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Vegan Couscous Salad

Vegan Couscous Salad

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 2

Vegan Couscous Salad How to make vegan couscous salad This is pretty simple and doesn’t take long. Put couscous in a bowl with oil and water. Add grated carrot. Cook some green peas (1 min in the microwave from frozen will do it) and add to the couscous If you have...
Salted Cashew Vegan Couscous Salad – warm or cold

Salted Cashew Vegan Couscous Salad – warm or cold

by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 2

Salted Cashew Vegan Couscous Salad – warm or cold First written in August 2013, refreshed and updated in November 2021. I wanted to try a couscous salad that I have been doing for a while and see if I could get it sub 50p. Well, it worked out at 71p for the dish...
Couscous Snacky Lunchbox Bites

Couscous Snacky Lunchbox Bites

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 11, 2019 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches

Couscous Snacky Lunchbox Bites I’ve been enjoying these Couscous snacky lunchbox bites for a couple of weeks now. But I’ve been using a packet mix to make them, with added flavourings. I’ve had some lemon and coriander packet mixes in the cupboard for ages, from an...
No Power Meal Plan – Couscous Salad 50p a serving

No Power Meal Plan – Couscous Salad 50p a serving

by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan

No Power Meal Plan – Couscous Salad 50p a serving Well this first recipe tested ok, good start. It has quite a lot of oil in it to get the calories in. If you don’t need that, you could cut the oil down quite a bit. If you have it, you could use olive oil here....
Tuna and Pasta Salad with black olives, Meal Plan 9, 30p a serving

Tuna and Pasta Salad with black olives, Meal Plan 9, 30p a serving

by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2015 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans

Tuna and Pasta Salad with black olives, Meal Plan 9, 30p a serving This was my tea tonight, the tuna pasta salad from Meal Plan 9. On the meal plan, this salad is used as a lunch, but it could just as easily be a dinner, and in fact, it was  half a tin of tuna, Aldi,...

101 ideas for dinner tomorrow, from 14p to 97p per portion, most around the 50p mark

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...
Poop, larders and less than £1 a day, how about 53p?

Poop, larders and less than £1 a day, how about 53p?

by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 26, 2015 | Meal Plans, My Diary

Poop, larders and less than £1 a day, how about 53p? Has the poop hit the fan? Do you need to feed people for less than £1 a day? Crucial question, do you have a larder?If you do, then these recipes may help. There are no exotic ingredients, just ordinary things like...
Aldi bargains (1) Peperonata, 53p

Aldi bargains (1) Peperonata, 53p

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides

Aldi bargains (1) Peperonata, 53p Peperonata is one of those things that we have pretty often. It is a pepper and onion stew that goes with many things, can be used as a main dish or as a side. We first started having it with cheesey gougere, which is choux pastry....

Gigantes Plaki and pitta, 38p a serving

by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 7, 2013 | Dinners, Meal Plan 4, Meal Plans

Gigantes Plaki and pitta, 38p a serving This recipe features in meal plan 4 and is one of Jack Monroe’s. I have had to adapt it a bit as we don’t have a couple of the ingredients available in the meal planner. Other than that, it is the same thing. I have split the...
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