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16 December: Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah


Everything you need for Christmas Dinner: turkey, veg, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce

Festive Alternatives to Turkey: chicken, game, beef, pork, lamb, fish, vegetarian & vegan

Scrumptious holiday desserts: luxury, teatime, low-fat & sugar, easy, cheats




11 December: Festive Breads & Crackers + Vegetable Side
Holiday Breads, Rolls & Crackers: Luxury, Family & in-between: here wonderfully luxurious Date & Nut Crackers but there are plenty of choices for family meals  
Vegetable sides, hot & cold, for the Festive Season: mostly simple, easy and dairy-free



3 December: Appetisers, Soups & Simple Meals Dad & the Kids can Make
Help Mum Get Through the Festivities 2024: Easy Meals for Kids & Dads: kids will love making as well as eating them
Festive Canapes & Starters from the 67goingon50 Archive: many easy, low-fat & wallet-friendly
Scrumptious Winter Holiday Soups: impressive scrumptious offerings for guests and wallet-friendly bowls for family 


19 November: Thanksgiving & after
Dairy-Free Butternut Squash Cheese Sauce (here on brown rice with mini-beef meatballs & green onion garnish)
Date & Walnut Freezer Cookies


13 November:  Thanksgiving 
Blueberry Orange Sponge: fruit studded make ahead harvest cake
Festive Mains for Thanksgiving: poultry, beef, pork, fish & vegetarian/vegan


6 November 2024
Make-Ahead two stage Uber Apple Crumble 
Vegan Butterbean Pate
Revised Bacon & Egg Pie: frugal, delicious and satisfying



28 October 2024: 
67goingon50 Favs for Hallowe'en Potluck Party  
Updated Potluck Parties for Beginners: budget conscious
Spicy Corn Chowder, 4 ways: Vegetarian or Fish or Carnivore Version - or all 3
Hot & Sour Soup for lovers of the spicy AND exotic: really delicious and health improving
Low-sugar Chocolate Truffles: Plain or Chilli: easy, prep ahead


16 October 2024:  
Gems from the early Archive of 67goingon50


9 October 2024:  Firmly rooted in cooler weathe
Healthier Kung Pao Chicken: great flavour, lower fat & colorful crunchy veg
Dairy-free Plum Crumble Cardomum Cake: knock-em-dead taste & texture
Early Autumn Comfort food from the Archive



3 October 2024
Potage of Butternut Squash, Orange & Ginger (Updated): Vegan, prep ahead, wallet-friendly
Pensioners'/Student's Delight: Hoisin Chicken with Tomato Cucumber & Avocado Salad: easy-peasy, wallet-friendly, carb-free
High protein/fibre Chocolate Biscuits: you won't believe these wonderful cookie/cakes are healthy



19 September
Handy-dandy updated recipes for busy September/uni students: Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies; Crumbly Chocolate Shortbread Fingers; Almost Instant Fruit Compote/Jam 

Updated Southern Spiced Un-fried Chicken: Skinny, Low-fat/Cholesterol/salt;  easy, prep ahead




24 July: Looking for delightful first courses and canapes for the picnic season? These recipes from the archive will please family and friends alike.
Fabulous appetisers and canapes for summer from the67 archive


17 JULY: Meat feasts are the name of the game as we indulge in picnics and barbeques (weather permitting!) 
A sterling selection from the 67goingon50 archive offers some of the most popular summer meat dishes & marinades.  Also, a reminder of practical tips to make food prep easier when meals become a chore in a heat wave.  
Meat Feast for picnics & barbecues
Simple, sassy current marinades for chicken
Practical tips for easy, healthy summer cooking  
Pre-diabetic/Weight Loss Report 16
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10 July: Turn everyday main or side dishes into delights with fresh-fruit combos of protein or salad leaves 
(some recipes repeated due to late posting during election week)
Fruit & Protein Salads/Mains: nearly all healthy, most are easy; many wallet-friendly and easily adapted to small households.
Pea, Broadbean & Endame Dip: (New) Just Wow! Prepare the night before
Small Households' Exotic Skinnier Eton Mess...or Something Very Like It: ultra delicious, easy and lower-fat, too.
Special Treat Steak Salad: quick, easy, flavourful & wallet-friendly


3 July: Election Day! Dishes to celebrate/commiserate 
Special Treat/Comfort Steak Salad:  quick, easy, flavourful & wallet-friendly
Small Households' Exotic Skinnier Eton Mess...or Something Very Like It: ultra delicious, easy and lower-fat, too  
Pea, Broadbean & Endame Dip: Just Wow! Prepare the night before



26 June:  STRAWBERRIES!
Strawberry Sensations for a Heat Wave
Everything You Need to Know About Strawberries
How to Freeze Fresh Strawberries for Winter



9 June: Quick & Easy Treats for a Busy Week
Grape Rice Salad with Hoisin Chicken: (New) easy, budget-friendly, make-ahead, portable
Lime Almond Shortbread Thins: (New) quick indulgent pleasure


12 June: 
Celebrating Potatoes with BBQ/Buffet/Al Fresco dishes: mostly low-fat & salt, easy make-ahead, budget friendly

22 May: Easy-peasy Fruity Dishes
Chicken, Kiwi & Rice Salad: (New) quick, leftovers; maybe 2 prep bowls 
Madeira Cake: heavenly scent & texture; wallet friendly

15 May: Salad Days are Here at Last!
Economy healthy salads: please taste-buds & wallets with the fewest ingredients 
Salads that Bridge the spring-summer gap: with proteins on or in main-course salads 



8 May: Easy Budget-friendly Chinese Noodles & Beginners' Bread
Make-Your-Own Delicious Chow Mein Noodles: (New) healthier & cheaper than a take-away, triple-duty
Easy Yeasted Wholemeal Bread: (NEW) great for beginners, , budget & time friendly; tasty, toasts like a dream
Pre-diabetic/Weight Loss: Report 11



24 April:  Butternut Squash from the Souk; High-protein low-carb waffles & pancakes 
Banana, Cottage Cheese & Oat 
waffles & pancakes

16 April:  Butter-free sweet treats for Sunshine & Showers
Pre-diabetic/Weight Loss: Report 9


27 March Easter: Lamb for the budget-conscious & a special occasion cake


20 March:  A mixed bag: luxurious avocados, a template for salads and 'cheats' Egg Drop Mushroom Soup
Avocado Salad for Nearly-Spring: (New) a template for salad novices


12 March:  A tasty budget meal as resources shift to Easter + Proteins for Oldies
Tuna and Tomato Fried Rice: (New) as appealing and delicious as the original but with a fresh twist
Also: 
Calculating Protein for Ageing Vigorous Exercisers (New)
PD/WLP (Pre-diabetic/Weight Loss) Weekly Report returns soon


6 March: Another brilliant vegetable, fruit and nut salad 
Shaved Sprout, Fennel, Orange & Almond Salad: (New) Vegan, prep-ahead, seasonal produce, lunchbox-friendly

PD/WLP (Pre-diabetic/Weight Loss) Weekly Report returns soon


28 Feb: High Protein, low-fat meals
Slow-cooked Game Birds (Partridge/Pheasant) with fruit and (opt) alcohol 
Prawn, Pea & Corn Salad: (New) quick & easy, high protein & fibre, low fat, leftovers



21 Feb: Guilt-free High-Protein Chocolate Spread/Dip
Gorgeous Rich Chocolate Spread for the Health Conscious: (New) easy; no nuts, sugar, gluten or dairy


7 Feb: Low-carb noodles & Valentines' Day weeknight suppers 
Spicy Low-Carb Noodles:  flavourful, crunchy;Triple Duty; pre-diabetics
Weeknight Valentine Dinners: tasty, Luxury, Frugal & in-between


Jan 31: Wallet-Friendly Chinese New Year & Valentine's Day Treats
4-ingredient Mocha Nut Brownies: (New) no added sugar; quick & easy 
Low-sugar Chocolate & Fruit treats: wallet-friendly;low-fat
Home-cooked Chinese dishes: tasty & quick; cheaper than take-aways

Jan 24: Scrumptious  belly-filling soups to ease the chill and boost body & soul
Fagioli E Pasta (Bean & Pasta Italian Soup) (New) from Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa
Almost-instant Make-it-Yourself Bagels: air fryer or oven, no boiling; no yeast, sugar or fat
Hot & Sour Immunity Boosting Soup: invigorating, creamy non-dairy textures; easily digested


Jan 17: Easy 'Clean' Budget Recipes for January 
Easy-peasy Rich Tomato Soup: (New) so versatile - vegan, vegetarian, fish or meat (or all 4!) 
Primrose's Excellent Lo-Sugar Flapjacks: (New) 3 ingredients; dreamy taste & texture 
5-minute Seeded Irish Soda Bread:high fibre; fat & egg free; so tasty, you'll make it again and again!


Budget-friendly recipes for a happy frugal January 
Orange & Crispy Kale Side/Snack: loads of texture & taste contrasts
January Sugar-free Granola (vegan): budget-friendly terrifically tasty high protein cereal

2 Aug: a terrific holiday send-off with a stonkingly delicious Crunchy Summer Salad from Cameron Diaz
Twosome's Crunchy Summer Salad (vegan) stonkingly delicious crunchy fruity richly flavoured salad loaded with greens


19 July:  
Singleton's Fruit & Rosé Cocktail


28 June 2023: Food for Happy Hoildays
Pensioners Delight: Party/Potluck Muffletta: Italian style layered sandwich designed for pensioners, toddlers & the dentally challenged.  


21 June 2023: American July 4 Celebrations - another excuse for a knees up in glorious sunshine

Mouthwatering Chow Mein Noodle Salad: frugal, triple duty; it's the sacuce that makes it so marvellous!
Creamy White Rice Salad: frugal, clean eating/easily digested salad for summer buffets


Strawberry Lime Fizz: fruity thirst quencher with a kick of lime; add booze or water


29 May: Gosh, is it really June already??
Pineapple Blueberry
Crumble Bars



Pineapple & Blueberry Oatmeal & Crumble Bars (New): fruity, high-fibre treat 

Cajun Chicken Legs: Quick & Easy; frugal, portable, stove-top, air-fryer



17 May: Lighter foods and Glorious Sides as Spring settles in
Twosome's Poached Fish French Style: (New) silky texture; delicate broth

Lemon-Mint Angel Food Cakes: Sensational, butter-free, wallet-friendly



3 May 2023:  Easy-peasy recipes for Spring
Crispy Roasted Broccoli with Garlic & Parmesan: so good it could be a snack as well as a side dish

10 May 2023: Quick, easy and delicious is the name of the game as for home cooks getting to grips with the Cost of Living Crisis
Kid-ults' Potato & Frankfurter Salad

Simple Breads & Rolls; quick prep: even tweenagers can make them

Main Course Salads for Spring: budget-conscious, leftovers, easy, dieters' delights 





3 May 2023:  Easy-peasy recipes for Spring
Revised 5-minute Seeded Irish Soda Bread: quick, easy and fabulously good
Crispy Roasted Broccoli with Garlic & Parmesan: easy, vegetarian/vegan; so good it could be a snack as well as a side dish


26 April 2023:  The Cost of Living Crisis Really Begins to Bite
Pudding: easy indulgence uses up chocolate leftovers
frugal, quick, easy, high fibre; utterly delicious & satisfyin



4 April 2023:  HERE COME THE EASTER HOLIDAYS!  AND SPRING!! 

Pensioners/Crowds Delight: Chicken wings with Chilli, Lime & Hoisin Glaze: flaming hot or mildly spicy 



 29 Mar 2023:  FRUGAL OR FULL-BLOWN, EASTER'S ON THE WAY

Boozy Asian Chicken Stew
Cantonese Chicken, White Wine & Mushroom Stew: low fat & carb; quick, frugal 

fruity indulgence

 







22 Mar 2023: GETTING READY FOR SPRING
Pensioners' Delight: Simple Lemon Pepper pasta, with or without veg, frugal, quick, hot or cold. high fibre
Months End Spinach, Rice & Bean Soup:  frugal, healthy, easy prep, satisfying
Double Chocolate Apricot Nut Bars: use up Christmas baking leftovers in this glorious cakey traybake



8 Mar 2023: MOTHERS' DAY 
Ukrainian Beef & Potato Stew: lo-fat wallet-friendly classic comfort food wherever it's eaten
'Cowgirl' pistachio & cherry cookies: highly popular slightly healthy treat loaded with dried fruit, nuts & other tasty bits

 

23 Feb 2023: Bibs and Bob
Pensioners/Twosomes Home-made Supersize Fish Fingers: (New) quick and tasty, better than mass-produced



15 Feb 2023: SHROVE TUESDAY/PANCAKE DAY
Seafood Pancake, Korean Style: (New) perfect treat for pensioners & twosomes


8 February 2023: VALENTINE'S & PANCAKE DAY
Luxury Pistachio Valentine's Cheesecake: unusual  - in a good way -  sensationally creamy treat for a loved one. Incl. Budget Options
Pensioners/2'somes Delight: Lentil Pancake Avocado Brunch: unexpectedly delightful; frugal, easy, vegetarian, high protein & fibre


25 January 2023: For the dog days of end January

Carrot, Ginger & Lemon Potage  thrifty, comforting & satisfying
Savoury Stuffed Waffles for Soups & Stews: crispy, crunchy & fabulous
1-pot beautiful braised liver & bacon rice: 'So generously studded with veg and meat it's like a celebration.


