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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 8, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Cheese and onion roly poly, 57p/38p a portion Well, I thought I was going to tell you about a recipe variation today, but having searched the blog, I can’t find it. I could have sworn I’d posted this! This recipe is something I discovered when I had 2 hungry girls at...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 16, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Lunches
Christmas Meal Plan – HM pasta, cream, mixed veg, mustard 30p I had this for lunch today, from the Christmas 2014 Meal Plan. Serves 2 160g flour, value, 1.5kg/45p, 5p200g frozen mixed veg, Asda 1kg/77p. 15p120g frozen parsnips, Asda Chosen By You 680g pk/91p,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Lamb ragu 2 – Moussaka 92p a portion Using the lamb ragu that was made yesterday, today I made a moussaka. I have actually ended up using half the ragu yesterday and half today. But yesterday, the shepherds pie I made for the boys working hard plastering had...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 3, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Fireworks, Fictitious Whiplash and Feta More lovely family times were had this week. Both daughters, a DGD and a SIL, and myself went off to Dunorlan Park on Saturday night to watch the charity firework display held there every year. I love fireworks, the smell of the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches, My Diary
Nans, Drawers and Wedding Cakes Having this for lunch today, Toasted Nan and Dahl. I will be using dried chickpeas from my store, some of the coconut milk powder that I have masses of and I shall make a nan using the magic dough in the fridge. For the squeeze of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
Meal Plan 7 – Cottage pie, 58p a portion Using one third of the ragu mixture, place in an ovenproof dish. Make up half the pack of dried mashed potato following the instructions on the packet, adding a knob of butter if you have any. One third of ragu mix,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 31, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Stretch A Chicken
Rubber Chicken (2) Chicken & Onion Pie, 26p a portion. Spicy lentil soup, 18p A couple of days ago, I made a variation of the pie using oil pastry. This is in fact, more or less, the original pie where I first made oil pastry on cheap family recipes, although we...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, My Diary
Fritters, Soup, Gloves and Karen Millen I made some lovely fritters for dinner yesterday. I grated the last of the carrots, small and wrinkly, fine chopped onion, fine chopped white cabbage and a grated parsnip that was going a bit soft. I would normally grate some...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Liver and Onions, mash, carrots and peas, 66p a serving This was my dinner this evening. I picked up a small pack of liver at my recent shop at Morrisons. I really like it, Mike doesn’t, so this will make two meals for me. 200g lambs liver, Morrisons 59p 100g cooking...
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 | Oct 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Other
Piccallili – around 84p a jar I made some Piccallili this week. I made some last year and found that the men in particular amongst my aquaintance liked it, and it was received with pleasure as a hostess gift too. So as it is coming up to that time of year when...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2013 | All Recipes, Lunches, Meal Plan 3
Salami & Mixed Vegetable Soup with Croutons, 24p a serving This soup is from the third meal planner. It is for 2 people to have twice during the week. If you want to make it vegetarian, just leave out the salami, in which case you might like to add a handful of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 29, 2013 | Lunches, Meal Plan 3
Cauliflower and chick pea soup with little dumplings This tasty veggie soup makes use of an ingredient that perhaps you haven’t before, the stems and stalks of a cauliflower head. I actually prefer the taste of the stems to the florets! Makes 4 servings 150g onion,...
