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,...
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 | Mar 21, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 10
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 doing the rounds that basically wipes you out for two weeks. It feels much more like flu than anything else...
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 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...
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 | Dec 20, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners
CHOCOLATE! 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 to seriously diet after Christmas. In...
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 13, 2013 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 3
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 have one the next day, or freeze one, ready made up to pop in the oven. 1...
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...
