by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 24, 2021 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Meal Plan 4
Carrot & Sultana Loaf This post was first written in October 2013. Re-written and refreshedin September 2021. If you take 250g flour, some yeast and water, you can add many, many different things to it and get a lovely loaf, with 4 portions, to use for any meal,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 1
An Easy Fruit Loaf A lovely, slicing, easy to make fruit loaf. Use any dried fruit you have. Cuts into 12 slices at 8p a slice First published in June 2013, updated June 2021 How To Make an Easy Fruit Loaf Line a 2lb loaf tin and heat the oven Stir all the dry...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Vegan Savoury Loaf Cake Following on from the last post about a savoury loaf cake, I experimented today and came up with this vegan version. My silicone mini loaf tins arrived today. I said yesterday that I wouldn’t use all 12, but that’s exactly what I did do today!...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 3, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Bacon, Olive and Cheese Loaf Cake The U3A cookery group came round today. We have such fun, exploring recipes, stirring, tasting, baking and talking about flavours, options and possibilities. Not to mention the large amount of laughter and gossiping that goes on! This...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 13, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Lentil nut loaf vegan, versatile & rather delicious I tried this Lentil & Nut Loaf tonight. What a little gem! Cheap, super nourishing and needing no super cookery whizzery skills to make. I found it on Pat Parkers Facebook group, posted by Emily Brown....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 30, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
A sparkling water wholemeal loaf I spoke about a loaf in the oven yesterday. I still have LOTS of flour left from when I over ordered rather from Approved Foods. I have not been having that many flour based things lately so I thought I’d see if I could make a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 23, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Recipes for yesterday’s baking – chapatti, muffins and a loaf Chapatti To make a batch of chapatti, I used the recipe from the back of the sack of flour. Mix 300g of chapatti or wholemeal flour with enough cold water to make a stiff dough. They didn’t say...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 6, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Reverse Advent – batch two, a loaf and Spicy Apple Cake Productive day today. Had a rummage in the loft for Reverse Advent, made a loaf, some soup and an apple cake. So going today are; a surplus masala tin; several more cardboard boxes that held appliances that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 25, 2015 | My Diary
I mixed up the dough last night and made a small, freeform loaf for lunchtime. I had made some soup with the gammon juices, so I had a slice, buttered, with that. It was delicious, and I’ve made a diary note of when I put the dough in the fridge, so I know when I need...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, My Diary
Walked round the block today, and didn’t cough once! Hooray, progress. Do you remember the primrose that had been flowering continually for about three years now? That’s it at the top of the page, lovely isn’t it, in all it’s spring finery. Really going for it now, in...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches
Raw Carrot, Apple and Cashew soup, with a Walnut Loaf & butter, 65p per serving. Plus how to stay on budget for the day I made this soup for lunch today, Raw Carrot & Bramley. It is from Hugh’s latest book, Light & Easy. I’m a bit of a fan, as you know,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches
A freeform loaf and a broad bean & feta wrap 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...
