by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 10, 2015 | All Recipes, Other
Spicy katjan sauce, so gorgeous I’m eating it with a spoon Went to the third Cooking Around The World class last night. We made Beef Rendang, a spicy Indonesian beef and coconut curry, and Gado Gado, a layered vegetable salad with Katjan sauce, which is a spicy...
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 | 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 | Sep 21, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Green lentil cottage pie, 4 very generous portions, 56p each A recipe tonight. This is a dish I have been making for many years and was passed on to me by my Mum. It is filling, delicious, doesn’t take too long to make and is freezable.The portions are pretty...
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 27, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Leftover chicken and vegetable crumble A damp bank holiday What a very damp Bank Holiday that was! And it’s set to be much the same all through this half term week. I am looking out of the windows at the front and the back of the house and there are big weeds that...
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 | Dec 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
12 portions of minced beef pasta bake, 34p each chocolate coinsCHOCOLATE! My goodness I’ve had much too much of it this week. Bad on so many levels – waistline, active fat doing goodness knows what in my insides, glucose levels, skin, migraine…….. I am going to have...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 7, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 2
Pancakes filled with Carrots, Onions and Peas in Soft Cheese A pair of pancakes stuffed with sauted vegetables and bound together with creamy soft cheese – delicious. This filling is onion, carrots and peas in soft cheese, but is very variable. Depends what you have,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 6, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 2
Olive Drop Scones, Crispy Fried Onions & Carrot Ribbon Salad, 24p a pop Dinner this evening were these delicious little drop scones, accompanied by crispy fried onions and a carrot salad with a few raisins sprinkled in and spritzed with lemon juice. I only ate...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Vegetable Stir Fry, 51p a serving This was supper last night. Haven’t had stir fry for a while, and saw some bean sprouts in Sainsbury’s, so that’s what we had. If you like stir fries and have them fairly often, it is really worth getting a little bottle of sesame...
