by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 28, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p I made a recipe from this months Slimming World magazine yesterday. A classic Greek dish, Pastitsio. It’s supposed to feed four, but when I went to layer it up in a four portion dish, the dish was nowhere near...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Lamb ragu. One third used here for shepherds pie, 74p + how to stay on budget for the day Doing lunch today for SIL (who is plastering our ceiling) and DP, using lamb mince from the freezer stash, it occurred to me that I could do something similar to the trio of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
A main course soup, based on Scotch Broth. About 47p for my unreproducible version Not so much a recipe today, as almost a serving suggestion. I was supposed to be testing Miss South’s Scotch Broth from her book, Slow Cooked today. <br /> However, I had a lot of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
Meal plan 7 – Beef Ragu for 3 different dishes In meal plan 7 we have a cottage pie, a lasagna and spaghetti bolognese. All three recipes use the same ragu as a base. Beef Ragu used 3 ways 500g mince, £1.99 Asda60g bacon pieces, chopped small, 500g/75p Asda,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Leftover chicken and vegetable crumble A damp bank holiday What a very damp Bank Holiday that was! And it’s set to be much the same all through this half term week. I am looking out of the windows at the front and the back of the house and there are big weeds that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 31, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Stretch A Chicken
Rubber Chicken (2) Chicken & Onion Pie, 26p a portion. Spicy lentil soup, 18p A couple of days ago, I made a variation of the pie using oil pastry. This is in fact, more or less, the original pie where I first made oil pastry on cheap family recipes, although we...