26 October 2022: Can we now just celebrate Hallowe'en/Bonfire Night?
Dukkah Crusted Chicken Wings with Tahini Dip: (New)Egyptian/Mid Eastern nut, spice & herb blend


19 October 2022: Prepare for the Worst; hope for the best (Part 2
Savoury Party Popcorn: additive & sugar free; vegan; low- fat/salt; small households, frugal
Baked treats without an oven:(New) adapted from BBC Food


12 October 2022: Prepare for the Worst; hope 
Chicken Thighs, Dominican Style: easy, Pensioners Delight, low-fat & sugar 



5 October 2022: RECIPES FOR AN EASIER LIFE



Making and Freezeing Marinara Sauce: low fat, salt & preservatives; easy


Coffee Mini-Cakes with Dalgona icing:  easy-peasy indulgence
Basic Chocolate Ganache: exquisite  icing/spread/truffle base



2 September 2022: Quick & Easy for frantic September
Pensioners' Delight: Almost Instant Soup, with the help of supermarket friends
Pensioners' Delight: World's Quickest Cheese Muffins? Definitely one of the most delicious.  And Egg-free
Singleton's Crystal Noodle Salad with Calamari: almost no cooking, easy-peasy & quick



Pensioners' Delight: Lemon-Pepper Wings, crispy'n juicy, for crowds or couples; easy
Pea & Mint Dip/Spread: no garlic or onion; a FODMAP recipe to help the gut



Pensioners' Delight: Crispy Turkey Escalope, delightful indulgence 

Small Households: Blueberry Cream Scones, an indulgent treat with iced tea



Toast Topper: Cherry Salsa on Cream Cheese plus Duck Cherry Salsa No-Carb Rolls, unusual wallet-friendly treats


3 August 2022: Starting to cook again!
Pensioners' Delight: Mediterranean Rice Salad: perfect for budget lunch al fresco; every mouthful a winner 



27 July 2022: More Hot Weather Food
Pensioners' Delight: Creamy Carnival Prawn Potato Salad: light & easily digested

Effortless Pickling Brine: pickling veg in ten minutes 











Pensioners' Delight: Basic Foolproof Burgers:4 x 150g burgers, 2 for now, 3 for the freezer, with a carb, well under a fiver


Watermelon, Lime & Mint Cordial: team with alcohol or fizzy water for a refreshing drink 

29 June 2022: Quick & Easy Food for Summer
Strawberries & Cream with a Sweet Ginger twist (New): an elevated super-exciting twist on a classic treat

June 22: Whew! What a Scorcher
Pensioners' Delight Smoked Mackerel & Grapefruit Salad, £5: Make this refreshing delicious salad one of your two fish meals this week. 
Couples' Strawberry Cream Sponge: glorious 4-ingredient European sponge filled with best berries and cream 

15 June 2022: Laid-back Fathers' Day
Pensioner's £5 Delight:  Sausage Bean & Beer stew, salad & Apple Hand Pies; tasty and well balanced 

8 June 2022: Back to normal
67goingon50 Condiments Cupboard:  Condiments provide a big boost of flavour & enhance bog-standard ingredients
Pensioners' Delight: £4 three course meal: £4 three course meal: Spicy Pork Shoulder with Crispy Baked Potatoes & Simple Frugal Salad


1 June 2022: Jubilee Week Special (New)
Pensioners' Delight: Simple Mustard Maple Chicken, main course for 4, at less than a fiver
Singleton Cheat's Prawn Salad: wallet-friendly & there'll be prawns left over
 Singleton's Sensational Shortbread: adapted from lovely-bubbly Jaimie Oliver












BAKERY
3-ingredient 'Biscuit' Cake: ready in 20 mins plus icing
Almost Instant Tender Baps: healthy, fast and gorgeously soft 
Apple Hand Pies: indulgent lower-sugar treat; easy option
Spicy Apple Rockcakes: gloriously autumnal, easy, lower-sugar
Blueberry Cream Scones, easy, an indulgent treat with iced tea
Blueberry, Pineapple & Walnut Cake; fruity indulgence to die for
Blueberry Pancakes, make-ahead
Blondies: marriage of white chocolate chip cookies & traybake cake; quick & easy but oh-so-indulgent
Bread & Butter Pudding, Boozy Orange, frugal
'Bottom-of-the Barrel' Shortbread: easy, crisp, melt-in-the-mouth
67's less-butter fluffy 'Buttercream' icing: smooth, creamy and utterly glorious 
Buttermilk Pancakes (from across the pond): fabulous 
Speedy Fluffy Breakfast Buns, for lazy w/ends or breakfast on the run 
Skinnier Breakfast Biscuits & Baps lower-fat, higher-fibre, no egg/yeast
Breakfast Muffins, Healthiest,Prepare Ahead, Portable 
Breakfast Roll, Lebanese Style, make ahead, healthy, wallet-friendly
Breakfast Sweet Bread, Easy Peasy
No added sugar Mocha Nut Brownies:  for sugar-phobes & pre-diabetics; quick & easy 
Foolproof Classic Brownies: Squidgy? Rich & cake-like?  Or both? 
Butter Scones/Biscuits
67's less-butter fluffy 'Buttercream' icing: smooth, creamy & glorious
Caramel Apple Sauce
: sensationally delicious, economical, too
Cheat's Garlic Cheese Buns: lower-fat, tear-apart supermarket buns 
World's Quickest Cheese Muffins? Definitely one of the most delicious.  And Egg-free
Cheese & Chive Crackers, crisp & melt-in-the-mouth
Cheese, Tomato & Onion Biscuits: Fabulous crumbly and savoury
Cheese Straws, Sensational: frugal luxury treat using leftover cheese
Cherry Almond Bakewell Fingers: Skinnier 
Cherry Chocolate Sheet Cake For or a crowd
Chocolate Caramel Cake & Icing: so good, they'll demand more 
Chocolate Chip Thins, make-ahead, slightly healthier
Chocolate Cinnamon Orange Ice-box Cookies: slice 'n bake when needed
Healthier Chocolate Cupcakes for Busy Mums: easy-peasy, for School
 Chocolate Daisy Sandwich Cookies, kids will love making & eating these 
Chocolate Flower Pancakes: as good to eat as to look at 
Chocolate Globs, Mind-blowing, with crunchy peanut-butter core 
Chocolate Madeira Cake: one-bowl-wonder
Chocolate Mint Bread & Butter Pudding: sensational, prep ahead 3 days
Chocolate Mint Cookies : fat-free, lower sugar, higher protein spelt flour 
Chocolate Nut Twists, frugal
Chocolate & Peanut Butter Midi-Cakes: egg-free, vegan option
Chocolate Walnut Butter Squares, Canadian bakery delights
Chocomint Custard Sponge: easy fab dessert the family will scarf in minutes  
White Chocolate Egg Nog Truffles: fabulous
Coconut Cherry Kisses, ambrosial low-sugar treats, effortless 
Coffee Walnut Cake, Vegetarian frugal crowd-pleaser; vegan option 
Cranberry Nut Oatmeal Molasses Bread: easy healthy more-ish bread
Cream Crackers: exquisite, 
Cowgirl' pistachio & cherry cookies: highly popular slightly healthy treat loaded with fruit, nuts & other tasty bits
Crepes A L'Orange, lower-sugar
Sweet Pastry Dessert Cookies: easy-peasy, special occasion indulgence
Double Chocolate Apricot Nut Bars: use up Christmas baking leftovers in this glorious cakey traybake
Double Strawberry No-bake Cloud Pie, light & luscious; portable 
Easy-Peasy Flaky Pastry, vegetarian
Easy Yeasted Wholemeal Bread great for beginners, , budget & time friendly; tasty, toasts like a dream
Emergency Luscious Lemon Pudding: healthier, quick & easy
Exquisite Emergency Biscuits: unbelievably easy, fast & delicious
Fat-free Fruitcake stuffed with heart-friendly nuts
Fat-Free Sponge Cake
15-minute Flatbread, yeast-and-sugar free
Flatbread, SunBlush Tomato  wheat-free, easy peasy
Flapjacks, no-butter, no-added-sugar
Primrose's Excellent Lo-Sugar Flapjacks:  3 ingredients; dreamy taste & texture
Focaccia, No-knead: Super-easy, needs 1 spoon, 24 hours & folding 
Frugal Banana Chocolate Bread Pudding: uses up ripe bananas & stale bread
Garlic & Chive Breadsticks: almost instant, fat-free
Garlic Mini Rolls, no knead: Easy, prep ahead
Giant Chocolate Ginger Cookie: huge fun, big flavour
Giant Spiced Crescent Cookies: delightfully rich & more-ish 
Ginger 'n Chocolate/Cherry Loaf Cakes: 2 from1, easy-peasy; small households 
Luxury Maple Nut Spelt Granola - home-made indulgence for a special occasion,  priced below commercial offerings
Hot Compote of Cinnamon Strawberries, Peaches & Blueberries
Hot Pineapple Pudding 
Indian Spiced Cigarillos: low-fat Indo-Chinese version of a chip-butty 
Irish Coffee Cheesecake, Skinnier Sensational
'Irish Coffee' Chocolate Cake': Vegan glorious 
Lemon Cloud Custard Pudding, lower-fat, melt-in-the-mouth
Lemon Curd with Ginger & brown sugar, foolproof 
Lemon Ginger Cheesecake, Skinnier: good enough for a Secretary of State! 
Lemon-Mint Angel Food Cakes: Sensational, butter-free, wallet-friendly
 Lemon Meringue & Raspberry Pie, " Amazing! It's perfect!' said testers.  Make-ahead, Easy-Peasy
Luscious Lemon Pudding glorious but lower fat, no-bake  
Lemon Walnut Shortbread, deliciously crumbly, quick to prepare
Lighter Chocolate Cupcakes, lots of healthy ingred; great taste 
Lime Almond Shortbread exquisite scent & texture wheat-free option
Luxury Maple Nut Spelt Granola: a touch of sweetness in easily digested spelt granola 
Make it yourself stovetop popcorn: easy & delicious; families will love it!
Midi Soda Breads, butter, sugar & yeast free; quick & easy 
Mini Christmas Pavlovas, lower sugar
Mint Choco-Mousse, low-sugar, no egg yolk; cream only if wanted
Mocha Mini-Sponges, delightful coffee & chocolate cupcakes
Spring Orange Cake:  oil & butter free, wallet friendly
Orange Cinnamon Chocolate Nut Christmas Twist 
Orange, Cointreau & White Cheesecake, no-bake, lush & delicious
Orange Mini Cakes, Vegetarian, airy & fluffy with surprise filling
Peanut Butter 'n' Jam Kisses: Low-guilt delight, kid-friendly
Guys' food: Peanut Cookies a la Nigella: my guys loved em
Oatmeal Molasses Bread, Wheat & Yeast free 
Pancakes, Chocolate Flower: as good to eat as to look at
'Artisan' Parmesan and Olive Loaf: 15 mins to prep; higher-fibre; sugar free 
Pastry shell, Sensational Easy-peasy a la Candice Brown, can't believe it's home-made
Peach, Brandy & Cardamom Compote: fab; lower-sugar easy
 Peach & Cherry Jalousie, with the last of the UK's soft summer fruits
Luxury Pistachio Valentine's Cheesecake: unusual  - in a good way -  sensationally creamy treat for a loved one. Incl. Budget Options
Stupendous Pizza Dough: easy; cheap; fabulous 
Plum & Cinnamon Swirl Cake, perfect for tea time 
POPOVERS from America: breakfast/tea; no butter or sugar; prep ahead
Raspberry & Coconut Midi-Cake: butter-free, easy, fresh fruit, high fibre  
Singleton's Rustic Fruit Crumble Cake: midi-cake, 1-bowl wonder, high fibre
Singleton's Sensational Shortbread: adapted from lovely-bubbly Jaimie Oliver
Strawberry Midi-Sponge: healthier, skinnier indulgence: butter-free; singletons or small households
Sumac Roasted Chickpeas: sophisticated crunchiness  (incl kids opt)
Raspberry Almond Midi Cake: swather's indulgence
Roasted Spicy Chickpeas, crunchy preservative free snack; crisp substitute  
Rustic Irish Soda Bread: delicious & wholesome, butter, egg  & yeast free, easy-peasy
Savoury Stuffed Waffles for Soups & Stews: crispy, crunchy & fabulous
Scones, Flaky Butter
Scones, Savoury Pepper & Lime Egg-free, for salads, stews, soups
Scotch Pancakes, No/low sugar, Fat-free, Make-ahead
Shortbread 'Bottom-of-the Barrel': easy, crisp, melt-in-the-mouth 
 Simple Chocolate Cake so easy the kids can make it, versatile
Skinnier Sausage Rolls
Skinny Cherry Pie
Skinnier Scotch Eggs, low-fat, high flavour, wallet-friendly 
Skinnier Spanokopita Parcels, lower fat & salt, portable 
Spelt Blueberry Waffles  free from common wheat
Spicy Biscuits with white chocolate icing, Guy Magnets, wheat-free option
Spicy Plum & Pineapple Crumble Cake/Bars: so delicious; egg-free
Stem Ginger Yoghurt Cream 
Stollen, Almost no-added sugar 
Soda Bread, Light Wholemeal, No-sugar, Low-gluten, Easy-peasy
Midi Soda Breads: quick & easy'; butter, sugar & yeast free; 
Spelt Bread, yeasted: a proper 'artisan' loaf that's simple & easy
Spelt Granola, Low-gluten, Vegan, no-added Sugar, high protein/fibre 
Spicy Ginger Cookies
Sumac Roasted Chickpeas: sophisticated crunchiness  (incl kids opt)
Swedish Plum Cake
Sweet Spelt Cereal & Nut Granola, memorable, no-bake 
Tear & Share Healthier Cheese & Walnut Loaf
Vegetarian Coulibiac Pie, make-ahead showstopper
BEEF & VENISON
American 'Hamburger' Soup: hearty, lower-fat, high-fibre deliciousness 
'Big' Beef Soup, wallet-friendly, slow-cooker
Brisket, Melt-in-the-Mouth with rich tomato sauce
Beef in Black Bean Sauce
Beef, Broccoli & Mushroom Stir Fry Quick & easy, Low-cholesterol
Beef & Courgette Stir-fry: quick & nourishing after a hard day's work
Beef & Dark Beer Stew: currently being updated
Chinese Beef Noodle Soup with Fresh Tomato, gorgeous twist on a classic 
Beef Mini-Kebabs: low-fat, fab-flavour for picnics or buffets
Beef & Peppers in Black Bean Sauce 
Ukrainian Beef & Potato Stew: wallet-friendly classic comfort food wherever it's eaten

