by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 15, 2023 | Christmas, Meal Plans, Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan
If you are on a tight budget, Christmas food can be very difficult, causing stress, and maybe even debt too. No need to get into debt, when with a bit of extra planning, you can enjoy a delicious vegetarian Christmas festive meal, without spending a fortune. Re-Priced...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
Spicy Chicken Pasta Bake – Stretch A Chicken (4) Got a little bit of chicken to use up? Try it in this spicy pasta bake- make it as hot and spicy as you like! How to make Spicy Chicken Pasta Chop the onion and sauté in a little oil until soft. Add garlic,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 21, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners
Simple Vegan Red Lentil Tomato Dahl Post first written in July 2013, refreshed and updated in November 2021. Tomatoes, red lentils and a few spices made into dhal and served with brown rice. Quick, very cheap, and easy – what’s not to like? I like the dahl just on its...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 28, 2020 | All Recipes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
Christmas Leftovers – part 2. Clementine salad; Preserved Clementine’s; Turkey, Brie & Cranberry pie; Welsh Rarebit So after yesterday’s attack on the Christmas leftovers, and the ideas on the guest post at Skint Dad, we’re having another go at them...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 5, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Punjabi Cabbage This is a Northern Indian cabbage recipe, packed full of vegetables, pulses and spices. Make it hot if you like things that way. Personally, I like a lot of spice and hardly any heat When I first made this, we had it with Matar Paneer (cheesey peas)...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 25, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
First published in February 2014, rewritten and re-priced in November 2023. This is a gorgeous, easy to make curry. On the table within 20 minutes, bursting with fruity goodness and stuffed with veggies too. As is usual, there are many options, so you can use what you...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 29, 2018 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Spiced Broccoli Soup. Delicious with tomato scone or herb bread Spiced broccoli soup is a delicious soup. Mildly spicy and creamy, a lovely cold weather lunch, filling, warming and tasty. It is exactly the same as the Spiced Parsnip Soup recipe on meal plan 4, except...
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 | Oct 3, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Sides
Stuffed potato cakes The U3A cookery group came round today. We did 3 recipes this time, including this one, stuffed potato cake. 2 potato cakes is the recommended portion size. It isn’t many calories, but 2 really is enough The recipe uses a potato dough and it has...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
A main course soup – mulligatawny, 46p a big bowl I bagged some lovely organic beef mince on yellow sticker last week and stashed them in the freezer for when I was ready to use them. They worked out, even on yellow sticker, at just a bit more than ordinary 10%...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 30, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners
Paneer curry, using lovely home made paneer. 34p each and Yummy! Today, we’re talking what to do with that lovely homemade paneer, well, one thing anyway! A delicious paneer curry. I really like this and make it often, usually with shop bought paneer. Maybe not again?...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
A delicious Sag Aloo that really hits the spot. I’ve been looking at various recipes for sag aloo for a while now. None of them seemed to give me the result I was after. Every now and then, Spices of India send me an email wanting me to buy their pretty expensive...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 17, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, My Diary
Leftovers for lunch We had a guest last night and had a roast chicken. I picked all the rest of the meat off this morning and the carcass is simmering as we speak. I did some roast cauliflower and carrots to go with the chicken. The veg were drizzled with oil and...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 5, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Sardine and Tomato Fish Cakes 26p a portion and Tuna Fish Cakes 36p a portion The budget cookery group for the U3A were here Tuesday afternoon and one of the things we made was fish cakes. We did one version using a tin of sardines in tomato sauce, and another using a...
