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Hi, my name is Annie!
As a busy working mum I'm always looking for ways to save time (and money) in the kitchen but still produce healthy home-cooked meals. Here you can read about my continuing attempts to make delicious quick - & cheap - meals in no time! (and a few other recipes too...).
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Bacon and Lentil Soup
The last low cost weeklymenu plan should probably have been called ‘Lentil Week’ in our house! (I wonder if there is one?) First there was the Lamb and Lentil Curry with peas, then the Lamb pasties – both of which … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, Comfort food, lentils, quick budget recipes, soups
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A very late weekly menu plan
As you can see we haven’t been menu planning for a week or two – shocking isn’t it? My excuse is that I wasn’t well over half-term week (so it was just as well we hadn’t planned to go anywhere) … Continue reading
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Cut the Cost of Your Weekly Shop? 10 Top Tips for Spending less in the kitchen
Last year – following the Live Below the Line challenge – I added up the amount we spent on food, and was horrified. At a pound a day we could have kept a family of four going for several months! … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly
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Two-for-One Budget recipes: Lamb and Lentil Curry with Peas and Lamb Pasties
One of the tricks that people suggest to save money on your meals is to bulk out your meals with lentils and pulses. I have to admit that I’ve never been sure how that would go – or how they … Continue reading
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A Low Cost Weekly Menu Plan
Do you have to recycle your Food Waste?? I came home last week to find a little brown plastic box sitting on the door step labeled ‘Food Waste’. Having studiously ignored it for the last week or so, I finally … Continue reading
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Tagged budget menu plan, budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion
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Chicken, Courgette and Feta Crustless Quiche
During my recent browsing on the internet for recipes to use up leftover chicken, I came across this delicious Chicken and Feta Frittata. True to form I fiddled a bit, added in some leftover vegetables and thought I would try … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicken, courgette, feta, leftovers, less-than-£1-a-portion, peppers, quick budget recipes
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Take One Roast Chicken and make three (+) meals
You will be pleased to hear that our chicken did NOT end up in the bin. Yes – ‘only’ 86,000,000 chickens thrown away this year, not 86,000,001. One chicken turned into: Roast Chicken with all the trimmings on Saturday before … Continue reading
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Chicken Kurma
This is one of our family standbys – simple, reasonably quick and not expensive. I’ve cooked it for years and it’s always popular – a good solid four star meal. So having packed Student Son off to Uni after a … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, Chicken, leftovers, less-than-£1-a-portion, quick budget recipes
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Take One Roast Chicken…
Apparently we throw away the equivalent of 86 million chickens every year (so it says here). I didn’t think there were 86 million chickens in the UK. Clearly I was wrong. The Daily Mail tells us that we eat 2.2 … Continue reading
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Roast Pears with Caramel Sauce
It’s January. Yes I know it has been for a while now (11 and a bit days to be exact) but I always find that January takes a bit of getting used to. It’s great because you have all those … Continue reading
