by Thrifty Lesley | May 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
A damp bank holiday What a very damp Bank Holiday that was! And it’s set to be much the same all through this half term week. I am looking out of the windows at the front and the back of the house and there are big weeds that need uprooting, but I don’t enjoy...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 20, 2014 | All Recipes, Bready Things, Breakfast, Lunches
Couple of successful experiments today. First up were these bubble and squeak pancakes this morning. I had made a curry a few days previously, including a side dish of some spring greens swooshed up with a few spices, tomato, garlic and ginger. They were lovely by the...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 9, 2014 | All Recipes, Breakfast
I am a bit frustrated at the moment. The last two meal plans I put up are for 1 person, so I thought it would be interesting to amalgamate the two, and make one weeks plan for 2 people. I envisaged it as a bit of a 5 minute job. But I have fiddled and twiddled trying...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
This recipe is by request. It is from my recent LBL week. On the first day I had planned Lentil dumplings with tomato sauce. I have added more flavourings here than I had available on LBL! I had allocated 100g of flour and 100g lentils, but that was far far too much...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, My Diary
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 potato and add that too, but as we would...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 12
Here is another dahl recipe, a coconutty one this time. I like to use brown basmati rice with most things, if you wanted to use value rice, it would reduce the cost to just 17p a portion. This is a very quick meal, from packet to table in 20 minutes, and most of that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Other
Piccallili – around 84p a jar I made some Piccallili this week. I made some last year and found that the men in particular amongst my aquaintance liked it, and it was received with pleasure as a hostess gift too. So as it is coming up to that time of year when...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 3, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 11, Meal Plan 3
These vegan oat bars are delicious, a flapjack with a jam layer. A raspberry flapjack is my favourite, with homemade raspberry jam. They obviously are sweet, but maybe not as sweet as the name suggests. I have updated the quantity of sugar in line with current...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 29, 2013 | Lunches, Meal Plan 3
This tasty veggie soup makes use of an ingredient that perhaps you haven’t before, the stems and stalks of a cauliflower head. I actually prefer the taste of the stems to the florets! Makes 4 servings 150g onion, peeled and chopped 200g carrot, diced, no need to peel...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 25, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Sides
Tried this today. Have been reading Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Veg Every Day, there are lots and lots of lovely recipes in it, including several hummus ones. I am quite a fan of H F-W, I like his ideas and his recipes are often usable, using everyday ingredients...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 25, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
After doing the corned beef pie recipe recently, I still had half a tin of corned beef remaining to use up. I could have done another 4 portion pie and popped it in the freezer (except the freezer is bulging with fruit at the moment), but instead I made a kind of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
This was supper last night. Haven’t had stir fry for a while, and saw some bean sprouts in Sainsbury’s, so that’s what we had. If you like stir fries and have them fairly often, it is really worth getting a little bottle of sesame oil. You may even have some already....
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast
Breakfast today was a variation of the Cinnamon Toast. Two slices of toast with ground ginger, oil and a sprinkle of sugar, stuck together with a mashed banana. Delicious! 2 slices of bread Half a tsp of veg oil on each side of each slice A good sprinkle of ground...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 18, 2013 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 2, Other
Croutons are incredibly useful little things. They can shoosh up many a dish. Try using the end of a loaf, or something that’s gone a bit stale to eat as bread to make some. You could freeze them, or the un-croutoned bread (my preference), so you can have some...
