by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 2, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 1, Meal Plan 10
Sweetcorn fritters, wedges & peas This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. Simple little vegan sweetcorn fritters, very quick and easy, and at 30p a serving, a very cheap meal Sweet corn appears to have originated in America, being grown...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Vegetable Fritters Vegetable Fritters I found this recipe book in a charity shop recently – The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Sarah Brown. It has some cracking recipes in it. Including this one for Spiced Vegetable Fritters. Others I’m going to try include Layered...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Rubber 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 | Mar 29, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
A kitchen experiment, Pea-Crumb Fritters, 6p Did one of my very favourite things today and had a play in the kitchen and ended up with these pea-crumb fritters. Have been thinking about doing some kind of frittery thing using mushy peas for a while now. Had a little...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Rubber Chicken
Rubber Chicken (6) – Chicken & Onion Pasta Bake Edit In the end, I didn’t have this Rubber Chicken dish at all yesterday. Late in the afternoon, I checked my diary for something else, and realised that we were due to go out that evening. Good job I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 31, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plans
Meal plan 10 – Pea fritters and chips, 17p, vegan Had this for lunch today. It’s a dinner from Meal Plan 10. I used a potato rather than frozen chips, as on the plan, as that is what I had. I chopped it up into chips, skin and all and dusted it with a pinch of...
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 | Mar 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 8
Meal plan 8 – Oaty fritters, veg, chilli & yogort In the brief period I was on my feet yesterday, I made these. It’s a dinner on Meal Plan 8. There was very little food left to make anything by the time I got to that point on the plan, and I have been...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Rubber Chicken
Rubber Chicken – just how far can you make a £4.99 chicken streeeetch – 28 portions? How to use a whole chicken for multiple meals I mentioned recently that I had been inspired to do a rubber chicken series. I expect most families who need to stretch the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, My Diary
Fritters, Soup, Gloves and Karen Millen I made some lovely fritters for dinner yesterday. I grated the last of the carrots, small and wrinkly, fine chopped onion, fine chopped white cabbage and a grated parsnip that was going a bit soft. I would normally grate some...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Sweetcorn Fritters, 30p a serving Remember these? Had them for dinner this evening with cauli and broccoli today, rather than peas. Lovely on a cold and wet evening, and nice and quick after going to book group this afternoon. I was sitting close to a very hot log...
