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Simple Meal Plan 2-8 April Plus A NWTG Link!

April 2, 2011 by SimplyBeingMum

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!

🙂

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!

Filed Under: Simple Meal Planning, Uncategorized Tagged: cooking from scratch, cooking tips, food, food waste, food waste friday, meal planning, meat-free monday, No Waste Tastes Great, recipes, slow cooker, slow cooking, vegetable curry, vegetarian

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  1. Rayna says

    April 2, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    Congratulations on daughter’s birthday! And Happy Mother’s Day! I’m looking forward to seeing those cake decorating pics…

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      April 3, 2011 at 9:36 am

      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!

      Reply
  2. Rayna says

    April 2, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    Congratulations on daughter’s birthday! And Happy Mother’s Day! I’m looking forward to seeing those cake decorating pics…

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      April 3, 2011 at 9:36 am

      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!

      Reply
  3. Rayna says

    April 2, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    Congratulations on daughter’s birthday! And Happy Mother’s Day! I’m looking forward to seeing those cake decorating pics…

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      April 3, 2011 at 9:36 am

      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!

      Reply
  4. Laura says

    April 3, 2011 at 12:37 am

    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?

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      April 3, 2011 at 9:34 am

      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 🙂

      Reply
  5. Laura says

    April 3, 2011 at 12:37 am

    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?

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      April 3, 2011 at 9:34 am

      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 🙂

      Reply
  6. Laura says

    April 3, 2011 at 12:37 am

    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?

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      April 3, 2011 at 9:34 am

      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 🙂

      Reply
  7. Laura says

    April 4, 2011 at 10:15 am

    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.

    Reply
  8. Laura says

    April 4, 2011 at 10:15 am

    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.

    Reply
  9. Laura says

    April 4, 2011 at 10:15 am

    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.

    Reply
  10. Hogward says

    April 7, 2011 at 10:58 am

    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 🙂

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      May 4, 2011 at 10:19 am

      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

      Reply
  11. Hogward says

    April 7, 2011 at 10:58 am

    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 🙂

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      May 4, 2011 at 10:19 am

      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

      Reply
  12. Hogward says

    April 7, 2011 at 10:58 am

    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 🙂

    Reply
    • simplybeingmum says

      May 4, 2011 at 10:19 am

      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

      Reply

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