Meal Planning Monday – 17th June 2013

Meal Planning Monday

This week’s meal plan as part of Meal Planning Monday is really simple. All the meals we have this week have to be made from ingredients we already have in the house. It’s a week til pay day and I reckon with a few little bits and pieces we can manage this. So here goes:

Monday – Chicken Fajitas

Tuesday – We managed to have a night out thanks to the In Laws and boy it was an amazing meal at Karen’s Unicorn in Abercromby Place, Edinburgh. I’d highly recommend it and oh the movie, Man of Steel wasn’t so bad either. Watched it in 3D – Wasn’t that impressed with the 3D side of things, but the film was good.

Wednesday – Steak & Chips with stilton and roast tomatoes

Thursday – Mediterranean Chicken Pasta with a cheesy Crumb Topping (Schwartz)

Friday – Poached egg, asparagus & poached haddock with roast potatoes

Saturday – We are at a BBQ, so no doubt it will be a burger :)

Sunday – Roast Chicken and roast veggies

I’ve gone back to popping the meals beside the days as I find this works better for using things up and is more of a plan. I’ve noticed that the food bills have crept up again recently and I really think this is the reason why.

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Meal Planning Monday – 10th June 2013

Meal Planning Monday

This week I have no idea where to start, I feel so disorganised just now and I have 43 people coming for Buddy’s 4th birthday on Sunday and I haven’t organised a thing. Oops, so not like me either. Now I need to get to grips with the party but also it’s Grim’s birthday on Wednesday too, so it’s going to be a busy week. That said, we still need to eat, so here is our meal plan for this week:

Hake & prawn curry
Italian Ragu
Steak and chips (for Grim’s birthday)
Fajita chicken pizza
Chicken with Philadelphia sauce

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Meal Planning Monday – 3rd June 2013

Meal Planning Monday

Wow I can’t believe it’s June already. But at least the nice weather has arrived at last. I’m a bit behind again this week, so playing catch up. This week we will be trying not to go to the supermarket more than once (ha, I’ve already been twice ;) ) and using up the provisions that we bought in advance as soon as we were paid. Here is our meal plan for meal planning Monday:

Hake & prawn curry
Italian Ragu
Baked Salmon & sweet chilli sauce through pasta with crème fraiche
Pepperoni Pizza
Chicken with Philadelphia sauce
Steak ciabatta with peppadew peppers
Turkey meatloaf (with hidden veg – so glad my kiddies can’t read this!)

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Meal Planning Monday – 27th May 2013

Meal Planning Monday

We’re trying something different with the budgeting this month, I’ve ordered all my fish up front and gone to Costco for my meat, coffee & cheese for the month. So all I need are fresh veg and milk. I’m going to try and buy my stuff from Lidl as much as I can just to see if we can get it all. The only thing I can’t get is Bubbles’ milk as he’s on Goat’s milk and they don’t sell it. Here is the meal plan for this week:

Chicken and pancetta pie
Chicken Fajitas
Hake & prawn curry
Italian Ragu
Baked Salmon & stir fry veg
Fajita Chicken pizza
tuna pasta with chilli & rocket

Homemade beef & chilli burger

Homemade beef & chilli burger

 

cod wrapped in parma ham with pesto

cod wrapped in parma ham with pesto

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Meal Planning Monday – 20th May 2013

Meal Planning Monday

I’m going to have to start scheduling my blogs as I can’t keep up with the days on the days that I work. I am so tired once the boys are in bed I can only manage to get my own dinner and then bed. So I apologise that it is already Thursday and I’m just doing my meal plan. This is the plan for this week:

Chilli baked potatoes
Chicken Fajitas
Homemade pepperoni pizza
Spinach, chick pea & sweet potato curry
Rogan Josh Kashmiri Lamb Curry
Lasagne
Oven baked salmon with sweet potato chips

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Meal Planning Monday – 13th May 2013