Beef Ragout, wallet-friendly
Beef Skewers, Hoisin & Orange Glazed: bold, rich, sassy and healthy 
Beef Mushroom & Cream Casserole: 'Poor man's Beef Stroganoff'; slow cooked (Lucky him!)
Basic Foolproof Burgers: Pensioners' Delight - 4 x 150g burgers, 2 for now, 2 for the freezer, with a carb, well under a fiver
Bunless burgers with mushroom gravy, North American classic
Casserole of Curried Beef : budget-friendly; easy 
 Chinese Beef & Potato Stew (Triple Duty) with orange 5-spice & anise
Chunky Lentil Soup with Spinach & Mini Beefballs
Hamburger Soup, Pensioners  Delight; thrifty, satisfying, high fibre
Stir-fried Exotic Mongolian Beef: fast & easy, tender; wallet-friendly, must prep ahead
Korean-style Spicy Seared Beef
Peruvian marinaded Beef Steak, knock-out wallet-friendly dish
Slimmers' Stir-Fried Veg & Beef, quick, satisfying, wallet-friendly
Slow Cooker Beef & Guinness Stew
Foolproof Steak, wallet friendly 
Steak Salad with gloriously funky Thai-style dressing 
Steak, Potato & Onion Pie: luxury, wholly indulgent, alcohol
Spicy 'Glass' Noodle & Mince Salad: low cal/fat, Vegan opt, healthy
Thai Larb (hot spicy mince), a la 67, fast & fab, carnivore option
Turkish Pide, 67 style: low-fat, make ahead
Ukrainian Beef & Potato Stew: lo-fat wallet-friendly classic comfort food wherever it's eaten
Venison Casserole, Asian style, slow cooker
3 Vegetarian Pizzas:  Veggie Sausage, Onion, Grape & Mozarella; Mushroom & Cheddar;  Potato, Pesto & Goat Cheese Almost-Instant    
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DOUBLE-TRIPLE DUTY DISHES (for vegetarians & carnivores)
1 Recipe: 2 Delicious Treats: Cinnamon Breakfast Twists & Blueberry Scones 
15-minute last of the New Potatoes Salad, chunky & satisfying
Ambrosial Summer Tomato Gazpacho, Vegan, low carb & fat 
Banana Waffles, lower-fat & sugar
Beautiful Baked Beans, almost no sugar
Breakfast Roll, Lebanese Style, make ahead, healthy, wallet-friendly
Butternut Squash, Ginger & Orange Soup: Vegan, rich & full-flavoured
Cheats' Rustic Tomato Soup: easy, anti-inflammatory, Triple Duty
Cherry Cordial, no sugar syrup, alcohol & kids' options
Cherry Salsa, no-fat, perks up cooked meats + veggie version
Chinese Noodle Salad with Hoisin: colourful Triple Duty multi-textured salad, stuffed with low-fat, high fibre, frugal ingredients
Mouthwatering Chow Mein Noodle Salad: frugal, triple duty; it's the sacuce that makes it so marvellous!
Hot Chow Mein Noodles: Make your own; healthier, cheaper
Creamy White Rice Salad: frugal, clean eating/easily digested salad for summer buffets
Eleanor Maidment's Leek & Celeriac Soup: vegan opt; comforting & satisfying
Leftovers Open Sandwich: Pear, Stilton & Nuts: 
thrifty, healthy, tasty; versatile
Make-Your-Own Delicious Chow Mein Noodles: healthier & cheaper than a take-away, triple-duty
Middle Eastern Spice Rub: dry marinade
 Silky Mushroom & Sherry Potage, no-cream, kids option  
Mushroom & Spinach Soup, slimmers, low-fat, low-carb, high satisfaction
Nectarine & Avocado Rice Salad, great for using up leftovers
Low-carb Noodles with Garlic & Ginger VEGAN, portable; fresh clean spicy
Orange, Cointreau & White Cheesecake, no-bake, lush & delicious
Oriental Chicken Wings & Chicken Stock 
Paella, Classic or Vegetarian
Pasta with Pesto & Chicken: vegetarian option; leftovers; singletons
Phyllo Bites, Sensational: Triple Duty: Vegan, fish, meat
Piquant Rice, a stunning palate pleaser, wallet & time friendly
Potato & Frankfurter Salad: frugal Vegetarian; kidults will adore it 
Quick & Easy Harvest Veg; Double Duty, warm side or salad
Skinnier Twice-baked Potatoes, with very low-fat & veggie options
Rich Tomato Soup 
Easy-peasy Rich Tomato Soup:  so versatile - vegan, vegetarian, fish or meat (or all 4!) 
 Salad Vegetables Soup, 100 Ways
Sausage Hash: frugal, full of flavour, colour & fibre; leftovers
Sensational Low-Fat Savoury Cheese Sauce: easy-peasy; vegan option
Shortbread 'Bottom-of-the Barrel': easy, crisp, melt-in-the-mouth 
Simple Chocolate Cake so easy the kids can make it, versatile
Spelt Pasta Salad with Mushrooms, Peas & Chive Oil: Vegan delight 
Spicy 'Glass' Noodle & Mince Salad: low cal/fat, Vegan opt, healthy
Spicy Jambalaya Salad: Fathers' Day indulgence with meat, fish Or plant food
Spinach, Pulses & Avocado: Feisty Autumn Salad; vegan option
Splendid Split Pea Soup: frugal, healthy & delicious, Triple Duty 
Glorious Ultra-frugal Split Pea Potage: frugal, prep ahead, slow cooker
Shaved Sprout, Fennel, Orange & Almond Salad: Vegan, prep-ahead, seasonal produce, lunchbox-friendly
 Sweet Chilli Vegetables with Flat Noodles: punchy vegetarian side that morphs easily into a Triple Duty Main Course 
Sweet & Sour Chicken Wings with Broth, Childs' main plus stock 
Tomato Soup, Almost Instant, you'll never reach for tinned again; triple duty garnishes 
Uber Oven-baked Potatoes: the perfect baked spud is a wonder to behold; much more than a snack; thrifty
Crunchy Vegan 'Chicken' Fingers, kids' low-fat no-sugar treat OR adult canapé
3 Vegetarian Pizza Pizzas: Just add animal protein for non-vegetarians: Veggie Sausage, Onion, Grape & Mozarella; Mushroom & Cheddar;  Potato, Pesto & Goat Cheese 
 Vietnamese Rice Paper Wraps: meat, fish & vegetarian
Waffles, Strawberries 'n Cream wheat-free & high fibre options
White Bean Soup: Frugal, Dairy-free, Good for You, Triple Duty


DRESSINGS
All-purpose Chive Oil, Even Non-vegans will love this 
Wheat free Tabbouleh: Gluten-free crowd-pleaser, vegan
DRINKS
Balanced Smoothies: Grape, Spinach & Blueberry 
Balanced Smoothies: Nectarine, Strawberry & Cucumber
Banana Soothie: quick & easy, calming, frugal 
Breakfast Smoothie, No-Sugar
Balanced Smoothie: Carrot, Pineapple & Ginger, great meal substitute for the busy
Cherry Cordial, no sugar syrup, alcohol & kids' options
Cointreau Ginger Fizz, semi, fully or no- alcohol tipple
Egg Nog: creamy, boozy, no raw eggs
Ginger Tea, Medicinal & Recreational
Jasmine & Fresh Mint , Middle Eastern twist to a restorative, cleansing tea
Party Sangria, authentically Spanish 
Pear and Ginger Fizz
Pomelo & Lemongrass Cocktail: mellow, mysterious & magical; low-sugar; alcohol-free option 
No-Alcohol Sangria, for kids and designated drivers
Perfectly Pink Pineapple, Grapefruit & Berry, kid friendly, no sugar/preservative
Raspberry, Mango & Ginger Smoothie: luxurious, ambrosial
Root Ginger & Lemon throat soother, medicinal & refreshing 
Strawberry Lime Fizz: fruity thirst quencher with a kick of lime; add booze or water
Watermelon, Lime & Mint Cordial: team with alcohol or fizzy water for a refreshing drink 

