by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 15, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 8
Finally, the last recipe for Meal Plan 8, a simple stir fry. This plan has taken months to finish. I have another one lined up ready to go, just need to check the nutrition What you need 120g cooked chicken, 680g meat gleaned from a 1.3kg/£3.22 bird, 57p 200g egg...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 26, 2015 | Meal Plans, My Diary
Has the poop hit the fan? Do you need to feed people for less than £1 a day? Crucial question, do you have a larder?If you do, then these recipes may help. There are no exotic ingredients, just ordinary things like carrots, onions, flour, rapeseed oil, oats, sugar,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 21, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 10
First of all, apologies for the recent lack of posts. I have been well and truly bugged over the last 10 days or so. Where I am, there has been a virulent virus doing the rounds that basically wipes you out for two weeks. It feels much more like flu than anything else...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Finger Dumplings, delicious little butter crisped fingers. Very versatile, savoury or sweet. Yesterday, I was reading a German cook book and came across these unusual looking things. <br /> They are made using gnochhi dough, but fried in butter at the end. They...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
Smoked mackerel & creamy soft cheese on granary toast, 63p. Plus, how to stay on budget for the day The simplest of simple breakfasts this morning. I got some yellow stickered smoked mackerel this week. So this morning I toasted a slice of granary bread,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Farewell CFR, Smoked Salmon Pasta, 42p per serving I am very sad that the site I first got involved in with helping to write cheap family recipes is no more. If you like the recipes on cheap-family-recipes.org.uk, hop on over to here and print any off that you like. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches, My Diary
A Salmon pasta lunch and other things I had Smoked Salmon pasta for lunch today, with a slight variation in the sauce. I sauted the onion, boiled the pasta, adding a handful of green beans towards the end of the cooking time. Then I just mixed everything together,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 16, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches
Sardines on Toast, from 38p, and most of the Omega 3 you will need for a week A very simple and super quick lunch. A tin of sardines in tomato sauce on a couple of slices of granary toast. Just to up the tomatoeyness even more, I added a handful of cherry tomatoes as...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches
Fishy Tortilla, 19p plus salady bits Tried a wholemeal flour tortilla today at lunchtime, just to see what it would be like, and it was scrummy I used the same ingredients as before, but made 2 larger tortilla, rather than 4 smaller ones. Needed my biggest pans to do...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 15, 2014 | My Diary
A mountainous larder, raspberries, pasta and crispy fish burger Yet another pancake variation this morning. After the WI lunch yesterday, I had some raspberries left over. So this morning, I used self raising flour as usual, but instead of water, I used raspberries....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Chicken, Soy, Honey and Sesame with Rice I am supposed to be recipe testing the anchovy paste, but after chicken-gate this morning, guess what we’re having this eve? So I thought I would write up this recipe. It’s something I found somewhere or other and tweaked, as...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Corned Beef & Mushroom Pie One day this week, I did a variation of the bacon and sweetcorn pie. I used a tin of corned beef that was in the cupboard to make a corned beef pie. The pie only used half the tin, for a 4 portion pie. I used the other half to make 4...
