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
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 a tart. Note that the mix I make...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Valentines Day Ideas
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 black olive and tomato...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 3, 2019 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
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 while, and one sleepless night, I mixed it up and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
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 this was rustled up in just a few minutes. Home Made Walnut Nutella Priced at Asda, July 2017...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
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 sugar by half as it seemed too much, and it was. Old Fashioned Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding Priced at Asda...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2016 | All Recipes, Other
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 method, this is what I did Paneer Priced at Asda using mySupermarket 4 pints/2.27litres...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2016 | Breakfast, Round Up Post
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 little pots ready to be topped and carried off...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
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 water! What I hear you say? That’s what I thought too....
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 23, 2016 | Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
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 to add any salt, so I didn’t. Knead for 3 or 4 minutes, place...