EASY-PEASY, ALMOST INSTANT
Avocado Salad for Nearly-Spring:  a template for salad novices
3-ingredient 'Biscuit' Cake: ready in 20 mins plus icing
3-minute Asparagus, Pea & Corn Salad  creamy low-fat easy
Artisan Wonder Bread, No Kneading
Asian Salmon, sassily simple, prepare- ahead 
Asian Soft Fruit Salad, not your run-of-the-mill dessert
Aubergine Tahini Dip, Vegan, Skinnier
Autumn Salad: Apple & Cashew Nut Slaw
Artichoke & Olive Tapenade toast topper:  delicately pale, lightly salted but wonderful flavour & texture 
Apple Hand Pies: indulgent lower-sugar treat; easy option
Spicy Apple Rockcakes: gloriously autumnal, easy, lower-sugar 
Avocado, Beetroot & Radish Salad: vegan, bursting with vits & mins
Bacon Rice Supper Almost Instant, Healthier
Bagels: unbelievably easy; for when the weather turns (!)
Banana Soothie: quick & easy, calming, frugal 
Basic Chocolate Ganache: exquisite icing/spread/truffle base
Beatty's Glorious Chocolate Cake  Indulgent for sure
Beautiful Baked Beans, for vegetable & meat eaters
Beef, Spicy Seared Korean Style
Stir-fried Exotic Mongolian Beef: fast & easy, tender; wallet-friendly, must prep ahead
Beef Noodle Soup with Fresh Tomato,Chinese, a gorgeous twist on a classic
Beef & Peppers in Black Bean Sauce 
Beef Ragout, wallet-friendly
Veg & Beef, Slimmers' Stir-Fried satisfying, wallet-friendly
Beef Skewers, Hoisin & Orange Glazed: bold, rich, sassy and healthy 
Beef Steak,Peruvian marinaded, knock-out wallet-friendly dish
Beetroot-Chive Hummous, Almost-Instant: vegan, fuss free & zingy
'Big Chicken Soup', Slow-Cooked Frugal, Ill & Infirm
Blackberry Whiskey Ginger Cheese-cake: sophisticated, with kid's version
Freezer Almost Instant Bolognaise : easy low fat
Braised Oriental Spiced wings: frugal, exotically delicious
Blueberry Pancakes. make-ahead
No added sugar Mocha Nut Brownies:  for sugar-phobes & pre-diabetics; quick & easy 
Breakfast Buns, Fluffy for lazy w/ends or breakfast on the run
Skinny Speedy Breakfast Biscuits & Baps lower-fat, higher-fibre, no egg/yeast
Breakfast Roll, Lebanese Style, make ahead, healthy, wallet friendly
Foolproof Classic Brownies: Squidgy? Rich & cake-like?  Or both? 
Chicken, White Wine & Mushroom Stew: low fat & carb; quick, frugal 
Crispy Roasted Broccoli with Garlic & Parmesan: easy, vegetarian/vegan; so good it could be a snack as well as a side dish
 Broccoli, Beetroot & Cashew: Vegan, absolutely not rabbit food 
Broccoli 'Vichyssoise': vegan, low carb, easy, kid-friendly
Butternut Squash, Ginger & Orange Soup: Vegan, rich & full-flavoured
Cajun Chicken Legs: Quick & Easy; frugal, portable, stove-top, air-fryer
Calamari & Mixed Veg Salad: low-cal; as gorgeous to eat as it is to look at
Cantonese Chicken, White Wine & Mushroom Stew: low fat & carb; quick, frugal 
Casserole of Curried Beef : budget-friendly; easy; lightly spiced
Cauliflower 'Mash': Dieters' Delight, texture like mash
Celeriac & Apple Potage: no-dairy silky yumminess 
Celeriac Fries/Chips: low carb/cal, vegan
Cheats' Almost Instant Soup, with the help of 
Cheat's Garlic Cheese Buns: lower-fat, tear-apart supermarket buns 
Cheat's Fruity Coleslaw: easy, high-fibre, reduced fat
Cheat's Tortilla Chips: quick & easy, free of nasty additives, baked or lightly fried 
Little Cherry Cheesecake Pots: no-bake, alcohol opt
Cherry Garcia Ice Cream: Vegan, easy-peasy
Chicken, Kiwi & Rice Salad  quick, leftovers
Chicken Thighs, Dominican Style: easy, Pensioners Delight, low-fat & sugar
Chocolate & Peanut Butter Midi-Cakes: egg-free, vegan option
 Chocomint Custard Sponge: easy fab dessert the family will scarf in minutes
Instant Fruit Compote 
Calamari Rice salad: break the salmon/cod habit 
Caponata, Sicilian Aubergine Dip - sweet, sour & sassy, low-cal, vegan
Caramel Apple Sauce
Cherry & Walnut Granola Bars, no-bake, no butter, low sugar
Super Choco-Hazelnut Mini-Volcano Cakes a Skinnier Indulgence 
Make-Your-Own Delicious Chow Mein Noodles: (New) healthier & cheaper than a take-away, triple-duty
Carnival Tomatoes
Cauliflower & Pork Stir-fry
Cauliflower & Courgette Curry: Vegan, quick & easy, small households
Creamy carrot, pineapple & sunflower seed salad
Celeriac & Apple Slaw
Cheat's Christmas log, just minutes to prepare 
Cheese Straws, Sensational: frugal luxury treat using leftover cheese
Cheese & Chive Crackers, crisp & melt-in-the-mouth
Easy Cheese & Chive Buttermilk biscuits - egg free
 Cheesecake, Upside Down, Skinnier 
Cherry Cordial, no sugar syrup, alcohol & kids' options
Cherry Salsa, no-fat, perks up cooked meats + veggie version
Chicken with Cashews, quick & easy 
Chicken Rice Paper Wraps, with spring onion & ginger sauce, quick, leftovers
Chicken, Pear & Hazelnut Salad,
Tropical Chicken Salad: banishes that 'leftovers again?!' feeling
Chicken Wings, Peppers & Orange Stew, Slow cooker, Very Frugal
Chicken Tuscan Lemon Easy-peasy, low-cholesterol, frugal
Chilli Broccoli & Tofu, vegan, healthy
Chinese Crudites/Salad
Chinese Leaf, Cucumber & Apple Salad: make-ahead, healthy
Chinese leaves in walnut & garlic sauce
Chinese Noodle Salad with Hoisin: colourful Triple Duty multi-textured salad, stuffed with low-fat, high fibre, frugal ingredients
Chive Oil, All Purpose
Chocolate Cake a la Nigella, Vegetarian 
Chocolate Madeira Cake: one-bowl-wonder
Chocolate Mint Cookies : fat-free, lower sugar, higher protein spelt flour 
Chocolate, Orange & Cointreau Cake, no-bake easy-peasy adult treat 
Chocolate, Pear, Walnut & Cardamum Cake: easy 1 bowl wonde 
ChocoLime Cream Pie, No-Bake, portable, make-ahead 
Chocolate Orange Spiced Cake: Hallowe'en/Bonfire Treat
Rich Chocolate Spread for the Health Conscious: Guilt-free; easy; no nuts, sugar, gluten or dairy
Chocolate Truffle Mini-Bricks, Indulgent and creamy-dreamy
Chocolate Shortbread,Easy-Peasy
Chocolate & Walnut Butter Squares, Canadian bakery delights
Wheat & Egg-Free Chocolate Orange & Nut Shortbread, yummy!
Cinnamon Rolls, No-Knead terrific no-sweat treat for w/end brunches 
Coconut Cherry Kisses, ambrosial low-sugar treats, effortless 
Chunky Autumn Soup, additive-free, make-ahead option, triple duty
Coffee & Walnut Cake, Scrumptious: No eggs/Butter make a day ahead
Twosome's Crunchy Summer Salad (vegan) stonkingly delicious richly flavoured salad loaded with greens & a bit of fruit
Cucumber, Chinese Cabbage & Cashew Salad
Dal Soup with Mushrooms & Green beans: frugal, calming
Dairy Free Creamy Cauliflower Soup, effort-free, delicious & low-cal
Dieter's Fat-Free Egg Salad Sandwich: no mayo!
 Dill Pickles, Faff-free: ready in 3 days, Vegan 
Double-Dipped Crunchy French Toast, Frugal 
Double Duty Dish: Oriental Chicken Wings & Chicken Stock 
Double Duty Dish (DDD):  Easy-Peasy Rich Tomato Soup 
English Breakfast Salad, a sassy holiday wk/end brunch
Eggs in White Sauce  frugal, childhood favourite
Egg & Prawn Omelette, 10 min Meal
Exotic Cucumber Salad: Vegan; easy;  sweet, sour & spicy
Fancy sandwiches for kids or tea, How to...prep and freeze
Fat-free Fruitcake stuffed with heart-friendly nuts
Flatbread, SunBlush Tomato, wheat-free, easy peasy
Focaccia, No-knead: Super-easy, needs 1 spoon, 24 hours & folding 
Garlic Mini Rolls, no knead: Easy, prep ahead
Garlic Wedges, Skinnier
Giant Chocolate Ginger Cookie: easy, slightly healthier indulgence, huge fun
Ginger 'n Chocolate/Cherry Loaf Cakes: 2 from1, easy-peasy;  small household
Grape Rice Salad with Hoisin Chicken: (New) easy, budget-friendly, make-ahead, portable
Grapefruit & Mint Mixed Leaf Salad, Triple Duty, refreshingly healthy 
Green Bean, Mushroom & Nut Salad
Green Beans a la Ina Garten with Mustard & Dill Dressing: outstanding; sophisticated & elegant
Levant Lamb Mini-Skewers & Tahini Mint Dip: British lamb but not as we know it
Lamb Koftas, totally superior to takaways
Lamb Mongolian Style, 2-ways, Low-fat, Slow Cooker 
Lamb Shoulder with Savoury Gravy & Mint Sauce, for small households
Layered Fruit Cup with Dark Sugar Cream, Skinny, low-sugar
Lazy Wo/man's Summer's End Crumble
Leftovers Open Sandwich: Pear, Stilton & Nuts: 
thrifty, healthy, tasty; versatile
Lemon Curd with Ginger & brown sugar, foolproof 
Lemon Meringue & Raspberry Pie, " Amazing! It's perfect!' said testers.  Make-ahead, Easy-Peasy
Lemon-Mint Angel Food Cakes: Sensational, butter-free, wallet-friendly
Simple Lemon Pepper pasta, with or without veg, frugal, quick, hot or cold. high fibre
 Lemon Walnut Shortbread, deliciously crumbly, quick to prepare
Lentil Pancake Avocado Brunch: unexpectedly delightful; frugal, vegetarian high protein & fibre, easy, small households
 Lettuce Salad with Green Herb Dressing
Lettuce Wedges with lower-fat Thousand Island Dressing: easy-peasy 
Lighter Chocolate Cupcakes, lots of healthy ingredients; great taste
Lime & Hoisin Marinade for Meats and Tofu
 Lime Almond Shortbread exquisite scent & texture wheat-free option
Lower-fat Ranch Style Dressing, creamy & herby, from across the pond
Lunchbox Slaw (HOL), super healthy salad that won't go soggy
Mackerel in paper parcels, healthy in the extreme!
Make it yourself stovetop popcorn: easy & delicious; families will love it!
Mango Mint & Ginger Instant Sorbet, no sugar fat or preservatives, Vegan
15-min Mackerel & Honeyed Chinese Cabbage Rice Bowl
Mediterranean Tomatoes: so simple, so sensational
Midi Soda Breads, butter, sugar & yeast free
 Mint Choco-Mousse, low-sugar, no egg yolk; cream only if wanted
Minty Slow-cooked Lamb Ribs
Mocha Nut Brownies, 4 ingredients :  no added sugar; quick & easy 
Party/Potluck Muffletta: Italian style layered sandwich designed for pensioners, toddlers & the dentally challenged.  
Mustard Maple Chicken: turn 'value' chicken into something special; easy, lower-fat; make-ahead
Singleton's quick & easy Mulligatawny: cheats: thick, rich & delicious 
Nectarine & Avocado Rice Salad, great for using up leftovers
Nectarine & Blueberry Hand Pies perfect for portable lunches
New Potato Vinaigrette
Low-carb Noodles with Garlic & Ginger VEGAN, portable; fresh clean spicy
No-Icing Sugar Icing
No-roll Easy-Peasy Pastry
'Nutella' Chocolate Hazelnut Spread, Lower-sugar & preservative Easy-peasy
Oat Cakes, Do-it-Yourself 
Oatmeal Molasses Bread, Wheat & Yeast Free
One-Pot Un-fried Tuna Rice: fab side for crowds or a main course
One-pot Rice & Chicken: Low-fat, easily digested 
Multi-Duty Onion & Cheese Rolls, Buns or Bread: easy party pieces
Oriental Chicken, Courgette & Pepper Noodles,Stir Fry 
Orange & Berry Plate
Orange, Cointreau & White Cheesecake, no-bake, lush & delicious
Orange & Sesame Wings, lower fat no-sugar
Pancakes, Chocolate Flower: as good to eat as to look at
'Artisan' Parmesan and Olive Loaf: 15 mins to prep; higher-fibre; sugar free 
Party Sangria, authentically Spanish
Pasta with Pesto & Chicken: vegetarian option; leftovers; singletons
Peach & Cherry Jalousie, with the last of the UK's soft summer fruits
Peach, Brandy & Cardamom Compote: fab; lower-sugar easy
Peanut Butter 'n' Jam Kisses: Low-guilt delight, kid-friendly
Pear-Cardamom Galette: hot glorious pie with warming spices
Pear & Ginger Snow Parfaits
Pear, Spinach & Chicken Salad, almost instant, great textures & taste
Pfeffernusse, spicy German biscuits; make ahead
Pickled Veg, Asian style, quick & easy
Pineapple Blueberry Oatmeal Crumble Bars : fruity, high-fibre treat 
 Piquant Rice, a stunning palate pleaser, wallet & time friendly
Primrose's Excellent Lo-Sugar Flapjacks: 3 ingredients; dreamy taste & texture 
Middle Eastern Pork Steaks on Courgettes: good-looking supermarket meat
Stupendous Pizza Dough: easy; cheap; fabulous
Speedy Plum & Ginger Jam, low-sugar, memorable, frugal
Prawn, Pea & Corn Salad: quick & easy, high protein & fibre, low fat, leftovers
Sardine Cheese Toasties: Favourite  midnight snack at high-school pyjama parties: 
Savoury Party Popcorn: additive & sugar free; vegan; low- fat/salt; small households, frugal
Stovetop Spanish Tortilla for Small Households: prepare ahead main, eaten hot or al fresco 
Hardly-any-Sugar Hot Plum & Pineapple  Easy-peasy, alcohol option
'Bottom-of-the Barrel' Shortbread: 3-ingredients, crisp, melt-in-the-mouth 
Shaved Sprout, Fennel, Orange & Almond Salad: Vegan, prep-ahead, seasonal produce, lunchbox-friendly
Two-potato champ: skinnier, healthier Irish  mash with spring onions and milk
Irish Coffee Chocolate Cheesecake: lower-fat sensational treat 
Pomelo (Chinese grapefrut) fruit salad
Pomodoro Ice Cream Sandwiches
Pork Belly Meat Pops: with home-made Barbecue Sauce; thrifty, easy, more-ish
Pork, Skinnier Char Siu wonderfully guilt-free; low-sugar & salt,
Pork and Zucchini, Middle East style: tender and flavourful 
Potato & Artichoke Pizza: unexpected, amazing more-ish potato pizza
Potato & Frankfurter Salad: frugal Vegetarian; kidults will adore it 
Potato Rosemary No-Knead Focaccia: easy make-ahead delight 
Quick & Easy Harvest Veg; Double Duty, warm side or salad
Raspberry Almond Midi Cake: swather's indulgence
Ribs, Asian Spicy Pork, Prep-Ahead no sickly sweet sauce, healthier
 Rich Tomato Soup:  so versatile - vegan, vegetarian, fish or meat (or all 4!) 
Primrose's Excellent Lo-Sugar Flapjacks: (New) 3 ingredients; dreamy taste & texture 
One-Stop Roast Pork Belly with Veg
Roasted Spicy Chickpeas, a crunchy preservative-free snack 
Roast Chicken Oriental Style
Roast Turkey Thigh: quick mid-week budget-friendly roast
Roasted Summer Veg with Balsamic & Pumpkin Seeds, vegan
Root Ginger & Lemon throat soother, medicinal & refreshing 
'Runny' Eggs 
Russian Raspberry Pudding 
Rustic Irish Soda Bread: delicious & wholesome, butter, egg  & yeast free, easy-peasy
Double Salmon Pate on Cucumber Slices: brilliant combo of creamy & crunchy
 Salad Vegetables Soup, 100 Ways
Salmon & Bak Choy one-dish
Salmon, Orange Hoisin Glazed: lovely, light and easy
Salmon & Rice Oriental Salad, wonderful light repast 
Salmon Nicoise Salad
Sassy Eggs with Toast breakfasts for Kids, easy-peasy
Sassy Pulse & Veggie Salad, Easy, Healthy, Vegan
Sausage Hash: frugal, full of flavour, colour & fibre; leftovers
Sausage, Onion & Dijon-Maple Mini Yorkshires: vegetarians & carnivores
 Simple Chocolate Cake so easy the kids can make it, versatile
Smoked Mackerel on Tangy Beetroot: quick, vegan/veggie options
Sorbet, Instant fruit low/no sugar, wallet-friendly
Sausage, Beer & Bean Casserole. Frugal
Sausages, chicken with Burnished Grapes, Healthier, Easy-peasy
Scallop & White Bean Potage: unusual pairing & winning combo
7-minute Pork Fried Noodles, ready in a flash 
