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 | Apr 26, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Faggots and gravy What are Faggots? Faggots are a traditional British meatball made from offal, especially pork, with herbs and onions for flavouring and breadcrumbs to stretch them out. The offal is minced and is usually a combination of heart, liver and fatty pork...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 24, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 1
Bacon & Sweetcorn Pie This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. This recipe is one of those extremely variable ones. You can bake this as a pie, leave the top of and bake as a bacon and sweetcorn tart, or steam it as a pudding and change...
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 | Dec 28, 2014 | Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
Good Old Turkey Curry – 81p a portion, plus how to make leftover turkey soup Had not one, but two Boxing Day classics today. I know it’s not actually Boxing Day, but it still feels like it! Plus I found this great graphic and I want to use it I dismantled the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Liver and Onions, mash, carrots and peas, 66p a serving This was my dinner this evening. I picked up a small pack of liver at my recent shop at Morrisons. I really like it, Mike doesn’t, so this will make two meals for me. 200g lambs liver, Morrisons 59p 100g cooking...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Corned Beef & Mushroom Pie One day this week, I did a variation of the bacon and sweetcorn pie. I used a tin of corned beef that was in the cupboard to make a corned beef pie. The pie only used half the tin, for a 4 portion pie. I used the other half to make 4...
