by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 20, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
Spicy Chicken Pasta Bake – Stretch A Chicken (4) Got a little bit of chicken to use up? Try it in this spicy pasta bake- make it as hot and spicy as you like! How to make Spicy Chicken Pasta Chop the onion and sauté in a little oil until soft. Add garlic,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 17, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
Chicken Pizza with onions and peppers – Stretch A Chicken (3) Pizza is one off the worlds favourite foods for at least 1000 years, loved, and made, by millions. Pizza toppings can make a meal from little things leftover in the fridge, or as here, from chicken...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 11, 2022 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
How to stretch a chicken to last the whole week I am in the process of rewriting this series, originally written in 2014. So while I am doing that, the quantities etc in the associated recipes may not all match up – please bear with me. There will be much better...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 2, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 2
Cream Cheese Pizza With a little adjusting, I have made enough calories available to have an 8th day on Meal Plan 2 – which brings the cost down even further! Very pleased with that. How do I make Cream Cheese Pizza Mix the flour and yeast, salt and sugar, with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
BBQ Pizza I really fancied a BBQ pizza one day and wondered what I would need to use for toppings. Having made some vegan BBQ sauce that was really successful a while previously, I wanted to use that and decided to use it as the base sauce instead of a tomato one....
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 13, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners
Bacon and leek pie I found the base of this recipe in one of my many cook books – The National Trusts Great British Vegetable Cookbook by Sybil Kapoor. It has loads of recipes that I have marked to try ; stir fried cabbage with pork balls; stuffed parathas;...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2020 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Other
BBQ Sauce, it’s vegan too This vegan BBQ sauce recipe is pretty simple, just bung everything in a saucepan and reduce it down a bit Vegan BBQ Sauce BBQ sauce is a very useful condiment to have about the place, just about as versatile as tomato ketchup. Use it on...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 260g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p150g value pasta, 500g/29p,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
Aldi Pizza & Chips – Meal Plan 9, 60p each I have been a lady who lunches this week. I know I am anyway, but it was even more this week. On Wednesday, it was a good friends 70th and we went to hers for a bit of a party. Lots of talk, laughs and giggles....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 16, 2015 | Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
A brand new meal plan, number 9, a bit different this time Here is the latest Meal Plan, number 9. Something a bit different this time, it includes bought bran flakes for some breakfasts, and a bought pizza. I just need to make and post a few recipes. The only one I...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
101 ideas for dinner tomorrow, from 14p to 97p per portion, most around the 50p mark Wondering what to make for dinner tomorrow? Have a little look at the table of dinners from the ‘Recipes’ tab and see if you can find any inspiration Dinners Show entries Search: Cost...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 26, 2015 | Meal Plans, My Diary
Poop, larders and less than £1 a day, how about 53p? Has the poop hit the fan? Do you need to feed people for less than £1 a day? Crucial question, do you have a larder?If you do, then these recipes may help. There are no exotic ingredients, just ordinary things like...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Using magic bread dough to make pizza Pizza for dinner tonight. Oops, forgot to take any pictures the picture above was taken after dark and is the last remaining portion. Remember the magic dough kept in the fridge?When we got back from the bread course we went to at...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
Meal Plan 7 – Scone Based Pizza, 23p a portion I based this on a recipe I devised whilst doing the LBLUK challenge earlier this year. The picture comes from then, and I apologise for the blocky image it is! 50g soft cheese, Asda Smart Price (SP) 200g/88p, 22p50g...
