by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Valentines Day Ideas
Vegan Valentine Meal I’ve been thinking about a celebration meal for this years Valentines Day and decided to do a vegan one this year. Two courses are from the archives, one, the starter, is a new, although very simple, invention. So we have a black olive and tomato...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 29, 2018 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Spiced broccoli soup is a delicious soup. Mildly spicy and creamy, a lovely cold weather lunch, filling, warming and tasty. It is exactly the same as the Spiced Parsnip Soup recipe on meal plan 4, except that I have swapped the parsnip for broccoli, and I sometimes...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2018 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories
I have been following Slimming World for a few weeks now in my ongoing attempts to lose weight. I cant stand boring or bland food, so am constantly looking for nice things to eat that are allowed. I’ve written before about how delicious overnight oats are, and can be...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 10, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts, Things You May Never Need To Buy Again
Gourmet ice cream A while ago, I experimented with a tin of condensed milk and discovered that condensed milk, double cream and thick greek yogurt make easy peasy gelato. That post explains in detail how to make it, and gives many different flavour options. No...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Having tried faux Nutella with hazelnuts and butter, I wanted to try another version with oil. Having run out of hazelnuts, I used walnuts. So I nipped into the kitchen and this was rustled up in just a few minutes. Home Made Walnut Nutella Priced at Asda, July 2017...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
I fancied a little chocolate pudding yesterday, one of those ones that makes it own sauce. I found a recipe and set too. I’ve changed it a bit, cutting the sugar by half as it seemed too much, and it was. Old Fashioned Self Saucing Chocolate Pudding Priced at Asda...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
This recipe uses the third, and last, portion of the ragu made earlier. The picture shows my portion, which is a quarter of the finished dish, not a half. One third of the ragu mix £1.02 400ml skimmed milk, 2.27 litres/£1, 18p 100g + 50g flour, 45p/1.5kg, 5p Total...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories
Did some lovely muffins this afternoon. Mike kept looking hopefully in the tin and saying he wanted some biscuits. So I had a look in the cupboard to see what we have….lots! I have had two packets of coconut powder in there for a while, which is why we ended up with...