Meal Planning Monday

I have got bits and bobs in the freezer, so this week’s meal plan will be a random selection of items to try to clear the freezer out and defrost them. As we change the days we have our food if I put them beside a day, I’ll just give you the list of meals we will have:

My Italian Ragu
Sweet potato, Chickpea and spinach curry
Macaroni Cheese
Chorizo & red pepper pasta bake
Chicken Jalfreizi

Here are some pictures from last week’s meals. If there are any that you fancy making, comment below and I’ll send you the recipe. Last week I tried the 5:2 Diet but I’m not sure it’s for me, I felt awful for three days afterwards, so going to give it a miss. Having said that the food I ate that day was so tasty & I didn’t feel hungry at all during the day or night.

Chicken Fajitas Pre roll

Chicken Fajitas Pre roll

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King Prawn Curry - 300 calories

King Prawn Curry – 300 calories

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Meal Planning Monday – 6th May 2013

Meal Planning Monday

This week I am going to do two fasting days so our meal plan will be based around that so that I can keep within the 500 calories on those days. We also wanted to try Meat Free Monday that lots of people have been talking about. So here is our meal planning Monday:

Sweet Potato, Spinach & Chick pea Curry
Chicken Fajitas
Prawn curry
Hake bake with roasted tomatoes
Poached egg & asparagus

We are away to a friend’s 40th birthday party so the rest of the week will be taken up with feasting and drinking wine. All in a good cause ;)

For those who are interested, here are a few pictures from last week’s meal plan:

Naan Bread Pizza

Naan Bread Pizza

Crispy Chicken from Hairy Dieters

Crispy Chicken from Hairy Dieters

Lamb Kofta Curry

Lamb Kofta Curry

Smoked Haddock. Cheese & Tomato Bake

Smoked Haddock. Cheese & Tomato Bake

Remember to head over to At Home with Mrs M for more inspiration on cooking.

Meal Planning Monday – 29th April 2013

Meal Planning Monday

I’m not going to tell you which days we are eating which meal as we invariably change them around, so this week we’ve just got a list as our meal planning Monday, It’s all about the one shop and not allowed back to the shop to save pennies. Next week we’ll start our fasting diet……

Smoked haddock bake from Young’s Seafood
Italian ragu & spaghetti
Baked potatoes with smoked mackerel pate
Lamb kofta curry
Smoked haddock chowder
Crispy chicken
Fish & Chips

We eat a lot of seafood, but this week has more than most, I’m sure no one will complain cause it’s so light and easy to digest. I want to try to limit the calories this week as I want the fasting to be easy and not a chore which is what I fear.

Here are some of the pics of our meals from last week:

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Meal Planning Monday – 22nd April 2013

Meal Planning Monday

This week we are trying out a few new things, will resume with the recipe book inspiration next week but this week is a bit of a mish mash.

Mon – lamb samosa

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Tues – Ling burre blanc

Wed – tuna pasta with rocket & lemon

Thurs – pizza, salami & olive (homemade of course)

Fri – Ragu

Sat – fish curry made with haddock & prawns

Sun – Baked Potatoes & smoked mackerel pâté

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Meal Planning Monday – 14th April 2013

Meal Planning Monday

Sorry we’ve been a bit lazy with the blog for the past two weeks, we’ve just had so much on, so this is me just getting round to my Meal Planning Monday. This week we are seriously feeling the pinch with our new revised budget based on my three days working / three days childcare. So here goes:

Monday – Fish curry

Tuesday – Homemade burgers and chips

Wednesday – Spicy macaroni cheese and salad

Thursday – Haddock chowder

Friday – Tuna pasta

Saturday – Nonno Guiseppe’s special ragu recipe

Sunday – Roast Beef

I know I said we are feeling the pinch, but Sunday is special as my Mom is over visiting from Italy so we’ll have a nice homecooked meal to remind her what she is missing.

Just as an aside we are making chicken caesar salad with ciabatta croutons on Saturday for lunch, a great Jamie Oliver recipe that I made about six years ago and it really is the business. Hope Mom likes it too!!

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