As usual on a Saturday I post my Simple Meal Plan for the upcoming week.
I plan for 6 days of meals, with Friday as my free day where I take part in The Frugal Girls Food Waste Friday and my very own No Waste Tastes Great Challenge.
Because I’m a simple gal, I order my groceries on-line for the week ahead and they are delivered. This also means I do not have to step into a supermarket – hurrah! No impulse purchases and queuing for me!
I budget up to £100 per week to cover everything… and pretty much I keep to it apart from holidays and when I am doing extra catering.
Breakfasts consist of, cereal, toast, pancakes, bran loaf.
I usually list all the pudding daily, but this week I am going extra simple on those (and I am skipping them altogether in a bit of a push to lose my Mum Tum – yes again!). Puddings/Desserts this week will consist of yoghurt, fruit, ice-cream, and cake and custard .
Saturday
- Lunch – Ham Rolls and Salad
- Dinner – Omelettes and Steamed Vegetables
Sunday (Mother’s Day in UK)
- Lunch – Jacket Potatoes with Tuna and Salad
- Dinner – “Choosing Tea” at my Sisters for Mothering Sunday
Monday
- Lunch – Cheese, Crackers, Fruit and Crunchy Veg
- Dinner – Slow-Cooked Vegetable Curry with Home Made Chapatis
Tuesday
- Lunch – Ham Rolls and Salad
- Dinner – Slow-Cooked Spaghetti Bolognaise with Garlic Bread
Wednesday
- Lunch – Jacket Potatoes and Cottage Cheese with Salad
- Dinner – Slow-Cooked Chicken and Mushroom Pie with Steamed Veg
Thursday
- Lunch – Light Lunch out as PlayDay!
- Dinner – Pasta with Tomato and Basil Sauce and Garlic Bread
Friday
Friday is our beautiful Daughters 6th Birthday, so I am hoping to have cleared the decks of any potential food waste in anticipation. We are planning dinner out with a few of her friends for Pizza! With a Swimming Party on Saturday with her classmates to celebrate!
The impending birthday does mean I have a cake to bake this week – bet you never knew I am a secret cake decorator………….. oh I am sure to post the pictures of my work of art!
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On a Saturday I like to include some great reading recommendations or some links. I have a confession – my reading this week has been almost non-existent – shocking! I really need to free up some more time!
So my link this week is to my other blog No Waste Tastes Great where I have posted the Slow-Cooked Chicken and Mushroom Pie recipe. It is so very very simple – really simple.
Back tomorrow I hope with my Mother’s Day post – that’s the plan anyway.
Anyhow I can hear a glass of wine with my name on it calling me, and Al Murray is hosting “Live at the Apollo” – that’s going to be worth watching!
Congratulations on daughter’s birthday! And Happy Mother’s Day! I’m looking forward to seeing those cake decorating pics…
Thanks Rayna – I may have to add in previous cakes also to the photo gallery – There’s a few! I’m going for a Hello Kitty Cake this week…. but no idea what design to go for…. better get baking!
Congratulations on daughter’s birthday! And Happy Mother’s Day! I’m looking forward to seeing those cake decorating pics…
Thanks Rayna – I may have to add in previous cakes also to the photo gallery – There’s a few! I’m going for a Hello Kitty Cake this week…. but no idea what design to go for…. better get baking!
Congratulations on daughter’s birthday! And Happy Mother’s Day! I’m looking forward to seeing those cake decorating pics…
Thanks Rayna – I may have to add in previous cakes also to the photo gallery – There’s a few! I’m going for a Hello Kitty Cake this week…. but no idea what design to go for…. better get baking!
Happy birthday to your daughter!
This week I am lazy writing my own menu for the week, so copied yours. I am doing food-shopping accordingly tomorrow! 🙂
Any ideas on kids’ school lunch?
Hi Laura – My daughter last week decided to go from school dinners to packed lunch. Again I keep it simple, Ham and cucumber sandwiches (the token vegetable in there!) with crusts off – I’ve noticed that if I leave on she eats up to them but wastes a lot of the sandwich. The crusts can be kept and stored to make breadcrumbs. She has about 8 grapes in a small tub, a 1/3 of a packet of crisps in another tub (she wouldn’t eat a whole packet and also I’d rather she didn’t eat a packet every day). Then a biscuit (club, penguin, two-finger kit-kat) and a drink. I repeat that all week and she doesn’t get bored. The Hubby gets something similar, although I change his fillings more often. Dan my nearly 3-year old lunches at home, so I adapt my lunch, he likes crackers etc… but the jacket potato lunches I tend to mash his potato and put with some ham and baked beans or peas and sweetcorn. He’s going through a fussy stage! Good luck with the menu – hope it goes well! Happy Mothers Day – Jo 🙂
Happy birthday to your daughter!
This week I am lazy writing my own menu for the week, so copied yours. I am doing food-shopping accordingly tomorrow! 🙂
Any ideas on kids’ school lunch?
