by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2021 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Sides
Caramelised Onions Post first written in January 2015, refreshed and updated November 2021 In Meal Plan 2, there are 750g of onions left after all the recipes have been made, so I thought I’d use them to make this very useful condiment to use as you wish...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 8, 2018 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan
Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan – Vegan Walnut and Chestnut Crumble A savoury christmas crumble, chestnuts in the base and walnuts in the topping. One of the recipes from the Vegetarian Christmas meal plan. Savoury Vegan Walnut and Chestnut Crumble Base mixture...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 4, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Fish Pie, quite expensive for here at £1.41, but you can still stay on track for £1 a day The fish is obviously the expensive ingredient here, and the thing that we need to search around for to make a healthy fish pie recipe that is delicious and as cheap as we can...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 3, 2015 | My Diary
Fish, waste and poverty Had the U3A budget cookery group round this afternoon. We did some mackerel things. I showed how you can make 8 portions of lunches and dinners from a pack of two smoked mackerel fillets, each portion being less than 50p. Each recipe makes 2...
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 24, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
Meal Plan 7 – casserole of bacon, veg, toms & soft cheese, 45p a serving This is a dinner on Meal Plan 7, served on Day 4. 100g bacon, 75p/500g, 15p100g onion, £1.08/2kg, 5p100g carrots, £1.18/2kg, 6p100g white cabbage, 52p/900g, 6phalf a tin of tomatoes,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches
Fresh tomato soup, 10p homegrown, 18p using tinned Oh the delights of growing tomatoes. This little lot are destined for the lunch time soup. I make tomato soup often, but only about now in the year do I make it with fresh ones. The taste is completely different,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
12 portions of minced beef pasta bake, 34p each chocolate coinsCHOCOLATE! My goodness I’ve had much too much of it this week. Bad on so many levels – waistline, active fat doing goodness knows what in my insides, glucose levels, skin, migraine…….. I am going to have...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 4, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 4, Meal Plans
Butter Bean and Vegetable Curry Butter Bean and Vegetable Curry This recipe is one I have had in my recipe book for a very long time. As is the case with many curries, it is very variable. You can change the vegetables around pretty much to whatever you want for 4...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 24, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 4
Vegetable Casserole & Dumplings Vegetable Casserole & Dumplings – This is another one of our family favourites. Only takes about half an hour to make and is a delicious warming dish to come home to. If you need more calories, serve it with mashed potato. You...
