I didn't do a meal plan as such. I wanted to see if I could stick to the £70.00 or under without a meal plan. I think we need a meal plan this week so I'm working on it now.
Midweek Breakfast : cereal with milk, fruit, water. Weekend Breakfast: cereal on Saturday, bacon and eggs on Sunday.
Midweek Lunches :
tuna wraps with salad, fruit, apple juice
2 days X cheese and chorizo sandwich, salad and fruit, apple juice
pasta salad with cheese, fruit, lemon meringue pie, apple juice
cheese and marmite sandwich, salad, fruit, apple juice
Afterschool Snacks : quesadillas, lemon meringue pie, apples, bananas,
Midweek Dinners :
Monday: Little went to Pizza Express for a pizza making party. Small picked at food, cheese, carrot, cucumber, bread, banana, mandarin. Hubs and I had pasta with tomato and clam sauce.
Tuesday: Boys had pasta with garlicky tomato sauce, cheese, salad and lemon meringue pie. Hubs and I had vegetable stir fry with noodles. (I made a great sauce for this with soy sauce, sweet mirin, rice vinegar, brown rice vinegar, honey and smooth peanut butter - it was A+)
Wednesday: Boys had dinner at a friend's house. Organic sausages with chips and raw carrot. We took, lemon meringue pie for dessert. Hubs made himself a quick pasta dish. I had dinner at my friend's house too, her husband was away for a few days so we had a girlie chat and amazing food, duck with lime and ginger sauce. (Thanks K, it was absolutely delicious!)
Thursday: By now we were running out of food I'd wanted due to the Sainsbury's mess up so the boys had pasta with cheese and salad. Hubs had a work problem so no sooner had he got home he needed to go out again. He made himself a quick bacon sandwich. I couldn't be bothered to cook so had the same.
Friday: Roast chicken, roast potatoes, broccoli and onion gravy
Weekend :
Saturday - Lunch: Quesadillas, followed by carrot cake and baklava which friends turned up with by surprise - I love surprises like that! Any friends can turn up at ours unannounced so long as they bring cake!
Dinner: fishfingers and oven chips, no veg smothered in sauce. I don't feel it was a good week for food! Thank goodness we had roast lamb to look forward to on Sunday!
Sunday - Lunch: At cousin's house Roast Lamb and a ton of lovely fresh vegetables with gorgeous gravy and lashings of mint sauce. Followed by homemade apple pie and custard. My cousin used to be a chef many moons ago and I love his simple country style of cooking... Delicious! We all fell on the food as if we hadn't eaten decent grub in weeks!
Dinner: marmite on toast - too full after such a big lunch for anything else.
TOTAL COST FOR THE WEEK: £52.83!!! What a result, but that was with a few meals eaten elsewhere, and we had a lot of lemon meringue pie this week! By the time I've finished with Sainsbury's it might end up that this week cost us nothing!
Midweek Breakfast : cereal with milk, fruit, water. Weekend Breakfast: cereal on Saturday, bacon and eggs on Sunday.
Midweek Lunches :
tuna wraps with salad, fruit, apple juice
2 days X cheese and chorizo sandwich, salad and fruit, apple juice
pasta salad with cheese, fruit, lemon meringue pie, apple juice
cheese and marmite sandwich, salad, fruit, apple juice
Afterschool Snacks : quesadillas, lemon meringue pie, apples, bananas,
Midweek Dinners :
Monday: Little went to Pizza Express for a pizza making party. Small picked at food, cheese, carrot, cucumber, bread, banana, mandarin. Hubs and I had pasta with tomato and clam sauce.
Tuesday: Boys had pasta with garlicky tomato sauce, cheese, salad and lemon meringue pie. Hubs and I had vegetable stir fry with noodles. (I made a great sauce for this with soy sauce, sweet mirin, rice vinegar, brown rice vinegar, honey and smooth peanut butter - it was A+)
Wednesday: Boys had dinner at a friend's house. Organic sausages with chips and raw carrot. We took, lemon meringue pie for dessert. Hubs made himself a quick pasta dish. I had dinner at my friend's house too, her husband was away for a few days so we had a girlie chat and amazing food, duck with lime and ginger sauce. (Thanks K, it was absolutely delicious!)
Thursday: By now we were running out of food I'd wanted due to the Sainsbury's mess up so the boys had pasta with cheese and salad. Hubs had a work problem so no sooner had he got home he needed to go out again. He made himself a quick bacon sandwich. I couldn't be bothered to cook so had the same.
Friday: Roast chicken, roast potatoes, broccoli and onion gravy
Weekend :
Saturday - Lunch: Quesadillas, followed by carrot cake and baklava which friends turned up with by surprise - I love surprises like that! Any friends can turn up at ours unannounced so long as they bring cake!
Dinner: fishfingers and oven chips, no veg smothered in sauce. I don't feel it was a good week for food! Thank goodness we had roast lamb to look forward to on Sunday!
Sunday - Lunch: At cousin's house Roast Lamb and a ton of lovely fresh vegetables with gorgeous gravy and lashings of mint sauce. Followed by homemade apple pie and custard. My cousin used to be a chef many moons ago and I love his simple country style of cooking... Delicious! We all fell on the food as if we hadn't eaten decent grub in weeks!
Dinner: marmite on toast - too full after such a big lunch for anything else.
TOTAL COST FOR THE WEEK: £52.83!!! What a result, but that was with a few meals eaten elsewhere, and we had a lot of lemon meringue pie this week! By the time I've finished with Sainsbury's it might end up that this week cost us nothing!
