by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 25, 2024 | Dinners, Poaching A Whole Chicken
How to poach a whole chicken to use for multiple meals Why poach a chicken? Two main reasons. Poaching means that your chicken meat will be beautifully moist, much more so than a roasted one, and with little effort on your behalf. And secondly, much less fuel is used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2024 | All Recipes, Dinners, Stretch A Chicken
How to stretch a chicken to last the whole week Do I need to buy a whole chicken? Buying a whole chicken and jointing it yourself is cheaper than buying ready jointed chicken pieces. If you are going to roast a chicken, then a whole one is much nicer to present at the...
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 | 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 – Stretch A Chicken (6) 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...
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
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
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. Lovely. On Thursday, I was taken out for an Italian by...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 26, 2015 | Meal Plans, My Diary
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 carrots, onions, flour, rapeseed oil, oats, sugar,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2014 | Bready Things, Cakes and Bakes
Pizza for dinner tonight. Oops, forgot to take any pictures, the picture 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 River Cottage, I made a bread mix. I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2014 | Dinners, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
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, 22p 50g bacon, Asda SP 500g/75p, 8p 200g onion, Asda SP...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 18, 2014 | Bready Things, My Diary
I have lots of lovely pictures to show you, but they simply won’t load today. The broadband speed is appalling this evening and everything is taking for ever. So I’ll post this and get the pictures in when I can. Shame about the piccies I’ve updated with the pictures...
