OUR FAMILY MEAL PLAN FOR WEEK OF 15/10/18 - £68

We've a busy week this week, with a birthday on Monday and a couple of evening activities.  This means we'll need lots of easy meals, as we're all knackered leading up to Half Term.  I've once again decided to use tasty recipes I found on the Internet for our Meal Plan.  We're really enjoying looking for new recipes to try.  I'm sure I'll blog more family dinners for our Meal Plans soon, but in the meantime it's great to be able to try out recipes from elsewhere. 

Breakfasts will be porridge, it's finally going to be cold enough for it after an unseasonably warm spell of weather.  I've made a couple of batches of Healthy Berry Breakfast Muffins for particularly busy mornings.  Weekend breakfasts will be pancakes and bacon butties.

Packed lunches will be Wholemeal Savoury Swirls, accompanied by crudites, a piece of fruit and a baked treat.  Weekend lunches will be Veggie Bread Parcels and Mini Fritattas 

Dinners

Baked Not Fried Chicken with oven baked potato wedges and steamed vegetables (Birthday dinner)

Banana Peel Dhal a delicious way to use up our banana peels

Tasty Tuna Rice Croquettes with sweet potato wedges and steamed greens

One Pot Chorizo and Pepper Pasta

Traditional Boil Up using free bones from our local butcher

Cowboy Beans and Potato Bake

Cauliflower and Potato Bake with Spinach

Shopping List

42 items: £67.95

Packets and Cereals

1x   ASDA Wholewheat Spaghetti (500g)                                  45p

1x   Silver Spoon Granulated Sugar (1Kg)                                 65p

1x   Allinson Wholemeal Plain Flour (1Kg)                                 £1.00

1x   ASDA Smartprice Long Grain Rice (1Kg)                           45p

1x   ASDA Dried Red Lentils (500g)                                           £1.15

1x   Tropical Sun Popcorn (500g)                                              79p

2x   ASDA Scottish Porridge Oats (1Kg)                                    £1.78

Frozen

3x   ASDA Frozen for Freshness Mixed Vegetables (1Kg)        £2.85

1x   ASDA Scratch Cook Whole Leaf Spinach (1.3Kg)              £1.69

2x   ASDA Frozen for Freshness Berry Medley (1Kg)               £5.50

Tins, Jars and Cooking

3x   ASDA Smartprice Chopped Tomatoes in Tomato Juice (400g)    84p

1x   ASDA Smartprice Red Kidney Beans in Water (400g)        30p

1x   ASDA Sunflower Oil (1L)                                                     £1.09

1x   ASDA Pure Honey (454g)                                                   £1.25

1x   ASDA Double Concentrated Tomato Puree (200g)            37p

1x   Princes Sandwich Tuna in Spring Water (3x160g)              £2.50

1x   ASDA Cannellini Beans in Water (400g)                             42p

Dairy and Eggs

3x   ASDA British Whole Milk 6 Pints (3.41L)                             £4.44

1x   ASDA Best for Baking Cakes Spread (500g)                      81p

1x   ASDA Smartprice Low Fat Natural Yogurt (500g)               45p

1x   ASDA Free Range Mixed Weight Eggs (15)                       £2.00

1x   ASDA Smartprice Mature White Cheddar (830g)                £3.68

Fruit and Vegetables

1x   ASDA Grower's Selection British Spring Greens (500g)     62p

2x   ASDA Grower's Selection Salad Tomatoes (750g)             £2.30

20   ASDA Grower's Selection Bananas by Weight (200g)        £3.00

1x   ASDA Grower's Selection Carrots (1Kg)                             65p

1x   ASDA Grower's Selection Cauliflower Loose                      £1.00

1     ASDA Grower's Selection Butternut Squash by Weight (1.3Kg)   97.3p

4x   ASDA Grower's Selection Whole Cucumber                       £2.20

1x   ASDA Grower's Selection Sweet Potatoes (1Kg)                £1.00

2x   ASDA Grower's Selection Satsumas (600g)                       £2.00

2x   ASDA Grower's Selection Apples (1.2Kg)                           £3.30

4x   ASDA Farm Stores Pears (500g)                                        £2.36

2x   ASDA Grower's Selection Plums (750g)                             £2.98

1x   ASDA Farm Stores Lemons (4)                                           84p

1x   ASDA Farm Stores Brown Onions (1Kg)                            65p

1x   ASDA Farm Stores White Potatoes (2.5Kg)                        £1.30

1x   ASDA Grower's Selection Cooking Peppers (700g)            £1.45

Meat, Fish and Poultry

1x   ASDA Farm Stores Cooking Bacon (500g)                         57p

1x   ASDA Extra Special Chorizo Casero Sausage (225g)        £1.85

1x   ASDA Butcher's Selection Chicken Thighs (1.1Kg)            £2.20

1x   ASDA Extra Special Pork Sausages (6 per pack - 400g)    £2.25

We purchased our shopping online from Asda, via My Supermarket and the cost of our groceries was £67.95. Had we shopped elsewhere our shopping list would've cost:

£71.68 from Tesco

£80.71 from Sainsburys

£91.53 from Waitrose

£95.41 from Ocado

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 out which you can order here. 

And Katykicker has a Meal Planning Linky full of fabulous Meal Planning posts with lots of tasty ideas.

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