by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 23, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 12, Meal Plan 14, Stretch A Chicken
What do I need to make a chicken and onion pie For a 20cm pie, serving 4, you will need Pastry 200g flour, I always use self raising, but it doesn’t seem to make a lot of difference 100ml vegetable oil about 100ml water Filling 100g cooked chicken 3 stuffing...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2024 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 11
After yesterdays flavoured and potted cheeses, todays sandwich filler is a chicken and sun dried tomato paste. Simple and delicious. What do I need to make chicken and sun dried tomato paste This quantity makes a full jam jar full – 250g. It will keep in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Poaching A Whole Chicken
This Coronation chicken jacket potato recipe is part of a plan, starting the week with a whole poached chicken, to stretch a medium chicken to last a family of four all week. Twenty eight portions! What do I need to make Coronation chicken baked potato For 4 portions,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Poaching A Whole Chicken
This red cabbage and chicken Waldorf salad is part of a plan, starting the week with a whole poached chicken, to stretch a medium chicken to last a family of four all week. Twenty eight portions! What do I need to make red cabbage and chicken Waldorf For 4 portions,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 7, 2024 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
These chicken and roasted pumpkin tarts are quick to assemble once you have roasted the pumpkin or butternut squash. A tasty dinner with a little salad of whatever you have handy, and you can have any extra ones in your lunchbox the next day. The chicken and pesto...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 25, 2024 | Dinners, Poaching A Whole Chicken
How to poach a whole chicken to use for multiple meals Why poach a chicken? Two main reasons. Poaching means that your chicken meat will be beautifully moist, much more so than a roasted one, and with little effort on your behalf. And secondly, much less fuel is used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
How to stretch a chicken to last the whole week Do I need to buy a whole chicken? Buying a whole chicken and jointing it yourself is cheaper than buying ready jointed chicken pieces. If you are going to roast a chicken, then a whole one is much nicer to present at the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 13, 2024 | Dinners
A very tasty chicken and chorizo casserole that doesn’t take very long to make. Freezes and reheats beautifully too. I first made this with my daughter, in her kitchen in Paddock Wood, where she was living at that time. We were playing and having fun. We...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 16, 2023 | All Recipes, Dinners, Poaching A Whole Chicken
A quick and simple healthy chicken spaghetti recipe using Sicilian flavours. Juicy chicken, sweet pops of raisins, salty olives, crunchy almonds, luscious sun-dried tomatoes and zesty lemon – delicious! Good hot for dinner, with any leftovers for lunch the next...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 30, 2023 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 8, Meal Plans For 2
The Eighth Meal Plan. As I say every time, it shows 3 meals a day, plus some cakey extras to fill any gaps, for 7 days, for 2 adults. Change the meals around to suit yourself, combine the shopping list of ingredients in any other way that suits you, add extra...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 27, 2023 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 11, Meal Plans For 2
Weekly Meal Plan Eleven For this, our eleventh weekly meal plan for 2 adults, we base it around a whole chicken, bacon and lots of vegetables. As at 5th October 2024, you will need £31.60 in your purse at the checkout, but the amount of food actually consumed (if you...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2022 | All Recipes, Lunches, Round Up Post
Ideas for school packed lunches – many people with school aged children need them. Packing up a lunch box for children or an adult packed lunch is bad enough. It can be boring, tiresome and a real chore to do. You might be lucky and not mind it too much, but...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 21, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 12, Stretch A Chicken
This spicy carrot and lentil soup uses chicken stock made when processing a roast chicken carcass. The stock brings a great deal of flavour to the soup. If you don’t have any home made stock, use a good quality stock cube, or a vegetable one if you’d like...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
Got a little bit of chicken to use up? Try it in this spicy pasta bake- make it as hot and spicy as you like! What do I need to make Spicy Chicken Pasta To make 4 servings Pasta Bake ▢ 120 g cooked chicken around 150g if using raw chicken ▢ 150 g onion ▢ 2 tsp oil ▢ 1...
