Mummy & Moose
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Meal plan – the is it really only Monday edition?

Do you ever start a week just knowing that it will feel like it’s a year long? This week is definitely one of “those” weeks.

Workwise I am happy enough, I have applied for a different position within the company and I am hopeful that it will be a positive change for me – as long as I can convince them to give me a shot at it!

Bess has had her first day at Uni, she has decided to skip staying in halls and is trying to secure a house with her boyfriend but for now will be taking the train from home. Incidentally, HOW MUCH to rent a 2 bedroom house these days?!

Moose is back to school and has been invited to a weekly booster session to help with his handwriting. He finds this especially difficult being left handed so I am really hoping it will help! We will support as much as we can at home. He really hates writing so fingers crossed we can help him.

The idea of an additional 45 minutes of school each week is not going to be an easy sell.

I am helping Bess look for a job that she can do alongside uni as well. It is so difficult because while she will most definitely need the money, I don’t want her to overstretch herself and not be able to study for her course.

This weeks meals are a bit up in the air with not really knowing who will be around, I have a couple of Hello Fresh meals so at least there will be SOME tasty grub!

This week in food 

Monday: Chinese Beef Noodles and Teriyaki Bao

Tuesday: Chicken Korma with Cucumber and Tomato salad and mini Poppadoms

Wednesday: Beef Koftas with Wedges and Salad

Thursday: Chicken and feta salad

Friday: Meatballs and Roasted Vegetables

Saturday: Pizza for them, Salmon salad for me

Sunday: Roast chicken and vegetables.

Meal Plan – the oh crap I need to go shopping edition

In the words of my 13 year old, “Oooft”.

I have seriously lost my mojo when it comes to food. January is meant to give you this boost and make you want to ‘be the best you’ or some gubbins. All it gave me was the desire to hide under a big blanket until either some order enquiries appeared in my inbox (self employment, eh!) or it stopped being too damn cold to concentrate on anything.

With that in mind this month has basically carried on the December trend of replacing many meals with just handfuls of cheese and meat whenever I passed the fridge. I pass the fridge often.

However, this cannot last forever and thankfully we are down to our last box of shortbread so I have to concede that it’s definitely time to start eating green stuff again. I know that meal planning helps with this. So here we go!

Actually, before we begin you should probably be aware that January is not a month where the hoards flock to begin steadfast wedding planning so funds are low and this week will feature a lot of “yeah that’ll probably taste alright together” type meals. Please note, I am offering no apology for this. Neither should you.

vegetables in a pan

This week in food 

Friday: Everyone else is having Pizza. I am off to my Stepmums for dinner which will be a surprise!

Saturday: Going to go fridge diving for this one and use what we have. Jack Monroe made a sausage and bean casserole type meal on This Morning the other day so will use what we have to make something similar. Yes, I will be rinsing the sauce off my baked beans. I can stick this in the slow cooker oven in the morning and it will stop me calling for a takeaway.

Sunday: Off to a trade show with my sister so either I will pack some lunch and take it with us or, and lets face it this is more likely, we will just grab something en route. Everyone else has pasta and meatballs.

Monday: Ramen bowl. The kids love this one. Cheap instant noodles, Chopped chicken, Mange tout (aldi super 6 this week), grated carrot, sweetcorn, peas, a little bit of chilli and ginger and a peeled boiled egg. You can add whatever you have to this one and it is really quick. Can also cut down on the salt content by not using the little noodle seasoning sachet and substituting with a better stock.

Tuesday: Chicken casserole with dressed greens and crusty bread and butter – I try to make sure we have those part baked rolls in the cupboard.

Wednesday: Chicken and veg pesto pasta

Thursday:  Toasties night (ham and cheese or beans or my personal fave pilchards in tomato sauce)

 

Katykicker