It's the second week of the School Holidays and the first week was hard. The weather wasn't great, the teens and tween were grumpy and bickering, and our 3yo discovered his inner threenager. However, we did try and get out of the house each day, even if it was just to the local park or a stomp around the neighbourhood so little dude could splash in puddles.
We had a couple of long walks up to the local Charity Shops for a browse and also into town to the library and Zoological Museum. None of the local Churches have holiday activities on so we're planning a couple more museum trips this week and a trip to the cinema midweek. We're seeking out as many low/no cost holiday activities as we can. There's been crafting, park trips, gardening, baking and cooking, and lots of reading. I'm trying to ration screen time otherwise the older three become phone zombies really quickly, and there's only so much CBeebies I can stand.
Our Meal Plan for last week ensured that we didn't run out of supplies and everyone was well fed, despite the younger two having growth spurts and the teens having hollow legs. This week I'm planning portable lunches so we can take them on outings and save pennies by not buying lunches when out and about. If we walk into town to the museum or library, and take our own food and drink, then the outing is free.
Meal Plan
Breakfasts will be homemade muesli/granola or wholemeal toast with spread, and a piece of fruit for afters. Our weekend ritual of pancakes continues, and I'll probably make crumpets too.
Lunches
Root Vegetable Mini Quiches
Spicy Vegetable Patties
Versatile Vegetable Pasties
Falafels and Yoghurt Dip, Chickpea and Couscous Salad
Weekend lunches will be homemade pizzas, and baked potatoes with baked beans and cheese.
Snacks will be fresh fruit, vegetable sticks with herbed yoghurt dip, scones/sodabread, flatbreads, popcorn, and homemade rice pudding.
Dinners
Macaroni Cheese with mixed vegetables
Chicken and Bacon Stew with Dumplings
Chicken and Vegetable Noodle Bowls
Simple Pilaf with oven baked fish fillets
Vegetable Stew with herbed dumplings
Shopping List
49 items: £72.06
Packets
and Cereals
1x Cypressa Popping Corn (500g) £1.00
1x Silver Spoon Granulated Sugar
(1Kg) 64p
1x ASDA Strong White Bread Flour
(1.5Kg) 69p
1x ASDA Wholemeal Bread Flour
(1.5Kg) 69p
1x ASDA Smartprice Plain White
Flour (1.5Kg) 45p
1x ASDA Smartprice Self Raising
Flour (1.5Kg) 45p
1x Jus Rol Puff Pastry Block
(500g) £1.25
1x ASDA Smartprice Sultanas
(500g) 88p
1x ASDA Smartprice Long Grain
Rice (1Kg) 45p
1x ASDA Egg Noodles Medium (250g) 59p
1x ASDA Cous Cous (500g) 65p
1x ASDA Wholewheat Penne (500g) 45p
2x ASDA Scottish Porridge Oats
(1Kg) £1.98
Frozen
2x ASDA Smartprice Mixed
Vegetables (1Kg) £1.64
1x ASDA Cook from Frozen Chicken
Breast Diced (600g) £2.50
1x ASDA White Fish Fillets (540g) £2.50
Tins,
Jars and Cooking
1x ASDA Smartprice Sweetcorn in
Water (326g) 35p
5x ASDA Chick Peas in Water
(400g) £1.65
2x ASDA Chilli Beans in Chilli
Sauce (390g) £1.30
1x ASDA Haricot Beans in Water
(400g) 50p
Dairy and
Eggs
3x ASDA British Whole Milk 6
Pints (3.41L) £4.44
1x ASDA Free Range Large Eggs
(12) £1.85
3x ASDA Smartprice Low Fat
Natural Yogurt (500g) £1.35
1x ASDA Butter - Unsalted (250g) £1.45
1x ASDA Smartprice Mature White
Cheddar (830g) £3.69
Meat,
Fish and Poultry
1x ASDA Farm Stores Cooking Bacon
(500g) 57p
1 ASDA Farm Stores Whole
Chicken by Weight (1.2Kg) £2.39
Fruit and
Vegetables
25 ASDA Grower's Selection
Bananas by Weight (200g) £3.00
25 ASDA Grower's Selection Royal
Gala Apples £4.56
3 ASDA Grower's Selection Leeks
by Weight (315g) £1.65
1 ASDA Grower's Selection
Butternut Squash (1.3Kg) 97.3p
3x ASDA Grower's Selection Whole
Cucumber £1.65
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Celery 55p
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Garlic
(3) 60p
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Spring
Onions 55p
2x ASDA Grower's Selection Sweet
Potatoes (1Kg) £2.40
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Ginger
(125g) 50p
1x ASDA Grower's Selection
Oranges Extra Juicy (2Kg) £2.00
2x ASDA Grower's Selection Pears
(1.2Kg) £4.00
3x ASDA Grower's Selection Plums
(750g) £3.00
2x ASDA Grower's Selection Swede £1.00
22 ASDA Grower's Selection Loose
Carrot by Weight (135g) £1.70
5 ASDA Grower's Selection
Parsnips by Weight (Approx 200g) £1.15
1x ASDA Farm Stores Brown Onions
(1Kg) 59p
1x ASDA Farm Stores White
Potatoes (2.5Kg) £1.25
1x ASDA Farm Stores Round Lettuce 45p
1x ASDA Grower's Selection Cherry
Tomatoes (325g) 75p
2x ASDA Farm Stores Mixed Peppers
(3) £1.98
Snacks and
Sweets
1x ASDA Fruit Mix (200g) £1.00
1x ASDA Smartprice Tortilla Chips
- Lightly Salted (180g) 41p
We purchased our groceries from Asda online via My Supermarket on 08/04/2018, had we shopped elsewhere our items would've cost:
£81.70 from Lidl
£82.61 from Sainsbury's
£83.69 from Morrisons
£96.55 from Waitrose
£112.45 from Tesco
My lovely blogging buddy Ciara from My Fussy Eater has created a fab Meal Planning Facebook Group so we can inspire each other. She also has a book coming out in April which you can pre-order here.
And Katykicker, and Naomi from The Organised Life Project have a Meal Planning Linky full of fabulous Meal Planning posts with lots of tasty ideas.
Those mini quiches look amazing! Thanks for linking up!
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