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| One of the delicious new bakery treats I made this week! |
I use a menu planner to keep the week from becoming just too absolutely hectic, and I'm sure many of you do too! However I do just throw the menu out at the end of each week, which is a shame really. It'd be useful to know which weeks worked well, which new recipes were a hit or a miss, and old menus could be useful when I'm having a total mental blank when faced with a new menu plan to fill in!
So here is this weeks plan. I only plan dinners, with the occasional new weekend breakfast or bit of baking thrown in.
Dinners
Monday: Meatballs and pasta
Monday nights I'm exhausted, so this will be an easy dinner, with pre-made meatballs. I'll probably use a pre-made pasta sauce or tinned tomatoes and add some finely diced or grated vegetables to it.
Tuesday: Risotto or barley with chicken, red capsicum, onion and peas
This meal was planned to use up some bits and bobs left over from the week before! Tuesday is our shopping day.
Wednesday: Kedgeree
Cooked by the Mr, recipe from 'Slow Cookers' by Jane Price
Thursday: Pizza, homemade dough
Cooked by the Mr (I know, I'm a lucky girl!), he used our new pizza stone for the first time, I highly recommend getting one! He used the pizza dough recipe that came with the stone. Was fab.
Friday: Baked tuna casserole
I found the recipe here, pinned it here. See I do use the recipes I pin in Pinterest!
Saturday: Black bean tacos
Sunday: Chilli con carne sweet potato cottage pie
This is an adaptation of this recipe. I'm just turning it into a pie by adding sweet potato mash on top.
Other stuff
Bacon and fresh herb muffins, from 'Baking Day' by the Woman's Weekly, see photo above!
For breakfast this week I'm going to try this porridge recipe on the Healthy Chef website. No oats! Not that I have anything against oats, I love them, but looked interesting.
I'm also hoping to make another Pear cake, to refine my recipe, and I'm working on an adaptation of a muesli bar style slice that I hope to share soon.
So that's my week in food! Do you do a weekly menu plan? If you've blogged it please share!
we try to have a weekly menu plan - some weeks we get it all filled in early, other weeks we get to thursday & realise we haven't written anything down for the rest of the week!
ReplyDeleteI have to do one to figure out what to buy at the weekly food shop! I hate shopping without knowing what I'll be cooking. If we have a week where we don't do one, we end up doing a trip to the supermarket everyday instead for bits and pieces.
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