by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2015 | Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 4
This was lunch today, after a vigorous gym session. It didn’t take long to prepare, although I did have a big dish of butter beans, already cooked, in the fridge. It was filling, even tho it was less than 300 calories, and 3 hours later, I am not in the least bit...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
How to Make Farl made with dried mash This is a very overdue recipe from Meal Plan 3. Farl made with dried potato. With many thanks to Miss South who came up with dried mash gnochhi and farl Makes 2 servings Asda dried potato, 120g/28p pk, 12p 90g plain flour,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 3, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 8
A simple, quick and filling dinner. If you are not following meal plan 8, add any extra veg you would like to and vary the seasonings to give more variations 240g cooked chicken, 680g meat gleaned from a 1.3kg/£3.22 bird, £1.13 150g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 8p 200g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 31, 2015 | My Diary
Got these crocus growing on the windowsill. It’s so lovely to see their cheerfulness on such a bleak day. Feels like spring is not far away. DP is hacking bits off our kitchen ceiling as the blighter is still leaking. He has tried two things that he thought would...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2015 | Lunches, Meal Plan 8
On Monday I went to Tunbridge Wells to use the BBC Radio Kent studio there for a live transmission to BBC Radio Coventry. While I was there, it’s 17 miles from home, I decided to pop into M&S. We use an Amex credit card everywhere they are accepted as they give a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 25, 2015 | Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 8
Serves 4 120g value plain yogort, 500g/45p, 11p 100g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 5p 50g bean sprouts, Asda 360g/50p, 7p 200g white cabbage, Asda 1kg/58p, 12p 200g carrots, Asda 2kg/£1.14, 11p 160g dry weight green lentils, 411g cooked 500g/£1, 32p 60ml oil, 1 litre/£1.25,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 22, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plan 14, Meal Plan 8, Meal Plan 9
Made these at tea time. I’ve been working out the recipes for the new meal plan. I need to use up all the groceries on the shopping list, or the people following it wouldn’t have enough calories for the week. I found that I had some oats, oil, onions and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 8, 2015 | Dinners
Well, I thought I was going to tell you about a recipe variation today, but having searched the blog, I can’t find it. I could have sworn I’d posted this! This recipe is something I discovered when I had 2 hungry girls at home to feed, and I was going out...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2015 | Other
I made this today. Had a pack of cranberries in the fridge and I love a good curd, so decided to make a cranberry curd with them. I looked at various recipes on the net. Many used cranberry juice, many used lots of ingredients. So in the end I opted for a Delia Smith...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 19, 2014 | Christmas, Dinners, Lunches
This flavoursome blue cheese quiche is served twice on the Christmas Meal Plan, along with an unusual coleslaw made with red cabbage and mustard. Strong festive flavours Pastry 150g flour, value 45p/1.5kg, 4p 75g Best for Baking, Asda 49p, 15p Filling 100g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Love Your Leftovers, Meal Plan 12
One more recipe to go for the Christmas Meal Plan, the gnocchi. But before I do that one, I wanted to have a play around with some of the possible leftovers from the festive week. There will be some pork roast leftovers, so I started with those, and a Pork, Apple...
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 | Nov 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
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 various minced meat in the freezer, so decided to use some minced beef...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2014 | Bready Things, Dinners, Lunches
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 some rings and poured a little batter...
