Another month swings around! The last month before winter for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere 🙁 . Two of the five kids will take a thermos to school with left overs, soup etc which lunch boxes easier in the colder months – I wish they all would!
Below I have included some tried and tested recipes that have been winners with my kids and kids of readers of this blog, as a little inspiration for lunch boxes, then shared our family menu plans for May.
Both menu planning and weekly food prep sessions make life so much easier for parents, especially if you are working. You don’t have to spend too much time on it, but the time you do spend is easily made back for you through out the week and life is less stressful. You can see how I go about it in this post here – My weekly food prep process.
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Our weekly menu plans for May
We have lots of fun things coming up in May, so menu planning for this month is as basic as it gets! If you look at the plans, you will notice I have the same weekly plan twice and I have used plans from previous months that are also super basic.
This allowed me to get menu planning for the month completed in record time and I have chosen plans that are full of recipes that I know off by heart and that the kids love. I want to be able to enjoy what is coming up, so have made sure that feeding the family is as easy as possible for me over the next few weeks.
In a recent newsletter I also shared some tips for how I make feeding the family as easy as I can. You can read it here – Tips for making feeding the family easier.
Here are our incredibly simple menu plans for May.
Day | Week Commencing 8th May |
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|---|---|---|
| Mon |  | Chicken, cashew and ginger stir fry |
| Tue |  | Sweet chilli chicken Homemade Tacos |
| Wed |  | Zucchini and Spaghetti Bolognese |
| Thu |  | Fried rice |
| Fri |  | Pumpkin soup |
| Sat |  | Sweet chilli chicken wraps |
| Sun |  | Easy Roast Chicken With Stuffing |
| Shopping List | Weekly menu plan shopping list 170424 | |
Day | Week Commencing 15th May |
|
|---|---|---|
| Mon |   | Rice cooker Mexican rice Slow cooker chicken tacos |
| Tue |   | Slow cooker butter chicken Green veggies |
| Wed |   | Shepherd's pie Sautéed baby spinach |
| Thu |  | Chicken lasagne |
| Fri |  | Dukkah crusted salmon with crunchy potatoes and garlic spinach |
| Sat |  | Chicken schnitzel and vegetables |
| Sun | Out | Out |
| Shopping List | Weekly menu plan shopping list 170320 | |
Day | Week Commencing 8th May |
|
|---|---|---|
| Mon | | Chicken, cashew and ginger stir fry |
| Tue | | Sweet chilli chicken Homemade Tacos |
| Wed | | Zucchini and Spaghetti Bolognese |
| Thu | | Fried rice |
| Fri | | Pumpkin soup |
| Sat | | Sweet chilli chicken wraps |
| Sun | | Easy Roast Chicken With Stuffing |
| Shopping List | Weekly menu plan shopping list 170424 | |
Day | Week Commencing 29th May |
|
|---|---|---|
| Mon | | Chicken schnitzel and vegetables |
| Tue | | Chicken, cashew and ginger stir fry |
| Wed |   | Slow cooker balsamic beef with pumpkin salad Roast pumpkin salad |
| Thu |  | Lamb chops and vegetables |
| Fri |  | Chicken sticks and salad |
| Sat |  | Slow cooker spaghetti bolognese Green veggies |
| Sun | | Tacos |
| Shopping List | weekly-menu-plan-shopping-list-161205 | |
More family friendly recipes
If you are looking for further recipe inspiration, check out my complete list of Family Friendly Recipes. You might like to also check out Planning With Kids Menu Planning App.
The kid friendly menu planning app allows you to:
- Create weekly menu plans quickly, choosing as many meals per day as you would like to plan for.
- Generate the shopping list for all the meals selected.
- Modify the shopping list to check off items you already have at home.
- Email the shopping list to yourself and/or others.
The most popular recipes from the blog have been included and more will be added on a regular basis. Each recipe lists the ingredients required, easy to follow instructions and a photo from the blog.