I am having one of those week where you dive into the freezer and the pantry to look for bits and pieces that can make a meal. Amazing how well you can eat some times even when you don't go shopping.
SUNDAY DINNER
Butter Chicken with Rice - uses 1 tin tomato, curry paste, lump of chicken, serve with rice
MONDAY BREAKFAST
Breakfast wraps/Apple Muffins
MONDAY LUNCH
Baked potatoes with spam and baked beans, salad
MONDAY DINNER
Spaghetti - uses tomato paste, mince, pasta
TUESDAY BREAKFAST
Porridge with apple
TUESDAY LUNCH
Carbonara - uses frozen diced bacon, pasta (may have to make pasta?)
TUESDAY DINNER
Country Sausage Hot Pot - uses sausages, tinned tomatoes, carrots, onion, serve with mashed spud
WEDNESDAY BREAKFAST
Toast, yoghurt, fruit
WEDNESDAY LUNCH
Frozen pasta
WEDNESDAY DINNER
Pasties - uses 1 lump mince, grated carrots and potato, corn or peas
THURSDAY BREAKFAST
Dutch Apple Baby - uses green apples, buy 2 if kids have eaten the ones in fridge
THURSDAY LUNCH
Tinned Sausage and Vegie meal
Pasta with vegetables and creamy sauce
THURSDAY DINNER
Kate’s Tomato Casserole Pg 138 $21 Challenge book - uses 1 tin tomatoes, 2 tins chickpeas, 1 stick celery, 500g diced beef, serve with mashed spud
SPARE - Nachos - uses 1 mince, 1 or 2 pkts cornchips, cheese, wraps possibly
SNACKS
Yoghurt - 2 tubs
Bananas 10
Corn chips 2 pkts (see spare meal)
Crackers and sourcream or hummus
Grapes
Apples (hopefully kids forget about them)
Best wishes
Jen
Looks like a great plan Jen. It is great to use what's in the pantry/freezer and not have to buy more, good on you!
ReplyDeleteWould love to know how you make nachos... first time I've seen mince listed for nachos!?
ReplyDeleteLove how you have 'lumps' of meat i.e. chicken/mince etc LOL
My kids won't eat kidney beans on their own so I use 500g mince with Mexican seasoning and then add a tin of kidney beans which I cook long enough to soften. I try to sneak a grated carrot in. Then I mash as many of the beans as I feel I have to so the kids can't easily pick them out. I serve this mince mixture on the side of corn chips that have been warmed in the oven with melted cheese on top. Those of us with more mature tastes add fresh salsa and avocado while the littles have some sour cream.
DeleteAnd most of my lumps are 500g but the chicken might be 650g so it was easier to write lump. lol
Hi jen, good to see how you and yours are getting on. Love reading other people's menus. Very impressed that you even contemplated making pasta, and that you ever eat something other than Vegemite toast for breakfast. Would love to hear more about those Dutch apple babies?
ReplyDeleteHi Jo,
DeletePasta making, if the kitchen table is clean, isn't too hard. Well, for the flat type it isn't. Ravioli was very fiddly. Jackson, now 10, is quite good at helping feed it through the rollers.
I posted the recipe for Dutch Apple Baby this afternoon. I hope you come back and get to try it.
I think I need to do a week like this. My freezer is full of bags of things like roasted capsicum and cooked beetroot that I couldn't bear to chuck away.
ReplyDeleteMy boys would have left the green apples - they only eat red ones!
Hit the google button Scimum, you might find some very interesting recipes to use up those odd things you don't want to chuck away.
DeleteAlthough I am not quite sure how I would mix those two. The beetroot I would blend up with a little sourcream and make into a dip. The roasted capsicum, tossed through some pasta with butter and bacon, maybe?
Give it a go. You will at least make space for new mystery freezer foods. lol
Best wishes
Jen