by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 19, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners
Lentil ragu with spaghetti Lentil ragu with spaghetti Made something really good this evening inspired by a recipe from this book. I’ve tweaked it a bit, as you do, so this is my version of it. First printed in 1994 and still in print and extremely cheap from Amazon....
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 17, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Bacony tomatoey pasta This recipe was suggested by Ailsa Jones on the Facebook group. Look in the comments if you’d like to see the original recipe. I forgot the garlic and the smoked paprika mind, and they would both be lovely additions. Bacony tomatoey pasta...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners
Spaghetti Carbonara – 41p a portion This post was last revisited, repriced and updated in April 2018 Inspired by the Great British Budget Menu, I thought I would have a look at the Carbonara sauce recipe I use and see how much it costs. One of my favourite...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Things You May Never Need To Make Again
Things You May Never Need To Buy Again – Pasta Sauce I started this series of Things You May Never Need To Buy Again ages ago, here, here and here, but I’ve decided that no one will be able to find them. So I’m redoing them as separate posts and will do lots...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 18, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners
Creamy Walnut pasta sauce – LCHF if you want it to be I absolutely love the walnut butter I first tried making recently, either honey smoked, as in the original, or plain. Convinced it would make a lovely pasta sauce, I had a little play. Asda don’t sell sun...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Spinach and ricotta pasta This is the pasta dish I spoke about last time. Its seriously good and with a little tweaking it comes in at an acceptable price for this blog. Spinach & Ricotta Pasta This picture is when I made it using giant shells ...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 28, 2016 | All Recipes
Picnics in the cold, and a tin of tuna Went to Glyndebourne yesterday, with the friend I go to see the live transmissions with. No, not the posh, picnic in the garden type. Very expensive! We went to see the youth group do a modern opera called Nothing. It was...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 3, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Fish, waste and poverty Had the U3A budget cookery group round this afternoon. We did some mackerel things. I showed how you can make 8 portions of lunches and dinners from a pack of two smoked mackerel fillets, each portion being less than 50p. Each recipe makes 2...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 10
Veggie Lasagna 43p a serving – Meal Plan 10 This is for Meal Plan 10 and is a version of the Cheesy Bean Lasagna. I can’t use the same ingredients as they aren’t all available on this plan. So it’s a tweak of a tweaked recipe. The bean sauce layer2 onions,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 13, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Cheesy Bean Lasagna, based on a SW recipe, 60p a servi g I was sure I had blogged this recipe before, but I can’t find it, so I can’t have done. It is yet another recipe from this months Slimming World – a good haul of recipes I like this time. Their recipe is called...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 260g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p150g value pasta, 500g/29p,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 28, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p I made a recipe from this months Slimming World magazine yesterday. A classic Greek dish, Pastitsio. It’s supposed to feed four, but when I went to layer it up in a four portion dish, the dish was nowhere near...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2015 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
Tuna and Pasta Salad with black olives, Meal Plan 9, 30p a serving This was my tea tonight, the tuna pasta salad from Meal Plan 9. On the meal plan, this salad is used as a lunch, but it could just as easily be a dinner, and in fact, it was half a tin of tuna, Aldi,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 31, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Using up Salsa di Noci Very simple lunch today. I still had some of the walnut sauce left from the Salsa di Noci , so I lightly cooked a whole pile of vegetables and tipped them on a plate. Then I loosened the sauce with a bit more lemon juice and a blob of yogurt and...
