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UK budget cooking blog with cheap, healthy meals for families, with an emphasis on stretching a small food budget.
Cheap and healthy meals from a UK blogger, written for households watching every pound.
The meal plans page sets out weekly plans for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks, each priced to a daily food budget. It sets the plans against the average UK food spend and links to a printable planner.
Visit linkThe recipes index sorts dishes by meal and type: breakfast, lunch, dinners, puddings, cakes and bakes, sides, no-cook recipes, vegetarian and vegan dishes, and leftovers. Step-by-step guides show how to make a roast or poached chicken feed a family for a whole week.
Visit linkThrifty Lesley measures cooking in pounds a day rather than by recipe. Each meal plan is priced against a daily food budget, and the site began in 2013, when the household was feeding itself on £1 a day. Recipes lean on budget staples: lentil and chickpea plans, mixed vegetable soups, chia pudding, root vegetable dauphinoise made gluten-free and vegetarian, and cheese scones. Leftovers, reader recipes and a hints section on conversion charts and herbs fill out the index. The site is written from a small market town in East Sussex, and its prices are in pounds sterling.
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