Last Updated on October 9, 2017 by HodgePodgeDays
When my self-employed husband came home on Friday and announced he wouldn’t be able to pay himself for the next few weeks, I had horrible flashbacks of the time we didn’t have enough food or money to feed our son. But this time I was prepared.
I think we can ride out the next few weeks on the food I’ve been stockpiling in the freezer and pantry, yes we’ll need a few fresh items, but a few frugal weeks won’t do us any harm at all. We always meal plan, but this week I needed to be super organised. Challenge accepted.
What’s on our Meal Planning Monday Menu?
Monday – Homemade chorizo burgers, veg and couscous. I mixed up a mega-batch of these a few weeks ago and tucked some in the freezer for a rainy day, the couscous lives in the pantry. Sorted.
Tuesday – Pasta with homemade cheesy courgette sauce. Pantry and freezer to the rescue again.
Wednesday – Homemade pea and paneer curry with rice, just need to buy the paneer. Highlight of my week!
Thursday – Daddy’s homemade pizza and potato wedges. Yum.
Friday – Valentines Day tea, spaghetti vongole but without the vongole.
Saturday – Fajitias. Kit from the cupboard, quorn burgers sliced up with some veg, simple, tasty and fun.
Sunday – Whoopsie fishcakes, homemade potato wedges & peas.
We’ll manage, we always do. Just need to persuade the little lad that lentils can be fun. Wish me luck!
Sounds like a lovely meal plan x
Thank you, the boys seem to be enjoying it so far 🙂
Some nice food in that mix, can I come to your house?
Of course you can, just bring the wine 🙂
what are whoopsie fishcakes the name makes me smile not heard of them before some lovely bits on your meal plan this week xx
Ha! Whoopsie fishcakes are just vastly reduced price fishcakes from the supermarket, the ones with the yellow sticker 🙂
Sorry to hear things are not too good at the moment!!
Everything sounds delicious!
Thanks, I try to make the best of what we’ve got 🙂
So much of this happening at the moment. I feel for you,I just lie about what foods are or give them a foreign back story to get unfamiliar food the boys 🙂
That’s such a good idea! I’ll try that, thank you 🙂