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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas June 2022

Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for June 2022

Below I have listed some weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for June. For most of this year I have been menu planning from week to week. This started due to …

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Christmas menu planning ideas 2021

This post is part of the 2021 Christmas Planning series on the blog. You can find other posts in the series here including gift idea lists and planning checklists. Do you have your …

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Menu planning ideas and lunch box recipes for winter 2021

Simple plans full of favourites the kids love are what I have created for the remaining weeks of winter. Here’s hoping we spend much less of this winter in lockdown than we …

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Menu planning ideas and lunch box recipes for June 2021

As I have documented hundreds of menu plans on the blog, I can go back to a similar time of year and copy weekly menu plans and easily build a monthly plan …

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Menu planning ideas and lunch box recipes for March 2021

This is my first monthly menu planning ideas post for 2021. COVID-19 changed lots of things for us in 2020 and as I wrote about back in March last year, when you …

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Christmas menu planning now allows you to spread out the workload, delegate sections of the meal and have everything you need on hand to make the Christmas meal just as you want it.

Christmas menu plan ideas 2020

This post is part of my 2020 Christmas series. Click here to find other posts in the series. It has been a few years since I have collated some Christmas menu plan …

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My family meal prep sessions – ideas to help make daily life easier

Each Sunday I share the family meal prep I have completed on the weekend to the Planning With Kids Facebook Page. Some lovely readers join in and share what they have been …

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Menu planning in times of (perceived) scarcity COVID-19

My standard menu planning process is to do it as a batched task. I will menu plan for a month then shop weekly for key ingredients and do top-up shops as needed …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for November 2019

Some delicious fruit and veg coming into season at the moment! Melons are already flavour of the month for us! November Seasonal Fruit And Vegetables Fruits:banana, berries – strawberry, cherry, grapefruit, loquat, …

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Tips for meal prepping veggies

Meal prep is one simple task you can do that has a huge impact on family life through out the week. Each weekend during the school terms I share my weekly meal …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for September 2019

I have already mentioned it at least once before, but menu planning has been such a massive help since I have been doing some contract work outside of the home.  If you …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for August 2019

I was super happy to write up this plan for August – it is the last month of winter! Man I cannot wait for winter to end this year. In tweaking our …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for July 2019

We are already one week down on this plan, but it is always so helpful to have them documented here on the blog. By having them documented I can easily re-use a …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for June 2019

Are you still yet to menu plan? If you haven’t given menu planning a try, I highly recommend giving it a go. I am doing some contract work at the moment which …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for May 2019

The kids chose a very repetitive selection of meals this month. Ideally I would like more variety in the menu plans, but when I pointed out to the kids that there were …

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Easy recipes to make in bulk and help with meal prep

Easy recipes to make in bulk and help with meal prep

My favourite trick for making meal prep easier and less work is to cook favourite recipes in bulk. You can either freeze the extra and use it in another week or use …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for Mar 2019

Melbourne cannot seem to decide if it wants to get cooler or stay hot at the moment, so our menu plan reflects that with a mix of meals for both types of …

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Weekly food prep and menu plan ideas for Feb 2019

Back to school and back to menu planning for the month again! A bonus from having menu planned for so long and having being able to use my app for many years …

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