Happy Monday! I hope you have a good week 🙂 How is it looking so far? There’s one important day in our household this week – it’s Charlie’s 2nd birthday 🙂 eek, as if my baby is going to be 2! We’re going to have a birthday tea for him plus some cake, but it should be a normal week apart from that. Not that he really realises what’s going on 🙂 but still, I’m looking forward to it. Other than that, it’s the usual routine and avoiding all the bugs that are going around!
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 over £50 this week for a family of four.
This week’s meal plan looks like this:
Monday – lasagne with salad
Tuesday – homemade chicken and tomato soup
Wednesday – baked salmon with hollandaise sauce + veg
Thursday – chicken nuggets, chips and beans
Friday – spinach and ricotta filled pasta
Saturday – pizza and salad 🙂
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 the boys might not eat much of this week is the homemade chicken and tomato soup. They’ll eat the bread with it but soup is hit and miss. It’s a shame as I love having soup! I’ll persevere 😉
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 have leftovers from our Sunday roast for today’s lunch at work – makes the day seem a bit better 🙂  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! I also like to make some smoothies for breakfast and I was lucky enough to get a Nutribullet for my birthday last week so I’m looking forward to using that!
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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 chicken nuggets, chips and beans meal are all things we have in stock nice and easy, which is a bonus. The salmon and mince are also from the freezer. I just need to remember to take them out on the morning that I need them!
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!Â
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Would you mind sharing your chicken and tomato soup recipe? It sounds delicious.