Classic Scotch Pancakes, No/low sugar, Fat-free, Make-ahead
Sensational Low-Fat Savoury Cheese Sauce: easy-peasy; vegan option
Singleton's Chocolate Coconut Cream Torte: quick & easy sensational dessert
Singleton's Rustic Fruit Crumble Cake: midi-cake, 1-bowl wonder, high fibre 
Small Households' Exotic Skinnier Eton Mess: ultra delicious, easy and lower-fat
Smashed Potato Salad, frugal, less mayo, easy-peasy
 Smoked Mackerel & Fruit Rice Salad, Portable
Smoked Salmon Dip, skinnier, Healthier Wallet-Friendly 
Soup,Tomato 
Spelt Granola, Low-gluten, Vegan, no-added Sugar, high protein/fibre 
Spelt Pasta Salad with Mushrooms, Peas & Chive Oil: Vegan delight 
Spiced Chicken Livers with Nectarine: frugal, exotic 
Spicy Corn & Beetroot Salad - striking but delicious pairing
Spiced Aubergine Dip, Fluffy: vegan, as easy as hummous
Spinach, Pulses & Avocado: Feisty Autumn Salad
Spinach & Bean Soup: strikingly delicious, substantial, warming, quick & easy 
Special Occasion Chicken unbelievable flavour & crispiness 
Spicy Chicken Livers with Figs
Layered Spinach & Beetroot Salad, Healthy, Easy Peasy
Spicy Sesame Noodles, 
Spinach, Mushroom & Chicken Liver Broth
Sensational Sprouts with Savoury Spices & Lemon
Steak Salad with gloriously funky Thai-style dressing 
Stem Ginger Yoghurt Cream 
Stir Fried Cucumber & Pork
Stir-fried turkey drumstick, cabbage & corn
Strawberry & Ham Salad: unusual sassy combo for welcoming spring
Soup, Velvety Pea
Foolproof Steak, wallet friendly 
Strawberry Ripple Ice: 0-fat, no cream, low-sugar
Sumac Roasted Chickpeas: sophisticated crunchiness  (incl kids opt)
Sweet Spelt Granola with nuts, memorably chunky, no-bake 
Sweet Pastry Dessert Cookies: easy-peasy, special occasion indulgence
Succulent Poached Chicken, clean & lean
Roasted Summer Veg with Balsamic & Pumpkin Seeds, vegan
Surprising Sardine Salad: zesty & unexpected
Sweet & Sour Chicken Wings with Broth, Child Friendly, double-duty
Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce, low-sugar, easy-peasy, skinnier
Sweet Chilli & Ginger Salmon, Healthy, budget-friendly
Sweet Chilli Vegetables with Flat Noodles: punchy vegetarian side that morphs easily into a Triple Duty Main Course 
Tadka Dal Soup, soothing & enticingly spiced 
Tandoori Chicken, Low-fat & cholesterol, Easy, Make-ahead
Tear and Share Healthier Cheese & Walnut Loaf,
Thai Larb (hot spicy mince), a la 67, fast & fab, carnivore option
Tomato Soup, Almost Instant, you'll never reach for tinned again
Tomato, Mushroom & Grapefruit Salsa, no sugar, low-fat
Tomato and Courgette Rice  
Tomato Jam, Vegan:
Tomato Salad with Basil, incl Heritage Tomatoes
Italian Tomato Sauce, Restaurant Quality
Tortilla Espagnol, Cheat's Version
Triple Chocolate & Cointreau shortbread
Tuna Salad Italian Style, quick, healthy, satisfying
Tuna & Veg Mediterranean Rice, antioxidant heavy
Turkey Cottage Pie with a Latin Twist
Quick & Easy Turkey Escalopes: shallow fried in minutes
Stir-fried turkey drumstick, cabbage & corn: quick, easy, wallet-friendly
Turkey Meatballs, lower fat, lower cholesterol
Turkey Lollipops, tender & juicy, for kids and slimmers (option for chicken)
Turkey Leg with Curry Sauce , for leftovers
Turkish Pide, 67 style: low-fat, make ahead
Tuscan Chicken Low-cholesterol, Frugal
Two-potato Champ, frugal, healthier updated classic
Two-tone Chocolate Orange Pudding: no bake, no-added sugar, easy peasy indulgence, slightly lower-fat
(Un)fried Buttermilk Chicken, mild but oh-so-tender & crunchy
Singletons' 'Treat Myself' Luxury Seafood Soup:  low fat & carb; quick, indulgence
 Soda Bread, Light Wholemeal, No-sugar, Low-gluten
Uber Oven-baked Potatoes: (easy but not quick) the perfect baked spud is a wonder to behold; much more than a snack; thrifty
Quick & Easy Harvest Veg; Double Duty, warm side or salad
Crunchy Vegan 'Chicken' Fingers, kids' low-fat no-sugar treat/ adult canapé
Vegan Chilli: plant version of 67 showstopper, Turkey Chilli 
Vegetarian/Vegan Chilli Dogs: plant version of American comfort food 
Vegetarian Coffee Walnut Cake, frugal crowd-pleaser; vegan option 
Vegetarian Gravy, Scrummy
3 Vegetarian Pizzas: Just add animal protein for non-vegetarians: Veggie Sausage, Onion, Grape & Mozarella; Mushroom & Cheddar;  Potato, Pesto & Goat Cheese 
Venison Casserole, Asian style, slow cooker 
Vietnamese Rice Paper Wraps: meat, fish & vegetarian
Wallet-friendly Creamy Fruity Dessert Puddings for 1 or many
Wheat free Tabbouleh: Gluten-free crowd-pleaser, vegan
White Bean Soup: Frugal, Dairy-free, Good for You, Triple Duty
White Chocolate & Berry Tart No-Bake: lower fat; full-fat experience, 
White Chocolate, Raspberry & Ginger  Pudding, lower-fat
White Chocolate Egg Nog Truffles: fabulous
White Fish Rice Paper Wraps, with fiery coriander & chilli sauce 
Wholemeal Bread, 90-minute: soft, springy
Pensioners/Crowds Delight: Chicken wings with Chilli, Lime & Hoisin Glaze: flaming hot or mildly spicy 
Wings, Braise & Praise: simple light frugal supper 
Winter Carnival Salad,
World's Quickest Trifle 
Yeasted Wholemeal Bread: great for beginners, budget & time friendly; tasty, toasts like a dream
Zucchini/Courgette Fries,
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American 'Hamburger' Soup: hearty, lower-fat, high-fibre deliciousness 
Spicy Apple Rockcakes: gloriously autumnal, easy, lower-sugar 
'Artisanal' Velvet Hummous with Beetroot, home-made at half the price
Asian Salmon, sassily simple, prepare- ahead 
Asian Soft Fruit Salad, not your run-of-the-mill dessert
3-minute Asparagus, Pea & Corn Salad  creamy low-fat easy
Avocado, Beetroot & Radish Salad: vegan, bursting with vits & mins
Avocado & Ham Devilled Eggs: low-fat, veg option
Aubergine Tahini Dip: muscular flavour, silky
Bagels Almost Instant: unbelievably easy
Banana Ginger Pudding: wallet friendly, creamy but healthier 
Beautiful Baked Beans: tinned are not a patch on this frugal tomato-ey offering
Beef, Broccoli & Mushroom Stir Fry
Beef Noodle Soup with Fresh Tomato, Chinese, gorgeous twist on a classic
Beef & Peppers in Black Bean Sauce 
Beef Ragout, wallet-friendly
Beef Steak, Peruvian marinaded, knock-out flavours; wallet-friendly 
Beef & Guinness Stew
Beef Mini-Kebabs: low-fat, fab-flavour for picnics or buffets
Beef Skewers, Hoisin & Orange Glazed: bold, rich, sassy and healthy 
Beef, Spicy Seared Korean Style: popular
Beetroot-Chive Hummous, Almost-Instant: vegan, fuss free & zingy
'Big Chicken Soup', Slow-Cooked Frugal, Ill & Infirm
'Big' Beef Soup, wallet-friendly, slow-cooker; ill & infirm
Breakfast Biscuits & Baps, Skinny lower-fat, higher-fibre, no egg/yeast
Breakfast Muffins, Healthiest,Prepare Ahead, Portable
Breakfast Roll, Lebanese Style, make ahead, healthy, wallet-friendly
Broccoli, Beetroot & Cashew: Vegan, absolutely not rabbit food 
Broccoli 'Vichyssoise': vegan, low carb, easy, kid-fri
Butternut Squash, Ginger & Orange Soup: Vegan, rich & full-flavoured
Calamari Rice salad: break the salmon/cod habit 
Calamari & Mixed Veg Salad: low-cal; as gorgeous to eat as it is to look at
Cantonese Chicken, White Wine & Mushroom Stew: low fat & carb; quick, frugal 
Chicken, White Wine & Mushroom Stew: low fat & carb; quick, frugal 
 Caponata, Sicilian Aubergine Dip - sweet, sour & sassy, low-cal, vegan
Carnival Tomatoes: beautiful and sensationally delicious
Casserole of Curried Beef : budget-friendly; easy; lightly spiced
Cauliflower 'Mash': Dieters' Delight, texture like mash
 Cauliflower & Pork Stir-fry
Cauliflower & Courgette Curry: Vegan, quick & easy, small households
Celeriac & Apple Potage: no-dairy silky yumminess
67goingon50's favourite wallet-friendly Chinese food at home  
3-minute Asparagus, Pea & Corn Salad  creamy low-fat easy
Artisan Wonder Bread, No Kneading
Asian Salmon, sassily simple, prepare- ahead 
Asian Soft Fruit Salad, not your run-of-the-mill dessert
Aubergine Tahini Dip, Vegan, Skinnier
Autumn Salad: Apple & Cashew Nut Slaw
Beatty's Glorious Chocolate Cake  Indulgent for sure
Beautiful Baked Beans, for vegetable & meat eaters
Beef, Spicy Seared Korean Style
Beef Noodle Soup with Fresh Tomato,Chinese, a gorgeous twist on a classic
Beef & Peppers in Black Bean Sauce 
Beef Ragout, wallet-friendly
Veg & Beef, Slimmers' Stir-Fried satisfying, wallet-friendly
Beef Skewers, Hoisin & Orange Glazed: bold, rich, sassy and healthy 
Beef Steak,Peruvian marinaded, knock-out wallet-friendly dish
Beetroot-Chive Hummous, Almost-Instant: vegan, fuss free & zingy
Bacon Rice Supper Almost Instant, Healthier
'Big Chicken Soup', Slow-Cooked Frugal, Ill & Infirm
Blackberry Whiskey Ginger Cheese-cake: sophisticated, with kid's version
Braised Oriental Spiced wings: frugal, exotically delicious
Blueberry Pancakes. make-ahead
Breakfast Buns, Fluffy for lazy w/ends or breakfast on the run
Skinny Speedy Breakfast Biscuits & Baps lower-fat, higher-fibre, no egg/yeast
Breakfast Roll, Lebanese Style, make ahead, healthy, wallet-friendly
Buttermilk Pancakes (from across the pond)
Chicken, White Wine & Mushroom Stew: low fat & carb; quick, frugal
Cheat's Fruity Coleslaw: easy, high-fibre, reduced fat
Cheat's Tortilla Chips: quick & easy, free of nasty additives, baked or lightly fried 
Cherry Cordial, no sugar syrup, alcohol & kids' options
Little Cherry Cheesecake Pots: no-bake, alcohol opt
 Cherry Garcia Ice Cream: Vegan, easy-peasy 
Cherry Salsa, no-fat, perks up cooked meats; vegetarian option 
Cherry & Walnut Granola Bars, no-bake, no butter, low sugar
Chicken Thighs, Dominican Style: easy, Pensioners Delight, low-fat & sugar
Roast Basque-style Chicken Thighs: lower-fat, simple, prepare ahead
Chicken with Cashews, quick & easy 
Chicken Rice Paper Wraps, with spring onion & ginger sauce
Chicken 'n Rice Congee/Stew: ultra-frugal, nutritious, tasty & low-carb
 Chive Oil, All Purpose
Healthier Chocolate Cupcakes for Busy Mums: easy-peasy, for School
 Chocolate Mint Cookies : fat-free, lower sugar, higher protein spelt flour 
Chocolate, Orange & Cointreau Cheesecake no-bake easy-peasy adult treat 
Chocolate Orange Spiced Cake: butter-free, budget friendly
Creamy carrot, pineapple & sunflower seed,
Celeriac & Apple Slaw
Cheesecake, Upside Down, Skinnier
Chicken, Lemon Tuscan Style
Chicken, Pear & Hazelnut Salad,
Chilli Con Turkey
Chinese Crudites
Chinese Noodle Salad with Hoisin: colourful Triple Duty multi-textured salad, stuffed with low-fat, high fibre, frugal ingredients
Chunky Autumn Soup, additive-free, make-ahead option, triple duty
Chunky Lentil Soup with Spinach & Mini Beefballs
Coarse Country Terrine, lower-fat, chunky, high flavour
Twosome's Crunchy Summer Salad (vegan) stonkingly delicious salad loaded with leaves veg & a bit of fruit
Dal Soup with Mushrooms & Green beans: frugal, calming
Dairy Free Creamy Cauliflower Soup, effort-free, delicious & low-cal
Dieter's Fat-Free Egg Salad Sandwich: no mayo!
 Dill Pickles, Faff-free: ready in 3 days, Vegan 
English Breakfast Salad: sassy wk/end brunch; they won't believe it's low-fat
Dieter's Fat-Free Egg Salad Sandwich: no mayo!
Exotic Cucumber Salad: Vegan; easy;  sweet, sour & spicy
Low-fat No-Pastry Tofu Fritters/Dumplings
Fat-free Fruitcake stuffed with heart-friendly nuts
Vietnamese Fish Rice Paper Wraps gorgeously tasty & healthy
Not the usual Fooitball/Sports snacks but still sassy, wallet friendly, healthier and easy 
Garlic Wedges, Skinnier, crisply baked, not fried
Silky Fresh Noodles in Broth with Veggies, Meat or Fish,
Presentation/Gift Christmas Cakes
Corn Chowder with Seafood, can be dairy-free
Creamy Mushroom Risotto, low-dairy
Devilled Eggs with tuna, low-fat yoghurt-mayo, frugal
Double Duty Dish: Oriental Chicken Wings & Chicken Stock 
Easy-Peasy Rich Tomato Soup: almost no-fat
Fat-Free Sponge Cake
Pea, Broadbean & Endame Dip: Wow! Prepare the night before
Eggs in White Sauce frugal, lighter white sauce 
Filipino Pork Adobo with Pineapple : wallet-friendly, lower-fat, sugar-free, make-ahead
Grapefruit & Mint Mixed Leaf Salad: dairy free, Triple Duty 
Green Bean, Mushroom & Nut Salad, lower-fat dressings 
Guilt-Free Chinese Barbequed Pork: low sugar/salt & fat, best of the best 
Ham & Peach Pasta Salad, Frugal, veggie option, low-carb 
Ham Hock
Healthier Football Snacks: fans will love them (updated; new recipes incl vegan) 
Hoisin-Orange Chicken tray bake, one-pan wonder
Honey & Garlic Salmon Rice: fast fabulous food 
Make-Ahead Hot Dog Relish, low-sugar & preservative
Hot & Sour Soup: dairy free, vegan option
Hot Pineapple Pudding - cream/custard strictly optional
'I'm on Holiday, too' BBQ Chicken Wings
Irresistable Irish Stew: fat removed before serving
Levant Lamb Mini-Skewers & Tahini Mint Dip: British lamb but not as we know it
Luscious Lamb & Red Wine Stew: lower fat
Lamb Mongolian Style, 2-ways, Low-fat, Slow Cooker 
Lamb Ribs for the Health-Conscious: cooked low & slow to render off fat
Lambs Lettuce Avocado Salad (Vegan opt)
Layered Fruit Cup with Dark Sugar Cream: yoghurt-cream, low-sugar
Lazy Wo/man's Summer's End Crumble: lower butter content
Eleanor Maidment's Leek & Celeriac Soup: vegan opt; comforting & satisfying
Leftovers Open Sandwich: Pear, Stilton & Nuts: 
thrifty, healthy, tasty; versatile
Lunchbox Slaw (HOL), super healthy salad that won't go soggy
Mackerel in paper parcels, healthy in the extreme!
15-min Mackerel & Honeyed Chinese Cabbage Rice Bowl: no added fat
Marvellous Mushroom Risotto: Oven-baked, Vegetarian
Meatless Moussaka Marvellously: under half the fat of conventional moussaka
Mango Mint & Ginger Instant Sorbet, no sugar fat or preservatives, Vegan
Making and Freezeing Marinara Sauce: low fat, salt & preservatives; easy
Mediterranean Tomatoes: so simple, so sensational
Midi Soda Breads, butter, sugar & yeast free; quick & easy 
Mothers' Day Healthier, Skinner Scrumptious Desserts
Dreamy Mushrooms on Toast, Vegetarian, no need for butter
Mushroom & Spinach Soup, slimmers, low-fat, low-carb, high satisfaction
Mustard Maple Chicken: turn 'value' chicken into something special; easy, lower-fat; make-ahead
Low-carb Noodles with Garlic & Ginger VEGAN, portable; fresh clean spicy
Oat Cakes, Do-it-Yourself: fat-free
One-Pot Un-fried Tuna Rice: fab side for crowds or a main course
One-pot Rice & Chicken: Low-fat, easily digested 
Orange & Sesame Wings, lower fat, no-sugar
Nectarine & Avocado Rice Salad: great for using up leftovers
Leftovers: Pear, Stilton & Nuts Open Sandwich: 
thrifty, healthy, tasty; versatile

