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, 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 | Jul 29, 2018 | All Recipes, Other, Round Up Post
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,...
by Thrifty Lesley | Jul 5, 2017 | My Diary
Had the U3A cookery group here yesterday. As usual, we fitted in lots of different recipes in our two hours. As well as a couple of made up things, I wanted to try some recipes from a new book. I saw a couple of recipes from Izy Hozzack in the paper and liked the look...
by Thrifty Lesley | Apr 4, 2017
This meal plan is a celebration one. I wouldn’t usually suggest this much sugar. The plan is based around a leg of lamb, and so costs more than our usual plans, but at just £1.60 each per day, it’s still flipping cheap! You can cut the cost even further...
by Thrifty Lesley | Feb 16, 2017 | My Diary
Blooming fat demo’s? Well not quite! I’ve got three separate things to report and I was just playing with the title Long lasting poinsettia In the middle of December, Mike and I were walking in Eastbourne. We had a little browse round the Christmas market there, along...
