Menu Planning

Each week I post our family’s menu plans with links to recipes on the blog. Also you will find tips on how to create your menu plans quickly and easily.

Greek Meatballs

January 22, 2012

For Christmas 2011, I put together a Greek inspired menu plan. This involved cooking a number of new recipes, including these delicious Greek meatballs. Over the next few weeks I will share more of the recipes that we cooked. I was very lucky to have one of my younger sister’s staying with me and she [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Easy Chicken Schnitzel (Oven Baked)

December 5, 2011

Props to my dear friend Lou for this recipe. I have posted this chicken schnitzel recipe before and while the kids prefer that one, the oven baked chicken schnitzel is still very tasty, but much easier and quicker to prepare. This recipe could easily form part of starters for Christmas day. Just cut the chicken [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Menu Planner App and Print Friendly Posts

November 28, 2011

No recipe post this week because I have lots of exciting news on menu planning and recipe posts in general. Planning With Kids Menu Planner App I shared this photo on the Planning With Kids facebook page last week and was thrilled at the response. I have teamed up with the clever techno folks at [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Quesadilla Recipe (vegetarian)

November 20, 2011

You know when you eat some delicious food when you are overseas and upon return you crave to have it again? Well that was the story of me and the Quesadilla! Within a week of returning from Los Angeles, I had found this website with great recipes and had made a special trip to the [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Christmas Menu Ideas

November 19, 2011

This post is part of my 10 week Christmas Preparation Plan for 2011. We are having Christmas at our house this year with a mix of extended families! I am really looking forward to it as my baby sister will have had her baby by then and there will be a tiny one around for [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Slow Cooker Butter Chicken

October 24, 2011

This was the first time I had made Butter Chicken in the slow cooker. We had Mr I’s nana over for dinner and I thought I would do something different to what she would usually have for dinner. Nana is 99, still lives on her own and is one of the loveliest and most inspiring [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Ninjabread Men

October 16, 2011

My kids love these Ninjabread Men. But the don’t like the gingerbread flavoured biscuit so I use my basic cookie cutter recipe to make them. I received these very cute cookie cutters from my lovely friend Lou, but if you like them and want some you can get them on ebay for about $15. I [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Sang Choy Bow

October 9, 2011

This recipe comes from a book by Susan Austin called Frost Bite: Easy Cooking for Your Freezer. Susan sent me a sample chapter and from looking at this and checking out Susan’s Frostbite blog it has completely changed my view on freezer cooking. I thought the only things you froze were casseroles and the like! [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Beef and Vegetable Pasties, Roast Chicken and Weekly Menu Plan To Download

October 3, 2011

This post is sponsored by Nuffnang. A couple of weeks ago I tried two new recipes by using the cooking videos with Curtis Stone on the Coles Recipes & Cooking site. I have now tried another couple with fabulous success – the family devoured both meals with no complaints! I have a number of requests [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Frozen Banana Ice Creams

September 25, 2011

It was quite hard to photograph these frozen banana ice creams. I did take a couple of shots of the kids eating them, but they just looked really wrong! Lucky they are super easy to make and taste delicious. Frozen banana really does have this ice creamy taste to it. The first time I made [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Lasagne Recipe – Super Basic and Easy To Cook!

September 20, 2011

This lasagne recipe could possibly win the prize for the most basic lasagne recipe ever! But it is pretty easy to cook and my kids love it, so it is a stayer in our house. The sauce is best when it has simmered for at least 15 minutes, but can be layered straight away on [...]

Print Friendly
Continue Reading →

Pink Snowballs Recipe

September 12, 2011

This Snowballs recipe is very different from the Chocolate Snowballs recipe I posted a few months ago. This is a now bake recipe and is more suitable as a lunch box treat. It is sort of a combination of chocolate balls and rice bubble slice! Pink Snowballs Recipe Ingredients: 100g marshmallows (which is about 1 [...]

Related Posts with Thumbnails
Print Friendly
Continue Reading →