Hello Monday! Another new week ahead. Just another normal week for us this week; I feel like we’re getting back into a routine and structure is good. It is for two young children, anyway! Last week had a couple of hiccups with the budget and I went over my food budget for the week, so I’m hoping to get back on track with this one.
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 £50 this week for a family of four.
This week’s meal plan looks like this:
Monday – at the in-laws
Tuesday – spaghetti puttanesca
Wednesday – chicken fajita pasta
Thursday – slow cooker chilli + rice
Friday – filled pasta and sauce
Saturday – pizza night!
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. The chicken fajita pasta is a new recipe – I just hope our boys eat it! – and I’ll take leftovers for lunch on Thursday. I’m intending on not making it too spicy so that it’s family friendly 🙂
For my lunches this week there are two options. When I’m at work I’m going to take soup, mini cheddars and some fruit. I’ve also got some milky ways 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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- Healthy Eating On A Budget
- 3 Healthy Breakfast Recipes On A Budget
- 3 Healthy Lunch Recipes On A Budget
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. The pizzas are just frozen pizza, which I tend to have in. We love a pizza in our house 🙂 I should really try and make my own! Do you know of any good pizza dough recipe?
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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 know many who use a simple recipe equal quantities of yogurt and self raising flour. So 300g of yogurt and 300g of sr flour. I have bread flour and yeast to hand so I make a rested base. Tonight our dinner is steak and vegetables. Tomorrow is leftovers. Wednesday might well be pizza. I have chicken to roast. Then I wil l look in the freezer to use the older stock.
Sounds like some tasty things on the menu this week 🙂
We use River Cottage “magic bread dough” for everything, it’s delicious.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/05/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-pizza
Thanks for sharing – that looks good!