MealPlans 11th January 2008

Fri- sausages, mash, sweet potato chips, mushrooms, peas and carrot sticks. (It was very nice:))
Sat - lunch, ham and olives, feta cheese and bread. Carrot and apple.
Eve -Bean and spinach curry and rice/children- mince, rice and veg
Sun - lunch - meal out as DH's birthday
Eve - tea at freinds house, we will have soup later if hungry.
Monday - Roast veg (what ever is left!)
Tues - mince, rice, mashed swede and veg
Wed - Brocolli stir fry and noodles/children - noodles,tuna and carrot sticks
Thurs - Jacket potato, beans and cheese.

I am going to try and do this and stick to it this year. I did it on and off last year but when i did do it, i found it worked so well and saved so much waste and pennies!!

So here is my plan for this week -

Sat - Takeaway Got some quidco money back so promised DH

Sun - Roast Turkey with all the trimmings, my butcher sold me the drumsticks off the birds he crowned at Christmas, they are huge and he charged me 70p each :T

Mon - Pie, Mash and Beans

Tues - Pasta Bake and HM garlic bread

Weds - Bean Bake HM

Thurs - Burgers and Chips

Fri - Chicken chassuer

Lunches will be leftovers or snadwhiches

I am using up some of what is left in the freezer in some of the above, my aim is to run the freezer down then build it back up and have it full of mainly Homecooked food, apart from the odd emergency stand by.

This is my second week for doing this, and my SC is going to be used 4x this week.

I did write it out yesterday and then went shopping, but as soon as I got home I changed the order a bit:

Friday: SC baked chicken, left over potatoes, brocolli and gravey
Saturday: was going to be burgers, chips and gravey, but have changed that to the burgers to chicken as it is devine !
Sunday: Boerewors sausages, roast veggies etc
Monday: Chicken & Mushroom casserole (ex freezer)
Tuesday: SC Spagetti Bolognaise (need to make new freezer batches)
Wednesday: Pasta Bake
Thursday: SC Beef casserole (need to make new freezer batches too)

And on Monday, I will make up a new batch for the freezer of SC veggie soup, as I have found that I have been eating far too much bread because I don't have anything substantial at lunch time.

No particular plans as such but bought a couple of large steaks for £3 in total which went into the freezer and just about to finish the last bit now. Cut the steaks up and got 5 meals out of it.

Usually look in the fridge which is always stacked with vegetables and knock something up with the leftovers. Been having bubble and squeak on a weekly basis, and have a lot of the bulkier foods to supplement the main dish such as jackets, rice and spaghetti.

There is always stuff in the freezer too including some chicken livers which will last a couple meals there too, but we never spend much in the shops.