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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
More Low Cost Meals and a Weekly Menu plan
You may have seen last week that I’ve been trying to find some new cheaper meals – trying to cut costs but not flavour. The menu plan of cheap meals went pretty well – three recipes were lovely and I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged budget menu plan, budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion
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Not all goes to plan… and a Budget Recipe: Mushroom Carbonara
As we all know, the best plans can go awry. One such thing was the third recipe in this weeks budget menu: Coley Korma. It was not a success. I can’t blame anyone else for this – I made it … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Main Course, Quick Meals
Tagged budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion, mushrooms, Pasta, quick budget recipes, vegetarian
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Roast Tomato, Basil and Feta Tart
Day two of our budget week found us eating this lovely fresh Tomato, Basil and Feta Tart. Sadly not with tomatoes from the garden. The picture above is our total crop so far this year! It seems unlikely that we’re … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, cheese, less-than-£1-a-portion, Tomato
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Roast Sausages with Red Onion and Peppers
I guess it’s mandatory to post a Sausage recipe during British Sausage Week, but the truth is that we probably eat our fair share of sausages whatever the week. This is a pretty simple supper to put together. Just pop … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion, one-pot, sausages
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Roast Sausages and a Weekly Menu Plan
It’s British Sausage Week, so – of course – we have to eat sausages this week (see – the advertising is working). And talking of advertising have you realised that it’s only SEVEN WEEKS ’till Christmas?!? Now I love Christmas, … Continue reading
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Student Cooking and a Menu Plan
How did you learn to cook? I learnt from my Mum, growing up regularly helping her make things together – with a few lessons at school in sixth form. I guess most people probably learn the same sort of way … Continue reading
Ham, Spring Onion and Cheese Quiche
This is a lovely recipe for using up leftover ham (and if you saw the post last week you will know that we have quite a lot of ham to use up!). The ham and spring onions seem to complement … Continue reading
Two-for-One: Roast Honey Glazed Ham
OK – it’s not really roast dinner season at the moment – but when faced with large amounts of ham to cook (and you can of course eat cold ham in any season) I got out my recipes for Roast … Continue reading
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Honey and Mustard Glazed Ham and a Budget Menu Plan
Does it sometimes feel as if the Credit Crunch has been going on forever? If your answer to that is (like mine) a resounding ‘YES’, it turns out that the reason we think that is – because it has. Yep, … Continue reading
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Tagged ham, leftovers
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£25 Weekly Menu Plan for five weekday meals
Do you like watching cooking programmes on TV? You may remember a programme called ‘Economy Gastronomy’ which was on (in the UK) a few years ago. It was a series which looked at ‘ordinary’ people who were spending too much … Continue reading
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