Menu Planners - share your lists!

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

Here's mine for this week:

Monday - Sausages & Mash
Tuesday - Chilli (HM from freezer) & Baked Potatoes
Wednesday - Sausage/Fishfingers, Chips & Beans
Thursday - Tuna Steak, Salad & Pasta
Friday - Takeaway Treat as it's payday and my birthday weekend.

Have a great week.
xx

Kazonline

Broken wings - can I please come to dinner next Saturday? Pretty please - you're doing my favs!
Kaz x

brokenwings

feel free kazonline
if you can find room at the table youre more than welcome - or shall we just splash out and pay a courier to deliver it piping hot and grilled to your liking, direct to your table?

brokenwings

lobster hi

not sure if your question is aimed at me but just in case it is ill answer anyway

theres two of us in my house - me and my dad - the 7 of us eating at my house saturday is unusual thank heavens : )

i spend about £30 a week on petrol - do about 240 miles of motorway driving every week. so thats £120 a month .

my normal budget for food is £30-£35 a week for the two of us - down from £100 a week when i started looking at this forum last september! i am still amazed at how my shopping has changed - but this month im budgeting for £20 a week as i am using up everything thats in my freezer and store cupboards - last months salary was way low so it was a necessity to do this!

i only have one more grocery shop and one more petrol tank fill to go before the end of my month so i am hoping il be well under target.

i also work full time but use my free time to batch cook and bake and freeze everything
also have managed to grow rhubarb, peas, gooseberries, blackberries, potatoes, tomatoes, beans, lettuce, cabbage, sprouts, leeks and onions in the garden so rarely have to buy any of these items.

brows the threads here and you wil soon find hundreds of ways to clean more cheaply, cook more cheaply and cut back those costs. it just takes a while to get used to it - one step at a time!

gallygirl

lobster wrote:

hi, I am new to this but notice the little bits of coloured writing underneth ur menu thingy and saw your budget. how will u manage this? is it just u or do u have a family? how far will u travel in ur car?
I find that i have cut back a much as I think I am able but seem to b "short" by about £200 a month now that i am losing maintenance for eldest child along with tax credits plus said child is just about to head off to uni!
I work full time and have a saturday job, I have 2 other children under 18 and am at wits end!! any advice would be welcome!

Lobster try going onto the debt free board - loads of help there!

Monday - lunch chicken roll & salad, yogurt dinner hm chicken risotto & veg

Tues - bought sandwich (treat for week) dinner jacket pot & veg stew, yog

Weds - chicken sandwich, yog dinner sunday roast with chicken (cooked today but didn't have so a lot of chicken on menu this week!!!!)

Thurs - tuna salad, yog, dinner hm beef chilli, garlic bread & salad

Fri - tuna rice or pasta salad, yog, dinner hm chicken curry & brown rice

As you can see, a lot of yog approaching best by date!!!

snowball2

W/C 17/7/06

Mon: HM Veggi Nuggets & Wedges
Tue: Chicken Stirfry & Noodles
Wed: HM Quiche, New Pots & Salad
Thur: Chicken & Spicy Tomato & Couscous
Fri: Spag Bog
Sat: Kedgery
Sun: Roast Chicken & Trims or Salad

W/C 24/7/06

Mon: Chicken Soup & HM Crusty Rolls (soup from sunday roast bones)
Tue: Hommus & Roasted Veggi Wraps
Wed: Risotto & Chicken & Spicy Tomato (made with HM stock from Sun)
Thur: Jacket Potatos, Tuna & Salad
Fri: Cheese Pie, Beans & salad
Sat: Roasted Veg Lasagna
Sun: Fish Pie & Veg

Kazonline

brokenwings wrote:

feel free kazonline
if you can find room at the table youre more than welcome - or shall we just splash out and pay a courier to deliver it piping hot and grilled to your liking, direct to your table?

Just show it the pan and it's done to my liking I'll just get my private chopper to drop me off
Kaz x

jcr16

snowball , please could u give the recipe for veggie nugget's. my children love nuggets but not so keen on veg . this might be a fab way of getting them to eat it.

Tracey04

do you have a monthly menu plan I so want to get it right next month. Just me and two little boys. Like to have a pudding after tea.
Thank you Tracey

sparklymessygirl

Tracey,

Perhaps this thread might give you some ideas. It will depend on your budget, likes/dislikes, even your values....I haven't managed to get one sorted despite lots of good intentions!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=225190&highlight=menu+planning

Sparkly