by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 28, 2020 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Love Your Leftovers, Lunches
Christmas leftovers – part 4. Chestnut Soup; Fruit Crumble Toppings; Mixed Nut Butter; Turkey Zombie Burgers Part 4 of our attack on those Christmas leftovers. Chestnuts, and no stuffing Don’t know about you, but I always buy several packs of ready to eat...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 22, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Puddings / Desserts
Easy Poached Pears Without Alcohol I made these rather wonderful easy poached pears without wine today when we had guests for lunch. I thought I’d see if I could frugalise the recipe. I have described these as with no alcohol, although I realise that the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Fed up with plain cheese sandwiches? How about flavoured potted cheese? 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Roast Parsnip & Apple Salad, with Carrot, Raisin & Peanut Salad and Jacket Potato, total of 54p each Yesterday, I made Roasted Parsnip & Apple Salad from Hugh’s latest book. <br /> Ooh, nom, nom, nom. The dressing really makes this salad. Both...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 16, 2014 | All Recipes, My Diary
Asparagus, redundant pear trees, clementines and mandarin ice cream, 14p Even more achey today, if aching muscles are anything to go by, I should have buns of steel by next week! More of the same as yesterday today. Cut down a very old pear tree that only produced a...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 16, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans, Puddings / Desserts
Oaty Apple Crumble, use foraged fruit and it’s even cheaper Sunday Lunch DP and I often have a Sunday lunch at, erm, lunchtime, then in the evening we have a pudding, often a fruit crumble with custard or evaporated milk. I always used to make custard using...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 3, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3
Jammy Flapjack. This vegan oat bar can be savoury too These vegan oat bars are delicious, a flapjack with a jam layer. A raspberry flapjack is my favourite, with homemade raspberry jam. They obviously are sweet, but maybe not as sweet as the name suggests. I have...
