by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 22, 2023 | All Recipes, Sides
One of the u3a groups that I belong to has a group called Cookalong. In it, we decide on a theme, soups say, Easter bakes or, next month, hearty salads. We all make one, take it along to group, and all taste and talk about the various recipes. One month, we did...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 27, 2021 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2
Raisin Biscuits Post originally published October 2013, refreshed and updated November 2021 These little biscuits are fun to make, especially if you make tiny hearts or teeny squares. Spice them up with cinnamon or mixed spice at Christmas time. Or see the variations...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 24, 2021 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Meal Plan 4
Carrot & Sultana Loaf This post was first written in October 2013. Re-written and refreshedin September 2021. If you take 250g flour, some yeast and water, you can add many, many different things to it and get a lovely loaf, with 4 portions, to use for any meal,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 23, 2019 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Cabbage, sultana and nut pasta bake This recipe is inspired by one I found in a recipe book first published in 1994 – The Vegetarian Pasta Book. I’ve been making, and adapting, lots of recipes from it. Amazingly, it’s still in print, and, as a bonus, extremely...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 21, 2017 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
How to make a cake with just 3 ingredients, or maybe even 2! For when the SHTF? This is the recipe for the three ingredient cake I talked about recently on Facebook. It’s quite a thing around the internet although I’ve only just come across it. There are different...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 15, 2015 | All Recipes, Other
Auntie Louisa’s Chutney Today’s recipe is from a reader, Tass Smith. Tass generously offered her chutney recipe when I said just how many apples I had picked from our little Fiesta Tree and was wondering what to do with them all. This recipe came from my...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches
We both had this for our lunch today. I had bought a pack of value ham for recipe testing, so now I need to use it up. I use a George Foreman grill which I’ve had for, ooh, 15 years? We’ve been in this house 8.5 years now, and I’d had it years and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 22, 2015 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Lunches, Meal Plan 10, Meal Plan 8
Bannocks with roasted veg hoummous 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Roast Parsnip & Apple Salad, with Carrot, Raisin & Peanut Salad and Jacket Potato, total of 54p each Yesterday, I made Roasted Parsnip & Apple Salad from Hugh’s latest book. <br /> Ooh, nom, nom, nom. The dressing really makes this salad. Both...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 3, 2013 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3
These vegan oat bars are delicious, a flapjack with a jam layer. A raspberry flapjack is my favourite, with homemade raspberry jam. They obviously are sweet, but maybe not as sweet as the name suggests. I have updated the quantity of sugar in line with current...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Lunch today was a sandwich I discovered on one of Hugh Fearnley-Whiitingstall’s programmes and in one of his books, Veg Every Day What is a lentil sandwich like? It sounds a very odd combination, (well it did to me anyway, much as I use lentils, in a...
