by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 9, 2014 | Christmas, Dinners, Lunches
This is the lunch for Christmas Day itself from the Christmas Meal Plan. 1.6kg Asda Butchers Selection British Pork Shoulder joint, £4.61, 300g, 86p Stuffing, Asda Smartprice 85g/15p, half the pack, 7p 500g Potatoes, Asda white potatoes, 2.5kg/£1.69, 34p 200g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2014 | Dinners
Using the lamb ragu that was made yesterday, today I made a moussaka. Moussaka might seem like a complicated recipe if you haven’t made it before, but it’s just a lamb ragu with grilled aubergine slices on top, and those topped with a custard mix...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
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 recipes I did recently using beef mince. I did a beef ragu using a 500g pack of mince and made...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 4, 2014 | Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 14
Yesterday, I made Roasted Parsnip & Apple Salad from Hugh’s latest book. Ooh, nom, nom, nom. The dressing really makes this salad. Both sharp and sweet at the same time, the lemon juice is essential, the sweetening could be varied, as could the mustard. I made two...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2014 | Dinners
A recipe tonight. This is a dish I have been making for many years and was passed on to me by my Mum. It is filling, delicious, doesn’t take too long to make and is freezable. The portions are pretty generous, so if you don’t want that much, divide it up...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 28, 2014 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 1
For lunch today, I made the smelliest hoummous sandwich I have ever done! I purposely cooked extra chick peas last night so I could make hoummous today. I put the chickpeas in the food processor with a large tblsp of garlic/ginger paste, 2 tblsps of mustard oil...
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 | May 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
This recipe is by request. It is from my recent LBL week. On the first day I had planned Lentil dumplings with tomato sauce. I have added more flavourings here than I had available on LBL! I had allocated 100g of flour and 100g lentils, but that was far far too much...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Was intending to make plain scones today, but ended up adding rosemary and cayenne, plus some oats. It worked very well. They had a lovely flavour from the rosemary, and a bit of a kick from the cayenne. The oats gave them quite a different texture, more short than...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
CHOCOLATE! My goodness I’ve had much too much of it this week. Bad on so many levels – waistline, active fat doing goodness knows what in my insides, glucose levels, skin, migraine…….. I am going to have to seriously diet after Christmas. In...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Other
Piccallili – around 84p a jar I made some Piccallili this week. I made some last year and found that the men in particular amongst my aquaintance liked it, and it was received with pleasure as a hostess gift too. So as it is coming up to that time of year when...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 25, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
After doing the corned beef pie recipe recently, I still had half a tin of corned beef remaining to use up. I could have done another 4 portion pie and popped it in the freezer (except the freezer is bulging with fruit at the moment), but instead I made a kind of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2013 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
I tried this experiment yesterday to see what it would be like, and if it would work for our budget. I thought of it because when I was a child, 10 or 11 maybe, we had our usual gargantuan Sunday lunch – piles of roasties, mountains of Yorkshires, millions of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 7, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 2
A pair of pancakes stuffed with sauted vegetables and bound together with creamy soft cheese – delicious. This filling is onion, carrots and peas in soft cheese, but is very variable. Depends what you have, you can use up lots of things. How to make these...
