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Meal Planning Monday

30 Apr

This weeks meal plan is going to be a bit different.  As part of my Thinking Slimmer journey, I am going to be setting myself weekly goals.  I had a lovely chat with Sandra from Thinking Slimmer last week and smaller achievable goals will help me with my weight loss and keep me motivated.  So from now on I will be adding these to my Meal Planning posts when I do them.

Meal planning really helps because it makes me eat properly.  With my husband working late it is easy to just grab something quickly once the kids have gone to bed, and it is not usually something healthy.  So the meal plans really do help to keep me focussed on more sensible eating.

Here is my meal plan for this week -

Monday – Quiche and salad for me and the kids had a Little Dish Meal as I picked them up so late and my stash of emergency meals has all been eaten from the freezer!

Tuesday – Toad in the hole with roasted new potatoes and vegetables

Wednesday – Pasta with a fresh homemade tomato and basil sauce

Thursday – Shepherd’s pie for the kids, jacket potato and salad for me

Friday - Home made pizza

My Thinking Slimmer weight loss goals for this week are -

To loose 2lb in weight

To go to the gym 3 times this week (have been once already! YAY!)

To register to run the Race for Life (eeeeekkkkkkk!!)

So there it is, one meal plan and my weekly goals all in one post! Now it will be published on the blog I will be extra motivated to achieve it!

Don’t forget if you have a meal plan to head over to Mrs M’s and link it up, and if you don’t have a meal plan, then head over there anyway and get some fabulous inspiration!

Meal Planning Monday

9 Apr

Well that is Easter over for another year, it comes and goes so fast!! We have had a great weekend, lovely having time at home with the kids. Way to much wine and chocolate consumed which always makes for a fun weekend in my opinion!!

Now time to get back to some sort of  reality….I did my shop before my meal plan this week and it has not worked out well.  I spent way to much money and have had to try to fit my meal plan in with what I have already got rather than the other way around.  Not a good way to do things!

So here goes my meal plan for this week!

Monday - Cooked breakfast!! A rare treat in this house, my Husband usually works bank holidays but is off today so we have made the most of a lazy morning, a lovely lie in (kids did not wake until 8.30am, second day in a row, very lush in comparison to our usual 6.30am start!).  So we started the morning with a yummy cooked breakfast! Got some yummy cheese and biscuits for tea which makes today a very lazy day!! Love it!

Tuesday - I never got round to it last week as I went out for dinner with a friend one evening and re arranged my meal plan accordingly so it is  back on the list for tomorrow and I can’t wait to test it out!! Vegetable Filo Tart with Feta Cheese and salad from the lovely Utterly Scrummy!

Wednesday - Vegetable pasta bake

Thursday - Chicken breasts with new potatoes and vegetables

Friday - Fish Pie

Why not pop over to Mrs M’s and check out the other entries this week for Meal Planning Monday.