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Meal planning - my downfall
amaranthus
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I might be doing great with my repayments since my LBM, but the one thing that I've never been able to do properly is meal plan!
I live (mostly) alone - I'm in a big house with my brother, and we have separate living areas / bedrooms / bathrooms and pass like ships in the night, but share a kitchen, rent, and bills. We shop and cook for ourselves, but share a meal maybe 2 or 3 times a month - he prefers it that way as he works odd shift hours.
My eating habits are pretty dreadful and contribute to my high monthly grocery spend (and the fact I've put on about 10lbs in the past year!). A typical work day looks something like this:
Breakfast: Usually absent. Possibly a yoghurt if I remember to grab one from the fridge on my way out. I know, I know. Most important meal of the day.
10:30am: Two biscuits (work lays on free drinks and biscuits each morning) and a machine cup of hot chocolate.
Lunch: A bottle of diet coke, a pre-packaged sandwich, and a flapjack / brownie / muffin from the staff restaurant.
5.30pm, at home: If there's cake, biscuits, crisps, chocolate, or similarly snacky food in the house, I have a snack.
8pm: Dinner. Often pre-packaged, some kind of microwave meal; a lasagna, risotto, cottage pie, etc. Followed, more likely than not, by aforementioned snacky food. Usually accompanied by a can of Diet Coke.
Throughout the day: It's very rare I buy anything, although being in a very big office means there's a birthday or someone returning from holiday about once a week. Cue cake / sweets.
Weekends: I am the Snack Monster. (see weight gain, above)
I have a slow cooker. It rarely gets used. I toss a bunch of ready meals in my trolley when I visit the supermarket, and buy fruit that I forget to eat in an attempt to feel a little less guilty.
Help! Are there any sample meal plans out there? I throw myself on your mercy (or criticism), forumites!
I live (mostly) alone - I'm in a big house with my brother, and we have separate living areas / bedrooms / bathrooms and pass like ships in the night, but share a kitchen, rent, and bills. We shop and cook for ourselves, but share a meal maybe 2 or 3 times a month - he prefers it that way as he works odd shift hours.
My eating habits are pretty dreadful and contribute to my high monthly grocery spend (and the fact I've put on about 10lbs in the past year!). A typical work day looks something like this:
Breakfast: Usually absent. Possibly a yoghurt if I remember to grab one from the fridge on my way out. I know, I know. Most important meal of the day.
10:30am: Two biscuits (work lays on free drinks and biscuits each morning) and a machine cup of hot chocolate.
Lunch: A bottle of diet coke, a pre-packaged sandwich, and a flapjack / brownie / muffin from the staff restaurant.
5.30pm, at home: If there's cake, biscuits, crisps, chocolate, or similarly snacky food in the house, I have a snack.
8pm: Dinner. Often pre-packaged, some kind of microwave meal; a lasagna, risotto, cottage pie, etc. Followed, more likely than not, by aforementioned snacky food. Usually accompanied by a can of Diet Coke.
Throughout the day: It's very rare I buy anything, although being in a very big office means there's a birthday or someone returning from holiday about once a week. Cue cake / sweets.
Weekends: I am the Snack Monster. (see weight gain, above)
I have a slow cooker. It rarely gets used. I toss a bunch of ready meals in my trolley when I visit the supermarket, and buy fruit that I forget to eat in an attempt to feel a little less guilty.
Help! Are there any sample meal plans out there? I throw myself on your mercy (or criticism), forumites!
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Hello Ama, you would be better posting this on the Old Style board which covers just about everything you ask. Loads of savvy people on there.
IlonaI love skip diving.
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Thanks, shall repost there
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Oh dear Ama, you are in single persons rut with the food, I know cos I've been there
Repost over on oldstyle , whole load of us there that would love to help you out0 -
Reposted, thank you!0
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OP has gone over to Old Style
IlonaI love skip diving.0
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