by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Do you have cheese sandwiches for lunch? Are you a little tired of them, or maybe wanting to ring the changes a little? How about making a potted cheese. I have lots of little bits and pieces of cheese stashed away in the freezer, things left over from various events,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 18, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
I picked up a couple of heads of celery on yellow sticker this week. I wanted to make something main coursey with at least one of them. I had a little google and looked at Pinterest and came up with this vegan vegetable bake using celery, swede and chickpeas. Celery...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 12, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
This recipe was one that the U3A made when the group came to my house for our monthly meeting. I had been looking through Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty More for inspiration and found this lovely salad. This is my version of it Bean and Quinoa, Lemon and Herb Salad...
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 | 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 | Nov 7, 2013 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, Meal Plan 4
This recipe is served with soup on meal plan 4 which will feed 2 adults for 7 days at a cost of £1 each per day. You will need 250g value flour, 45p/1.5kg, 8p 1 sachet yeast (7g) 28p/2 sachets 14p (much cheaper if yiou can afford to buy more in 1 go) 1 tsp mixed dried...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 6, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 4
Spiced parsnip soup is mildly spicy and creamy, a lovely cold weather lunch, filling, warming and tasty. On meal plan 4, we have 2 soups during the week, this one and a green pea soup. To serve with them we have either herb bread or tomato scones. It is your choice...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 3
This soup is from the third weekly meal planner. It is for 2 people to have twice during the week. If you want to make it vegetarian, just leave out the salami, in which case you might like to add a handful of red lentils for the protein The salami gives a good punch...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 4, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
I still have some of the soft cheese from the Mackerel Pate left in the fridge and have been wondering what to do with it. It tastes really nice, doesn’t cost too much and seems to go a long way. How to make a garlicky Boursin sandwich I really love garlicky Boursin,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Lunch today was a sandwich I discovered on one of Hugh Fearnley-Whiitingstall’s programmes and in one of his books, Veg Every Day What is a lentil sandwich like? It sounds a very odd combination, (well it did to me anyway, much as I use lentils, in a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 30, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
This is the 3rd post in a series of 4 exploring what to make with a pack of mackerel fillets If, like me, you bought a pack of 2 smoked mackerel fillets, and there are 2 of you to feed, you will still have a whole fillet left. So what are we going to use the second...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 24, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 4
Vegetable Casserole & Dumplings – This is another one of our family favourites. Only takes about half an hour to make and is a delicious warming dish to come home to. If you need more calories, serve it with mashed potato. You can vary the flavours in the...
