by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Meal Plan 10
Herby Pancakes with a Poached Egg 14p – Meal Plan 10 This is breakfast on Meal Plan 10 on days 1 and 4 Serves 2120g value self raising flour, 45p/1,5kg, 4p2 eggs, mixed weight £70p/6, 23pPinch or so of dried mixed herbs, 1-2p15ml veg oil to cook, 2pTotal cost...
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 13, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Cheesy Bean Lasagna, based on a SW recipe, 60p a servi g I was sure I had blogged this recipe before, but I can’t find it, so I can’t have done. It is yet another recipe from this months Slimming World – a good haul of recipes I like this time. Their recipe is called...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 260g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p150g value pasta, 500g/29p,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 6, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
Roasted vegetable soup, with a scone and roasted onion topping, 32p This is dinner on day 3 of Meal Plan 9. It is a naturally vegan recipe if that is of interest to you (natural in that no substitution of anything is needed) Serves 2150g carrots, Asda 49p/kg, 7p200g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 23, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
Roasted Vegetables in the Hole, 43p Arrgh, the pictures simply won’t size properly, it’s driving me nuts! Doing some gardening today, I pulled up a self sown Pink Fir Apple potato that was in the way of the spinach and it had several little potatoes on, so I had those...
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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2015 | Lunches, Meal Plan 4
Meal Plan 4 – a scrummy lunch of Butter Bean Pate, carrot sticks & pitta, 18p This was lunch today, after a vigorous gym session. It didn’t take long to prepare, although I did have a big dish of butter beans, already cooked, in the fridge. It was...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 3, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 8
Meal Plan 8 – Chicken & Dumplings 37p A simple, quick and filling dinner. If you are not following meal plan 8, add any extra veg you would like to and vary the seasonings to give more variations 240g cooked chicken, 680g meat gleaned from a 1.3kg/£3.22...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 25, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 8
Meal Plan 8 – Lentil salad with soy, 24p Serves 4 120g value plain yogort, 500g/45p, 11p100g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 5p50g bean sprouts, Asda 360g/50p, 7p200g white cabbage, Asda 1kg/58p, 12p200g carrots, Asda 2kg/£1.14, 11p160g dry weight green lentils, 411g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plan 8
Bannocks with roasted veg hoummous Made these at tea time. I’ve been working out the recipes for the new meal plan. I need to use up all the groceries on the shopping list, or the people following it wouldn’t have enough calories for the week. I found that...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Finger Dumplings, delicious little butter crisped fingers. Very versatile, savoury or sweet. Yesterday, I was reading a German cook book and came across these unusual looking things. <br /> They are made using gnochhi dough, but fried in butter at the end. They...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 4, 2015 | All Recipes, Other, Round Up Post
Cranberry Curd, £1.18 a jar, and lots and lots of other variations, including savoury ones I made this today. Had a pack of cranberries in the fridge and I love a good curd, so decided to make a cranberry curd with them. I looked at various recipes on the net. Many...
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,...
