by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 29, 2023 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 9, Meal Plans For 2
The Ninth Meal Plan. Last priced at Aldi.com, on 28th April 2024. You will need £22.17 at the checkout, but the food eaten comes to £19.19, which is £1.37 per person, per day As I say every time, it shows 3 meals a day, plus some cakey extras to fill any gaps, for 7...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 5, 2016 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches, Meal Plan 14
The budget cookery group for the U3A were here Tuesday afternoon and one of the things we made was fish cakes. We did one version using a tin of sardines in tomato sauce, and another using a tin of tuna canned in oil. Sardines in Tomato Sauce Fish Cakes Tin of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 28, 2016 | All Recipes
Went to Glyndebourne yesterday, with the friend I go to see the live transmissions with. No, not the posh, picnic in the garden type. Very expensive! We went to see the youth group do a modern opera called Nothing. It was distinctively modern. The singing was...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 5, 2015 | Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
When I was last in Aldi, I picked up a tin of their pink salmon. Wondering which of lots of things that can be done, I wondered what to do with it. I thought it could well price up to make fish cakes, which I love! So I had a little look at what I would need, and yes,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 11, 2015 | All Meal Plans, All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 9
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 | Jun 19, 2015 | All Meal Plans, Meal Plan 9
This was my tea tonight, the tuna pasta salad from Meal Plan 9. On the meal plan, this salad is used as a lunch, but it could just as easily be a dinner, and in fact, it was What you need to make tuna pasta salad half a tin of tuna, Aldi, 49p, 25p 80g onion, Aldi 59p...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jun 18, 2015 | Dinners, Meal Plan 9
This delicious pie is from Meal Plan 9. The Meal Plan is for 2 people, providing everything needed for the week except drinks. I tried to update the prices today, but mySupermarket isn’t showing Aldi and the Aldi site itself is showing a limited selection of what they...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 5, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Lunches, Other
Yesterday, I was reading a German cook book and came across these unusual looking things. They are made using gnochhi dough, but fried in butter at the end. They would make wonderfully delicious little morsels. Here is a gnocchi recipe using fresh potatoes, and...