by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Meal Plans, No Power Meal Plan
No Power Meal Plan – Couscous Salad 50p a serving 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....
by Thrifty Lesley | May 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners
101 ideas for dinner tomorrow, from 14p to 97p per portion, most around the 50p mark Wondering what to make for dinner tomorrow? Have a little look at the table of dinners from the ‘Recipes’ tab and see if you can find any inspiration Dinners Show entries Search: Cost...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 20, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
Yummy, filling and generous portions of Spring green pasta sauce with parmesan, 51p a head I was cruising round the Abel & Cole recipe pages last night and came across a recipe using dark greens in a pasta sauce. I had a head of spring greens I wanted to use, so...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 19, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches
A main course soup, based on Scotch Broth. About 47p for my unreproducible version Not so much a recipe today, as almost a serving suggestion. I was supposed to be testing Miss South’s Scotch Broth from her book, Slow Cooked today. <br /> However, I had a lot of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes
Using magic bread dough to make pizza Pizza for dinner tonight. Oops, forgot to take any pictures the picture above was taken after dark and is the last remaining portion. Remember the magic dough kept in the fridge?When we got back from the bread course we went to at...
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 | Jun 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Green Thai Kidney Bean Curry, 59p We had an oldie but goodie for tea this evening. Thai green curry. I used a mix of carrots, a red and green pepper, Savoy cabbage, tomatoes and an onion. The protein part was paneer, and we had it with brown basmati. I tried costing...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Sweetcorn Fritters, 30p a serving Remember these? Had them for dinner this evening with cauli and broccoli today, rather than peas. Lovely on a cold and wet evening, and nice and quick after going to book group this afternoon. I was sitting close to a very hot log...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2013 | All Recipes, Lunches, Meal Plan 3
Salami & Mixed Vegetable Soup with Croutons, 24p a serving This soup is from the third 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...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
Corned Beef & Mushroom Pie One day this week, I did a variation of the bacon and sweetcorn pie. I used a tin of corned beef that was in the cupboard to make a corned beef pie. The pie only used half the tin, for a 4 portion pie. I used the other half to make 4...
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...
