As part of my frugal reset, I’m going to share my weekly meal plan on here for a couple of weeks – maybe longer depending on how much I enjoy writing these posts and if I feel like I need the accountability that I get from sharing something with you all!
I’ve been meal planning again for a couple of weeks now and I’m starting to get everyone on board which is making it easier to stick to. It helps that I try and include meals that I know everyone enjoys and I focus on that more than choosing cheaper meals if that makes sense.
I also make sure that I include plenty of salads and vegetables as we’re trying to be much more health conscious at the moment with more healthy food and more exercise happening for us all. Most meals have either a salad of lettuce, tomato, cucumber and red onion on the side or a side of veggies on everyone’s plates.
Monday – Gammon and chips
We have some gammon steaks in the freezer from when we bought a meat pack from our local butchers so I think I’m going to get them out and serve them with some fried eggs. I’ll do chips for my partner and I’ll have something like roasted tomatoes to go with mine.
Tuesday – Chicken Special
I have no clue yet how I’m going to cook the chicken that we have in but I suspect I’ll have mine with cajun spices and salad or with some curry and cauliflower rice and my partner will have some chips too and normal rice if we go for a curry.
Wednesday – Slow Cooker Corned Beef Hash
Corned beef hash was something I thought I’d have to stop eating when I was diagnosed as diabetic as there’s so many carbs in it due to it being pretty much just potato and corned beef. I thought I’d give it a go with less potatoes and more other veg in there to pad it out so for tea today is a low carb version of corned beef hash carrots and cauliflower as well as a smaller than usual amount of potatoes.
Thursday – Burgers and Salad
This is my quick and easy go to tea when we have jobs to do on a night – my partner has burgers in buns and I just have them on their own or maybe even with an egg on top. We have plenty of salad and I have my favourite side dish at the moment which is roasted tomatoes.
Friday – Pizza and pasta
I have some of my tomato pasta sauce in the freezer so I’ll be making my favourite pasta dish (not that I’ll be eating all those carbs) and using some to make some homemade pizza using some low carb wraps for the base so I can have some too.
Saturday – Homemade fish and chips
No idea how I’m going to make this but I want to give it a go.
Sunday – Hunters Chicken
I’m just going to go basic with this and cook some chicken in some shop bought barbecue sauce and top with some grated cheese. I’ll serve with cauliflower rice for me and some chips for my partner and the kids.
And that’s what we’ll be eating this week!
See you next week.
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