Joining in today at I'm An Organising Junkie for Menu Plan Monday.
Monday
Pizza - the boys have been requesting this for at least the past week as though we haven't had it in AGES (about 10 days, in reality!)
Tuesday
Salmon with green salad and potato salad
Chewy Chocolately Nutella Brownies - working on the basis that the salad weighs out the brownies!
Wednesday
Chicken wraps
Jelly, probably Frogs In A Pond
Thursday
Lamb roast with roasted root veggies and steamed greens
Fruit salad, especially with mango and our local strawberries - they will be gone soon.
Friday
Last day of the school term - hooray! And grandbaby's first birthday, so going out for dinner tonight.
Saturday
Pork chops with veggies of some sort
Sunday
Pasta with roasted tomato sauce
Tiramisu
When I make pizza, I will double the recipe to add some more bases to the freezer. School holidays begin at the end of this week, so need to stock up on some easy meals.
I'll also make some batches of bolognaise sauce and meatballs. And some more biscuits and some scones.
What do you find are some great snack/lunchbox items to make ahead for the freezer? I'd love to hear your suggestions.
My boys are so boring with their lunchboxes. They are quite happy to have the same every day. Maybe it just my own mum guilt (and seeing all the blog posts around!) that makes me think I need to zhoosh up their lunches.
Joining with I'm An Organising Junkie for Menu Plan Monday.
Time to get back to organised menu plans, after the bliss of the holidays and just winging it. It is taking me way too long to settle back into a routine!
This cartoon pretty much explains how menu planning has gone for the last six weeks (and first month of the new school year!).
This week I am using a number of free magazines that the supermarkets issue.
I am not collecting any more of these as I have always been reluctant to take them, due to the waste issue. But these are some that I already had, so I am trying some recipes and will cut those out to keep and recycle the rest. I have SO many cookbooks that I really don't need to collect any more.
Monday
Pork roast with roasted potatoes, honey carrots, minted peas and mashed sweet potato
Fruit salad
Tuesday
Chicken and broccoli penne
Strawberry shortcakes
Wednesday
Spaghetti and meatballs (make double to have some for the freezer)
Peach and Raspberry Cheesecake Slice
Thursday
Fish burgers
Passionfruit Ice-Cream Yoghurt
Friday
Lime Chicken Skewers
Green salad
Garlic potato fries
Saturday
Vegetable curry with naan bread
Coconut pudding
Sunday
Salmon and mango salad
Potato wedges
Chocolate and caramel poke cake
Poke cakes are a new favourite around here. So obvious - why didn't I ever think of it before?! We have also tried the lemon blueberry one - yum.
I am happy that I am able to start doing some more freezer cooking. The freezer is finally starting to have a little bit of space in it, after being full to the top with meat for so long. There is no butchering planned for at least a month so I can get some other goodies into the freezer at the moment.
Planning for this week:
Meatballs - making double on Wednesday
Pizza bases
Banana muffins
Various biscuit dough logs
Have a delicious week!
