by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 25, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
Jacket Potato Fillings Jacket potatoes, or perhaps you know them as baked potatoes, are a very popular lunch or dinner. Properly frugal, very versatile, filling, a good dieting meal if you want it to be and can be prepared in advance for convenience. What do you have...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2018 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Busy, busy, busy, plus a long lasting Tzatziki. Make a sandwich with it for lunch, with lettuce, for 14p A long lasting Tzatziki. Make a sandwich with it for lunch, with lettuce, for 14p Well phew, what a busy weekend. And you should see my diary for the next...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 28, 2017 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Round Up Post
8 Sandwich Pastes for super cheap sandwiches and toast toppers I have made lots of different sandwich pastes and toast toppers. This round up post gathers together 8 of them. I’ve really liked each of them. They are quick and cheap to make, freeze well and can be used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 28, 2016 | All Recipes
Picnics in the cold, and a tin of tuna Went to Glyndebourne yesterday, with the friend I go to see the live transmissions with. No, not the posh, picnic in the garden type. Very expensive! We went to see the youth group do a modern opera called Nothing. It was...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 29, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9
Had this for my lunch today, mmmm, very yummy serves 2 130g cheese Asda 350g/£1.55, 58p 200g potatoes, Asda 59p/kg, 12p 40g ham, Asda 400g/£1.49, 15p 60g olives Asda drained weight 180g/£1.29, 43p Total cost £1.28, 64p per portion Slice up the potatoes, no need to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 10, 2015 | Lunches, Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan, Recipes Using No Power
I know sandwiches are hardly a recipe, but I wanted to go through the quantities and prep, just to be clear. For the hoummous and carrot sandwiches Serves 2 Tin of chickpeas, drained, use half the tin. Asda 4 for £1, 12p 100g carrots, grated, no need to peel, Asda,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 13, 2015 | Meal Plan 1, Meal Plans
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 Breakfast – make porridge with 60g oats...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 9, 2015 | My Diary
Well I’ve now got lovely gel nails, and these lashes, bat, bat. I love them. Horribly expensive and very glamorous Picked up the corsage for my hat from the florist Then today, DP and I went to Claverham College for a cooking course, Greek Cuisine. It went on all day...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 18, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
After the successful experiment with chicken and sun dried tomato paste, I couldn’t resist having a go with some beef. We had had a beef joint recently and the leftovers were sliced and frozen for another day. So out came some of that and I used the same...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 7, 2015 | Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 4
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 filling, even tho it was less than 300 calories, and 3 hours later, I am not in the least bit...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 8, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Christmas
Busy, busy day today. Had to move loads of DP’s stuff out of the way and clean up loads of grit and grime in preparation for the photographers visit. And that was before starting any of the food to be cooked and photographed. I did all the dishes for Christmas Day...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 19, 2014 | Breakfast, Lunches
The simplest of simple breakfasts this morning. I got some yellow stickered smoked mackerel this week. So this morning I toasted a slice of granary bread, slathered on some soft cheese and flaked half a mackerel fillet on top. Simples! Slice toast, a 22 slice 75p...
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 | 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...
