After the success of last week's #MealPlanningMonday post which featured my recipe for sausage and pesto pasta bake, I thought I'd share another quick and easy recipe with you along with this week's meals - fridge bottom gnocchi.Before I share the recipe (if you can call it that), let's go through the meal plan itself...Monday - Fridge bottom gnocchi is my new favourite meal but I won't go into too much detail here as you'll read more below. Tuesday - We haven't had tuna pasta bake in so long so I thought I'd have a go at teaching Miss Frugal to make it … [Read more...]

For this week's #MealPlanningMonday, I thought I'd not only share our week's meals with you but also one of the meals we'll be having - Sausage and Pesto Pasta Bake.First up, let's go through the meal plan itself...Monday - I got a couple of packets of reduced price Heck chicken sausages last week (£1.42 per pack) and used one to make Sausage and Pesto Pasta which is what I'm making again tonight.  It was so tasty that I couldn't wait to use the second pack of sausages to make it again.  See below for the recipe. Tuesday - Chicken Shwarma with salad and … [Read more...]

This week we're going full-on Slimming World with our meals as I try and get my head back in the game after a couple of weeks of making excuses for reasons why I can have a day off (or two, or three).I've had such a lot on over the last couple of weeks that it's been easy to justify in my head that I deserve a treat or that it would just be easier to not stick to the plan for that day but in reality, nothing feels as good as putting on a pair of trousers in the size down from what you normally wear or being able to zip up my pesky raincoat without sucking in. ;-)I want to lose … [Read more...]

This week is going to be one of those week's where there simply aren't enough hours in the day!First up, let me share this week’s meal plan with you: Monday Today, I'm going to be reheating the amazing Goulash that I made yesterday using a recipe from the Pinch of Nom cookbook.  Unfortunately, I can't share the recipe as it's obviously not mine but if you do get chance to get hold of the cookbook then you'll find it on page 140 and I guarantee you won't regret it!Just in case you were wondering why I was reheating it, I made it yesterday as I had plenty of time to spend … [Read more...]

Today, I'm going to share with you how I make a Slimming World friendly family meal plan.So, you probably know by now that I love a good meal plan and in the past, I’ve shared our weekly meal plan on here along with a bit of insight on why we’re eating what we’re eating that week.  I then started sharing our weekly meal plans over on my Meal Planning blog and more recently, I’ve been sharing our plans over on Instagram.  For the next month or so, I thought it would be nice to bring them back over to this blog so we can really focus on it.I’ve been running down my … [Read more...]