by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 27, 2023 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
I bought a 200g packet of smoked mackerel fillets and wondered how I could stretch them into lovely meals for 2. The first one I tried was this recipe for mackerel pâté that is super simple and very delicious. What do I need to make mackerel pâté smoked mackerel...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 30, 2021 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plan 2
Olive, Soft Cheese and Cucumber Sandwich First written in August 2013, refreshed and updated December 2021 For quite a few years now, once a month, I have coffee with a friend in The Baytree, one of the independent little coffee shops in Heathfield. We were talking...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 29, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2
Pasta with Olives, Tomato & Soft Cheese Post first written in September 2013. Refreshed and updated November 2021. This recipe makes a generous portion of pasta, dressed with olives, tomato puree and soft cheese. Very quick to make, just taking as long as the...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 20, 2021 | Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches, Sides
Soufflé Croûton Slice I went to a Cookalong recently where we all took a different soup. I tasted 10 soups that day, which was fabulous! All of them very different. One of the members also brought Mary Berry’s Wonderful Soufflé Croûtons, which truly were rather...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 2, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 2
Cream Cheese Pizza With a little adjusting, I have made enough calories available to have an 8th day on Meal Plan 2 – which brings the cost down even further! Very pleased with that. How do I make Cream Cheese Pizza Mix the flour and yeast, salt and sugar, with...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 14, 2021 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Pea Tart I saw something like this pea tart recipe somewhere. I thought I knew where, but when I came to make it, I couldn’t find it, so had to start from first principles. You could just as easily call this a pea quiche as a pea tart What is in a pea tart There...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 7, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Red Pepper & Walnut Tart with Winter Coleslaw I had the U3A cookery group round recently and we like to make canapes at the December meeting. Amongst other things, we made these Red Pepper, Goats Cheese and Walnut Palmiers, and they were delicious, although they...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 21, 2017 | All Recipes, Puddings / Desserts
Salted caramel cheesecake It was the U3A AGM yesterday. We offer tea and biscuits usually, but because it was the AGM we upgraded to cakes. I decided to take some cheesecakes in ramekins. I did a strawberry topped one and this salted caramel using a recipe I’ve used...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 21, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 10
2 sandwiches, 2 toasty breakfasts and 2 pasta dinners from 1 tin of sardines. Just 83p for all 6 meals!! First of all, apologies for the recent lack of posts. I have been well and truly bugged over the last 10 days or so. Where I am, there has been a virulent virus...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Lunches
Smoked mackerel & creamy soft cheese on granary toast, 63p. Plus, how to stay on budget for the day 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,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
Meal Plan 7 – Scone Based Pizza, 23p a portion I based this on a recipe I devised whilst doing the LBLUK challenge earlier this year. The picture comes from then, and I apologise for the blocky image it is! 50g soft cheese, Asda Smart Price (SP) 200g/88p, 22p50g...
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 Thrifty Lesley | May 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Novel uses for radishes I was cruising around the internet last night looking for ways to use radishes, as the box I grew in the greenhouse is now stuffed full of the most perfect specimens. Not a slug bite out of any of them, lovely size, nice and peppery. Gorgeous,...
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...
