by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Lentil flour and the simplest bread I’ve ever made I was looking round the Internet last week, as you do, and came across lentil flour. What’s that, thought I, sounds intriguing. I started off with lentil flour and ended up with a loaf made with fizzy...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2015 | All Recipes, No Power Meal Plan
This is dinner on 2 days on the No Power Meal Plan. Use this same amount on both days, using the tin of blackeye beans on one day and the kidney beans on the other. Serves 2 half a tin hotdogs, Asda 49p, 25p 30ml oil, Asda £1.25/litre, 4p 100g carrot, Asda £1.18/2kg,...
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 | May 20, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
I was cruising round the Abel & Cole recipe pages last night and came across a recipe using dark greens in a pasta sauce. I had a head of spring greens I wanted to use, so that was my lunch sorted for today. Abel& Cole are a great source for inspiration. A...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
Meal Plan 3 – Farl (made with dried spud) with sauted veg and salami or chorizo, 39p Farl made with dried mash This is a very overdue recipe from Meal Plan 3. Farl made with dried potato. With many thanks to Miss South who came up with dried mash gnochhi and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 25, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 8
Meal Plan 8 – Lentil salad with soy, 24p Serves 4 120g value plain yogort, 500g/45p, 11p100g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 5p50g bean sprouts, Asda 360g/50p, 7p200g white cabbage, Asda 1kg/58p, 12p200g carrots, Asda 2kg/£1.14, 11p160g dry weight green lentils, 411g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 25, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Corned Beef Hash After doing the corned beef pie recipe recently, I still had half a tin of corned beef remaining to use up. I could have done another 4 portion pie and popped it in the freezer (except the freezer is bulging with fruit at the moment), but instead I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 18, 2013 | My Diary, Saving Money
Cheap lentils, slightly cheaper chorizo, and practically free silky hands A couple of small things today. First of all, we were working in Northfleet again today. There is a big Morrisons there and I popped in as I know they have big bags of lentils. So I got a huge...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
Pizza, 32cm, chorizo and roasted vegetable, 53p. If it serves 2, 26p each Oh my goodness, this was SO good. Soft roasted vegetables, spicy paprika chorizo, smooth tomato sauce, crispy thin pizza base. Yum YUM This mixture made two 32cm pizzas, you could make both and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 12, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
Chorizo, chickpea and tomato in a flatbread, 47p a serving This is the second thing today, one of the chorizo stick thingies with chickpeas and tomato in a flatbread. It was gorgeous.Serves 22 flatbread, 4p1 stick chorizo, Sainsbury, £1.29/4, 32ptin of chickpeas or...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 12, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 7, Sides
Flatbreads, less than 2p each. Versatile and very yummy Two things today. Firstly, I did some wraps using Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s recipe from River Cottage, Veg Every Day.Hugh’s recipe uses what he calls the Magic Bread Dough. Magic because you can use the same...
