My Back to Basics plan is going quite well.
True I have spent a bit more than I meant to already this month, and on things that I really didn't need. But just having the plan on the back of my mind is making me do so much better.
It's oh so easy to let things slide isn't it, you start by not always writing shopping lists or menu plans, and maybe eating slightly too much because you have cooked too much, and then not saving the leftovers for the start of another meal. So I have been thinking a bit more about things this week,
and using my purposeful leftovers. The remaining two portions of baked beans after
this breakfast the other day were incorporated into lunches.
The top photo simply adding two hash browns from the freezer to the plate.
Then a nice baked potato with the final pot of beans and a sprinkle of cheese.
While I have been a bit remiss about making out shopping lists, well I only needed two items so I decided not to write them down, even if I did come away with a couple more ... I have been good about following the menu plan.
As you can see from this photo taken at the end of last week, I ate all bar two days meals directly off the menu plan.
So they were added straight to the top of the next menu plan.
The burger was delicious, with added onion, homegrown tomatoes and cheese.
And the 'Wrap Pizza' was delicious and very satisfying. It made good use of a small tub of pasta sauce and half of a small tub of Mediterranean vegetables from the freezer
I switched around the fish fillets and new potatoes instead of the pie, that was destined for last night as it was just far too hot for pie and gravy, but apart from that I have been just as good at following my plan this past week.
Will I make the soup tomorrow ... perhaps not for the same reason, but the beauty of a menu plan is that it gives you ideas when you just cannot think straight at the end of a long and perhaps busy day. It doesn't have to be written in stone and rigidly adhered to, and sometimes it can simply be beans on toast again. 😁
Sue xx
I hate waste, especially food waste. It was drummed into me as a child. Your meals look really appetizing!
ReplyDeleteWhenever i see the words, Mediterranean vegetables I always think of my daughter. She was around 8 years old and couldn't say it. She always used to say Vegeteranian Medicals. We still call them that. She's now 40 ! 😂