Meal Planning Monday; 18th March 2013

Goodness me if this year flies by any quicker I think it's going to be Christmas sooner than we think! I seriously keep thinking it's February, or even January! However my calender firmly insists that we're in March. Which promptly leads me to complain about the lack of lovely sun coming back. It's Spring; I want pretty daffodils and sunny days please, not freezing wind and drenching rain every time I step outside the front door!


To cheer myself up I treated myself to some Next homeware (guilt pleasure, and Next does such lovely stuff) to a MASSIVE mug for my hot chocolates (no other hot drinks need apply)

I love yellow and it never fails to give me a burst of happiness. That coupled with the cute bird design and "hello sunshine" writing (I call Bubbah sunshine when he wakes up so I felt it appropriate for a mug to wake me up with a similar message) made me crave to own this mug.

The last week our meal plan has gone pretty well. The mince I bought I ended up making a massive batch of spag bol with as it was easier and I fancied it over rissoles  I even managed to wangle a roast dinner for myself and Bubbah at my mum's on Saturday, cooked by my sister in law as my brother and co. were visiting. Bubbah is fascinated by his cousins and will just stand there staring at them for ages in silence before suddenly emitting an ear piercing scream of excitement!


I have also spent this week introducing the concept of a fork to Bubbah, which he seems to have taken to quite quickly. I managed to get a Mr Happy set of cutlery for him to experiment with.

This week our meal plan is partly made up of regular meals and the reappearance of a few old favourites! In a spate of being organised I bought a specific meal planning/shopping list note book after getting tired of writing lists on random note pads we have lying around and then losing them and ending up with about five copies of the same list!


Our meal plan this week:

• Cheesy chicken pasta. An oldy but a goodie with lots of extra veg (peas, mushrooms and sweetcorn normally, but I am debating about adding carrots)
• Steak casserole for me; veg soup for hubby who will be on a fast day
• Home made pizza
• Quiche (Lorraine for me, spinach and tomato for hubby) although hubby will have his for lunch and have veg soup for his second fast day.
• Rissotto - I'm thinking mushroom made with veg stock but I could easily change my mind!
• Freezer meal - mac n cheese for hubby and either a spag bol/lamb casserole for me

And that's our meal plan this week! As always, I'm linked up to Mrs M so pop on over there to see what everyone else is up to this week.

Meal Planning Monday; 11th March 2013

Happy Monday everyone! I hope any mummy reader's had a lovely day yesterday and were thoroughly treated :) Bubbah treated me to an hour lie in and lovely cuddles before he bit my chin!

So moving went quite well, I managed to unpack everything bar a massive bag of DVDs and put it all away within the first half of the week (spending about an hour last Sunday making the living room area suitable for Bubbah to be unleashed into the next morning) and thankfully Bubbah settled in very well indeed; even sleeping through a couple of nights which is a extremely rare event!

Halfway through unpacking

We had a busy week last week with Bubbah's jabs (whereupon he screamed for ten minutes and could be heard in the waiting room), unpacking and general sort out and various visiting around to family, friends and playgroup. Bubbah and I have also managed to come down with a horrible cold.

Finally organised!

That said, our meal plan went pretty much, well, to plan! Toad in the hole was replaced by sausage casserole but that was the only swap about. I also managed to make some cupcakes  and it'll be interesting to see if they've lasted the weekend!


Our meal plan this week is more of the same with lots of lovely warming food that requires little effort and can build a bit of a stock pile in the freezer we share with hubby's parents. I'm also planning on baking MORE cakes at some point during the week, possibly Monday as I'm visiting my dad and staying for dinner to give my step-mum a mother's day card from Bubbah.


This week, our meal plan consists of;

• mac n cheese (again!) with various veg thrown in for a lovely health kick
• home made pizza with curly fries and garlic bread (and salad for hubby)
• chicken casserole or pasta bake, depending on mood
• some sort of mince dish, perhaps beef rissoles or spag bol for me and Bubbah
• dinner at dad's so hubby will have to dig out some mac n cheese from the freezer or join his parent's meal for the night
• steak casserole for me and Bubbah
• veg soup twice in the week for hubby's fast days

And that is our week! What's everyone else got planned? If you're stuck for inspiration head on over to Mrs M and see what everyone else has planned for their meal plans this week.

Meal Planning Monday;4th March 2013

Well hello March! February seems to have come and gone in a blink; I still feel like it should be late January/early February! I'm typing this up on a Sunday as tomorrow will be manic because...we have moved! Saturday saw us (aka me) packing up EVERYTHING two adults and one baby/toddler could ever need, which was a lot! It got to the point where a harassed hubby (who was loading up his dad's car Sunday lunchtime) kept questioning whether or not we needed all the things that had been packed (yes, yes we do).

Approximately half of the stuff we brought with us!

Our meal plan is pretty simple this week, full of meals I can pre-cook/prep when I have spare time or just whack into our slow cooker (my grandma's old one; a gift from my mum) which is HUGE and I'm very much looking forward to using.

Bubbah has his jabs on Tuesday which I'm not looking forward to as he goes extremely mopey and I'm imagining the move will upset Bubbah's sleep patterns enough so to throw jabs in will no doubt give me a horrible sleepless night up with him.

We're also out for lunch with a friend on Friday and I'll also be staying at my mum's with Bubbah which I'm very much looking forward to.

Our meal plan this week is as follows;

• mac n cheese with mushrooms - an oldie but a goodie!
• Stuffed peppers for hubby and beef casserole for me
• Vegetable soup twice this week for hubby
• Minted lamb pieces with any leftovers being made into rissoles with roasts/chips
• Lemon and herb breaded chicken with curly fries
• Toad in the hole with mash (I hope) and veg

And that's our week! Hope everyone else has a lovely week. As always I'll be linking up to Mrs M so head on over there to see what everyone else is cooking up this week.