by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2024 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 11
After yesterdays flavoured and potted cheeses, todays sandwich filler is a chicken and sun dried tomato paste. Simple and delicious. What do I need to make chicken and sun dried tomato paste This quantity makes a full jam jar full – 250g. It will keep in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2017 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Round Up Post
I have made lots of different sandwich pastes and toast toppers. This round up post gathers together 8 of them. I’ve really liked each of them. They are quick and cheap to make, freeze well and can be used as sandwich fillers, toast toppers, jacket potato fillings and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 19, 2016 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, My Diary, Other
A demonstration I did a demo on Friday of Thrifty Lesley food, for 2 hours, to a group of ladies. It was so lovely cooking and chatting, with two other women popping things in and out of the oven, doing things on the stove top under instruction, and washing up and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 5, 2015 | Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Having tried draining and rinsing a can of beans recently for the sardine sandwich paste, I thought I could make lots of different variations of a beany sandwich filler with that same type of bean. So first attempt A can of value baked beans 31p Spicy katjan sauce...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 18, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
After the successful experiment with chicken and sun dried tomato paste, I couldn’t resist having a go with some beef. We had had a beef joint recently and the leftovers were sliced and frozen for another day. So out came some of that and I used the same...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, My Diary
Nipped down to Eastbourne this morning to see DD1. Took down a couple of big pots to add to the three already there, and some compost, and we potted up the 5 little fruit trees that were her Christmas present. The plum is already covered in blossom and she should have...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 17, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
Anchovy Paste Bought a tube of anchovy paste a while back, with the idea of exploring ways of using it here. Have looked up the price on mySupermarket, but have noticed that the blighters seem to be steadily removing Basics type lines, not that this tube is, but it...
