by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 15, 2014 | Dinners
We had these home made chicken goujons this evening. I used 250g chicken, half of a pack. But there was plenty, and a third of a pack would have been fine, so that is what I have priced it at. It works out 92p for the meal per person, which is more than we usually do...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 4, 2014 | Dinners, Lunches
Yesterday, I made Roasted Parsnip & Apple Salad from Hugh’s latest book. Ooh, nom, nom, nom. The dressing really makes this salad. Both sharp and sweet at the same time, the lemon juice is essential, the sweetening could be varied, as could the mustard. I made two...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2014 | Dinners
A recipe tonight. This is a dish I have been making for many years and was passed on to me by my Mum. It is filling, delicious, doesn’t take too long to make and is freezable. The portions are pretty generous, so if you don’t want that much, divide it up...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2014 | Dinners
Here is the recipe I promised you yesterday pastry 150g self raising flour, value flour 45p/1.5kg, 4p 75ml vegetable oil, £1.25 litre 9p filling 130g chicken, priced as in this post 99p 160g carrots, Asda SP £1.18p/2kg 9p 100g onion, Asda £1.08/2kg, 5p 3 eggs, Asda...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 24, 2014 | Dinners, Meal Plan 7
This is a dinner on Meal Plan 7, served on Day 4. 100g bacon, 75p/500g, 15p 100g onion, £1.08/2kg, 5p 100g carrots, £1.18/2kg, 6p 100g white cabbage, 52p/900g, 6p half a tin of tomatoes, 31p/tin, 16p 90g red lentils, 20p/100g, 18p 50g soft cheese, 88p/200g, 22p tblsp...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches
Oh the delights of growing tomatoes. This little lot are destined for the lunch time soup. I make tomato soup often, but only about now in the year do I make it with fresh ones. The taste is completely different, especially if I also have some fresh basil, which,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
We had an oldie but goodie for tea this evening. Thai green curry. I used a mix of carrots, a red and green pepper, Savoy cabbage, tomatoes and an onion. The protein part was paneer, and we had it with brown basmati. I tried costing it, but it came out to 98p, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 12, 2014 | My Diary
Have been sat at my desk a lot lately, and just couldn’t face more pc time to do any posts. Been stuck there again today and have been taking breaks to do things like the ironing! Comes to something when the ironing is a break! Still, was determined to get some...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 31, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
A couple of days ago, I made a variation of the pie using oil pastry. This is in fact, more or less, the original pie where I first made oil pastry on cheap family recipes, although we steamed it as a pudding there. When I made it it was evening, so I thought I would...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Stuffed peppers for tea this evening using two of the Aldi peppers. The feta has been in the fridge and had a best before date of October 2013. But because it was sealed in the packet, it is fine. Now I have opened it, I will have to use it up quite quickly. For 2,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
Peperonata is one of those things that we have pretty often. It is a pepper and onion stew that goes with many things, can be used as a main dish or as a side. We first started having it with cheesey gougere, which is choux pastry. Peperonata For two people you will...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
This was my dinner this evening. I picked up a small pack of liver at my recent shop at Morrisons. I really like it, Mike doesn’t, so this will make two meals for me. 200g lambs liver, Morrisons 59p 100g cooking bacon, chopped into dice, Asda 81p/500g, 16p 200g onion,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
I am supposed to be recipe testing the anchovy paste, but after chicken-gate this morning, guess what we’re having this eve? So I thought I would write up this recipe. It’s something I found somewhere or other and tweaked, as you do. A few years ago, a very good...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
There has been a lot going on in the kitchen today. Remember all those plums I had earlier in the year? I got a pot of them out of the freezer and cooked them up with a tsp of mixed spice and had them for breakfast with 25g porridge. Then lunchtime I had a soup. In...
