by Thrifty Lesley | Jan 28, 2015 | Breakfast, Meal Plan 8
Peanut butter and coconut pancakes with sweet chilli Serves 2 100g value self raising flour, 1.5kg/45p, 3p 40g peanut butter, Asda 340g/62p, 7p 10g coconut cream, KTC 200g/76p, 4p 15ml oil to fry with, litre/£1.25, 2p 20g sweet chilli sauce Asda 150ml/£1, 13p Total...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 2, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
Broccoli and Almond Stuffed Pancakes This recipe started off as a savoury pancake recipe using a cauliflower. I made it, and warmed it in the oven with the sauce already on it, and it really didn’t work at all. It was dry and I’d managed to kill much of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 24, 2020 | All Recipes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
It’s Shrove Tuesday next week, the traditional day to use up everything that’s left before the arrival of Lent. Pancakes are one of those lovely things that can be paired with all manner of other things to make something delicious. If you have the minimum of...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 4, 2014 | All Recipes, Cakes and Bakes, Less than 500 calories, Meal Plan 2, Meal Plan 4
Are you doing pancakes this week? They are usually made with eggs, milk and flour, but have you tried them made with just flour and water? Doesn’t sound all that appealing does it. But I couldn’t tell the difference between my usual ones, made with eggs and milk, and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 27, 2022
Meal Plan 8 The Eighth Meal Plan. As I say every time, it shows 3 meals a day, plus some cakey extras to fill any gaps, for 7 days, for 2 adults. Change the meals around to suit yourself, combine the shopping list of ingredients in any other way that suits you, add...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 30, 2022
Meal Plan One This is a 7 day meal plan for 2 adults, based on red lentils, chick peas and bacon, providing a total of 4500 calories per day. All meals are included, it is assumed nothing is in the cupboard except salt and pepper. As at 25th September 2023 you will...
by Thrifty Lesley | Dec 31, 2020 | All Recipes, Round Up Post
Need some ideas for Veganuary? Are you doing Veganuary, or maybe you’d like some ideas for vegan meals on a budget Or perhaps you are a new vegan and haven’t really got to grips with what it means yet, many people are turning to plant based eating, not just for...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 17, 2020 | All Recipes, Love Your Leftovers
Over ripe bananas, we all get them. We buy nice, ripe bananas, and blink, before we know it, they’re over ripe, and not nice to eat. I like them riper than my husband, who likes them at that teeth roughening, under ripe stage. But they go from that stage to...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 21, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Lunches
A Month of Low Syn Budget Meals. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, the lot Are you following Slimming World? Or maybe you’d like too, but can’t see how you can because you’re on a tight budget as well? That’s not an easy combination. Dieting is...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Bits & Bobs All sorts of bits and bobs, from packed lunches to preserved lemons and piccalilli Other Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVegetarian Vegan Cinnamon Extractwonderful flavour and very unusual Vanilla Extract - Home Madebest flavour ever, and so...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 3, 2019 | Round Up Post
Dinners Dinners Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVegetarian VeganGluten free Broccoli Pesto (for the whole batch of pesto)1685 cals158g fat26g protein57g carbs Nut Balls in a Tomato Sauce Greek Fried Cauliflower Tapas - Patatas Bravas, Butter Beans with Lemon...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 2, 2019 | Round Up Post
Breakfasts Breakfasts Cost per portionCalories FatProteinCarbsVegetarian VeganGluten Free Cooked Muesli Overnight Oatsveg/vegan with appropriate subsuse gf oatssquillions of variations Plummy Oatsveg/vegan with appropriate subsuse gf flourlots of different...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 29, 2018 | All Recipes, Other
Have you, like me, been making wonderfully fresh and delicious home made jam from all the fantastic produce available in the summer, perhaps from garden or allotment? I simply love loading up the cupboards with jars of jewel coloured preserves. Home Made Jam Recently,...
by Thrifty Lesley | May 19, 2018 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Cakes and Bakes, Dinners, Lunches, Round Up Post
There is a Facebook group set up for people expressing an interest for extremely cheap meals, not a £1 a day, but an even more frugal 50p a day. So if you’re saving really hard for a house deposit, a special holiday, a new car perhaps, or maybe illness, redundancy,...