Shoestring Cottage

Money Environment Home & Health

  • Home
  • New to Shoestring Cottage? Start here
  • About Me: My best life on a shoestring
  • Fifty Ways to Save Money Now
  • Favourite Frugal & Healthy Recipes
  • My Frugal Bookshelf
  • Work with Me: Shoestring Cottage Media Pack

Planning your meals: what we are eating this week

30th August 2019 by [email protected] 5 Comments

Share on Facebook Share
0
Share on TwitterTweet
Share on Pinterest Share
0

There are so many reasons to get organised with planning your meals. It saves money and time when you know what you are going to cook each day. I also find that it helps us to eat more healthily and prevents food waste.

As I have been losing weight with Slimming World, it is even more important to plan the food in the house.

planning your meals

I tend to have a vague idea of breakfasts and lunches and make sure we have mostly non perishable ingredients for these. We keep the bread in the freezer anyway and take slices out as we need them. They take about 10 minutes to defrost. This prevents mouldy bread, especially when the weather is as warm as it has been.

My youngest daughter is home for the week (the one who Marie Kondo’d the food cupboard!) so I need to make sure I put the shopping away in an organised manner or I will be in trouble…

With all these good things in mind, here is my meal plan for this week. We have a busy social weekend for once!

Saturday

We have been invited to a party in the evening but food wasn’t mentioned on the invitation, so we are assuming it is drinks and nibbles. We will have an early dinner from Simply Cook. It’s called Moqueca de Peixe, and is apparently a spicy fish stew. It sounds nice, as most of the meals have been from the Simply Cook trial packs..

This contains fresh tomatoes, which will come from the greenhouse, and we will have some runner beans alongside it.

Sunday

Out for lunch to celebrate Mr S’s niece’s 7th wedding anniversary. I was shocked at that number!!! Where on earth have seven years gone? It only seems 5 minutes ago. Does this mean I am officially old?

We will have jacket potatoes and tuna with salad for tea if we are hungry, but a big breakfast as we aren’t meeting in the restaurant until 2 pm.

Monday

planning your meals

The courgettes are still coming, although more slowly now. Nevertheless, we will have courgette and tomato eggy bake, because it is delicious and will use some of our tomatoes too.

Tuesday

planning your meals

Simple baked chicken with roasted beetroot, carrots and potatoes, chard and gravy. All the veg except the potatoes will be from the garden.

I used to hate beetroot. Now that I know that the pickled stuff or the cold, boiled version on your salad aren’t the only options, I love it. I was planning to make soup, but can’t stop eating them roasted, so not sure there will be any left!

Incidentally, our carrot crop was rubbish. We used some heritage seeds that came out of a gift box and they just didn’t germinate. However…. two did! Look at these purple beauties. We will be roasting those up with the beets.

It’s a great shame they constitute the entire carrot crop though!

Wednesday

Aldi skinny sausages with new potatoes, chard and runner beans. It’s good to plan in something really easy and this won’t take any time.

Thursday

A spaghetti sauce made with tomatoes, courgettes, celery, garlic, peppers and maybe a bit of bacon. I generally replace onions with celery these days as I find they are better for my digestion.

Friday

Always an easy day for food. Today will be omelettes with bits and bobs thrown in them, air fried potatoes and grilled tomatoes.

planning your meals

Growing our own food is saving us a lot of money at the moment. Now that I am self employed and working from home, it is easy to pick and prep them as I go. This means they are always super fresh.  We are very pleased with the veg patch this year.

Are you planning your meals? What’s on the menu this week?

I am joining in with Katy Kicker’s meal planning linky. Check out her meal plan this week too. You can see more of my favourite food ideas and recipes here. 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)

Related

Filed Under: FRUGAL FOOD Tagged With: Meal Planning

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
« Reasons to be cheerful: August money wins
Five frugal things for #SecondHandSeptember »

Comments

  1. Katy Stevens says

    30th August 2019 at 20:38

    It’s great to grow your own food isn’t it!

    Thanks for linking up and I hope you’re having a great week.

    Reply
  2. Louise says

    1st September 2019 at 14:18

    The courgette and tomato eggy bake looks loverly #mealplanningmonday

    Reply
  3. Kim says

    2nd September 2019 at 20:06

    Why haven’t I thought of keeping bread in the freezer and just getting it out when we need it. Doh! I have thrown some out over the past few months while it’s been warm.
    I hope you had a good weekend.
    I love roasted beetroot but never think of making it.
    Great meal plan x

    Reply
  4. Charlotte says

    3rd September 2019 at 10:20

    You are doing amazing at growing your own I this was something I could do as it seems to save a lot of money.

    Reply
  5. Paula @ Mummy Vs Work says

    10th September 2019 at 06:49

    Sounds delicious, I wish we had the space to grow our own veg, it would save us so much money!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Categories

  • ECO FRIENDLY LIFESTYLE
  • FRUGAL CHRISTMAS
  • FRUGAL FOOD
  • FRUGAL GARDEN
  • FRUGAL HOME
  • FRUGAL LIFESTYLE
  • FUN AND TRAVEL
  • GENERAL POSTS
  • HEALTH AND WELL BEING
  • MAKING MONEY FROM HOME
  • MONEY
  • PRIVACY POLICY
  • SLIMMING WORLD

Recent Posts

  • Another week of frugal healthy food #mealplanning
  • Watch the pennies #fivefrugalthings
  • Monthly goals for December 2019
  • Win a Christmas hamper with the UK Money Bloggers!
  • A more plant based meal plan

About Me

Would you like to take control of your finances, pay off your debts and save for the future? At Shoestring Cottage we aim to show you that you can live a good and happy life on less than you think, you can get off the consumer treadmill and you can live more simply and healthily and not feel deprived.
We are also moving toward a less wasteful, more sustainable lifestyle and believe frugality and sustainability go hand in hand. Read More…

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Copyright © 2019 · Delightful theme by Restored 316

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
This site uses cookies: Find out more.

Privacy Policy