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Mealplans week starting 17th May
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A bit late but only just started doing this again and all going to plan so far
Breakfast every day will be either cereal & fruit or toast and jam, except Sun when we'll have a brunch with a HM smoothie, followed by eggs, bacon, beans etc.
Lunches either HM soup and HM bread or sarnies with fruit for DH and me.
Sat - Smoked Haddock Kedgeree & Wedges
Sun - Cottage Pie, Spring Cabbage, Green Beans & Gravy
Mon - Herb Crumbed Cod, Wedges & Garlicky Mushy Peas
Tue - Quorn & Veg Dhansak Curry & Bulgar Wheat
Wed - Sausage & Mushroom Casserole & Wedges
Thu - Chilli, Bulgar Wheat & HM Corn Bread (If I can find an easy recipe for the bread!)
Fri - Sweet n Sour Chicken & Egg Fried Rice
Intention is to make extra portions of the meals on tue, thu and fri for the freezer. Also need to make sure I bake bread for the sarnies and soup every night and make some muffins, cake and scones for snacks and pack ups.NSD Challenge 2010:Jul 12/12
; Jun 21/14 :T; May : 6/6 
GC 2010: Jul £134.03/£150.00 :cool:; Jun £278.86/£275.00 :mad:; May £276.13/£280.00 :T0 -
Hi all
Not ususally this late posting - but been SO busy...
This week we are having/had:
Thurs: Buffet food for me - girlie night in trying out make up for the Wedding! OH had Aldi Pizza for a treat.
Fri: My brother cooked for me - Egg foo yung wraps
Sat: Ate out - HEN NIGHT!!!!
Sun: Ate at OH's parents
Mon: Sausage meatballs, pasta and LO HM tomato sauce from Freezer
Tues: Cajun Tuna Burgers, Ciabatta Bread and Wedges
Wed: Steak, HM Mushroom Sauce, Herby Roasties and Veg
Have a good week all...
A
xMortgage Free x 1 03.11.2012 - House rented out Feb 2016
Mortgage No 2: £82, 595.61 (31.08.2019)
OP's to Date £8500
Renovation Fund:£511.39;
Nectar Points Balance: approx £30 (31.08.2019)0 -
I'm waiting for payday this week, so nothing too exciting!
Mon - roast vegetables and cous cous
Tues - chilli con carne, rice and salad
Weds - leftovers from Tuesday
Thurs - fishfingers, potato wedges and baked beans
Fri - bacon and onion crumble
Sat - eating out
Sun - to be confirmed0 -
Just recovering from a lot of visitors - they left on Thursday and I have been improvising since because I don't want to go to the shops until I have next week's plan sorted out. It was/is as follows at the moment:
Thu - pasta with asparagus & prawns in a cream sauce, salad
Fri - turkey 'Hawaii' style on brown rice
Sat - tortilla beany bake, salad
Sun - chorizo & chick pea stew, rocket & lambs lettuce salad
Mon - kedgeree, cucumber salad
Tues - organic veal roast in SC, madeira sauce, braised chicory, HM wedges or chips
Wed - pasta in lime-peanut sauce
Thur - salade nicoise
Hope to be quicker off the mark next meal-planning round - see you then!"Remember that many of the things you have now you could once only dream of" - Epicurus0 -
Only a few days mp here
Today - beef stew and dumplings
Tue - chicken and leek strogganoff
Wed- pork chop dinner
Thur - hm chips and somthing !
Fri - mums for tea0 -
hiya looking for help with this are there any live threads/Determined to do better0
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This is approximate and the order may well change.
Friday: trout koubliac & greek lemon sauce, broccoli
Saturday: hm focaccia, fish soup using the monkfish in the freezer & some prawns
Sunday: spaghetti bolognese (without the meat for DD) (using up some of the frozen chicken livers, the rest made into pate to freeze)
Monday: leftover bolognese sauce with baked potatoes, alternative topping of baked beans & vege frankfurter for DD
Tuesday: prawn & egg fried rice with chinese roast pork
Wednesday: pate on toast (a vegetarian pate for DD) with salad, rice pudding & cherry compote
Thursday: OH in charge, as I'll be away
Friday: OH in charge, as I won't be back until very lateMortgage started on 22.5.09 : £129,600Overpayments to date: £3000June grocery challenge: 400/6000 -
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