by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 9, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches, Meal Plan 8
If you are following Meal Plan 8, use the chicken stock you made earlier, and the green lentils you cooked earlier in the week. Chicken Noodle Soup 100g onions, Asda 2kg/ £1.08, 5p 100g white cabbage Asda 57p/kg, 6p 100g carrots, Asda 57p/kg, 6p 100g egg noodles Asda...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 4, 2015 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Meal Plan 8
This is breakfast on days 3 and 6 for Meal Plan 8. Lovely, crispy, savoury pancakes. Filling, warming and satisfying. 75g white cabbage, 58p/kilo, 5p 100g self raising flour, valu 45p/1.5kg, 3p 15ml veg oil, Asda £1.25/litre, 2p 10g sweet chilli sauce, Asda 150ml/£1,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 31, 2015 | My Diary
Crocus and nearly meal plan 8 soup, 32p a serving Got these crocus growing on the windowsill. It’s so lovely to see their cheerfulness on such a bleak day. Feels like spring is not far away. DP is hacking bits off our kitchen ceiling as the blighter is still leaking....
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 27, 2015 | All Recipes, Lunches, Meal Plan 8
Food vouchers and Meal Plan 8, Lentils, chilli and coconut with salad 46p On Monday I went to Tunbridge Wells to use the BBC Radio Kent studio there for a live transmission to BBC Radio Coventry. While I was there, it’s 17 miles from home, I decided to pop into...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 25, 2015 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Meal Plan 8
Meal Plan 8 – Lentil salad with soy, 24p Serves 4 120g value plain yogort, 500g/45p, 11p100g onion, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 5p50g bean sprouts, Asda 360g/50p, 7p200g white cabbage, Asda 1kg/58p, 12p200g carrots, Asda 2kg/£1.14, 11p160g dry weight green lentils, 411g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 17, 2014 | All Recipes, Other
20p lunch, 19p vanilla pods and extremely cheap vanilla & cinnamon extract Had a pitta stuffed with soft cheese, carrot and lemon zest for lunch, along with a bit of leftover coleslaw from yesterday. Followed by a handful of grapes and a pear. So super healthy...
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 | Aug 23, 2014 | All Recipes, Lunches, Meal Plan 7
Meal Plan 7 – Mixed Veg Soup with Bacon, 22p a portion This is a lunchtime soup used on 2 days on Meal Plan 7. 100g onion, chopped, Asda, 2kg/£1.08, 5p100g white cabbage, Asda, 6p/100g, 6p100g carrots, Asda, 2kg/£1.18, 6p50g spaghetti, value 20p/500g, 2p50g red...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 22, 2014 | Lunches, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
Meal Plan 7 – Lentil & Veg Soup, 15p a portion This is a lunchtime soup used on 2 days on Meal Plan 7. 100g onion, chopped, Asda, 2kg/£1.08, 5p 100g white cabbage, Asda, 6p/100g, 6p 100g carrots, Asda, 2kg/£1.18, 6p 50g spaghetti, value 20p/500g, 2p 50g...
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 | Feb 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, My Diary
Fritters, Soup, Gloves and Karen Millen I made some lovely fritters for dinner yesterday. I grated the last of the carrots, small and wrinkly, fine chopped onion, fine chopped white cabbage and a grated parsnip that was going a bit soft. I would normally grate some...
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...
