crisped up some focaccia from the freezer in a frying pan, with a couple of...
Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Pesto

Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Pesto

by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 8, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Things You May Never Need To Make Again

Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Pesto Pesto Pesto is one of the most favourite things for a rapid and tasty tea. And although it isn’t wildly expensive to buy a pot of pesto, make it at home and a whole world of inexpensive pesto’s opens up to you. I...
Spinach and ricotta pasta

Spinach and ricotta pasta

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories

Spinach and ricotta pasta This is the pasta dish I spoke about last time. Its seriously good and with a little tweaking it comes in at an acceptable price for this blog. Spinach & Ricotta Pasta This picture is when I made it using giant shells      ...
Rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed pesto. Nut and gluten free

Rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed pesto. Nut and gluten free

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 13, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Other

Rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed pesto. Nut and gluten free Another variation of pesto today – rocket, watercress, basil and sunflower seed. ingredients I’ve been tidying up out in the garden today and the rocket is one of the few things doing well this...
Herby Scones, 2p a scone – Meal Plan 10

Herby Scones, 2p a scone – Meal Plan 10

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 6, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 10

Herby Scones, 2p a scone – Meal Plan 10 We had these lovely herby scones at lunchtime with a bowl of tomato soup made with our tomatoes. I’ve had to wait a very long time for that soup this year, our tomatoes are scarce and only just ripening. It really is a...

Herby Pancakes with a Poached Egg 14p – Meal Plan 10

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...

Vegan bean and spicy katjan sauce sandwich paste, 12p a sandwich, LOADS of variations

by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches

Having tried draining and rinsing a can of beans recently for the sardine sandwich paste, I thought I could make lots of different variations of a beany sandwich filler with that same type of bean. So first attempt A can of value baked beans 31p Spicy katjan sauce...
Transform tomato cannon balls to taste bomb tomatoes

Transform tomato cannon balls to taste bomb tomatoes

by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 3, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Happy Easter! If, after eating all those hot cross buns and chocolate eggs, you feel the need for some vegetables…… I was looking through my recipe folder yesterday and came across this recipe. I thought it was from the Cranks Fast Food book, but on checking it, it...
Meal Plan 4 – a scrummy lunch of Butter Bean Pate, carrot sticks & pitta, 18p

Meal Plan 4 – a scrummy lunch of Butter Bean Pate, carrot sticks & pitta, 18p

by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2015 | Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 4

This was lunch today, after a vigorous gym session.  It didn’t take long to prepare, although I did have a big dish of  butter beans, already cooked, in the fridge.  It was filling, even tho it was less than 300 calories, and 3 hours later, I am not in the least bit...
Cranberry Curd, £1.18 a jar, and lots and lots of other variations, including savoury ones

Cranberry Curd, £1.18 a jar, and lots and lots of other variations, including savoury ones

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2015 | All Recipes, Other, Round Up Post

Cranberry Curd, £1.18 a jar, and lots and lots of other variations, including savoury ones I made this today. Had a pack of cranberries in the fridge and I love a good curd, so decided to make a cranberry curd with them. I looked at various recipes on the net. Many...
Green lentil cottage pie, 4 very generous portions, 56p each

Green lentil cottage pie, 4 very generous portions, 56p each

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners

Green lentil cottage pie, 4 very generous portions, 56p each A recipe tonight. This is a dish I have been making for many years and was passed on to me by my Mum. It is filling, delicious, doesn’t take too long to make and is freezable.The portions are pretty...
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