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Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan

Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan

by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches

Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan These peanut butter noodles don’t take too long and are really yummy, we’ve had them several times now. You can really stretch out a few shreds of chicken with this. I’ve done it with noodles and...
Christmas Leftovers – part 5. Turkey Liver Paté ; Cottage Pie; Stock

Christmas Leftovers – part 5. Turkey Liver Paté ; Cottage Pie; Stock

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 8, 2018 | All Recipes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers

Christmas Leftovers – part 5. Turkey Liver Paté ; Cottage Pie; Stock It’s that time of year again for me, time to tackle the leftovers. A Turkey Sandwich The first thing I do with turkey leftovers is a sandwich. This one is made with a soft and fresh home made...
8 Sandwich Pastes for super cheap sandwiches and toast toppers

8 Sandwich Pastes for super cheap sandwiches and toast toppers

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...
A main course soup – mulligatawny, 46p a big bowl

A main course soup – mulligatawny, 46p a big bowl

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners

A main course soup – mulligatawny, 46p a big bowl I bagged some lovely organic beef mince on yellow sticker last week and stashed them in the freezer for when I was ready to use them. They worked out, even on yellow sticker, at just a bit more than ordinary 10%...
The dreaded chore of school packed lunches – can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head?

The dreaded chore of school packed lunches – can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head?

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, Round Up Post

The dreaded chore of school packed lunches – can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head? The brand new school year is upon us and every parents dream job starts up again –  the packed lunch – nooooooo! Yes, that post title is a rhetorical question. I could...
Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters

Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters

by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Rubber Chicken

Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters Ages ago now, I started a Rubber Chicken feature, conjuring a total of 28 portions from 1 x £4.99 chicken. These fritters are part of that and are the penultimate recipe, still one more to go! Pick all the meat from the chicken carcass,...
Rubber Chicken (6) – Chicken & Onion Pasta Bake

Rubber Chicken (6) – Chicken & Onion Pasta Bake

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Rubber Chicken

Rubber Chicken (6) – Chicken & Onion Pasta Bake Edit In the end, I didn’t have this Rubber Chicken dish at all yesterday. Late in the afternoon, I checked my diary for something else, and realised that we were due to go out that evening. Good job I...
A whole days filming and sundried tomato sandwich filler, 9p

A whole days filming and sundried tomato sandwich filler, 9p

by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 23, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches

A whole days filming and sundried tomato sandwich filler, 9p Long day today. Had a film crew here all day today from Bold Content Video for the Money Advice Service. They arrived shortly after 9:00am and didn’t leave until nearly 7pm. We worked all day, doing all...

Fish Pie, quite expensive for here at £1.41, but you can still stay on track for £1 a day

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...
Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track

Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 30, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track We had this lovely recipe for dinner this evening. I found the idea on the web, but can’t remember where now. It was a slow cooker recipe, but I just bubbled it on the hob, and I’ve tweaked it, as you do. It’s a...

Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans

Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 260g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p150g value pasta, 500g/29p,...
A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p

A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p

by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 28, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners

A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p I made a recipe from this months Slimming World magazine yesterday. A classic Greek dish, Pastitsio. It’s supposed to feed four, but when I went to layer it up in a four portion dish, the dish was nowhere near...

A simple Chicken Stir Fry, Meal Plan 8, 81p a serving

by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 15, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 8

A simple Chicken Stir Fry, Meal Plan 8, 81p a serving Finally, the last recipe for Meal Plan 8, a simple stir fry. This plan has taken months to finish. I have another one lined up ready to go, just need to check the nutrition 120g cooked chicken, 680g meat gleaned...

101 ideas for dinner tomorrow, from 14p to 97p per portion, most around the 50p mark

by Thrifty Lesley | May 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners

101 ideas for dinner tomorrow, from 14p to 97p per portion, most around the 50p mark Wondering what to make for dinner tomorrow? Have a little look at the table of dinners from the ‘Recipes’ tab and see if you can find any inspiration Dinners Show entries Search: Cost...
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