Meal Plan Monday #50

Happy Monday! Another week where we get to stay safe at home I am slowly getting used to just being at home all the time. I miss going food shopping – sending my husband is not the same – and doing little things like that. It’s crazy the things I used to take for granted which seemed so ordinary. I would give anything for a bit of that back! Plus a hug from my Mum.

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 £70 this week for a family of four. We are definitely spending more money on food at the moment but that’s because we’re all just at home all of the time so we’re here for all meals. It does make a difference!

This week’s meal plan looks like this:

Monday – southern fried chicken with salad

Tuesday – sausages + sweet potato mash with gravy

Wednesday – spaghetti puttanesca

Thursday – sweet chilli salmon, broccoli and rice

Friday – pizza + salad

Saturday – prawn curry with rice + poppadoms

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. We do tend to eat similar things week in week out. Do you do that? Guess I’m a creature of habit! The southern fried chicken is a new recipe from this book which I’m excited to try!

Being at home means we are definitely eating more; we’re all home at lunchtime for a start so that’s more. Plus both boys seem to be asking for snacks almost constantly! So I need to ration the snacks I have upped our grocery budget to take into account the fact that we’re eating ore and buying more branded stuff in the short term. Breakfasts are straightforward as we tend to eat the same, but lunches might need to be more varied. We shall see. It depends on what I can get in the shops, to be honest. I can see lots of baking in the future – our favourite being lemon drizzle cake.

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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. Plus pizza night is always a cheap one – I just get a big frozen one from the supermarket and it does all four of us. The prawns are in the freezer and I cheat by using a jar of sauce so another easy meal to have.

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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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