by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2016 | All Recipes, Other
Home made Paneer. Cheap, delicious, versatile and nutritious. What’s not to like? Inspired by the talented Miki Knight on the wonderful Feed Yourself for £1 A Day face book page, I decided to finally get round to making some home made paneer. Following Miki’s...
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 | 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Zombie burgers using dead bread Tried the first experiment with reviving dead bread stored as breadcrumbs today. Had a look in the fridge and found a few bits and pieces that I thought would work, got a bag of breadcrumbs out of the freezer and had a play. I have set...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 23, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
A whole days filming and sundried tomato sandwich filler, 9p Long day today. Had a film crew here all day today from Bold Content Video for the Money Advice Service. They arrived shortly after 9:00am and didn’t leave until nearly 7pm. We worked all day, doing all...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 17, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Spanish Omelette 46p, we had ours with sweet potato chips and kale crisps Had an old favourite for dinner tonight. It’s another one of those dishes that can be used for all kinds of sundry leftovers. All you need is a tasty mix, that you then pour eggs over and top...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
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 same type of bean. So first attempt A can of value baked beans 31p Spicy katjan sauce...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 25, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Corned Beef Hash 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 30, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
This is the 3rd post in a series of 4 exploring what to make with a pack of mackerel fillets If, like me, you bought a pack of 2 smoked mackerel fillets, and there are 2 of you to feed, you will still have a whole fillet left. So what are we going to use the second...