by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Stretch A Chicken
Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters Ages ago now, I started a Rubber Chicken feature, conjuring a total of 28 portions from 1 x £4.99 chicken. These fritters are part of that and are the penultimate recipe, still one more to go! Pick all the meat from the chicken carcass,...
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 | Feb 21, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
Fiery Potatoes, spicy and delicious Had a little play in the kitchen today. I have a great many cook books and I’m always looking through them. Sometimes, as I did last night, I’ll take one down from the book shelf and go through from cover to cover, making a note as...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 31, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plans
Meal plan 10 – Pea fritters and chips, 17p, vegan 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 1, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Spicy curried hummus, 60p for a massive pot Having made the curry yesterday using chickpeas, I had some cooked ones left. I didn’t measure them when I was pouring them into the saucepan as I wanted some leftovers. Well today, I decided to use those leftover chickpeas...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 29, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Home grown pumpkin curry, 77p if you buy it all I decided to use one of the 6 pumpkins I managed to grow in the garden this year to make a curry. The flavour in the finished curry was superb, and the texture firm and floury. I’ll have to try and remember what variety...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 7, 2015 | My Diary
Another lovely parcel today. My Mother of the Bride dress arrived from China and looks beautiful. I got it from eBay. I shan’t look quite as slim as the lovely model here in it. They are very reasonable prices, and made to measure too. I have got them to make it calf...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Vegetable Stir Fry, 51p a serving This was supper last night. Haven’t had stir fry for a while, and saw some bean sprouts in Sainsbury’s, so that’s what we had. If you like stir fries and have them fairly often, it is really worth getting a little bottle of sesame...