 Pear & Ginger Snow Parfaits
Pear, Spinach & Chicken Salad: almost instant, great textures & taste
Pensioners' Delight: Simple Lemon Pepper pasta, with or without veg, frugal, quick, hot or cold. high fibre
 Peking Duck for Pancakes: healthier than the original, lower fat  
Pheasant with Brandy & Plums, low-fat, slow-cooker
Phyllo Bites, Sensational: Triple Duty: Vegan, fish, meat: butter-free
Piquant Rice, a stunning dairy-free palate pleaser, wallet & time friendly
Hardly-any-Sugar Hot Plum & Pineapple  Easy-peasy, alcohol option
Plum, Ginger & Orange Crumble, Deconstructed
Poached Pears,  no booze & low-sugar
Polenta Corn Dippers: no eggs, butter or common wheat 
Pomelo (Chinese grapefrut) fruit salad
Pork Belly Meat Pops: with home-made Barbecue Sauce; thrifty, easy, more-ish
Pork, Skinnier Char Siu wonderfully guilt-free; low-sugar & salt,
Pork, Ale & Apple Casserole: lower-fat, high fibre, option for chicken & alcohol-fry
Creamy Carnival Prawn Potato Salad: light, lo-fat & easily digested 
Prawn, Pea & Corn Salad: (New) quick & easy, high protein & fibre, low fat, leftovers
Potato & Artichoke Pizza: unexpected, amazing more-ish potato pizza
Quick & Easy Harvest Veg; Double Duty, warm side or salad
Raspberry Almond Midi Cake: singleton indulgence
Raspberry & Coconut Midi-Cake: butter-free, easy, fresh fruit, high fibre
Ranch Style Dressing, creamy & herby, from across the pond 
Ribs, low-sugar Asian Spicy Pork, Prep-Ahead no sickly sweet sauce, healthier
Ricotta, Almond, Sun-blush Tomato & Artichoke Crepes with White Wine Sauce 
Roast Turkey Thigh: quick mid-week budget-friendly roast
Roasted Summer Veg with Balsamic & Pumpkin Seeds, vegan
Roasted Spicy Chickpeas: crunchy preservative-free lower-fat snack 
Slow Roast Pork Belly with Veg
Rustic Irish Soda Bread: delicious & wholesome, butter, egg  & yeast free, easy-peasy
Sausage, Onion & Dijon-Maple Mini Yorkshires: vegetarians & carnivores
 Sausage, Beer & Bean Casserole. Frugal, vegetarian or meat sausages
Sausages, chicken with Burnished Grapes, Healthier, Easy-peasy
Savoury Party Popcorn: additive & sugar free; vegan; low- fat/salt; small households, frugal
Scallop & White Bean Potage: unusual winning pairing 
Scalloped Potatoes, French Style: lower cholesterol, make ahead
Sensational Orange Ginger Tofu: works with meat & fish
Sensational Low-Fat Savoury Cheese Sauce: easy-peasy; vegan option
Singleton's Dairy-free Hummous: vegan, quick & easy, low-fat
Singletons' 'Treat Myself' Luxury Seafood Soup:  low fat & carb; quick, indulgence 
Singleton's Rustic Fruit Crumble Cake: midi-cake, 1-bowl wonder, high fibre
Spanish Roast Chicken, prep ahead; takes the edge off Arctic temps 
Spelt Granola, Low-gluten, Vegan, no-added Sugar, high protein/fibre 
Spelt Pasta Salad with Mushrooms, Peas & Chive Oil: Vegan delight 
Spiced Aubergine Dip, Fluffy: vegan, as easy as hummous
Spicy Biscuits with white chocolate icing: butter-free Guy Magnets, wheat-free option
Spicy Chicken Livers with Figs
Spicy Corn & Beetroot Salad - striking pairing
Spicy 'Glass' Noodle & Mince Salad: low cal/fat, Vegan opt, healthy
Layered Spinach & Beetroot Salad: Healthy, Easy Peasy
Spinach & Bean Soup: strikingly delicious, substantial & easy 
Spinach, Mushroom & Chicken Liver Broth
Splendid Split Pea Soup: vegan with Triple Duty garnishes 
Sprout Latkes: vegetarian, vegan & gluten free opt., budget friendly, high fibre 
 Sprouts with Savoury Spices & Lemon: Simple & Sensational
Stir Fried Cucumber & Pork
Stir-fried Harvest Veg, low-starch 'slimmers' delight'
Stir-fried turkey drumstick, cabbage & corn: quick, easy, wallet-friendly
Stem Ginger Yoghurt Cream 
Strawberry Midi-Sponge: healthier, skinnier indulgence: butter-free; singletons or small households
Stupendous Pizza Dough: easy; cheap; fabulous
Spare Ribs, Spiced low-fat, low sugar
Spinach, Pulses & Avocado: Feisty Autumn Salad
Prepare-ahead healthy Strawberry Muffins, 
Strawberry & Ham Salad: unusual sassy combo 
Strawberry Ripple Ice: 0-fat, no cream, low-sugar
Stuffed Potato Salad: intriguing flavour/texture; reduced carbs; gut friendly
Succulent Poached Chicken, clean & lean
Sumac Roasted Chickpeas: sophisticated crunchiness  (incl kids opt)
Surprising Sardine Salad: zesty & unexpected
Sweetcorn & Plum Slaw,  'dieter's delight'
Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce,low-sugar, easy-peasy, skinnier
Sweet Chilli & Ginger Salmon, Healthy, budget-friendly
Sweet Chilli Vegetables with Flat Noodles: punchy vegetarian side that morphs easily into a Triple Duty Main Course 
Tandoori Chicken, Low-fat & cholesterol, Easy, Make-ahead
Thai Larb (hot spicy mince), a la 67, fast & fab, carnivore option
Tiramisu Pudding, No-Bake nothing else to say but 'Wow!
Low-fat No-Pastry Tofu Fritters/Dumplings
 Tomato Salad with Basil, incl Heritage Tomatoes
Italian Tomato Sauce,Restaurant Quality
Tomato, Mushroom & Grapefruit Salsa, no sugar, low-fat
Tomato and Courgette Rice
Tri-colour Quinoa Salad: Vegan; easy; contains all 9 amino acids - no need for other protein
Picnic Tumbet, savoury pie of potato, aubergine & peppers 
Tuna Salad Italian Style, quick, healthy, satisfying 
Tuna & Veg Mediterranean Rice, antioxidant heavy
Turkey Cottage Pie with a Latin Twist
Turkey Meatloaf, Frugal
Turkey Lollipops, tender & juicy, for kids and slimmers (option for chicken)
Turkey Meatballs, lower fat, lower cholesterol
Turkey Leg with Curry Sauce , for leftovers
Turkish Pide, 67 style: low-fat, make ahead
Tuscan Chicken: deeply flavoured, make ahead, wallet-friendly, low-cholesterol/salt
Two-tone Chocolate Orange Pudding: no bake, no-added sugar, easy peasy indulgence, slightly lower-fat 
Uber Oven-baked Potatoes: the perfect baked spud is a wonder to behold; much more than a snack; thrifty
1-pot braised liver & bacon rice: 'So generously studded with veg and meat it's like a celebration.
3-ingredient 'Bottom-of-the Barrel' Shortbread: crisp, melt-in-the-mouth
3-ingredient 'Biscuit' Cake: ready in 20 mins plus icing 
Spicy Apple Rockcakes: gloriously autumnal, easy, lower-sugar  
Air-frier Mocha Cake for 2
Ambrosial Avocado Soup
Ambrosial Tomato Gazpacho, Vegan, low carb & fat
Artichoke & Olive Tapenade toast topper:  delicately pale, lightly salted but wonderful flavour & texture  
'Artisanal' Velvet Hummous with Beetroot, home-made at half the price
Asian Chicken 'n Rice Congee/Stew: ultra- frugal, nutritious, tasty & miraculously low-carb
Asian Pork Bao, Western Style (rave reviews from testers) 
3-minute Asparagus, Pea & Corn Salad  creamy low-fat easy
Avocado & Ham Devilled Eggs: low-fat, veg option
Autumn Salad: Apple & Cashew Nut Slaw
Bacon Rice Supper, Almost Instant, Frugal
Bagels, Almost Instant: unbelievably easy; for when the weather turns (!)
Banana Smoothie: quick & easy, calming, frugal 
Beef & Courgette Stir-fry: quick & nourishing after a hard day's work
Beef, Spicy Seared Korean Style
Beef Noodle Soup with Fresh Tomato, Chinese, a gorgeous twist on a class
Ukrainian Beef & Potato Stew: wallet-friendly classic comfort food wherever it's eaten

