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Happy Friday! Meal plan is something that I have come to enjoy, and running this linky in particular. I personally love to see what meals people are cooking and get some inspiration from others.I’m running this weekly meal planning linky, that allows other bloggers to share their meal plans too. I hope that this will help people to find lots of inspiration, delicious recipes and maybe read some helpful blog posts about meal planning and money saving.
It doesn’t take me long to meal plan now. Normally I sit down once a week and look at what groceries we have available. Recently I have been planning 4 weeks at a time, to try and have more variety in our meal times. I think about the different meals that we haven’t had recently, or look online for some inspiration. The posts people link up with here are a great souce of inspiration for me too now! I then place my Tesco shop online or visit Aldi, depending on what kind of mood I’m in. In the past, I switched from shopping at Tesco to shopping at Aldi and saved over 30%! I don’t always want to go out in the car and browse the aisles so I find online shopping really convenient. This week we HAVE gone back to Aldi though, and the saving was really worthwhile for us, with the shop costing £51 versus around £72 for similar items at Tesco.
The rules of the Meal Planning Linky
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What I will give you in return for linking up with The Meal Planning Linky
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A link back to my favourite meal plan each week (Follow link)
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How to link up with The Meal Planning Linky Week #68
Once your post is live all you need to do is hit the button that says “Click here to enter”. This takes you to the link-up page where you can add your post.
My favourite meal plan from last week was: Meal Planning Monday from At Home A Lot. Always great to see new people joining in – especially when they bring a dose of honesty with their meal planning!
The Meal Planning Linky Week #68
This week I have planned 7 dinners. I have planned specific dinners for specific days, based around our workload. I have a pre-op appointment in hospital this week as well as a first aid course and lots of other things going on too. I’m trying to ensure that we don’t end up buying an unhealthy or expensive takeaway.
The meals for the Meal Planning Linky Week #68 are:
Salt & pepper chicken with egg fried rice
Slow cooker chicken curry with rice + naan + Bombay potatoes (I’m working on writing up recipes!)
Pizza + chicken night
Slow cooker cottage pie (I’m going to be testing a recipe where I cook the whole thing in the S/C!)
Fish, homemade wedges & beans
Aldi meal kit (I’m going to choose one when in store)
Chicken fajitas
I absolutely love my *triple slow cooker. It helps me batch cook, make a separate meal for Daisy and I can even make side dishes too!
If you’re looking for meal planning inspiration then be sure to read my meal planning tips and my meal planning with mince post. I’ve also got a post about making a roast chicken go further.
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Another lovely meal plan, we are having Fajitas too they are such a good meal. Really fancy a curry now, think for next week x
I love fajitas. So simple and tasty too! Yes – definitely get a nice curry going!
You really do love your slow cooker! I will be very interested to hear if you manage to do the whole lot in there. Bit late with my meal plan this week, but better late than never.
Oh I’m not making all of the meals in the slow cooker, just some! I partly love using it because the morning is when I am at my most motivated/productive and it allows me to get dinner on and then laze around in the afternoon!
I hope your pre-op goes well. Sending love for that…
I really love the idea of your salt and pepper chicken. It’s been on my menu a couple of times but kept getting bumped because I was too depressed to cope with cooking a new dish. One day we WILL have salt and pepper chicken for our dinner!
Tx
Thank so much! Sorry to hear that, hope that this week is a better one for you! x
Sounds delicious! I have just seen your recipe for the hunters chicken so I plan to give that a go soon too!
It is really simple and most of all it is super delicious!
Good luck with the hospital appointment. I hope it goes OK.
All of your meals sound so good. I love the sound of the Slow cooker cottage pie x
Thanks so much! I love anything that can be made in the slow cooker as you know! x
Good luck with your pre op hopefully it all goes well. Salt and Pepper chicken is one of my favourite meals. I feel like you have a very tasty week
Thanks so much – the week has gone a little off plan but not doing too bad!