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Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££’s

Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££’s

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Christmas Meal Plan 4, Meal Plans

Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££’s Christmas Meal Plan If you are on a tight budget, Christmas food can be very difficult, causing stress, and maybe even debt too. Happily, you can enjoy a delicious festive meal, and eat well for...
Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap

Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap

by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes

Chocolate Muffins. Quick, easy, great for packups and very cheap I first wrote this post in May 2017, and here we are 3 years later. Mike was again ‘needing some chocolate’, so I made him some of these. I’m baking much more whilst in lockdown and...
The dreaded chore of school packed lunches – can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head?

The dreaded chore of school packed lunches – can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head?

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Lunches, Round Up Post

The dreaded chore of school packed lunches – can you feed a hulking teenager for 30p a head? The brand new school year is upon us and every parents dream job starts up again –  the packed lunch – nooooooo! Yes, that post title is a rhetorical question. I could...
Recipes for yesterday’s baking – chapatti, muffins and a loaf

Recipes for yesterday’s baking – chapatti, muffins and a loaf

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...
Chapatti, muffins and a warm salad

Chapatti, muffins and a warm salad

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches

chapatti Had a lovely play in the kitchen yesterday. Made some chapatti using some Approved Food flour – do you remember those huge, massive, giant bags I got ages ago? Yes, I’m still using them. Chapatti made with chapatti flour rather than wholemeal...
Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream

Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 19, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers

Using up mincemeat – Mince pies, Mincemeat Muffins, Mincemeat Brownies and Mincemeat Ice Cream A few days ago, I made some mince pies for the U3A Christmas meeting. I had bought a new large jar of mincemeat, but then remembered I still had 2.5 jars of the same...
Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track

Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 30, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track We had this lovely recipe for dinner this evening. I found the idea on the web, but can’t remember where now. It was a slow cooker recipe, but I just bubbled it on the hob, and I’ve tweaked it, as you do. It’s a...
Now we’re talking! An extremely yummy quinoa burger version, and some raspberry muffins

Now we’re talking! An extremely yummy quinoa burger version, and some raspberry muffins

by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 23, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners

Now we’re talking! An extremely yummy quinoa burger version, and some raspberry muffins Tea this evening was one of the Quinoa and Chickpea burgers from yesterday. I got some wholemeal rolls from the local Spar, on our way back from a day out. Definitely not...

Fruit Trees, Date & Apple Muffins and Sugar Paste Flowers

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, My Diary

Fruit Trees, Date & Apple Muffins and Sugar Paste Flowers Nipped down to Eastbourne this morning to see DD1. Took down a couple of big pots to add to the three already there, and some compost, and we potted up the 5 little fruit trees that were her Christmas...
Muffins made with mincemeat and oats

Muffins made with mincemeat and oats

by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Less than 500 calories

Muffins made with mincemeat and oats By special request, here is the recipe I used for today’s batch of muffins. From the same book again that I have been using, Susan Reimer’s Muffins: Fast & Furious. Adding oats to muffins There are several recipes using oats,...
Chocolate, Coconut, Raisin and Chopped Nut Muffins

Chocolate, Coconut, Raisin and Chopped Nut Muffins

by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories

Chocolate, Coconut, Raisin and Chopped Nut Muffins 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...

Apple and Spice Muffins, using no egg and my apples, 4p each, 9p if you buy the apples

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...
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