I think sweet and sour sums up last week too. I was so bored of the same meals that I wrote my meal plan with the idea what I already had in the cupboards, fridge and freezer. We did stick to most of it, and my shopping bill was only £130. Also, I didn’t spend much during the week either. So, I might have been bored of food but it was cheap. The only meal I swapped was on the Wednesday, I’d put fish or pork, and we ended up having toad-in-the-hole.
This weeks Meal Plan
I’m doing a sweet and sour this week as my son has been asking for months. I love it made in the slow cooker, it’s so easy, just through it all in and let it cook. Then make some rice to go with it. I’m thinking about making some battered quorn or tofu and straining off some of the sauce for my daughter. She likes the sauce but won’t eat chicken or most of the vegetables.
Let’s get on to this weeks meal plan
- Saturday – Take out
- Sunday – Stir Fry
- Monday – Sweet and Sour Chicken
- Tuesday – Sausage ragu (or sausage pasta bake)
- Wednesday – pies and mash or chips
- Thursday – quiche / salmon parcels.
- Friday – pasta with spinich and stilton.
We are already on Sunday and we started with a Take Out because Graham went out and I didn’t feel like cooking, plus we had kind of ate everything we had.
Today, Sunday, we are having a stir fry because I really fancy it. I cook the chicken, noodles and vegetables and keep everything seperate. Then everyone can choose what they actually want in their stir fry and it takes a minute to fry it up with their chosen seasoning or sauce. Star doesn’t eat noodles so I’ll make her a little mash and she can have chicken and vegetables with mash instead.
I’m a bit worried about the sausage ragu, but we’ve had sausage pasta bake before so I’ll just make sure it’s got ingredients that will please everyone. I’ll add the pasta last, so Star can have mash again.
The sweet and sour can be served with rice, or noodles or even chips (star doesn’t eat rice either!)
I’m actually beginning to look forward to food again and I love all the inspiration I get from reading the other weekly meal plans in Katy’s meal planning linky.
Your meal plan sounds so good!
I end up cooking a different stir fry for us all here. We all like different things in it and it’s no great fuss to keep everyoine happy.
I’m glad you are looking forward to food again x