by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 19, 2014 | All Meal Plans, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
In meal plan 7 we have a cottage pie, a lasagna and spaghetti bolognese. All three recipes use the same ragu as a base. Beef Ragu used 3 ways 500g mince, £1.99 Asda 60g bacon pieces, chopped small, 500g/75p Asda, 9p 300g onions, chopped, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 16p 450g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2014 | Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches
Made a loaf with the dough I keep in the fridge today. Thought I would try a freefrom one this time. Partly because I wanted to see if I could do one, and that it wouldn’t flatten itself out on the baking sheet. Partly because I wasn’t sure how much to put...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 12
Oh the delights of growing tomatoes. This little lot are destined for the lunch time soup. I make tomato soup often, but only about now in the year do I make it with fresh ones. The taste is completely different, especially if I also have some fresh basil, which,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 27, 2014 | Breakfast, Lunches
Here is another recipe from the CFR site, a delicious nut butter. Use it on toast for breakfast, or in sandwiches for lunch, maybe with a sliced tomato, or thick coins of cucumber in it too. A smear of jam would be a variation of the classic peanut butter and jam. You...
by admin | Jul 17, 2014 | My Diary
Phew, what a scorcher! Went to Eastbourne today to see my grand daughter’s sports day. The race she was dreading the most was the balance a bean bag on the head one. But because she hated it, she had practised it a lot and only won it! Her mum was leaping up and...
by admin | Jul 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Inspired by yesterday’s salady success, I had another one today. This one was 80g dried butter beans, soaked and cooked, Asda Great Scott 375g/£1.18, 25p I think this is the equivalent of a tin? Some lettuce and rocket from the garden Half a red pepper, very finely...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Remember this semi-freddo? I was making a cup of coffee earlier and thought, ooh, I fancy some coffee frozen yogort. So I mixed together 250g value Greek yogurt, Aldi 85p/500g, 42p 5g instant coffee granules, value brand in Aldi is £1.79/200g, 5p 30g sugar, 79p/500g,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Remember this? Instant semi-freddo After dinner this evening, DP announced that he wanted a pudding. He was angling after a crumble, but I really didn’t want to make one. So I dug out a bag of mixed berries from the freezer, picked out all the strawberries and whizzed...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
We had an oldie but goodie for tea this evening. Thai green curry. I used a mix of carrots, a red and green pepper, Savoy cabbage, tomatoes and an onion. The protein part was paneer, and we had it with brown basmati. I tried costing it, but it came out to 98p, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 14, 2014 | My Diary
Well we definitely have robin chicks. When both birds were out collecting food, I had a quick peep at the nest and what did I see but a little head and beak peeking over the edge. Very excited I rushed to get the picture taking equipment, and by the time I had got...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Stuffed peppers for tea this evening using two of the Aldi peppers. The feta has been in the fridge and had a best before date of October 2013. But because it was sealed in the packet, it is fine. Now I have opened it, I will have to use it up quite quickly. For 2,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 24, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Went to a pub, the Bottle House, very close to where I used to live yesterday for a 60th Birthday Celebration for one of my brothers. It was a lovely family ‘do’. I had started the day with a migraine that was probably kicked off by a late night on the Saturday. The...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
I have 3 under counter sized fridges, 2 of which are supposed to be overflow ones, and not turned on most of the time. Such is my lack of discipline, that until recently all 3 of them were packed to bursting. I have now managed to reduce the third one down to a third...
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...
