TheMadHouse: Meal Plan Monday and More Frugal Food

Monday, 8 February 2010

Meal Plan Monday and More Frugal Food

Sunday Dinner was Mince, onions, dumplings and lots and lots of vegetables, one of my big tips for being frugal and following your meal plans is to make it as easy as possible, so today food will follow on and utilise yesterdays leftovers and additional amount that we cooked.

Monday

Lunch - Leftovers

Dinner - Spaghetti Bolognese, utilising mince, onions and any left over veg with the tomato sauce we made over the summer

Tuesday

Lunch - Spaghetti on toast

Dinner - Lasagna, bulked out with cottage cheese and vegetables

Wednesday

Lunch - Leftovers

Dinner - Dahl and Naan Breads

Thursday

Lunch - Sandwiches and soup

Dinner - Sausage casserole and sweet potato

Friday

Lunch - Leftovers

Dinner, Fish, oven Chips and peas

Saturday

Lunch - Home made burgers (Maxi loves coming home from football and tucking in)

Dinner - Home made pizza

Sunday

Poached eggs on Muffin

Roast Chicken Dinner

Cooking in Bulk - Mads tip of the week

When I see vegetables or other food marked down I always see if there are ways I can incorporate them in our meals or meal plan. I use tons of onions, so every so often, I get MadDad (I can not stand peeling onions) to do a big peel and chop and we then cook them off and pop them in bags and freeze them.

We did this yesterday. 20 onions chopped and diced and then cooked turned into six portions for the freezer and two for this week in with the mince. I use onions a lot, with casserole, Curry's, dahl, mince etc, etc, etc

So what are your fail-safe recipes and favorite family meals?

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The Moiderer · 790 weeks ago

I am not even organised enough to think about what we are having for dinner today let alone the week. Wish I was.

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Vegemitevix · 790 weeks ago

I go through patches of needing to be really frugal when we're trying to pay for something (like 10 year old's birthday next week). I seem to rely on lots of canned toms and rice. Lentil curry can be quite filling, it's the spice I think that fools you into thinking you've eaten meat! Great ideas in this post. x

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Michelle · 790 weeks ago

I do a good homity pie (if I say so myself! lol). Half white and half wholemeal pasty base. Boiled pots, fried onions, frozen peas, cream, cheese and eggs all poured in, grated cheese on top and oven cook and it is great with veg or salad. I really must make burgers, so easy but I never do it! Mich x

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suzie sroka · 790 weeks ago

Yummy food! its left over chicken in a stir fry for us tonight! Suzie xxx

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tracey · 790 weeks ago

I am going to learn so much from this blog! xxx

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Ang · 790 weeks ago

I always fall back on a packet of mince and turn it into either a sheppards pie, lasagne, moussaka, spicy mince and jacket potatoes, beef enchiladas, chilli con carne.

Thank goodness we all like mince!

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Kelly · 790 weeks ago

Oh onions. I said this week that I would buy chopped frozen onions because I spent 10 minutes wandering round the house blinded brandishing a knife after an onion incident last week. My husband took the mickey so I should get him to do this for me too.