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School packed lunches – the dreaded chore! Can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head?

School packed lunches – the dreaded chore! Can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head?

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...
Baked Marmalade Sponge

Baked Marmalade Sponge

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...
Fed up with plain cheese sandwiches? How about flavoured potted cheese?

Fed up with plain cheese sandwiches? How about flavoured potted cheese?

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches

Fed up with plain cheese sandwiches? How about flavoured potted cheese? Do you have cheese sandwiches for lunch? Are you a little tired of them, or maybe wanting to ring the changes a little? How about making a potted cheese. I have lots of little bits and pieces of...
Raw chickpea carrot falafel, 15p. Delicious, with sweet variations too

Raw chickpea carrot falafel, 15p. Delicious, with sweet variations too

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 11, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Raw chickpea carrot falafel, 15p. Delicious, with sweet variations too going through my cook books I have been looking through a few of my (far too many really! ) cook books recently. I do this every now and again, and note down any recipes I like the look of. One of...
Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream

Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 19, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers

Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream A few days ago, I made some mince pies for the U3A Christmas meeting. I had bought a new large jar of mincemeat, but then remembered I still had 2.5 jars of the same...
Hotdog & Blackeye Bean Salad Bowl, 41p – No Power Meal Plan

Hotdog & Blackeye Bean Salad Bowl, 41p – No Power Meal Plan

by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 13, 2015 | All Recipes, No Power Meal Plan

This is dinner on 2 days on the No Power Meal Plan. Use this same amount on both days, using the tin of blackeye beans on one day and the kidney beans on the other. Serves 2 half a tin hotdogs, Asda 49p, 25p 30ml oil, Asda £1.25/litre, 4p 100g carrot, Asda £1.18/2kg,...
Peanut butter and jam mug cake, mmm, too easy

Peanut butter and jam mug cake, mmm, too easy

by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 9, 2015 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts

Peanut butter and jam mug cake, mmm, too easy I was inspired to try this pudding this evening by Skint Mum over on the Skint Dad blog who made a chocolate mug cake. DP is mad on peanut butter on toast at the moment, so I made this peanut butter and jam version. I used...

Vegan bean and spicy katjan sauce sandwich paste, 12p a sandwich, LOADS of variations

by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches

Vegan bean and spicy katjan sauce sandwich paste, 12p a sandwich, LOADS of variations Having tried draining and rinsing a can of beans recently for the sardine sandwich paste, I thought I could make lots of different variations of a beany sandwich filler with that...
Meal Plan 4 – a scrummy lunch of Butter Bean Pate, carrot sticks & pitta, 18p

Meal Plan 4 – a scrummy lunch of Butter Bean Pate, carrot sticks & pitta, 18p

by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2015 | Lunches, Meal Plan 4

Meal Plan 4 – a scrummy lunch of Butter Bean Pate, carrot sticks & pitta, 18p This was lunch today, after a vigorous gym session.  It didn’t take long to prepare, although I did have a big dish of  butter beans, already cooked, in the fridge.  It was...
Bannocks with roasted veg hoummous

Bannocks with roasted veg hoummous

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plan 8

Bannocks with roasted veg hoummous Made these at tea time. I’ve been working out the recipes for the new meal plan. I need to use up all the groceries on the shopping list, or the people following it wouldn’t have enough calories for the week. I found that...
Muscovado and mixed fruit pudding, with double cream, 32p

Muscovado and mixed fruit pudding, with double cream, 32p

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Puddings / Desserts

Muscovado and mixed fruit pudding, with double cream, 32p This is the pudding for the Christmas week 2014 plan. Plump dried fruits, rich muscovado flavours, double cream trickled over. Very naughty at 600+ calories, and very, very nice. I tested one with DP this...

Fruit Trees, Date & Apple Muffins and Sugar Paste Flowers

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, My Diary

Fruit Trees, Date & Apple Muffins and Sugar Paste Flowers Nipped down to Eastbourne this morning to see DD1. Took down a couple of big pots to add to the three already there, and some compost, and we potted up the 5 little fruit trees that were her Christmas...
Apple and Spice Muffins, using no egg and my apples, 4p each, 9p if you buy the apples

Apple and Spice Muffins, using no egg and my apples, 4p each, 9p if you buy the apples

by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes

Apple and Spice Muffins, using no egg and my apples, 4p each, 9p if you buy the apples Just been having a little experiment in the kitchen. Due to budgetry constraints on our plans I have been musing about baking without eggs. I used to do it years and years ago but...
Granola, 8p a serving, 14p including the milk

Granola, 8p a serving, 14p including the milk

by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 1, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Meal Plan 4

Granola, 8p a serving, 14p including the milk Made some granola this evening. The whole place now smells of vanilla, a delicious smell. The granola is for the 4th meal plan (will be loading it tomorrow) and the entire huge box of it is available for use during the...
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