by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 13, 2023 | All Recipes, Other
Healthier Nutella Alternative Do you like Nutella? It’s gorgeous stuff, kids can be addicted to it, it seems to go with everything and can be eaten straight out of the jar with a spoon. And probably often is! But… and there’s always a but isn’t there, the nutritional...
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 | Feb 26, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Almond ‘Nutella’ Tart It is a dark and dank day today and I did what I often do when at a bit of a loose end, I had bit of a play in the kitchen. I made some almond ‘Nutella’ then started thinking about uses, as I do, and thought, bet it would work well in...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Vegan Valentine Meal Vegan Valentine Meal I’ve been thinking about a celebration meal for this years Valentines Day and decided to do a vegan one this year. Two courses are from the archives, one, the starter, is a new, although very simple, invention. So we have a...
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 | Jul 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Walnut ‘Nutella’ and wheat bisks bites. These are so good they’re dangerous! Having tried faux Nutella with hazelnuts and butter, I wanted to try another version with oil. Having run out of hazelnuts, I used walnuts. So I nipped into the kitchen 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2016 | All Recipes, Other
Home made Paneer. Cheap, delicious, versatile and nutritious. What’s not to like? Inspired by the talented Miki Knight on the wonderful Feed Yourself for £1 A Day face book page, I decided to finally get round to making some home made paneer. Following Miki’s...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2016 | Breakfast, Round Up Post
Overnight Oats – squillions of ideas I am a new convert to overnight oats, and I’m loving them. These are wonderful if you are time stretched. You can make up dishes ready to be topped, or a big bowl that can be used over several days, or directly in...
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 | Mar 23, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Recipes for yesterday’s baking – chapatti, muffins and a loaf Chapatti To make a batch of chapatti, I used the recipe from the back of the sack of flour. Mix 300g of chapatti or wholemeal flour with enough cold water to make a stiff dough. They didn’t say...
