by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Christmas Meal Plan 4, Meal Plans
Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££’s Christmas Meal Plan If you are on a tight budget, Christmas food can be very difficult, causing stress, and maybe even debt too. Happily, you can enjoy a delicious festive meal, and eat well for...
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 | Dec 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Red Pepper & Walnut Tart with Winter Coleslaw I had the U3A cookery group round recently and we like to make canapes at the December meeting. Amongst other things, we made these Red Pepper, Goats Cheese and Walnut Palmiers, and they were delicious, although they...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Stretch A Chicken
Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters Ages ago now, I started a Rubber Chicken feature, conjuring a total of 28 portions from 1 x £4.99 chicken. These fritters are part of that and are the penultimate recipe, still one more to go! Pick all the meat from the chicken carcass,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
I have been a lady who lunches this week. I know I am anyway, but it was even more this week. On Wednesday, it was a good friends 70th and we went to hers for a bit of a party. Lots of talk, laughs and giggles. Lovely. On Thursday, I was taken out for an Italian by...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan
Cheese and potato salad with coleslaw – No Power Plan As we have no power on this, the No Power Plan, to refrigerate, wrap the cheese in a damp tea towel to keep it as fresh as possible, and keep it in as cool a place as you can. I have changed this so have no...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan
Haslet & crudités, No Power Meal Plan As we have no power on this, the no power plan, to refrigerate, have this meat product on the first day. I have changed this so have no pictures, they will follow 200g haslet, Asda 250g/75p 200g carrots, Asda 2kg/£1.18, 12p...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Protein packed Quinoa burgers, 32p for a 2 burger portion Did you miss me? goodness, where did that week go. Things have been extra manic here this last week, with every minute crammed full and no time left to blog. I’ve missed our chats and have had lots of things to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 10, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches, Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan
No Power Plan sandwiches I know sandwiches are hardly a recipe, but I wanted to go through the quantities and prep, just to be clear. For the hoummous and carrot sandwichesServes 2Tin of chickpeas, drained, use half the tin. Asda 4 for £1, 12p100g carrots, grated, no...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 3, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Creamy chicken livers on toast, 58p Some lovely food today! I decided to use the bargain, 20p, chicken livers for lunch. I fried them all off in 10g of butter until tender. We don’t want to cook liver too much, it goes tough and dry. Then I simply stirred in half a...
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 | Dec 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Lunches
Stilton Quiche with Red Cabbage Coleslaw, 39p This flavoursome blue cheese quiche is served twice on the Christmas Meal Plan, along with an unusual coleslaw made with red cabbage and mustard. Strong festive flavours Pastry150g flour, value 45p/1.5kg, 4p75g Best...
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...
