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Mealplan W/B 15th April
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Monday - Pasta Bake & garlic bread
Tuesday - Jacket Potato (coleslaw & Cheese)
Wednesday - Pulled Pork (in freezer) Rolls & coleslaw
Thursday - Freezer Meal - Spag Bol
Friday - HM Pizza
Saturday - Beef Stroganoff
Sunday - Mac & cheese and Tiramisu
Trying to use up the freezer contents! So most of this weeks meals contain at least one thing from the freezer!0 -
Hi everyone

Back to work and school next week so I will be using batch cooked freezer stocks to help ease us back into real life!
Sat HM pizza and salad.
Sun chargrilled chicken and cous cous with roasted veg
Mon cottage pie, veg and graby
Tues Sweet and sour chicken and noodles
Wed spag bol
Thurs thai curry, rice and naan bread
Fri roast gammon, HM chips and peas
lunches will be left overs and the glut of soup I made last week to use up super6 veg. I need to bake this weekend and will be doing chocolate muffins and apple and cinnamon muffins.
Hope you all have a good week
PP xOriginal mortgage £112,000 . Final payment due August 2027.
Mortgage neutral achieved August 2020 - 7 years early!!!0 -
CCP good luck with the consultant on Monday hope they can sort something out for you, and hope all goes well with your surgery GinaG3Skint_yet_Again wrote: »
Tue - Chicken [STRIKE]and peppers in blackbean sauce, boiled rice[/STRIKE] curry & chips
sat - Liver & onions with mash, veg & gravy
Thu - Chilli beef Stir fry & noodles
Wed - Gammon, pineapple, wedges & salad
[STRIKE]Beef Hotpot[/STRIKE]
Fri - Steak & chips, garlic mushrooms & tinned sweetcorn
sun - Roast belly pork, roast potatoes, veg & gravy
Mostly stuck to plan last week apart from Monday we went out to harvester to celebrate as DS got a new job.
From Monday 15th
chicken and peppers in black bean sauce, rice
pork steaks with mustard mash, veg & gravy
home made chilli burgers, wedges & salad
tandoori chicken, roasted veg & rice
spag bol & garlic bread
beef curry, rice, chips, nan bread
Sun - roast chicken dinner
Have a good week everyone x❤️Mum 2018
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Back to work for me too next week so this will be a big test to see if we can stick to meal plan
Mo macaroni cheese
Tue sausage/broccoli/pasta bake
Wed steak pie
Th bolognaise
Fr Quesidallas and spicy rice
Sat hm chicken curry
Sun. Roast chicken
might have to swap a couple of days around depending how train times go but that should be the gist of it in some form or another. FEB GC £255.82£240 :mad::mad::mad:
MAR GC 230.46/ £240 :T:T
APRIL GC 237.84/ £230
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MAY GC £296.10/£ 270 (5 week month !):mad:0 -
Bit late posting, we started on Thursday!
Thursday Chilli & rice
Friday Mozzarella, parma ham, tomato & pesto mayo panninis with sweet potato chips
Saturday Jacket potatoes with leftover chilli & cheese
Sunday Marinated pork steaks with Turkish potato koftesi (croquettes) and Turkish leeks in oil
Monday Toad in the hole
Tuesday Parma ham pasta bake
Wednesday Chicken something, no idea what yet
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K9sandFelines wrote: »
Tues 16 Lemon chicken and egg fried rice (been trying to have this now for weeks)
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Aha! I think my 'chicken something' on Wednesday will now be lemon chicken! :beer:0 -
Hi everyone :hello:
Not posted on here for a while but I definitely need a plan as otherwise I'll stop by the chippie or call for a pizza and this month I definitely can't afford to!!
Here's our dinners:
Today - roast chicken
Mon - Quorn chilli (made a while ago and defrosting) with baked potatoes and salad
Tues - Tuna & broccoli pasta bake
Weds - Ravioli with HM spicy sauce - need to remember to buy chopped toms
Thurs - Fish and chips (from the freezer not the chippie...) with HM mushy peas
Friday - HM curry
Saturday - sweet and spicy chicken pieces in slow cooker with broccoli & chips or rice
Breakfasts are HM porridge pots with oats, dried milk and dried fruit - topped up with boiling water in work
Lunches are ham or chicken sandwiches with soup.
Snacks are oranges, bananas crisps and yoghurts.
Catch up next week
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Back from holiday and need to have a couple of weeks sticking to meal planning and using up some freezer contents
Sun roast lamb, roast potatoes, carrots, cabbage, green beans and
Yorkshire Puds
Mon mushroom rice with spicy prawns
Tue. Beef stew ( slowcooker)
Wed. Spaghetti carbonara
Thu. Cheese and onion frittata, salad
Fri. Burgers, wedges and baked beans
Sat. Gammon, peas and dauphinaise potatoesWell Behaved women seldom make history
Early retirement goal... 2026
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Short week as my dad is coming on Thursday and we are off on a road trip as of Saturday.
Tonight - Bacon and mushroom quiche
Tomorrow - Leftover meat sauce with pasta
Wednesday - Chinese style eggplant with noodles
Thursday - dad arriving late, mushroom and onion quiche when he gets in
Friday - outMortgage free by 30:eek:: £28,000/£100,000
Debt free as of 1 October, 2010
Taking my frugal life on the road!0 -
Hi
I have to stick to my meal plans, and stick to my shopping list. I am spending far too much, OH and I are saving to move house, and it will never happen if I don't reign in the spending.
No roast dinner on Sunday as am working evenings Thurs-Sun :-(
Mon 15th: Garlic & Mint marinated lamb chops with parsley, mint & lemon couscous, roasted cherry tomatoes & rocket.
Tues: Chicken stir fry with noodles
Wednesday: Homemade Pizza & Salad
Thurs: HM Lasagne & Garlic Bread
Fri: Tuna Pasta Salad
Sat: Bacon, Sausage, Beans, Mushrooms, Toms & Hash Browns (Grilled)
Sun: Cheesy Jacket Potato with Beans or Tuna
Mon: Chicken & Chorizo Spanish Rice
Breakfasts will be Cereal or Crumpets. Lunches will be Tuna/Ham Sandwiches, Poached Eggs on Toast, Beans on Toast or Homemade Soup & Crusty Roll.
Snacks will be fruit, low fat yoghurts, low fat crisps.Cat :wave:0
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