by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Christmas, Meal Plans, Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan
Vegetarian Christmas If you are on a tight budget, Christmas food can be very difficult, causing stress, and maybe even debt too. No need to get into debt, when with a bit of extra planning, you can enjoy a delicious vegetarian Christmas festive meal, without spending...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2
Raisin Biscuits Post originally published October 2013, refreshed and updated November 2021 These little biscuits are fun to make, especially if you make tiny hearts or teeny squares. Spice them up with cinnamon or mixed spice at Christmas time. Or see the variations...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 1, 2018 | All Recipes, Christmas, Vegetarian Christmas Meal Plan
Vegetarian Christmas – Spiced Pot au Chocolat with a Spiced Biscuit This spiced pot au chocolat, little chocolate pots, with a spiced biscuit or two, is from the Vegetarian Christmas meal plan. It’s even more lovely than I thought it would be! Pot au Chocolat...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 7, 2018 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories
Baked Oats 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,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 23, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Arrgh, the pictures simply won’t size properly, it’s driving me nuts! Doing some gardening today, I pulled up a self sown Pink Fir Apple potato that was in the way of the spinach and it had several little potatoes on, so I had those with my lunch. They were really...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, My Diary
Round the block, round the garden and a hot non-cross loaf 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 4, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Gallivants and puddens Got a very busy day today. Been catching up on paperwork and doing lots of little jobs – where do they all come from. I’m off to WI committee in a bit, a quick bite round the Presidents house, then we’re off to see Love’s Labour’s Won, better...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 30, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Meal Plan 8
Meal Plan 8 – Coconut Biscuits, 3p each, or 61p for a 24 biscuit batch These are from meal plan 8. Use them whenever you need the calories. 200g self raising flour, value 1.5kg/45p, 6p200g sugar, Asda 1kg/59p, 12p100g vegetable oil, 1 litre/£1.25, 12p80g creamed...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Crumpets and pikelets, savoury and sweet A little experiment today with the fridge dwelling Magic Dough. I thought I could almost certainly make crumpets with it. So I put a little in a bowl and beat in some water, so it looked like a Yorkshire pudding batter, greased...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Lunches, Sinks and Ginger Cake for 16p a square The lunching lady theme continued right through last week, right up to yesterday! I have been out for seven days on the trot, I can’t tell you just how much I need to catch up on. I was going to say I have a much less...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Apple and Spice Muffins, using no egg and my apples, 4p each, 9p if you buy the apples Just been having a little experiment in the kitchen. Due to budgetry constraints on our plans I have been musing about baking without eggs. I used to do it years and years ago but...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Puddings / Desserts
Apples again – baked sponge with an apple base, and compote with raisin pancakes I did an apple sponge pudding for my husband yesterday using a basic sponge recipe. He went for seconds, so it worked well, even tho I cooked it in the microwave and it looked a bit...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 3, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3
Jammy Flapjack. This vegan oat bar can be savoury too These vegan oat bars are delicious, a flapjack with a jam layer. A raspberry flapjack is my favourite, with homemade raspberry jam. They obviously are sweet, but maybe not as sweet as the name suggests. I have...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 18, 2013 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 2, Other
Croutons Croutons are incredibly useful little things. They can shoosh up many a dish. Try using the end of a loaf, or something that’s gone a bit stale to eat as bread to make some. You could freeze them, or the un-croutoned bread (my preference), so you can have...
