by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 29, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Fed up with plain cheese sandwiches? How about flavoured potted cheese? Do you have cheese sandwiches for lunch? Are you a little tired of them, or maybe wanting to ring the changes a little? How about making a potted cheese. I have lots of little bits and pieces of...
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 | Nov 26, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Toasted Nan & Dahl, 38p a portion I have had this a few times, I have a clipping in my little brown book from where I cut it out from somewhere. It is extremely tasty and amazingly quick, you need to prepare the nan in advance, otherwise it just takes a few...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 9, 2013 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Apple and Spice Muffins, using no egg and my apples, 4p each, 9p if you buy the apples Just been having a little experiment in the kitchen. Due to budgetry constraints on our plans I have been musing about baking without eggs. I used to do it years and years ago but...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 16, 2013 | All Recipes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans, Puddings / Desserts
Oaty Apple Crumble, use foraged fruit and it’s even cheaper Sunday Lunch DP and I often have a Sunday lunch at, erm, lunchtime, then in the evening we have a pudding, often a fruit crumble with custard or evaporated milk. I always used to make custard using...
