by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 19, 2014 | Dinners, Meal Plan 7, Meal Plans
In meal plan 7 we have a cottage pie, a lasagna and spaghetti bolognese. All three recipes use the same ragu as a base. Beef Ragu used 3 ways 500g mince, £1.99 Asda 60g bacon pieces, chopped small, 500g/75p Asda, 9p 300g onions, chopped, Asda 2kg/£1.08, 16p 450g...
by Thrifty Lesley | Oct 26, 2022
Meal Plan Seven Edited and refreshed in October 2022. You will need £17.48 at the checkout, with just £13.04 worth of food used during the week, or 93p pppd This is our Seventh Meal Plan. As for all the others, it shows 3 meals a day, plus some cakey extras to fill...
by Thrifty Lesley | Nov 26, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Doing lunch today for SIL (who is plastering our ceiling) and DP, using lamb mince from the freezer stash, it occurred to me that I could do something similar to the trio of recipes I did recently using beef mince. I did a beef ragu using a 500g pack of mince and made...
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 | Apr 21, 2019 | All Recipes, Breakfast, Dinners, Less than 500 calories, Lunches
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 difficult enough, without adding in financial restrictions. Well, in an...
by Thrifty Lesley | Sep 21, 2014 | Dinners
A recipe tonight. This is a dish I have been making for many years and was passed on to me by my Mum. It is filling, delicious, doesn’t take too long to make and is freezable. The portions are pretty generous, so if you don’t want that much, divide it up...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 25, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners, Meal Plan 7
This recipe uses the third, and last, portion of the ragu made earlier. The picture shows my portion, which is a quarter of the finished dish, not a half. One third of the ragu mix £1.02 400ml skimmed milk, 2.27 litres/£1, 18p 100g + 50g flour, 45p/1.5kg, 5p Total...
by Thrifty Lesley | Aug 2, 2020 | Cakes and Bakes, Dinners
my meal plan for week 3rd August 2020 This Weeks Meal Plan Monday – Bean Burgers, Root Chips and Red Cabbage Coleslaw. The root chips are frozen ones that I splashed out on. My husband particularly likes these burgers. Tuesday – Miso Crispy Topped Veg, I...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 27, 2020 | Cakes and Bakes, Dinners
my meal plan for week 20Jul20 This Weeks Meal Plan Monday – Punjabi Cabbage, Split Peas, Matar Paneer and Nan. I’ll write up the Punjabi Cabbage and Matar Paneer recipes Tuesday – Mushroom & Olive Bake. Yes, I’m trying that mushroom and...
by Thrifty Lesley | Mar 12, 2019
Thrifty Lesley Meal Plans Meal Plans For 2 People Meal Plan 1 for 2 people Meal Plan 2 for 2 people. Soft cheese, red lentils and couscous Meal Plan 3 for 2 people. Meal Plan 4 for 2 people No Power Meal Plan. Tuna, beans, peanut butter Meal Plan 7 for 2 people....
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,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 5, 2014 | All Recipes, Dinners
Had one of those pricing surprises I talk about today. I made a Spaghetti Bolognese using a recipe, not one of those mince splodge things I do, when I add all kinds of things to stretch the mix. I used the recipe from a book called Silver Spoon, which is the...
