by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 4, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Sage, lemon and pumpkin seed pesto £2.99 for a huge jar I really fancied something made with a lemon from the fridge and lots of mint from the garden today. But the mint is straggly and chewed. An alternative would have been lemon balm, but that was even worse, every...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Stretch A 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,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 8, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Lentil flour and the simplest bread I’ve ever made I was looking round the Internet last week, as you do, and came across lentil flour. What’s that, thought I, sounds intriguing. I started off with lentil flour and ended up with a loaf made with fizzy...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 23, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Recipes for yesterday’s baking – chapatti, muffins and a loaf Chapatti To make a batch of chapatti, I used the recipe from the back of the sack of flour. Mix 300g of chapatti or wholemeal flour with enough cold water to make a stiff dough. They didn’t say...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2016 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches
chapatti Had a lovely play in the kitchen yesterday. Made some chapatti using some Approved Food flour – do you remember those huge, massive, giant bags I got ages ago? Yes, I’m still using them. Chapatti made with chapatti flour rather than wholemeal...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 3, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Use it up meals, Roquefort tart, split pea soup. Soup just 13p Couple of use it ups today, Roquefort tart and split pea soup. Use it up meals, Roquefort tart and split pea soup. I was convinced I had blogged the split pea soup recipe before, but after extensive...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Zombie burgers using dead bread Tried the first experiment with reviving dead bread stored as breadcrumbs today. Had a look in the fridge and found a few bits and pieces that I thought would work, got a bag of breadcrumbs out of the freezer and had a play. I have set...
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Cheese and Ham Toastie, 18p each We both had this for our lunch today. I had bought a pack of value ham for recipe testing, so now I need to use it up. I use a George Foreman grill which I’ve had for, ooh, 15 years? We’ve been in this house 8.5 years now, and I’d had...
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 13, 2015 | Meal Plan 1, Meal Plans
An Eighth Day using Meal Plan 1 leftovers Kathryn challenged me to do an eighth day using the leftovers from Meal Plan 1, or even a ninth. An eighth is possible, but there aren’t enough calories available in the leftovers for another day after that.So, how about this...
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 | May 26, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Salsa di Noci e Pasta 56p a serving This recipe is from The Silver Spoon, the Italians Mrs Beeton. It has 2000 recipes, mainly 1 paragraph, not many pictures, but lots and lots of little gems. Like this one. <br /> 200g walnuts, Aldi £1.89 4 tblsp oil,...
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...
