Meal prepping is a big thing but do you ever find that you get super organised and prep a stack of meals for the week ahead, only to see some of them go to waste for one reason or another?Quite often, on a Sunday afternoon, I might spend a bit of time meal prepping for the week ahead as I work full time and at the end of the day, I'm not always in the mood to spend time cooking so as well as my usual freezer batch cooking, I might also do some prep for meals through the week and pop some bits in the fridge to save me some time.I might make a pasta bake or some soup to pop into … [Read more...]

Today I'm going to tell you how a £1 ice cube tray has revolutionised* my meal planning.(*Ok, maybe revolutionised is a bit strong - I should probably go with improved rather a lot although that doesn't have the same ring to it, does it?. ;-))Not long ago, when I shared my post about how to build a frugal pantry, I mentioned that I used ice cube trays in my freezer to help with my meal planning and prep and I got lots* of messages asking me to reveal my secret.(*Ok, I got two messages about it and one only mentioned the ice cubes tray thing as a PS.)Basically, I have about … [Read more...]

So, it's been a while since you've seen a meal plan over here (in fact, it's been a while since I even shared a meal plan over on Meal Planning Made Easy if I'm honest but I promise that the lack of meal planning posts isn't because I haven't been doing it, it's more that I've just been so busy and genuinely haven't had time to share our meal plans with you.I'm really conscious about what we're eating at the moment as I really do want to get into better shape. Thanks to a mix of healthier eating and exercise, I'm back to my pre-lockdown weight which admittedly, wasn't a healthy weight … [Read more...]