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Meal Plans week beginning Mon 8 October
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Skint_yet_Again
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Hi all, couldnt see a thread started this week so here we go again 
In no particular order:
Pasta bake & garlic bread
Roast chicken, roast potatoes, veg & gravy
chicken curry, rice, garlic nan
chilli beef stir fry & noodles
chicken fajhitas
pizza, poppin chicken bites & garlic bread (@ldi)
pork steaks with mustard mash, carrots & green beans and creamy mushroom sauce
Have a good week x

In no particular order:
Pasta bake & garlic bread
Roast chicken, roast potatoes, veg & gravy
chicken curry, rice, garlic nan
chilli beef stir fry & noodles
chicken fajhitas
pizza, poppin chicken bites & garlic bread (@ldi)
pork steaks with mustard mash, carrots & green beans and creamy mushroom sauce
Have a good week x
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House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗
Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).
Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1
Living off savings diary
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
House purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 Left work. 🤗
Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year (until pensions start at 60 & 67).
Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1
Living off savings diary
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6429003/escape-to-the-country-living-off-savings/p1
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saturday: hm bread, toasted and cheese and beans
Sunday:homemade pastryless quiche and salads.
Monday: out to tea
Tuesday: Thai butternut squash and sweet potato curry
Wednesday: cottage pie from freezer
Thursday: meatballs, chips and steamed cabbage.
Friday : Unplanned, leftovers from fridge.nov grocery challenge, £.227.69/300, 9/25 nsd: , 7 Cmo, 10 egm.
Me, 10 yo dd, and the dog. all food and drinks, in and out, plus household shopping.0 -
Hoping for another frugal week as things are really tight at the moment. Doing OK with Oct GC and have built up quite a good stock pile with what I've spent so far.
Our week runs Sun - Sun so here goes;
Sun - Having dinner at friend's house :j
Mon - Roast pork, hm stuffing, roast potatoes, cauli cheese and roast veg.
Tues - HM bread rolls with left over pork, stuffing and apple sauce, wedges and salad
Wed - Left over pork curry, rice, AF bargain naan bread and poppadoms
Thurs - Mac cheese, HM garlic Bread and salad
Fri - Garlic chicken with spicy cous cous and roast veg
Sat - HM pizza and salad.
Making some veg soup with what is lurking in the fridge and freezer for lunches and jam crumblie and chocolate muffins for lunch boxes.
Have a good week everyone
PP xOriginal mortgage £112,000 . Final payment due August 2027.
Mortgage neutral achieved August 2020 - 7 years early!!!0 -
It has been a long time since I made a mealplan. I figured it was time to try and get back into things. I need to focus. Here's the mealplan:
Sat - Shepherd's Pie
Sun - Toad in the Hole with Beans
Mon - Meat Feast Pasta Bake
Tues - Chicken Curry with Brown Rice
Weds - Gammon & Wedges
Thurs - Enchiladas
Fri - Black Bean Chicken with Noodles
I'll try and bake some cookies or a cake or something when the oven is on tomorrow. Got to make the most of every bit of fuel used. Have a good week, everyone.
K xxTrying for daily wins, and a little security in an insecure world.0 -
It's nice to get back into meal planning after I let my OH do it for a week
Breakfast - cornflakes for OH, I normally have wheatabix but fancied a change so trialling smartprice bran flakes.
Lunches - Making lentil & veg soup and homemade bread for me, OH has some ham and tinned tuna for sandwiches.
Snacks - making lemon drizzle cake and also have apples, bananas, crisps and value biscuits in.
Sun - roast beef, yorkshires, roast potatoes, veg & gravy my OH is working overtime so will eat at work but my sister is coming for dinner so that will be nice
Mon - veg chilli/tagine from freezer with rice OH doesn't like the tagine so is having chilli, both are frozen in individual servings
Tues - salmon for me, leftover beef & gravy for OH with chips & veg
Wed - tandoori chicken with pitta breads & salad OH is cooking this
Thurs - Spanish veg stew will make this on Sunday so I can go to the gym after work
Fri - goats cheese & spring veg pasta with salad
Sat - left free in case we're going out, otherwise stir fry/something from freezer
As usual, sometimes the nights we have things change but hopefully we'll stick to it more or less.Part time working mum | Married in 2014 | DS born 2015 & DD born 2018
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6542225/stopping-the-backsliding-a-family-of-four-no-longer-living-beyond-their-means/p1?new=1
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Mortgage: -£128,033
Savings: £6,050
- Emergency fund £1,515
- New kitchen £556
- December £420
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- Bills £132
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Thanks for starting us off, Skint - I'd forgotten I hadn't posted mine yet. (F) means something from the freezer:
Saturday - keema curry (mince (F)) with lemon rice (F)
Sunday - toad in the hole (snap, KB!) with buttered kale and gravy
Monday - Thai veg curry with noodles
Tuesday - rabbit pie (F), kale and carrots
Wednesday - Spanish sausage casserole and cheesy doughballs (F)
Thursday - LO sausage casserole for lunch as I'm out with friends in the eveningBack after a very long break!0 -
Meals in no particular order and dont plan anything for Saturdays TRY to do one new menu per week which will be in RED
Cottage pie, cauli, sweet corn & cabbage
Caramelized onion tart with spicy chicken wings
Jkt potato with filling either curry or chilli & salad
Roast Beef, Yorkshires, Roast & mashed potatoes kale, carrots and cauli
Pizza or fish with wedges & salad
Sausage, cauli cheese, crushed roast potatoesMARCH £62.38/2500 -
Hi all
Sun- beef stew and dumplings
Monday - sausage and mash
Tues- chilli and nachoes
Wednesday - prawn puri
Thursday - gammon steak and hm sweet potato chips
Fri - date night - so who knows.......Note to self - STOP SPENDING MONEY !!
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Sat-Sausage pasta gratin
Sun-Chilli con carne (from batch cooking i froze last wk)
Mon-HM pizza (have mozarella to use up) and garlic bread
Tues- Gammon (on offer at Lidl), egg and chips
Wednesday- Roast chicken thighs (on offer in lidl), roast potatoes, veg
Thurs-Spaghetti and meatballs.
Fri- any leftovers.0 -
Im another one that need to get back on track.
F=from freezer, Its just me and N. Mon to Thur. 3 of us Fri, Sat & Sun
Sun, being treated to lunch
Mon, Greek lamb, pasta and hm garlic bread, F
Tue, Pancakes stuffed with smoked haddock and cheese sauce.
Wed, Stuffed mushrooms and spicy rice.
Thur, Chilli and jackets, F
Fri, Toad in the hole, greens and gravey.
Sat, Sausage cassarole, F
Sun, Roast chicken, yorkshires, roast sweet pots, mash and veg.
will make some flapjacks tomorrow.Smile make them wonder0 -
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