by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 3, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 8
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 bird, £1.13 150g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 8p 200g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 25, 2015 | Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 8
Serves 4 120g value plain yogort, 500g/45p, 11p 100g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 5p 50g bean sprouts, Asda 360g/50p, 7p 200g white cabbage, Asda 1kg/58p, 12p 200g carrots, Asda 2kg/£1.14, 11p 160g dry weight green lentils, 411g cooked 500g/£1, 32p 60ml oil, 1 litre/£1.25,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 22, 2015 | Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plan 14, Meal Plan 8, Meal Plan 9
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 I had some oats, oil, onions and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Yesterday, I was reading a German cook book and came across these unusual looking things. They are made using gnochhi dough, but fried in butter at the end. They would make wonderfully delicious little morsels. Here is a gnocchi recipe using fresh potatoes, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Was intending to make plain scones today, but ended up adding rosemary and cayenne, plus some oats. It worked very well. They had a lovely flavour from the rosemary, and a bit of a kick from the cayenne. The oats gave them quite a different texture, more short than...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
I have been experimenting today with various things, including these delicious stuffed pancakes. The youngest of my two daughters is a busy community nurse and has asked me if I would do some lunches for her. Of course I would! You know how I love to twiddle in the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 6, 2013 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
I have a very long list of recipes to try, price and post and one of those recipes was gnocchi. Miss South over on northsouthfood.com posted a recipe for just that, but using instant mashed potato. I was very surprised by that to say the least, I associate dried mash...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 3
This soup is from the third weekly meal planner. It is for 2 people to have twice during the week. If you want to make it vegetarian, just leave out the salami, in which case you might like to add a handful of red lentils for the protein The salami gives a good punch...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 18, 2013 | All Recipes, Meal Plan 2, Other
Croutons are incredibly useful little things. They can shoosh up many a dish. Try using the end of a loaf, or something that’s gone a bit stale to eat as bread to make some. You could freeze them, or the un-croutoned bread (my preference), so you can have some...
