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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: less-than-£1-a-portion
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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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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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
Posted in Budget Meals, Main Course
Tagged budget-friendly, fish, less-than-£1-a-portion
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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, 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
Posted in Quick Meals
Tagged Chicken, courgette, feta, leftovers, less-than-£1-a-portion, peppers, quick budget recipes
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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
Posted in Budget Meals, Main Course, Student Cooking
Tagged budget-friendly, Chicken, leftovers, less-than-£1-a-portion, quick budget recipes
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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
Posted in Budget Meals, Weekly Menu Plan
Tagged budget-friendly, less-than-£1-a-portion
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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
Posted in Budget Meals, Quick Meals
Tagged cheese, less-than-£1-a-portion, mushrooms, Pasta, quick budget recipes, Super-quick meals, Tomato
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