 Beef Ragout, wallet-friendly
Beef Mushroom & Cream Casserole: 'Poor man's Beef Stroganoff'; slow cooked (Lucky him!)
Beetroot-Chive Hummous, Almost-Instant: vegan, fuss free & zingy
'Big Chicken Soup', Slow-Cooked Frugal, Ill & Infirm
'Big' Beef Soup, wallet-friendly, slow-cooker
Braised Peas with Lettuce: lovely warm dish uses up wilting leaves; healthy, carnivore option, leftovers
Braised Oriental Spiced wings: frugal, exotically delicious
Butternut Squash, Ginger & Orange Soup: Vegan, rich & full-flavoured
Speedy Fluffy Breakfast Buns for lazy w/ends or breakfast on the run
Skinny Speedy Breakfast Biscuits & Baps lower-fat, higher-fibre, no egg/yeast
Breakfast Roll, Lebanese Style, make ahead, healthy, wallet-friendly
Broccoli, Beetroot & Cashew: Vegan, absolutely not rabbit food 
Broccoli 'Vichyssoise': vegan, low carb, easy, kid-friendly
Cajun Chicken Legs: Quick & Easy; frugal, portable, stove-top, air-fryer
Calamari & Mixed Veg Salad: low-cal; as gorgeous to eat as it is to look at
Canadian Yellow Split Pea Soup: beats the curse of frugal but boring recipes
Caponata, Sicilian Aubergine Dip - sweet, sour & sassy, low-cal, vegan
Caramel Apple Sauce
Carrot, Ginger & Lemon Potage, thrifty, comforting & satisfying
Cauliflower 'Mash': Dieters' Delight, texture like mash
Cauliflower & Pork Stir-fry
Cauliflower & Courgette Curry: Vegan, quick & easy, small households
Cheat's Tortilla Chips: quick & easy, free of nasty additives, baked or lightly fried
Effortless Chilli for Beginners: low fat & salt, budget-friendly, carninore and vegan options.  Includes instructions for storage, freezing & defrosting.
Make-Your-Own Delicious Chow Mein Noodles: (New) healthier & cheaper than a take-away, triple-duty  
Cheat's Fruity Coleslaw: easy, high-fibre, reduced fatCheese & Chive Crackers, crisp & melt-in-the-mouth
Cheese Straws, Sensational: frugal luxury treat using leftover cheese
Cherry Cordial, no sugar syrup, alcohol & kids' options
Chilli Con Turkey, Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat
Chicken 'n Rice Congee/Stew: ultra-frugal, nutritious, tasty & low-carb
Chicken, Kiwi & Rice Salad:  quick, leftovers
 Chicken, Lemon Tuscan-style frugal
Chicken Livers, spiced  with Nectarine: frugal, exotic 
Chicken Rice Paper Wraps, with spring onion & ginger sauce 
Chicken Thighs, Dominican Style: easy, Pensioners Delight, low-fat & sugar
Tropical Chicken Salad: banishes that 'leftovers again?!' feeling
Chicken wings with Chilli, Lime & Hoisin Glaze: flaming hot or mildly spicy 
 Chicken Wings, Peppers & Orange Stew, Slow cooker, Very Frugal
Chinese Crudites
Chinese leaves in walnut & garlic sauce
Chinese Noodle Salad with Hoisin: colourful Triple Duty multi-textured salad, stuffed with low-fat, high fibre, frugal ingredients
Healthier Chocolate Cupcakes for Busy Mums: easy-peasy, for School
Chocolate Truffle Mini-Bricks, Indulgent and creamy-dreamy
Chocolate Nut Twists
Chocolate Orange Spiced Cake: butter-free, budget friendly
Chocolate & Peanut Butter Midi-Cakes: egg-free, vegan option
Mouthwatering Chow Mein Noodle Salad: frugal, triple duty; it's the sacuce that makes it so marvellous!
Creamy White Rice Salad: frugal, clean eating/easily digested salad for summer buffets
Chunky Autumn Soup, additive-free, make-ahead option, triple duty
Chunky Lentil Soup with Spinach & Mini Beefballs
Coffee Walnut Cake, Vegetarian, vegan option 
Easy Corn Salad for Autumn
Corn & Plum Slaw, dieter's delight
Cornbread, Mediterranean Savoury, wheat free
Dairy Free Creamy Cauliflower Soup, effort-free, delicious & low-cal
Sweet'n Sour Cucumber Salad: frugal, easy
Dal Soup with Mushrooms & Green beans: frugal, calming
Devilled Eggs for the Now Generation with tuna, frugal, easy-peasy
Devilled Tuna Open-Faced Sarnies, little & healthy Danish-style lunch
Dill Pickles, Faff-free: ready in 3 days, Vegan 
Double-Dipped Crunchy French Toast, Frugal 
Double Duty Dish: Oriental Chicken Wings & Chicken Stock 
Double Duty Dish (DDD):  Easy-Peasy Rich Tomato Soup
Eggs in White Sauce  frugal, childhood favourite
English Breakfast Salad, a sassy holiday wk/end brunch 
 Silky Fresh Noodles in Broth with Veggies, Meat or Fish,
White Fish Rice Paper Wraps, with fiery coriander & chilli sauce 
Fagioli E Pasta (Bean & Pasta Italian Soup from Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa
 Fancy sandwiches for kids or tea, How to...prep and freeze
Exotic Cucumber Salad: Vegan; easy;  sweet, sour & spicy
Filipino Pork Adobo with Pineapple : wallet-friendly, lower-fat, sugar-free, make-ahead
15-minute Flatbread, yeast-and-sugar free
Flatbread, SunBlush Tomato, wheat-free, easy peasy
Focaccia, No-knead: Super-easy, needs 1 spoon, 24 hours & folding 
15-minute last of the New Potatoes Salad, chunky & satisfying
Frugal Banana Chocolate Bread Pudding: uses up ripe bananas & stale bread
Frugal fabulous Fishcakes, incl tuna
Garlic & Chive Breadsticks: almost instant, fat-free
Garlic Mini Rolls, no knead: Easy, prep ahead
Garlic Wedges, Skinnier
Grape Rice Salad with Hoisin Chicken: (New) easy, budget-friendly, make-ahead, portable
Grapefruit & Mint Mixed Leaf Salad, Triple Duty, refreshingly healthy 
Green Beans a la Ina Garten with Mustard & Dill Dressing: outstanding; sophisticated & elegant
Ham Hock, How to...cook & serve
Levant Lamb Mini-Skewers & Tahini Mint Dip: British lamb but not as we know it
 Lamb Shoulder with Savoury Gravy & Mint Sauce, for small households
Leftovers Open Sandwich: Pear, Stilton & Nuts: 
thrifty, healthy, tasty; versatile
Lemon-Mint Angel Food Cakes: Sensational, butter-free, wallet-friendly
Pensioners/2'somes Delight: Lentil Pancake Avocado Brunch: unexpectedly delightful; frugal, vegetarian, easy, high protein/fibre
Lime & Hoisin Marinade for Meats and Tofu
Liver 'n Bacon with a twist: beautifully braised with veg and rice
Lovely Leftovers: recipes to save money & eat healthily, too
Make it yourself stovetop popcorn: easy & delicious; families will love it!
Mango Mint & Ginger Instant Sorbet, no sugar fat or preservatives, Vegan
Mediterranean Tomatoes: so simple, so sensational
Midi Soda Breads, butter, sugar & yeast free; quick & easy 
Middle Eastern Spice Rub: dry marinade
 Mint Choco-Mousse, low-sugar, no egg yolk; cream only if wanted
Mushroom & Sherry Potage, no-cream, kids option  
Dreamy Mushrooms on Toast, Veggie when another egg is torment
Mulligatawny Soup, Cheats': singleton's, easy peasy 
Pasta with Pesto & Chicken: vegetarian option; leftovers; singletons
Pear, Ginger & Blueberry Crumble
Pear & Ginger Snow Parfaits
Pear, Spinach & Chicken Salad, almost instant, great textures & taste
Pensioners' Delight: Simple Lemon Pepper pasta, with or without veg, frugal, quick, hot or cold. high fibre
 Perfectly Pink Pineapple Grapefruit Cordial, no-sugar or preservative
Pheasant with Mid-Eastern spices and Orange 
Piquant Rice, stunning palate pleaser, wallet & time friendly
Speedy Plum & Ginger Jam: low-sugar, memorable, frugal
Hardly-any-Sugar Hot Plum & Pineapple  Easy-peasy, alcohol option
Stupendous Pizza Dough: easy; cheap; fabulous
Polenta Corn Dippers: no eggs, butter or common wheat
Pork Belly Meat Pops: with home-made Barbecue Sauce; thrifty, easy, more-ish
Pork Escalopes with Pineapple & Rice: easy family favourite for pork bargains
Quick and Easy Prawn, Vegetable and Wholemeal Noodle Stir Fry
 Puchero'. high-nutrition, wallet-friendly peasant Spanish Stew
Raspberry Almond Midi Cake: singleton indulgence
Ribs, low-sugar Asian Spicy Pork, Prep-Ahead no sickly sweet sauce, healthier
Roast Turkey Thigh: quick mid-week budget-friendly roast
Roasted Spicy Chickpeas, a crunchy preservative-free snack 
Root Ginger & Lemon throat soother, medicinal & refreshing 
'Runny' Eggs 
Rustic Irish Soda Bread: delicious & wholesome, butter, egg  & yeast free, easy-peasy
Savoury Party Popcorn: additive & sugar free; vegan; low- fat/salt; small households, frugal
7-minute Pork Fried Noodles, ready in a flash 
Scallop & White Bean Potage: unusual winning pairing 
Scalloped Potatoes, French Style: lower cholesterol, make ahead
Scotch Pancakes, Classic, No/low sugar, Fat-free, Make-ahead
Singleton's Dairy-free Hummous: vegan, quick & easy, low-fat 
Skinnier Sandwiches
Skinnier Sandwich Fillings, Fish
Skinnier Sandwich Fillings, Meat
Skinnier Sandwich Fillings, Vegetarian
Skinnier Scotch Eggs, low-fat, high flavour, wallet-friendly
Skinnier Sticky Hot Wings, frugal
Slimmers' Stir-Fried Veg & Beef, quick, satisfying, wallet-friendly
Slimmers' Tuna Fried Rice
Smashed Potato Salad, frugal, less mayo, easy-peasy
Soothing Strawberry, Banana & Ginger Smoothie, for summer tummy upsets 
Sorbet, Instant fruit low/no sugar, wallet-friendly
Spelt Pasta Salad with Mushrooms, Peas & Chive Oil: Vegan delight 
Splendid Split Pea Soup: frugal, healthy & delicious, Triple Duty 
 Spinach & Bean Soup: strikingly delicious, substantial & quick 
Spinach, Mushroom & Chicken Liver Broth
Spicy Corn & Beetroot Salad - striking but delicious pairing
Spicy Chicken Livers with Figs
Spicy Sesame Noodles,
Spicy Split Pea Soup: vegan, anti-inflammatory, easy AND delicious
Sprouts: Simple Sensational with savoury spices & lemon
Sprout Latkes: vegetarian, vegan & gluten free opt., budget friendly, high fibre 
Stir-fried Harvest Veg, low-starch 'slimmers' delight' 
Stir-fried turkey drumstick, cabbage & corn: quick, easy, wallet-friendly
Stovetop Spanish Potato & Onion Tortilla: from scratch; vegetarian, oven not required
Strawberry Midi-Sponge: healthier, skinnier indulgence: butter-free; singletons or small households
Strawberry Ripple Ice: 0-fat, no cream, low-sugar
Stuffed Potato Salad: intriguing flavour/texture; reduced carbs; gut friendly
Sumac Roasted Chickpeas: sophisticated crunchiness  (incl kids opt)
Surprising Sardine Salad: zesty & unexpected
Sweetcorn & Plum Slaw, a 'dieter's delight'
Sweet & Sour Chicken Wings with Broth, Child Friendly, double-duty
Sweet Chilli Dipping Sauce, low-sugar, easy-peasy, skinnier
Sweet Chilli & Ginger Salmon, Healthy, budget-friendly
Tadka Dal Soup, soothing & enticingly spiced 
Tomato and Courgette Rice 
Tomato Jam, Vegan:
Tomato, Mushroom & Grapefruit Salsa, no sugar, low-fat
Tomato Soup, Almost Instant, you'll never reach for tinned again
Tortilla Espagnol: Glamour Mode Vegetarian 
Tuna Casserole with Potato Chip Topping
Tuna-fried Rice
Tuna & Veg Mediterranean Rice, antioxidant heavy
Tuna and Tomato Fried Rice: a fresh twist on the appealling original 
Turkey Lollipops, for kids and slimmers (option for chicken)
Turkey Meatloaf
Turkey Meatballs, lower fat, lower cholesterol
Turkey Leg with Curry Sauce , for leftovers
Turkish Pide, 67 style: low-fat, make ahead
Tuscan Chicken, Low-salt, low-cholesterol
Two-potato Champ, frugal, healthier updated classic
Unfried Rice, Low-fat, Easy-peasy 
3 Vegetarian Pizzas: Just add animal protein for non-vegetarians: Veggie Sausage, Onion, Grape & Mozarella; Mushroom & Cheddar;  Potato, Pesto & Goat Cheese 
Wallet-friendly Creamy Fruity Dessert Puddings for 1 or many 
Waffles, Strawberries 'n Cream a healthier indulgence
White Bean Soup: Frugal, Dairy-free, Good for You, Triple Duty
90-min Wholemeal Bread: soft, springy
Wings, Braise & Praise: simple light frugal supper 
Winter Carnival Salad
Easy Yeasted Wholemeal Bread: great for beginners, , budget & time friendly; tasty, toasts like a dream

