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 – leek and potato soup with giraffe bread
Tuesday – salmon fried rice
Wednesday – vegetable curry and rice
Thursday – lasagne with salad
Friday – chilli with rice
Saturday – freezer tea!
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. 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 freezer tea on Saturday is just having a combination of what I can find in the freezer; something easy and faff free for the weekend.
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 also bought some chocolate orange kitkats which were on offer – my chocolate free week didn’t last long! To be honest, I crave sugar-y things when I’m tired and I’m surviving on less than five hours of sleep a night at the moment so I feel like a little pick me up around 3pm with a cuppa isn’t too bad. 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.
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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