Meal Plan - 30/12/14 to 5/1/15

I really must meal plan as once again the freezer is full of bits that are never going to get eaten, we must waste so much money.

I'll be getting a few bits in for hubby to make his own meals from (and the kids Mon-Thurs) as he won't follow a meal plan, so will be planning for me all week and for the kids Friday - Sunday.

Thankfully I have about 10 frozen leftover meals in the freezer that I can eat up after this weekend as I also must re-start my diet I can hardly fit in my trousers.

£200 meal plan challenge ............ august 2014

I've tried this a couple of times now with reasonable success but it seems no matter how much I cut back the debts are still spiralling and the money is diminishing.

We have 2 weeks off at the end of August and I am desperate to take the kids away (normally one week would be at a Haven/ Park Resorts site) but I just can't justify it this year with the amount already on the credit cards.  So step 1......... rein in the food spending (not that I think I can much more then I already have)

If you've followed the last first £200 challenge here and the not so fantastic sequel here  then you'll already know how difficult it is to plan for my husband.   For those who don't know.....

a rambly post

I never really know what to title these ones, they're a bit of general rambling, lots of things I want to post so I can keep a record (tho probably no ones cares about).

I hate rainy weekends with no plans.  I don't need to go anywhere, I have no kids parties to entertain the boys and can't really afford to take them anywhere.  I'm kinda hoping that the big play center they love have a freebie day tomorrow (as I certainly can't justify the £10+ to take them).

Meal Plan W/C 17th May

I really need to have an eating up session we've been so lax re-filling the freezer before it's really empty.
See here for why my planning is SO hard to do.  Once the cupboards and freezer are empty I can do my £200 challenge again with the bonus of it should be cheaper as Summer always leads me and the kids to eat more salad.

My husband's fussiness stretches to the fact that unless we are having 'family meals' he will not be told what to eat on what day.  There is no point me telling him what to cook for the kids on certain days as history has shown he does not stick to it.

In no particular order  (unless stated) our meals will be taken from any combination of the following (hence being more choices then days :)  ).......

Meal Plan - w/c 8.3.14

This weeks meal plan.

I'll add the shopping list to it for this week at some point.

The lasagne is smelling yummy which must mean it's time for tea.

Meal Plan - W/C 23rd November and 30th November

Two weeks shopping to order this week so therefore 2 weeks planning....

I'm only planning for teas.  Lunch is normally a sandwich, noodles, tinned spaghetti and sausages.

Meal Planning and Shopping w/b 8th November 2013

To start this week I did a large inventory of what was in the fridge/ freezer/ cupboards and tried to base my weeks meals around this as much as possible.  There have been a few bits I had to buy but I managed to keep this to less then £20.  Milk seems to be the most expense this week as we are drinking a lot more hot drinks with the current weather.

If you've been following my food shopping highs and lows you'll know my husband is very picky.  This stretches to the fact that unless we are having 'family meals' he will not be told what to eat on what day.  There is no point me telling him what to cook for the kids on certain days as history has shown he does not stick to it.

So my new meal plan format is as below (in no particular order).  If he chooses to have something different that he has found in the house (e.g. toasties) that's fair enough so long as it doesn't involve having to buy anything more.

The Great Food Challenge the sequel - week 2

no specific meal plan is written as we are not only out and about most of the weekend but wanted to use up what was in the house and if I tried to write this down it would be depressing lol.

I did an online shop keeping as close to £40 as possible (becuase thats the minimum spend on my delivery saver.

The Great Food Challenge - the sequel. Meal Planning and ordering - week 1.

You may have followed my 2 adults, 2 children, 4 weeks.......£200 challenge last month.
Well as I only went £1 over I figured it's GOT to be worth another attempt.

The Ongoing post can be found on the tab at the top........

here's my Week 1 summary.... check back next weekend to see how I did......

Meal Plan - W/C 26/8/13

Monday:

Lunch:  pasta salad, ham, cheese

Tea: Fish and new potatoes.

Meal Plan - W/C 26/8/13

Monday:

Lunch:  picnic

Tea: Spaghetti Carbonara with Bacon.

Tuesday:

Lunch:  salad, new potatoes, ham, cheese

Tea: Spaghetti Carbonara with Bacon (leftovers).

Wednesday:

Lunch:  salad, new potatoes, ham, cheese

Tea: fried eggs on toast

Thursday:

Lunch:  tin spaghetti and sausages

Tea: leftover surprise (this is whatever frozen leftovers silver tray I pick out at random to defrost the night before)

Friday:

Lunch:  salad, new potatoes, ham, cheese

Tea: Lasagna

Saturday:

Lunch:  leftover lasagna and salad

Tea: corned beef hash

Sunday

Lunch:  leftover corned beef hash and salad

Tea: Roast Chicken.

well the week started off so well, however we went out on Friday and bought a proper toastie maker (as opposed to the George Foreman), so Ben wanted 'triangle sandwiches' for tea (and mummy fancied them too),  lasagna scrapped (mince frozen) I made ben and me a round of triangle toasties and Noah (who has gone on bread strike) pasta.

Saturday therefore became picnic in town as we went to the open air cinema and left over pasta for tea.

Sunday we went out again so lunch was (bad mummy) a pack of M&M's while out and crisps when we got home.   roast Chicken became chicken pie as I found some pastry lurking at the back of the freezer.

Next weeks shopping bill should be cheap tho as lots to eat up that didn't get used this week YAY.