by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Christmas, Meal Plans, Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan
Vegetarian Christmas If you are on a tight budget, Christmas food can be very difficult, causing stress, and maybe even debt too. No need to get into debt, when with a bit of extra planning, you can enjoy a delicious vegetarian Christmas festive meal, without spending...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
No Churn Chocolate Ice Cream You don’t need to make an egg custard and you don’t need an ice cream maker to make no churn chocolate ice cream. There isn’t a trace of an ice crystal crunch either. If you leave it to get fully frozen, take it out at least half an hour...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2
Raisin Biscuits Post originally published October 2013, refreshed and updated November 2021 These little biscuits are fun to make, especially if you make tiny hearts or teeny squares. Spice them up with cinnamon or mixed spice at Christmas time. Or see the variations...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 1, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plan 8
Oaty Biscuits. Delicious, very versatile and totally irresistible! This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. A very, very variable recipe, for oaty biscuits. Much, much too moreish – and although they are only 1p a biscuit, could make it not...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2021 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 1, Puddings / Desserts
Baked Marmalade Sponge This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. Are you following Meal Plan 1? If so, this baked sponge can be eaten at any time during the week when you need the calories. Would be lovely as a Sunday tea, or maybe after...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 7, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Chocolate Scones My husband was desperate for some chocolate, but we were in Covid19 lockdown, so didn’t want to go to the shops for something so frivolous. So I thought I’d bake him something chocolatey as I still had some flour. Hmm, how about some...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap I first wrote this post in May 2017, and here we are 3 years later. Mike was again ‘needing some chocolate’, so I made him some of these. I’m baking much more whilst in lockdown and...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 12, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Chocolate Fudge Cake, made with / out eggs I’ve updated this post a bit to make it look better. But the images come from the time when I did this experiment, in 2013, and they aren’t very good. I’ll try and repeat everything and take better pictures....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 3, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Sugar Free Chocolate, Cranberry and Walnut Tea Bread This rather wonderful sugar free chocolate, cranberry and walnut tea bread started life as an extremely simple ordinary bread loaf. This sugar free chocolate variation has been on my HUGE list of things to try for a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 1, 2018 | All Recipes, Christmas, Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan
Vegetarian Christmas – Spiced Pot au Chocolat with a Spiced Biscuit This spiced pot au chocolat, little chocolate pots, with a spiced biscuit or two, is from the Vegetarian Christmas meal plan. It’s even more lovely than I thought it would be! Pot au Chocolat...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2018 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories
Baked Oats I have been following Slimming World for a few weeks now in my ongoing attempts to lose weight. I cant stand boring or bland food, so am constantly looking for nice things to eat that are allowed. I’ve written before about how delicious overnight oats are,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2018 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Arguably the best chocolate brownies – Ever! What are brownies like? Brownies are meant to be crisp on the outside and soft and fudgy on the inside. Should brownies be gooey in the middle? That’s how I like them, so that’s how I make them! Get the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 27, 2018 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Fudgy, gooey, white chocolate blondies Earlier in the month, I posted about some really good brownies. Last week, I took it into my head to make some blondies. I used the exact same recipe, but using white chocolate instead of plain. I have started going to a rock and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Old fashioned self saucing chocolate pudding. Quick and easy, no complicated method, and a mere 20p a serving I fancied a little chocolate pudding yesterday, one of those ones that makes it own sauce. I found a recipe and set too. I’ve changed it a bit, cutting the...
