It's also that time of the week when I start to think ahead to next weeks' meals and start writing my meal plan. This week, I'm not writing a list as there is no money to buy anything! Everything on the meal plan will have to be conjured up from the freezer/larder/fridge.
So a rootle through the freezer turned up 4 chicken breasts and some fish fingers along with oven chips and various packs of veg.
The larder contains rice, pasta, noodles, hotdog sausages, mackerel, tomatoes and not a lot else!
The fridge has a carrot, a few rashers of bacon, cheddar cheese, potatoes, some salad veg and some spring onions plus various jars of spice pastes, lazy garlic, lemongrass etc.
My egg bowl is full thanks to my wonderful girls!!!
So here's what I've come up with:
Friday: Stir fry chicken, veg and noodles (ginger, garlic, lemongrass fried in smoking hot sesame oil, add the chopped chicken and fry until brown. Add the frozen stir-fry veg, a good glug of soy sauce and some pre-soaked noodles)
Saturday: Fish fingers, oven chips and salad (nice and easy because I'm too busy watching Strictly and Merlin to spend too much time in the kitchen!)
Sunday: Chicken breast wrapped in bacon, yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes, carrot batons, peas and steamed kale from the garden
Monday: Pasta bake (chop up the hot dog sausages, mix with half of the chopped tomatoes, add some dried mixed herbs. Top with breadcrumbs and grated cheese)
Tuesday: Omelette with chopped bacon and spring onions plus the last of the salad
Wednesday: Home-made pizza (make the dough in the breadmaker, spread with the other half of the chopped tomatoes, add anything else I can find like mixed veg from the freezer, a chopped spring onion and top with grated cheddar)
Thursday: Egg and bacon flan with home-made oven wedges (sprinkled with Nando's peri-peri seasoning)
Et voila! A mealplan without shopping at all.
Have a look through your cupboards and freezers. Do you really need to shop this weekend or could you hang onto your pennies for another week?
Thats a good meal plan :)
ReplyDeleteLooking threw my freezer and cupboards i could easily get away with not going shopping for several weeks, infact thats the plan (fruit, milk and bread not included) i had to go shopping this week for party food but as of today i'm sorted until next friday, when i'll do another meal plan and buy some milk and fruit when i'm in town anyway.