 

FRUIT-BASED DESSERTS/ SAVOURY DISHES
Fat-free Apple Blackberry & Ginger Loaf, unbelievably good; stores well
Spicy Apple Rockcakes: gloriously autumnal, easy, lower-sugar 
 Apple Pie, Low or No sugar
Apple Hand Pies: indulgent lower-sugar treat; easy option
Asian Soft Fruit Salad, not your run-of-the-mill dessert
Banana Bread: Luxury Chocolate-Ginger with low-fat ginger cream
Frugal Banana Chocolate Bread Pudding: uses up ripe bananas & stale bread
Blueberry, Pineapple & Walnut Cake: fruity indulgence to die for 
Chicken wings with Chilli, Lime & Hoisin Glaze: flaming hot or mildly spicy 
Creamy Boozy Fruity Chocolate Pudding: easy indulgence uses up chocolate leftovers
 Crepes A L'Orange, lower-sugar
Frozen Banana Pops
Cherry Cordial, no sugar syrup, alcohol & kids' options
Chicken, Kiwi & Rice Salad:  quick, leftovers
 ChocoLime Cream Pie, No-Bake: portable, make-ahead 
Coconut Cherry Kisses, ambrosial low-sugar treats, effortless 
Creamy Pineapple Puddings with Black Sugar Glaze: lower fat, frugal & fabulous
Twosome's Crunchy Summer Salad (vegan) stonkingly delicious salad loaded with leaves veg & a bit of fruit
Double Strawberry No-bake Cloud Pie, light & luscious; portable 
Filipino Pork Adobo with Pineapple : wallet-friendly, lower-fat, sugar-free, make-ahead
Ginger 'n Chocolate/Cherry Loaf Cakes: 2 from1, easy-peasy; small households
Grape Rice Salad with Hoisin Chicken: (New) easy, budget-friendly, make-ahead, portable
Hot Compote of Cinnamon Strawberries, Peaches & Blueberries
Hot Pineapple Pudding 
Instant Fruit Compote 
Layered Fruit Cup with Dark Sugar 'Cream', Skinny, low-sugar
Lazy Wo/man's Summer's End Crumble
Lemon Curd with Ginger & brown sugar, foolproof 
Lemon Ginger Cheesecake, Skinnier: good enough for a Secretary of State! 
Lime Almond Shortbread exquisite scent & texture wheat-free option
Little Brandied Cherry Cheesecake Pots: lower-fat, no-bake, fresh fruit, alcohol opt
Mango Mint & Ginger Instant Sorbet, no sugar fat or preservatives, Vegan
Mini Pavlovas with Gingered Orange & Berries
Nectarine & Blueberry Hand Pies perfect for portable lunches
Nectarine Crumble Bars: dessert or lunchbox
Oatmeal Date Bars I, naturally sweet and full of healthy fibre
Oatmeal Date Bars II, Lower-sugar No Wheat a healthier wildly popular sweet
Orange & Berry Plate
Orange, Cointreau & White Cheesecake, no-bake, lush & delicious
Orange Mini Cakes, Vegetarian, airy & fluffy with surprise filling
Party Sangria: authentically Spanish 
Peach & Cherry Jalousie, with the last of the UK's soft summer fruits
Peach, Brandy & Cardamom Compote: fab; lower-sugar easy 
Pear-Cardamom Galette: hot glorious pie with warming spices
Filipino Pork Adobo with Pineapple : wallet-friendly, lower-fat, sugar-free, make-ahead
Pork, Ale & Apple Casserole: lower-fat, high fibre, option for chicken & alcohol-free
Singleton's Rustic Fruit Crumble Cake: midi-cake, 1-bowl wonder, high fibre 
Skinny Cherry Pie
Strawberry Ripple Ice: 0-fat, no cream, low-sugar
Raspberry & Coconut Midi-Cake: butter-free, easy, fresh fruit, high fibre 
Raspberry Streusel Coffee Cake
Sorbet, Instant fruit low/no sugar, wallet-friendly
Spelt Blueberry Waffles  free from common wheat
Strawberries & Cream with a Sweet Ginger twist: elevated super-exciting twist on a classic treat
 Swedish Plum & Ginger Cake 

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