Hi Laura – My daughter last week decided to go from school dinners to packed lunch. Again I keep it simple, Ham and cucumber sandwiches (the token vegetable in there!) with crusts off – I’ve noticed that if I leave on she eats up to them but wastes a lot of the sandwich. The crusts can be kept and stored to make breadcrumbs. She has about 8 grapes in a small tub, a 1/3 of a packet of crisps in another tub (she wouldn’t eat a whole packet and also I’d rather she didn’t eat a packet every day). Then a biscuit (club, penguin, two-finger kit-kat) and a drink. I repeat that all week and she doesn’t get bored. The Hubby gets something similar, although I change his fillings more often. Dan my nearly 3-year old lunches at home, so I adapt my lunch, he likes crackers etc… but the jacket potato lunches I tend to mash his potato and put with some ham and baked beans or peas and sweetcorn. He’s going through a fussy stage! Good luck with the menu – hope it goes well! Happy Mothers Day – Jo 🙂
Happy birthday to your daughter!
This week I am lazy writing my own menu for the week, so copied yours. I am doing food-shopping accordingly tomorrow! 🙂
Any ideas on kids’ school lunch?
Hi Laura – My daughter last week decided to go from school dinners to packed lunch. Again I keep it simple, Ham and cucumber sandwiches (the token vegetable in there!) with crusts off – I’ve noticed that if I leave on she eats up to them but wastes a lot of the sandwich. The crusts can be kept and stored to make breadcrumbs. She has about 8 grapes in a small tub, a 1/3 of a packet of crisps in another tub (she wouldn’t eat a whole packet and also I’d rather she didn’t eat a packet every day). Then a biscuit (club, penguin, two-finger kit-kat) and a drink. I repeat that all week and she doesn’t get bored. The Hubby gets something similar, although I change his fillings more often. Dan my nearly 3-year old lunches at home, so I adapt my lunch, he likes crackers etc… but the jacket potato lunches I tend to mash his potato and put with some ham and baked beans or peas and sweetcorn. He’s going through a fussy stage! Good luck with the menu – hope it goes well! Happy Mothers Day – Jo 🙂
Did the food shopping for the weekly menu, and it was only 57 Euros altogether!!! (and I even got other things like bread, milk, natural joghurt)
Great idea cutting the crusts off and using them for breadcrumbs! (same issue with crusts v. 7-year-old) Also, he does not eat any fruit or veg in school (don’t ask why), and school does not allow biscuits, chocholate or any kind of sweets/sweet drinks in lunchboxes…so we’re stuck with crackers, a sambo and water or milk!
As I have boys and they tend to be very hungry after school, we have our main warm meal when the kids are home from school, and just a light tea in the evening. So my husband gets a warm lunch to take to work.
Did the food shopping for the weekly menu, and it was only 57 Euros altogether!!! (and I even got other things like bread, milk, natural joghurt)
Great idea cutting the crusts off and using them for breadcrumbs! (same issue with crusts v. 7-year-old) Also, he does not eat any fruit or veg in school (don’t ask why), and school does not allow biscuits, chocholate or any kind of sweets/sweet drinks in lunchboxes…so we’re stuck with crackers, a sambo and water or milk!
As I have boys and they tend to be very hungry after school, we have our main warm meal when the kids are home from school, and just a light tea in the evening. So my husband gets a warm lunch to take to work.
Did the food shopping for the weekly menu, and it was only 57 Euros altogether!!! (and I even got other things like bread, milk, natural joghurt)
Great idea cutting the crusts off and using them for breadcrumbs! (same issue with crusts v. 7-year-old) Also, he does not eat any fruit or veg in school (don’t ask why), and school does not allow biscuits, chocholate or any kind of sweets/sweet drinks in lunchboxes…so we’re stuck with crackers, a sambo and water or milk!
As I have boys and they tend to be very hungry after school, we have our main warm meal when the kids are home from school, and just a light tea in the evening. So my husband gets a warm lunch to take to work.
B’Day Wishes to your Daughter. And your recipe on Slow Cooked Chicken and Mushroom looks so yummy. I wanna give a try out that. Hope it tastes great 🙂
It certainly does and so very simple! Thanks for the kind wishes and many apologies for my late reply – sorry your comment slipped through the loop! Jo
B’Day Wishes to your Daughter. And your recipe on Slow Cooked Chicken and Mushroom looks so yummy. I wanna give a try out that. Hope it tastes great 🙂
It certainly does and so very simple! Thanks for the kind wishes and many apologies for my late reply – sorry your comment slipped through the loop! Jo
B’Day Wishes to your Daughter. And your recipe on Slow Cooked Chicken and Mushroom looks so yummy. I wanna give a try out that. Hope it tastes great 🙂
It certainly does and so very simple! Thanks for the kind wishes and many apologies for my late reply – sorry your comment slipped through the loop! Jo