by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2022 | All Recipes, Lunches, Round Up Post
School packed lunches – the dreaded chore! Can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head? 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2021 | All Recipes, Lunches
Curried Pumpkin and Coconut Soup This post was originally written in October 2014 and refreshed and updated in October 2021. I am a little confused today. I went to a WI garden group meeting yesterday, on Thursday. It’s usually on a Wednesday, like most other WI...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 15, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Sides
Coconut & Lime Rice – vegan I have been doing tandoori chicken quite often lately. A very easy dish, that is just diced chicken, tossed in tandoori spice, and pan fried in a little oil, just enough so it doesn’t stick Normally, I do an Indian spiced...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Hazelnut Butter Vegetable Bake – GF, DF & Vegan Just had lunch and made something different. I’ve got some lovely nut butters in the fridge that I got from SousChef.co.uk. I love that site, it’s got masses of lovely cheffy things! I got big 1kg...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 26, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Butternut Squash, Ginger & Coconut Soup – GF, NF, DF & Vegan I had a butternut squash that needed using recently and decided to make soup with it. I thought I’d flavour it with ginger and lime. But in the end I went with some fresh ginger from a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Anzac Biscuits I went to a friends recently and she gave me one of these Anzac biscuits. They were really good! Mike loves oaty things so I asked for the recipe and was quite surprised when they turned out to be Anzac biscuits, which I know are very similar to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 18, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
A Vegan Vegetable Bake – Celery, Swede & Chickpea I picked up a couple of heads of celery on yellow sticker this week. I wanted to make something main coursey with at least one of them. I had a little google and looked at Pinterest and came up with this...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
A gorgeous Chickpea, Mango and Coconut Curry First published in February 2014 and re-priced this week Making it up as I go along I have had a lovely play in the kitchen today and amongst other things, I made this chickpea, mango and coconut curry. It is gorgeous! I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2017 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Round Up Post
8 Sandwich Pastes for super cheap sandwiches and toast toppers I have made lots of different sandwich pastes and toast toppers. This round up post gathers together 8 of them. I’ve really liked each of them. They are quick and cheap to make, freeze well and can be used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 20, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
Something I’ve been making for decades – Sweet Bean Curry This recipe is one I have been making for decades. I first came across it at the house of a close friend when we went for dinner, and he kindly gave me the recipe Sweet Bean Curry Ingredients 175g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 1, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
Goan Fish Curry, made with chicken, 56p. Plus the original fish recipe the budget cookery group Had the budget cookery group round this afternoon. We had our usual laugh, then made some Carrot and Tahini Hummus, a Mixed Nut and Seed Butter, then a glorious Goan Fish...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, My Diary
low carb soup Still on my quest for nice things to eat on this high fat, now even more low carb, diet my coach has put me on, I thought I’d do some soup. I love soup and have it often. It suddenly occurred to me today that if I didn’t put in my usual scoop...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 21, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Mixed veg Dahl that turned into Dahl soup Had an experiment that turned out lovely today. I intended to make a Dahl, but it ended up as Dahl soup because I added too much water. There were the stalks and stems from an entire cauliflower in the fridge, and I thought it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 1, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Spicy curried hummus, 60p for a massive pot Having made the curry yesterday using chickpeas, I had some cooked ones left. I didn’t measure them when I was pouring them into the saucepan as I wanted some leftovers. Well today, I decided to use those leftover chickpeas...
