by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 2, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 1, Meal Plan 10
Simple little fritters, very quick and easy, and at 41p a serving, a very cheap meal Sweetcorn fritters 175g sweetcorn 50g self raising flour 50ml vegetable oil 400g potatoes 160g peas First of all make some oven wedges. Scrub the potatoes and cut them into wedges. ...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 17, 2021 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 1
This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. Delicious little lunchtime patties, if you aren’t at home, they could be eaten cold in a lunch box, or use the same ingredients to make a soup and take to work in a flask. How To Make Potato,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 13, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners
I found the base of this recipe in one of my many cook books – The National Trusts Great British Vegetable Cookbook by Sybil Kapoor. It has loads of recipes that I have marked to try ; stir fried cabbage with pork balls; stuffed parathas; mushroom flan and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Other
This vegan BBQ sauce recipe is pretty simple, just bung everything in a saucepan and reduce it down a bit Vegan BBQ Sauce BBQ sauce is a very useful condiment to have about the place, just about as versatile as tomato ketchup. Use it on pizza (and there is a BBQ...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 31, 2015 | All Meal Plans, Dinners, Meal Plan 10
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 garlic powder and tandoori spice, my favourite. You...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 27, 2015 | Dinners, Meal Plan 10
This is for Meal Plan 10 and is a version of the Cheesy Bean Lasagna. I can’t use the same ingredients as they aren’t all available on this plan. So it’s a tweak of a tweaked recipe. The bean sauce layer 2 onions, chopped, Asda 2kg/£1.07, 10p 2...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 30, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
We had this lovely recipe for dinner this evening. I found the idea on the web, but can’t remember where now. It was a slow cooker recipe, but I just bubbled it on the hob, and I’ve tweaked it, as you do. It’s a strong flavoured sauce, robust and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 13, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
I was sure I had blogged this recipe before, but I can’t find it, so I can’t have done. It is yet another recipe from this months Slimming World – a good haul of recipes I like this time. Their recipe is called Cheesy Lentil Lasagna. They use cottage cheese, just on...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 1
This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. Potato and Onion Hash – grated vegetables slowly fried until there is lovely crisp crust. served with bacon, peas and ketchup. Or you could whizz up all the ingredients into a warming soup...