I know I said that I don't usually do much of a meal plan over the Summer Holidays but it's driving me mental at the minute.Meal times are usually laid back in the Summer because (a) I never know how many we're having for tea, (b) we don't really stick to a schedule as we like to be out as much as possible and (c) we don't know whether our day might involve an impromptu picnic (which would usually come out of the food budget).But this Summer, I feel like my food budget is just running away from me and not only are we spending way more than we should be spending, we're also at the shop … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan – the easy week….
I'm so pleased the weather is still nice this week because we didn't get much chance to get out in it last week with poor Master Frugal being poorly. Miss Frugal is away with the school until Wednesday night and Mr Frugal is working lates tonight and tomorrow so for the next couple of days there's just me and Master Frugal after school and we plan to take full advantage of the weather. Monday Tonight we've had scampi and oven chips and garden peas with corn on the cob after we bought some packets of breaded scampi reduced from £6.00 to £1.50 in our local Tesco. Don't get me wrong, it was … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan – the good weather edition….
You may have noticed that there's an unfamiliar looking yellow ball in the sky giving off heat. That would be the Sun and it's so rarely seen in the UK that our meals this week are mostly cooked in the slow cooker so we can make the most of it while we have it.I can prepare everything on the morning before I go to work and then the dinner can be cooking all day in the slow cooker. That means we can go straight out after school to the park or the beach or wherever and know that the tea will be ready whenever we get in. Voila! Sunday Slow cooker brisketMonday Mini muffin pizzas - … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan – the start from scratch edition….
Was it Old Mother Hubbard who had no food in her house (I think she's the one who lived in a shoe with bare cupboards but I could be wrong)?If it was, then our house is like Old Mother Hubbard's house at the minute as we have no food in at all thanks to our week away last week and my general can't be bothered to go shopping attitude since we got home on Saturday. I just keep putting it off because I know that we have nothing in at all - usually we have at least some things in and I make our meal plan loosely based on that but this week, it's like starting from scratch. There's … [Read more...]
Meal Planning Monday – the looking for inspiration edition….
Can you believe it's June already?I don't know about you but at this time of year, even when the weather isn't great, we tend to eat differently. We eat a lot less of the comfort food style meals like mince and dumplings and macaroni cheese and a lot more simple meals that take less time and energy to prepare - yeay.We change our meal plans in the Summer for a few reasons. I think it's mainly because when it's nice outside we want to be outside as much as possible so quick meals are great to just throw together whenever we get in with very little planning or preparation needed. We … [Read more...]
#CookItBlogIt – Risotto Balls….
<div align="center"><a href="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk" title="The Diary or a Frugal Family"><img src="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/cookitblogitbadge.jpg" alt="The Diary or a Frugal Family" style="border:none;" /></a></div> Welcome to #CookItBlogIt which is my recipe linky. I made a new badge this week as a kind of a relaunch seeing as the lovely Emma from Crazy with Twins isn't going to have time to host this with me anymore. Emma's not well at the moment so if you have a minute, pop over to her blog and say hello. She's in … [Read more...]
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