Archive for the ‘Menu Planning’ Category

Menu Plan Monday - Keeping It Simple

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Image by Roland I am in week three into the 30 Day Challenge now and feeling a little tired. This combined with having visitors staying for Mon and Tue night (family of six) means that I will be keeping things very simple this week to try and make my life ...

Menu Plan Monday - Is It Still Winter????

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Photo: avlxyz It happens every year at about this time. I start to fret that winter will go on forever and that the cold and wet weather is never leaving. I know that in Melbourne with our appallingly low water reserves, it is somewhat ungrateful to complain about rain, ...

Menu Plan Monday - Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables For August

Monday, August 4th, 2008

It is the start of a new month, so time to receive some inspiration for meals by which vegetables and fruit are in season. The following fruits and vegetables listed below are at their best and cheapest this month. These lists are for Australia, but if you live in the UK ...

Menu Plan Monday - A Big Planning Session

Monday, July 28th, 2008

When I sat down to plan the meals for this week, I realised that this week would see the start of August. For me, this year August has particular significance as I am doing the 30 Day Challenge in this month. I won't bore you with ...

Menu Plan Monday - Quick And Simple

Monday, July 21st, 2008

(Photo Source: flickr - jslander) When I planned the menu for the family this week, I had to do son with a different cook in mind. Mr Infrastructure and I are doing something of a role swap this week. The aim of this for me to do some long ...

Menu Plan Monday - Better Late Than Never!

Monday, July 14th, 2008

From Wednesday of last week, we were lucky enough to have two young pilgrims stay with us on their way to World Youth Day in Sydney. They were from Cannon Falls, Minnesota and the whole family immensely enjoyed their stay with us. Meal planning was nowhere to be ...

Menu Plan Monday - Seasonal Vegetables For July And School Holidays Week 2

Monday, July 7th, 2008

It is the start of a new month, so time to receive some inspiration for meals by which vegetables and fruit are in season. The following fruits and vegetables listed below are at their best and cheapest this month. These lists are for Australia, but if you live in the UK ...

Menu Plan Monday - School Holidays Week 1

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

School holidays finally start this Monday which I have been looking forward to.  School holidays tends to make planning the weekly menu easier if anything, as I don't have the after school activities to work around. However I do need  to alter my shopping in general because when the kids are ...

Menu Plan Monday - Unplanned Purchases

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

One of the reasons why I love to menu plan is that it really helps to limit the unplanned purchases that occur at the supermarket, compared to when I go without a planned comprehensive list. There always seem to be items jumping out and calling me to buy them. ...

Menu Plan Monday - Not That Again!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

As you can probably tell by the number of very familiar meals in the menu plan this week, the children chose all of the meals. They normally contribute in some way to what I plan, but I think after my eldest had two meals in a row which ...