Happy Monday! How is your week looking? It’s another normal week for us of the same work/school routine. Not much changes from the weekly life for us, so it should be quiet. The weekend has been a bit of a wipe out as Charlie has had a sickness bug so lots of laying around and hoping it goes away ASAP! Plus lots of washing. I don’t know where he might have picked it up from but just hoping that Alfie doesn’t get it next. If there’s one thing I really struggle with, it’s sick. Anyway, moving on from that delightful topic….!
Monday means another meal plan post 
which just goes through what we are 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 under £60 this week for a family of four.
This week’s meal plan looks like this:
Monday – lasagne with salad
Tuesday – baked salmon with hollandaise sauce and vegetables
Wednesday – roast vegetables with couscous and feta
Thursday – tuna and sweetcorn pasta
Friday – spaghetti bolognese (slow cooker)
Saturday – shepherds pie with gravy and broccoli
I do our food shop on a Sunday so I haven’t thought about what we will eat on Sunday. 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. The one thing that they might refuse is the roast veg/couscous/feta combination. I’m hoping the cheese will help in this one! We shall see. 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. I need to find some more slow cooker recipes to use for during the week; it is so much better to come home to a meal already done after a long day at work. Any suggestions?
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 haven’t bought any chocolate for to take to work this week; I am trying so hard to break this habit! We shall see. It will be good if I can eat less chocolate to be honest, as I eat far too much. 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. I have bought some bagel thins for lunches too, just for a bit of variety. 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. I’m using quite a few things from the freezer this week, which also keeps costs down. The tuna and sweetcorn are tins from the cupboard and the bolognese sauce is all made from things we already have in the freezer/cupboard.
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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Hi, I invested in an instant pot on amazon prime day so today made rissotto and later in the week will make a chicken casserole, I bought the slow cooker lid to use it for both… Really hope the bug leaves your home asap
Fingers crossed everyone seems ok at the moment 🙂 how are you finding the instant pot?