Happy Monday! How is your week looking for the days ahead? Another normal week for us really, though Mr FC is off work which is nice. I’m also seeing a friend on Tuesday who I haven’t seen in ages, so it’ll be good to catch up. Both might have an impact on our budget but I’m hoping not. I do know that Mr FC eats more when he’s ate home then when he’s at work!
Monday means another meal plan post though 
which just goes through what we’re eating this week so keep our food spends under budget. I have definitely honed my skills in this area for a long time now – and have even written a course about it here – so we have very little food waste and our meal plans are cheap and tasty I spent just over £60 this week for a family of four.
This week’s meal plan looks like this:
Monday – at the in-laws
Tuesday – vegetable curry with rice
Wednesday – lasagne + garlic bread
Thursday – quiche, chips and beans
Friday – baked salmon with egg fried rice + broccoli
Saturday – out
I do our food shop on a Sunday so I haven’t thought about what we’ll have next weekend! But I’m looking forward to the meals this week. Both boys will eat the same as us all week as well which helps. I love it when we can all eat the same meals together plus it makes it a lot easier as I only have to think about one meal rather than different things. I am trying to have some meals during the week which are meat free, which is also reducing our spends and hopefully helping a little. We haven’t had curry in a while and I fancied a vegetable one rather than chicken which is what I’d normally make. This is just from a jar of sauce, nothing fancy!
For my lunches this week there are two options. When I’m at work I’m going to take soup, some crisps and some fruit. I’ve also got some fake kitkats (Morrions own which are cheaper!) for that little chocolate hit. At home it’ll be a sandwich or cheese on toast, as the norm. Alfie will have school dinners and Charlie usually has a sandwich of some description with fruit and yogurt for afters. Breakfast in our house is just cereal; either wheetabix or shreddies with banana. Goes down well with everyone and fairly healthy + cheap!
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Part of our planning and budget for food means that some items are used from our stockpile every week. This is so the food we already have in the cupboards is used regularly and rotated so nothing goes to waste, but it’s also a good habit to get in to so that if we cannot get to the shops for whatever reason, I can make meals from what we already have in the cupboards.
Using a combination of fresh and frozen food really keeps our grocery budget down. I do need to build up our stockpile a bit more though; slowly but surely. I like having things to hand and I don’t like having empty cupboards. Rice and pasta are staples in our stockpile, plus some of the other tinned ingredients are things I had in as well. Looking forward to our meals this week!
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What are you eating this week? Trying anything new? I’d love to hear from you in the comments!
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I quite fancy a vegetable curry having read your plan, maybe at the end of the week..
I’m looking forward to cooking this week as I wasn’t able to do much last week, keeping it simple though – Mon/Tue fennel and sweet potato tagine Wed baked tofu Thu Fried rice w l/o tofu Fri Chickpea curry Sat out Sun baked risotto
Have a good week
Sounds tasty 🙂 the vegetable curry is really simple!
Do you buy a bit more seasonal veg than you need and freeze some of it? I am working my way through our freezer for meat and fish at the moment (I was in the habit of picking up and freezing reduced items whether we needed it or not) so I have a bit more space. I was thinking of buying some from the farms locally and freezing some so I can take advantage of the cheap prices associated with a glut
Sometimes, though I probably should try and do this more often!