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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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Category Archives: Budget Meals
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
Posted in Budget Meals, Cook Once - Eat Twice, Main Course, Quick Meals, Two-for-one
Tagged budget-friendly, Lamb, lentils, Make Ahead, quick budget recipes
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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
Posted in Budget Meals, Weekly Menu Plan
Tagged budget menu plan, budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion
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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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A month of meals for less than £5 – and a weekly menu plan
Happy New Year! It’s January. The celebrations are over and it’s back to normality. No more over-indulging. In fact probably a bit of under-indulging wouldn’t go amiss in this household – so it’s back to budget menu planning with a … Continue reading
Creamy Pasta with Roast Vegetables
This is really simple food (my favourite sort!) It’s one of those recipes that we have regularly on busy days – a really easy weekday supper that you can just pop in the oven till its done. To cut down … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Main Course, Quick Meals
Tagged budget-friendly, cheese, less-than-£1-a-portion, Pasta, peppers, Tomato
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Week Four and a Fourth Budget Menu Plan
Oh dear this post is so-o-o late! My week hasn’t started well. Having menu planned at the weekend, I then did the on-line shopping only to end it so late that they had locked out all the delivery slots for … Continue reading
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A Picture of Success! And three Make-in-the-Microwave Pasta Sauces
OK – I agree, this picture might not look very exciting at first glance – but I was VERY pleased to get it! You may wonder why a picture of a tray of flapjacks is something to get excited about. … Continue reading
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Tagged cheese, less-than-£1-a-portion, mushrooms, Pasta, quick budget recipes, Super-quick meals, Tomato
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Another week – another Budget Menu Plan
Well, this is my third week of cost-cutting for us – the aim being to produce 5 meals a week for under £5 a time (for four people). Yes, we are only three at home now, but we had family … Continue reading
Smoked Mackerel Fishcakes
This picture may need a bit of explaining, but I need your help for this. Close your eyes – no, that won’t work – Wake up your taste buds and just imagine: a forkful of creamy fishcake … flavoured with … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, fish, leftovers, less-than-£1-a-portion, quick budget recipes
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