by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 12
Here is another dahl recipe, a coconutty one this time. I like to use brown basmati rice with most things, if you wanted to use value rice, it would reduce the cost to just 17p a portion. This is a very quick meal, from packet to table in 20 minutes, and most of that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 26, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
I have had this a few times, I have a clipping in my little brown book from where I cut it out from somewhere. It is extremely tasty and amazingly quick, you need to prepare the nan in advance, otherwise it just takes a few minutes. Toasted Nan & Dahl tblsp medium...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 4, 2013 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 4
This recipe is one I have had in my recipe book for a very long time. As is the case with many curries, it is very variable. You can change the vegetables around pretty much to whatever you want for 4 servings, you will need 175g dried butter beans, 500g/£1.09, 38p 3...
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 | Sep 21, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
One day this week, I did a variation of the bacon and sweetcorn pie. I used a tin of corned beef that was in the cupboard to make a corned beef pie. The pie only used half the tin, for a 4 portion pie. I used the other half to make 4 portions of beef hash which I’ll...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 7, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 2
A pair of pancakes stuffed with sauted vegetables and bound together with creamy soft cheese – delicious. This filling is onion, carrots and peas in soft cheese, but is very variable. Depends what you have, you can use up lots of things. How to make these...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 18, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
I was inspired yesterday by Jack Monroe’s ingenious use of fish paste to make a pasta sauce, it isn’t an ingredient I have ever given a passing thought to and had a look on mysupermarket.co.uk to see what other varieties were available. At that price there were...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 19, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 1
This post was first written in June 2013 and updated in June 2021. Potato and Onion Hash – grated vegetables slowly fried until there is lovely crisp crust. served with bacon, peas and ketchup. Or you could whizz up all the ingredients into a warming soup...