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Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££’s

Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££’s

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Christmas, Christmas Meal Plan 4, Meal Plans

Christmas Week Food. Lots of festive flavours & not many £££’s Christmas Meal Plan If you are on a tight budget, Christmas food can be very difficult, causing stress, and maybe even debt too. Happily, you can enjoy a delicious festive meal, and eat well for...
Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan

Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan

by Thrifty Lesley | May 3, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches

Peanut Butter Noodles. Add chicken or fish, or keep it vegan These peanut butter noodles don’t take too long and are really yummy, we’ve had them several times now. You can really stretch out a few shreds of chicken with this. I’ve done it with noodles and...
Pork meatballs with added veg and barley

Pork meatballs with added veg and barley

by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 6, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Pork meatballs with added veg and barley I bought 2 packs of yellow sticker pork mince recently. There was a post on the Facebook group talking about some meatballs from Waitrose which had added vegetables and pearl barley. I thought these sounded lovely, so decided...
Home made sausages

Home made sausages

by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 16, 2016 | Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches

Home made sausages I have been fancying for a while having a go at making sausages, and this week, I did just that. I was in Sainsburys and thought I’d get some pork to make some. I picked up a shoulder joint that had been reduced and looked at the back of the pack...
Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters

Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters

by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Rubber Chicken

Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters Ages ago now, I started a Rubber Chicken feature, conjuring a total of 28 portions from 1 x £4.99 chicken. These fritters are part of that and are the penultimate recipe, still one more to go! Pick all the meat from the chicken carcass,...
Rubber Chicken (6) – Chicken & Onion Pasta Bake

Rubber Chicken (6) – Chicken & Onion Pasta Bake

by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 24, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Rubber Chicken

Rubber Chicken (6) – Chicken & Onion Pasta Bake Edit In the end, I didn’t have this Rubber Chicken dish at all yesterday. Late in the afternoon, I checked my diary for something else, and realised that we were due to go out that evening. Good job I...
Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track

Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 30, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches

Cashew Chicken, 89p a serving, and how to stay on track We had this lovely recipe for dinner this evening. I found the idea on the web, but can’t remember where now. It was a slow cooker recipe, but I just bubbled it on the hob, and I’ve tweaked it, as you do. It’s a...
Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner, Ham and Cheese Pancakes, 23p

Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner, Ham and Cheese Pancakes, 23p

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 12, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches

Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner, Ham and Cheese Pancakes, 23p Something interesting popped up in my Bloglovin feed yesterday.Ham and Cheddar Waffle Bread from our ourbestbites.com I thought it would cost up for a lunch or dinner on ThriftyLesley, so I had a go at lunchtime...
A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p

A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p

by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 28, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners

A frugalised version of a Slimming World Pastitisio, 56p I made a recipe from this months Slimming World magazine yesterday. A classic Greek dish, Pastitsio. It’s supposed to feed four, but when I went to layer it up in a four portion dish, the dish was nowhere near...

101 ideas for dinner tomorrow, from 14p to 97p per portion, most around the 50p mark

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...
Christmas Meal Plan – Gnocchi, pork bits and stuffing, 36p a serving

Christmas Meal Plan – Gnocchi, pork bits and stuffing, 36p a serving

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 23, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas Meal Plan 2, Dinners, Lunches

Christmas Meal Plan – Gnocchi, pork bits and stuffing, 36p a serving Goodness, how December has whizzed past, we’ll be talking leftovers in no time at all. Are you all ready now? I’m off in a bit to wrap a couple more little presents and we’re...
Christmas Meal Plan Leftovers – Pork, Apple & Stuffing Lasagna, 26p a portion

Christmas Meal Plan Leftovers – Pork, Apple & Stuffing Lasagna, 26p a portion

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Love Your Leftovers

Christmas Meal Plan Leftovers – Pork, Apple & Stuffing Lasagna, 26p a portion One more recipe to go for the Christmas Meal Plan, the gnocchi. But before I do that one, I wanted to have a play around with some of the possible leftovers from the festive week....
Christmas Meal Plan – HM pasta, cream, mixed veg, mustard 30p

Christmas Meal Plan – HM pasta, cream, mixed veg, mustard 30p

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 16, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Lunches

Christmas Meal Plan – HM pasta, cream, mixed veg, mustard 30p I had this for lunch today, from the Christmas 2014 Meal Plan. Serves 2 160g flour, value, 1.5kg/45p, 5p200g frozen mixed veg, Asda 1kg/77p. 15p120g frozen parsnips, Asda Chosen By You 680g pk/91p,...
Christmas Meal Plan – Roast Pork Lunch, 84p

Christmas Meal Plan – Roast Pork Lunch, 84p

by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 9, 2014 | All Recipes, Christmas, Dinners, Lunches

Christmas Meal Plan – Roast Pork Lunch, 84p This is the lunch for Christmas Day itself from the Christmas Meal Plan. 1.6kg Asda Butchers Selection British Pork Shoulder joint, £4.61, 300g, 86pStuffing, Asda Smartprice 85g/15p, half the pack, 7p500g Potatoes,...
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