by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 29, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2
Pasta with Olives, Tomato & Soft Cheese Post first written in September 2013. Refreshed and updated November 2021. This recipe makes a generous portion of pasta, dressed with olives, tomato puree and soft cheese. Very quick to make, just taking as long as the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 2
Salted Cashew Vegan Couscous Salad – warm or cold First written in August 2013, refreshed and updated in November 2021. I wanted to try a couscous salad that I have been doing for a while and see if I could get it sub 50p. Well, it worked out at 71p for the dish...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2021 | Less than 500 calories, Love Your Leftovers, Sides
Cauliflower leaves – what do you do with them? My husband’s favourite vegetable is cauliflower and he often brings one home from a shopping expedition. It’s not unusual to have 2 a week. I have many ways of using cauliflower, but invariably have the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Crispy Topped Miso Vegetables This super tasty dinner recipe came out of a need to use up various items in the fridge. How to make crispy topped miso vegetables For this version, I used a pepper, a third of a bag of bean sprouts, 2 broccoli stalks, a carrot, 3...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 28, 2020 | All Recipes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
Christmas Leftovers – part 3. Turkey Burgers; Cheesy Pasta; Parsnip Dahl; Parsnip soup Part 3 of our attack on those Christmas leftovers. more turkey ideas Using stale, dead, bread, that’s been whizzed into breadcrumbs, use the zombie burgers basics, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 2, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Broccoli and Almond Stuffed Pancakes This recipe started off as a savoury pancake recipe using a cauliflower. I made it, and warmed it in the oven with the sauce already on it, and it really didn’t work at all. It was dry and I’d managed to kill much of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Vegetable Fritters I found this recipe book in a charity shop recently – The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Sarah Brown. It has some cracking recipes in it. Including this one for Spiced Vegetable Fritters. Others I’m going to try include Layered Mushroom & Olive...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 10, 2018 | Dinners, Lunches
Having recently been on holiday, and enjoying the local food, I was keen to explore some traditional Greek food recipes when I got back. A reader, Vera George, who is Greek, offered some of her recipes, and this is one of hers. Kounoupithi Yiahni by the way is...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 10, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
This recipe is the 2nd one from Vera George. I was on holiday in Greece in September and Vera, who is of Greek heritage, has kindly offered some of her Greek food recipes. I love exploring recipes from other places. Kounoupidi means cauliflower and is pronounced...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 26, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
I had this mixed vegetable dauphinoise for lunch yesterday and dinner today. I have only recently had dauphinoise at home for the first time, and I tried it because of the high fat diet I’m on – seemed to be a good fit The first time, I had just potatoes in the usual...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, My Diary
low carb soup Still on my quest for nice things to eat on this high fat, now even more low carb, diet my coach has put me on, I thought I’d do some soup. I love soup and have it often. It suddenly occurred to me today that if I didn’t put in my usual scoop...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 21, 2015 | Lunches
Had an experiment that turned out lovely today. I intended to make a Dahl, but it ended up as Dahl soup because I added too much water. There were the stalks and stems from an entire cauliflower in the fridge, and I thought it would make a delicious Dahl, with some...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 20, 2015 | Dinners, Lunches, Sides
After the recent report on the need for all of us to reduce the amount of red meat and minimise our intake of processed meat, I have been looking for alternative sources of protein. We didn’t eat massive amounts of it, but a lot more than the two portions a week I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 15, 2015 | Dinners, Meal Plan 8
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 What you need 120g cooked chicken, 680g meat gleaned from a 1.3kg/£3.22 bird, 57p 200g egg...
