by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
Spinach & Coconut Dahl This is a variation of Tomato Dahl, just replacing the tomatoes with spinach. I’ve used individual spices here, but you could use the equivalent amount of any curry powder or any curry paste. Make sure you sizzle the spices/paste in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 28, 2014 | Christmas, Love Your Leftovers
Good Old Turkey Curry – 81p a portion, plus how to make leftover turkey soup Had not one, but two Boxing Day classics today. I know it’s not actually Boxing Day, but it still feels like it! Plus I found this great graphic and I want to use it I dismantled the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 16, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches, My Diary
Nans, Drawers and Wedding Cakes Having this for lunch today, Toasted Nan and Dahl. I will be using dried chickpeas from my store, some of the coconut milk powder that I have masses of and I shall make a nan using the magic dough in the fridge. For the squeeze of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 24, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
Meal Plan 7 – casserole of bacon, veg, toms & soft cheese, 45p a serving This is a dinner on Meal Plan 7, served on Day 4. 100g bacon, 75p/500g, 15p100g onion, £1.08/2kg, 5p100g carrots, £1.18/2kg, 6p100g white cabbage, 52p/900g, 6phalf a tin of tomatoes,...
by admin | Jul 18, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Broad bean, pea and mint risotto, 53p Here is the recipe for the risotto we had yesterday. I halved a recipe that was supposed to serve 5-6 as a starter, but half would actually easily serve 4 as a main I found the recipe in the Guardian. 200g broad beans, Asda frozen...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 10, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Mango, coconut and feta pasta Archives Archives Tried a variation of the Chickpea, Mango and Coconut Curry today.Made the sauce as usual, then added some green beans from the freezer. And then instead of rice, nan, or anything else like that, I stirred it through...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Green Thai Kidney Bean Curry, 59p 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 20, 2014 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
Spring green breakfast pancakes and really good tortillas Couple of successful experiments today. First up were these bubble and squeak pancakes this morning. I had made a curry a few days previously, including a side dish of some spring greens swooshed up with a few...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Aldi Bargains (3) Feta Stuffed Peppers 64p 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 24, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Aldi Bargains (2) Mushroom Stroganoff, 70p Went to a pub, the Bottle House, very close to where I used to live yesterday for a 60th Birthday Celebration for one of my brothers. It was a lovely family ‘do’. I had started the day with a migraine that was probably...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 22, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
Aldi bargains (1) Peperonata, 53p 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....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Chicken, Soy, Honey and Sesame with Rice, 64p a portion 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Lemon Dahl from 18p to 24p depending on if you use value or basmati rice The second Dahl recipe for today, a lemony one this time. I really like this with a lovely fresh nan and some cool veg, like shredded lettuce and cucumber Lemon Dahl Serves 2100g red lentils....
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Coconut Dahl, from 17p to 23p a portion depending on if you use value or basmati rice Here is another dahl recipe, a coconutty one this time. I like to use brown basmati rice with most things, if you wanted to use value rice, it would reduce the cost to just 17p a...
