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Pork meatballs with added veg and barley

Pork meatballs with added veg and barley

by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 6, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

I bought 2 packs of yellow sticker pork mince recently. There was a post on the Facebook group talking about some meatballs from Waitrose which had added vegetables and pearl barley. I thought these sounded lovely, so decided to use some of the mince to experiment....
Barley Salad, 59p. Versatile, delicious and very easy to make

Barley Salad, 59p. Versatile, delicious and very easy to make

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 24, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides

I haven’t done a recipe for you for a while. I did a soup earlier this week using the juices from some boiled beef, miscellaneous veg from the fridge and some pearl barley. I looked at the container with the pearl barley in, and thought I may as well cook all...
A main course soup – mulligatawny, 46p a big bowl

A main course soup – mulligatawny, 46p a big bowl

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Dinners

I bagged some lovely organic beef mince on yellow sticker last week and stashed them in the freezer for when I was ready to use them. They worked out, even on yellow sticker, at just a bit more than ordinary 10% fat beef mince, that’s the organic part I suppose. Today...
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