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Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters

Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters

by Thrifty Lesley | May 18, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Stretch A Chicken

Rubber Chicken (7) Fritters Ages ago now, I started a Rubber Chicken feature, conjuring a total of 28 portions from 1 x £4.99 chicken. These fritters are part of that and are the penultimate recipe, still one more to go! Pick all the meat from the chicken carcass,...

Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans

Pasta & Tomato Sauce, Meal Plan 9, 33p This is dinner on day 2 and 5 of Meal Plan 9 Pasta & Tomato Sauce serves 260g cheddar, grated,Asda 350g/£1.55, 27p100g onion, Asda 1kg/59p, 6p300g tinned tomatoes – NB, not a whole tin, 23p150g value pasta, 500g/29p,...
2 sandwiches, 2 toasty breakfasts and 2 pasta dinners from 1 tin of sardines. Just 83p for all 6 meals!!

2 sandwiches, 2 toasty breakfasts and 2 pasta dinners from 1 tin of sardines. Just 83p for all 6 meals!!

by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 21, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 10

2 sandwiches, 2 toasty breakfasts and 2 pasta dinners from 1 tin of sardines. Just 83p for all 6 meals!! First of all, apologies for the recent lack of posts. I have been well and truly bugged over the last 10 days or so. Where I am, there has been a virulent virus...
A main course soup, based on Scotch Broth. About 47p for my unreproducible version

A main course soup, based on Scotch Broth. About 47p for my unreproducible version

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...
Using magic bread dough to make pizza

Using magic bread dough to make pizza

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...
Meal Plan 7 – Scone Based Pizza, 23p a portion

Meal Plan 7 – Scone Based Pizza, 23p a portion

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...
Meal Plan 7 – casserole of bacon, veg, toms & soft cheese, 45p a serving

Meal Plan 7 – casserole of bacon, veg, toms & soft cheese, 45p a serving

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,...
Sardines on Toast, from 38p, and most of the Omega 3 you will need for a week

Sardines on Toast, from 38p, and most of the Omega 3 you will need for a week

by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 16, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches

Sardines on Toast, from 38p, and most of the Omega 3 you will need for a week A very simple and super quick lunch. A tin of sardines in tomato sauce on a couple of slices of granary toast. Just to up the tomatoeyness even more, I added a handful of cherry tomatoes as...

Lentil Dumplings, with Tomato Sauce, 20-30p a serving, + green vegetable

by Thrifty Lesley | May 2, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7

Lentil Dumplings, with Tomato Sauce, 20-30p a serving, + green vegetable 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...
12 portions of minced beef pasta bake, 34p each

12 portions of minced beef pasta bake, 34p each

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...
Spinach Stuffed Pancakes with Tomato Sauce & Cheese 51p

Spinach Stuffed Pancakes with Tomato Sauce & Cheese 51p

by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners

Spinach Stuffed Pancakes with Tomato Sauce & Cheese 51p 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...
Gnocchi made with dried mash! Served with tomato sauce

Gnocchi made with dried mash! Served with tomato sauce

by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 6, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3, Meal Plans

Gnocchi made with dried mash! Served with tomato sauce 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...
Pizza, 32cm, chorizo and roasted vegetable, 53p. If it serves 2, 26p each

Pizza, 32cm, chorizo and roasted vegetable, 53p. If it serves 2, 26p each

by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 13, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3

Pizza, 32cm, chorizo and roasted vegetable, 53p. If it serves 2, 26p each Oh my goodness, this was SO good. Soft roasted vegetables, spicy paprika chorizo, smooth tomato sauce, crispy thin pizza base. Yum YUM This mixture made two 32cm pizzas, you could make both and...
Spinach Dumplings with Spicy Tomato Sauce

Spinach Dumplings with Spicy Tomato Sauce

by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 28, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories

Spinach Dumplings with Spicy Tomato Sauce 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...
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