Last week we tried out two great new recipes Roast Chicken and Vegetables and Picklebum’s Easy Beef and Veggie Triangles.
Both were easy to make, incredibly tasty and most importantly very popular with all four children! I find looking at other family weekly menu plans great inspiration for new meals for the family.
You might not notice that with what has been chosen this week though! It is all very basic and child friendly food this week, still inspired from what vegetables are in season.
Monday: Fried Rice (Recipe Attached)
Baking: White Chocolate Chip Muffins (Recipe Attached)
Tuesday: Zucchini Slice
Wednesday: Sausage and Vegetables
Thursday: Spaghetti Bolognaise
Friday: Choose your own meal (Selecting from what is still lurking in the fridge.)
Saturday: Pumpkin Soup (Made and frozen last week as we ended up going out to dinner with visiting family.)
Sunday: Beef Chutney Casserole
I have included the shopping list for this week’s menu plan as an excel file. The below paragraphs explain what is in the attached excel file below.
Menu Planning Shopping List 080414
SPREADSHEET EXPLANATION:
It contains three separate spreadsheets. The first is named “Complete Grocery’ and it lists by supermarket aisle all the ingredients that are needed to cook the family meals for this week.
The second spreadsheet is named “Ingredient By Meal’ and it lists the ingredients that are required for the family by each individual meal this week. I have also left on the aisle and aisle subsection in this spreadsheet for reference.
The third spreadsheet is named “Menu Plan” and is a modified version of the menu plan that I print and place on the fridge. I have a notes section, that I like to populate with any activities that are likely to impact the evening meal routine.
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Looks like a great plan. I’m going to try those triangles (but using TVP).
Libby
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By Libby on 04.14.08 8:07 am | Permalink
Great weekly plan. All “normal” food that the kids would love to eat - just what I need
I’m going to try these for sure.
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By Leanne on 04.14.08 3:38 pm | Permalink
Ooooh, I love all the spreadsheets - so cool and very organised
Your beef chutney casserole sounds SOOOO good esp after I read your ingredients - please can you send me the recipe. Pretty please
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By Organising Queen on 04.14.08 10:19 pm | Permalink
Oooh, I like the spreadsheet idea.
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By Loukie on 04.15.08 1:40 am | Permalink
Great menu- I love that you have the downloadable spread sheets, great idea!
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By The Happy Housewife on 04.17.08 7:46 am | Permalink
I love zucchini slice. We had our old favourite the other day, real comfort food, especially with sauce. It comes from the giant Ellen Sinclair book.
By Linda on 04.23.08 4:09 pm | Permalink
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