It's Monday which means that it's time for #mealplanningMonday again!On Saturday morning, I woke up ridiculously early and decided to give my Meal Planning Made Easy blog a bit of a makeover and I'm not going to lie, an hour in and I really wished I'd just rolled over and gone back to sleep. ;-) I persevered though and by 8.30am I had a new-look foodie blog with a new logo and design.I set Meal Planning Made Easy up back in about 2012/2013 but until recently, I've struggled with a direction for it as there's always felt like such a crossover with this blog which has always been my … [Read more...]

This week's meal plan is super-frugal, or at least it is to us.I'm not going to lie, this last month or so has been ridiculous for unexpected expenses so we're really trying hard to cut our costs in any way possible this month and one way we're doing that is with our meal plans.I worked out this week's meal plan, as you always should, based on what we had in to use up and I didn't add in any meals that we didn't have at least one ingredient in the house already.  I thought this week, I'd share the logic in why I chose the meals I did by telling you what I already had in and … [Read more...]

It's Monday morning which means that it's time for #MealPlanningMonday again!And this week, it's a little bit different...I've been really enjoying writing these #MealPlanningMonday posts!  I started to share our meal plans over here again as I really wanted to focus on meal planning for a little while as we went a bit off-track.  As well as helping me to focus on our weekly meal plan, these posts have also somehow made me enjoy cooking again so I'm cooking as much for enjoyment as well as the obvious necessity.And because I'm enjoying cooking more and starting to … [Read more...]