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Got too many runner beans? This lovely pesto will use up loads!

Got too many runner beans? This lovely pesto will use up loads!

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2017 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Other

If you grow runner beans, you may well have times, like me,  when you are a bit overwhelmed with them and don’t know what else to do with them. Personally, I think home frozen runners are vile. I’ve tried numerous different ways of preserving them and haven’t liked...

Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9

This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 2 60g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p 100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p 300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p 150g value pasta, 500g/29p, 9p 20g veg oil, Asda litre/89p, 2p...
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