I may have mentioned that I'm now off work for TWO WHOLE WEEKS (not that I'm excited or anything), we've got loads planned and Mr Frugal's neice is coming to stay for a week so I thought it would be an ideal time to get back in to my meal planning. If I don't have something planned for our meals I can see us spending a fortune (which we don't have) in the next few weeks. We've got loads of days out and a couple of days at Haggerston Castle planned so my plan might look a little bit all over the place but bear with me ;-) Saturday - Homemade PizzaSunday - Away at Drayton Manor so … [Read more...]
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Parmo and Creamed Cabbage….
Who knows what a Parmo is? You probably won't unless you've spent some time in the North East as it's a local 'delicacy' round here, I'll tell you what it is if you promise to keep an open mind as it tastes way better than it sounds. It's a chicken escalope coated in breadcrumbs, topped with bechemal sauce and then cheese. They're usually eaten with chips, creamed cabbage and garlic sauce and you can get them with all sorts of toppings on like mushrooms, onions, bolognaise or even doner meat. You want one now don't you, admit it! All you need to do is put a chicken breast into … [Read more...]
Please Mr Postman….
Why does the last day of the school holidays go so fast? We've had a lovely two weeks but I think the kids are both really looking forward to going back tomorrow.We always like to do something really fun on the last day of the school holidays but Miss Frugal's feet are still bad and she wasn't up to walking anywhere today so we decided to stay home and enjoy the weather in the back garden by having a barbecue.Now I'm sure we bought a barbecue in the sales at the end of last Summer but I couldn't find it anywhere today when we were looking for it so we ended up using some of those … [Read more...]
Another Meal Plan….
SaturdayLunch - Cereal and toast.Tea - Home made Wraps with cajun chicken for the grown ups and ham and cheese for the mini frugals. Frugal Fondue for pudding.SundayLunch - American Style Pancakes if I can be bothered to make them.Tea- Minced beef and onions, yorkshire puddings, roasties and veg - again....MondayLunch - SandwichesTea - Chicken dippers with oven chips and mini corn on the cobs for the kids. Oven baked risotto for us.TuesdayLunch - Home made quicheTea - Home made macaroni cheese - still one of the few meals that the whole family will all eat!WednesdayLunch - … [Read more...]
Back on the Wagon….
I fell off the meal planning wagon last week and spent a fortune. Without a meal plan, I did our usual weekly shop, had three extra trips to the shops midweek and ended up having two takeaways. How bad is that?I need to get back to being organised as it looks like Mr Frugal's last couple of months doing nights at work is coming to an end. Recently he's been at home all day so he's managed (just) to cope with cooking tea. Now he'll be getting in the same time as me we'll need to be more organised with getting tea ready in advance wherever possible. Also we're going … [Read more...]
This Weeks Meal Plan….
Bit of a strange one this week as we are having a bit of a treat week - we were supposed to be going to London this weekend but have cancelled it so we're having a treat weekend and using some of the money that we set aside for that. We were only going to London to use up some free rail tickets we got but we had trouble getting the tickets so the company have now given us the money instead ;-)TuesdayLunch - SandwichesTea - Pay Day takeaway treat for the grown ups and Maccydee's for the kids. WednesdayLunch - Slimming world quicheTea - Home Made macaroni cheese with bacon … [Read more...]