by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans
This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 2 60g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p 100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p 300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p 150g value pasta, 500g/29p, 9p 20g veg oil, Asda litre/89p, 2p...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 27, 2015 | Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan, Recipes Using No Power
Well this first recipe tested ok, good start. It has quite a lot of oil in it to get the calories in. If you don’t need that, you could cut the oil down quite a bit. If you have it, you could use olive oil here. There are 2 servings of fresh vegetables per person. It...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 23, 2015 | Dinners
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 with my lunch. They were really...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
This is a variation of Tomato Dahl, just replacing the tomatoes with spinach. I’ve used individual spices here, but you could use the equivalent amount of any curry powder or any curry paste. Make sure you sizzle the spices/paste in the oil. The tomatoes/spinach can...
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 | Dec 16, 2014 | Christmas, Dinners, Lunches
I had this for lunch today, from the Christmas 2014 Meal Plan. Serves 2 160g flour, value, 1.5kg/45p, 5p 200g frozen mixed veg, Asda 1kg/77p. 15p 120g frozen parsnips, Asda Chosen By You 680g pk/91p, 16p 100ml double cream, Asda Fresh cream 300ml/85p, 23p tsp mustard,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Doing lunch today for SIL (who is plastering our ceiling) and DP, using lamb mince from the freezer stash, it occurred to me that I could do something similar to the trio of recipes I did recently using beef mince. I did a beef ragu using a 500g pack of mince and made...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 1, 2014 | Dinners, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
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, 22p 50g bacon, Asda SP 500g/75p, 8p 200g onion, Asda SP...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 9, 2014 | All Recipes, Breakfast
I am a bit frustrated at the moment. The last two meal plans I put up are for 1 person, so I thought it would be interesting to amalgamate the two, and make one weeks plan for 2 people. I envisaged it as a bit of a 5 minute job. But I have fiddled and twiddled trying...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
This recipe is by request. It is from my recent LBL week. On the first day I had planned Lentil dumplings with tomato sauce. I have added more flavourings here than I had available on LBL! I had allocated 100g of flour and 100g lentils, but that was far far too much...
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 Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plans
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 28, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories
I tried these several years ago as my brother is coeliac and these, if you use the gram flour option, are gluten free. They are easy to make, freeze well and taste delicious. This recipe serves 4 adults. Great for kids as it’s easy to portion, they can just have...