Meal Planning Monday 27 January 2014

Well, here we are at the start of another week and it's fair to say I'm not feeling inspired. I'm envious reading other people's blogs where they mention that their children eat everything they cook as if it wasn't something extraordinary. My fussy kids are doing my head at meal times in at the moment and it's either because a) I'm making a bit of a stand, or b) they are being taken over by Satan. Or both.

This week is:

Sunday - fish fingers and yellow rice for husband and youngest. Packet pasta and sauce with grated cheese, which I burned. No point jazzing it up. That's what we ate. 

Monday - Sweet and Sour Pork with peppers and rice

Tuesday - Meatloaf, potatoes, veg, gravy

Wednesday - Cheesy ham and veg pie

Thursday - Roast chicken with veg, gravy, stuffing and Yorkshire puddings (I am not a purist - Yorkshire puddings are good with any roast dinner

Friday - chicken and spinach curry

Saturday - Fridge frittata

I am baking

Chocolate and caramel brownies

ANZAC biscuit traybake

... that should last the week but if it doesn't then I'll bake a chocolate cake as well. 

Remember to check out Mrs M's linky for more Meal Planning Monday inspiration. I will be reading with interest this week in the hope of getting my meal planning mojo back!

Meal Planning Monday - 15 April 2013

Welcome to another Monday. I'm just going to gloss over the fact that my Meal Planning posts are a little sporadic lately. You can rest assured I am eating, it's just that blogging is taking a bit of a back seat to everything else that is going on lately. I spend so many hours looking at a PC writing for other people's sites that there are occasions when writing for my own is simply not fun.

Here is what I have on the menu

Slow cooker beef and veg stew with cauliflower mustard mash

Chicken and mushroom pasta with roasted vegetable sauce (Ok, I confess... Asda fresh pasta and sauce!)

Chicken breast roasted with tomatoes & served with wilted spinach

Quorn stir fry with egg noodles

Brown soda bread, egg white omelet, ham and spinach

Crumpets, Quorn sausages, baked beans, crumpets, 2 x egg whites

Quorn shepherd's pie with butternut mash

If you haven't guessed by the omission of egg yolks and significant quantities of Quorn, I am trying to shift a few kilos (plus I had a lot of Quorn in the freezer from when it was 3 for £5 last month) 

I have to tell you about my favourite new food find this week: Rankin's Brown Soda Bread. Man, this stuff is delicious. All nutty and substantial, and really delicious with savoury or sweet toppings.

My other favourite foodie find this week is A Tasty Love Story.  It's written by a Danish woman and I like it as much for the photographs and styling as I do for the recipes. This recipe for Baked Breakfast Bars is on my list of new things to bake

Have a great week! Remember to hook up with Mrs M's linky and check out more Meal Planning Monday posts. 

Meal Planning Monday - 3 September 2012

Hello and welcome to what is, for one of my kids, the first day of year 6. The youngest goes back tomorrow and it can't come a minute too soon. I almost planned a week of salads in anticipation of the hot weather that usually arrives to mock us as school goes back, but have not.

I am sticking with the more veg, less processed food this week. My menu is:

Chicken Enchilada Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Crock Pot Chicken Taco Chili

Crepes with spinach, bacon and mushroom

Fridge Frittata

Crunchy Chicken Breasts

Left Overs

What is most impressive about this is that I actually planned this last Monday - kapow! who says I can't be organised?

Don't forget to check out Mrs M's linky for more Meal Planning Monday inspiration.

Meal Planning Monday - 27 August 2012

Happy Monday folks, or as I like to call it, 7 more sleeps until school starts Woo Hoo! This summer has been a little more miss than hit weather-wise and I am pretty much over it. Bring on September and autumn I say, and let's put this whole miserable farce behind us.

There is no doubt about, I have been gaining weight slowly for the last six months and reckon I've put on around 10lbs since March. It's weight I can ill afford so the focus is back on shifting the lard and eating more healthily (for now, anyway), which means lots of veg, as little processed food as I can manage, and my slow cooker for ease. Unsurprisingly I have left planning until the last minute so have taken inspiration from blogs found via Pinterest. It is not the most inspired menu, but then it is Monday morning so it was never going to be too complicated, was it.

Slow Cook Beef Fajitas from Ring Around the Rosies

Cumin Cinnamon Beef Stew

Ginger Cranberry Pork Roast

Thai Chicken Curry

Moroccan Lamb Stew

All from Mama and Baby's eBook

Slow cooker meatloaf 

Left overs

As usual, you will be able to find more Meal Planning Monday posts on Mrs M's linky. Happy eating.