by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 8, 2024 | Lunches, Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan
This sandwich is for tea on Christmas Day on a Vegetarian Meal Plan for the entire Christmas week It is lentils spiced with curry powder, moistened with mayonnaise and with a hint of sweetness from a jar of mincemeat, together with the fresh crunch of raw vegetables...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 4, 2024 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Lunch today was a sandwich I discovered on one of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s programmes and in one of his books, Veg Every Day What do I need to make this lentil sandwich for each curry sandwich, you will need an egg green, brown or puy lentils curry powder,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 12, 2024 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 14, Meal Plans For 4
The Fourteenth Meal Plan – wow, that’s three and a half months worth! Plus all the celebration and 5 day ones! This one, as per usual shows 3 meals a day, plus some cakey extras to fill any gaps, for 7 days, for 2 adults, and this time, two 15 year old...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2022 | All Recipes, Lunches, Round Up Post
Ideas for school packed lunches – many people with school aged children need them. Packing up a lunch box for children or an adult packed lunch is bad enough. It can be boring, tiresome and a real chore to do. You might be lucky and not mind it too much, but...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 17, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
Pizza is one off the worlds favourite foods for at least 1000 years, loved, and made, by millions. Pizza toppings can make a meal from little things leftover in the fridge, or as here, from chicken left after a roast. Homemade Pizza Dough Mix the pizza base...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Poaching A Whole Chicken
I really fancied a BBQ pizza one day and wondered what I would need to use for toppings. Having made some vegan BBQ sauce that was really successful a while previously, I wanted to use that and decided to use it as the base sauce instead of a tomato one. Well, wow, it...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Do you have cheese sandwiches for lunch? Are you a little tired of them, or maybe wanting to ring the changes a little? How about making a potted cheese. I have lots of little bits and pieces of cheese stashed away in the freezer, things left over from various events,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
A long lasting Tzatziki. Make a sandwich with it for lunch, with lettuce, for 14p Well phew, what a busy weekend. And you should see my diary for the next fortnight! I have one of those diaries that show 2 weeks at a time and there are scribblings of appointments all...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 7, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Two very yummy meals today. First up was breakfast after Fitstep class, so I was pretty hungry. Crisped up some focaccia from the freezer in a frying pan, with a couple of chorizo slices and had that with scrambled egg and tomato. Yum Then at lunchtime I tried one of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 9, 2018 | All Recipes, Lunches
Today’s recipe is a lettuce soup that can use any leftover bagged salad leaves, wilting lettuce, that half a bag of fresh spinach, gluts from the garden in the summer, etc. The recipe is written by Janice Lambert, one of our lovely Facebook group members. I’ve added...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2017 | Budgeting, Saving Money
Do you remember us talking about regrowing vegetables from waste? This post had some spring onions. Well, a while ago, I put some spring onion stubs in an egg cup until they grew baby roots, then put them in the garden. These whoppers are the result! I have in fact...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
This is the pasta dish I spoke about last time. Its seriously good and with a little tweaking it comes in at an acceptable price for this blog. Spinach & Ricotta Pasta Priced at Asda using mySupermarket.com in January 2019 85g frozen spinach, £1.69/1.3kg, 11p 35g...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 17, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, My Diary
We had a guest last night and had a roast chicken. I picked all the rest of the meat off this morning and the carcass is simmering as we speak. I did some roast cauliflower and carrots to go with the chicken. The veg were drizzled with oil and sprinkled with tandoori...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 1, 2015 | Christmas, Other
Had the U3A budget cooking group here, at the house, this afternoon. I was wondering what to do. Thought it needed to be seasonal, but most definitely not mince pies. I ended up deciding to do a few nibbly type entertaining bits. We started off with Nigella’s Union...
