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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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Tag Archives: budget-friendly
Sausage and Lentil Soup
Sausages never fail do they? I don’t know if its the same in your family – although I’m guessing it is – but whenever we have sausages for supper there’s very little problem getting everyone to clean their plates! But … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Quick Meals, Soups
Tagged budget-friendly, lentils, quick budget recipes, sausages, soups
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Cook Once – Eat Twice! Lamb Meatballs with Feta – Two ways
Don’t you just love those recipes that you can serve up in a number of different ways – cook double one night and serve it up looking like a whole new meal the next day (it saves all those groans … Continue reading
Posted in Budget Meals, Cook Once - Eat Twice, Freezing, Main Course
Tagged budget-friendly, feta, freezing, Lamb, Make Ahead, peppers, Tomato
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Once a Week (Budget) Cooking: and a £26 menu plan
If you’ve been here before you will know that I am a fan of Once a Month Cooking – at least for 29 days of the month. All those lovely stress free suppers are just brilliant! My problem is Cooking … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, freezing, Make Ahead
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Easy Cheese Crackers (91 pence)
As you’ve probably realised I’m into all things freezeable and frozen at the moment. This is one such recipe. It’s very easy – and quick – and tasty – and you can freeze the crackers and cook from frozen. Delicious … Continue reading
Two-for-One: Roast Tomato and Red Pepper Soup and Roast Tomato and Marscapone Pasta
If you do a search on Google for ‘Tomato Sauce’ you will get over 20 million hits (- in 0.38 seconds – I wish I could think that fast!). But I still think it’s worth giving you this recipe. It … Continue reading
Posted in Freezing, Main Course, Soups, Two-for-one
Tagged budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion, Pasta, peppers, soups, Tomato, vegetarian
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One of those weeks…and a Budget Recipe: Turkish Peppers and Eggs
Do you ever have weeks that don’t go quite how you planned them? Last week was one of those weeks from the culinary point of view. We didn’t do Live Below the Line, but I put together a £15 menu … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, eggs, peppers, quick budget recipes, Tomato
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Not – Live Below the Line (£15 menu)
It’s the week of Live Below the Line People all over the country are living off £1 a day for five days this week in order to raise awareness of the millions of people worldwide who live in extreme poverty … Continue reading
Posted in Weekly Menu Plan
Tagged budget menu plan, budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion, Live Below the Line
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Ham and Lentil Stew
This Ham and Lentil Stew recipe came out of a wish to use up a ton of cooked ham I had sometime last year. It is warm and comforting and substantial enough to serve up for a weekday supper and … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, ham, lentils, quick budget recipes
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Menu Plan : Quick Budget Recipes
One thing I’ve learned in my cost-cutting efforts is that if you want to make things cheaply it usually means cooking from scratch. Or, at least, cooking more from scratch than you did before. And that of course often takes … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, quick budget recipes
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Five ways with Smoked Mackerel
Smoked Mackerel has become one of our favorite foods in the last few months. It seems to just about have it all, doesn’t it? One of the oily fish – healthy, bursting with omega-3s and one of the foods that … Continue reading
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Tagged budget-friendly, fish, less-than-£1-a-portion
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