We eat mostly home cooked. I enjoy making pastry, cakes, sauces and the like from scratch. (That's not to say we don't sometimes go out or have a takeaway, but the majority of the time we eat at home). I tend to plan a months worth of meals at a time, which I don't always stick to rigidly, but helps me most nights, knowing we always have food for a meal.
A good week might be along the lines of:
Sunday- roast chicken, roast potatoes, vegetables, stuffing and gravy.
Monday- jacket potatoes, beans and cheese and any leftover chicken, plus an omlette and salad.
Tuesday- pesto pasta, with peppers, onions, mushrooms (sometimes a chopped up chicken breast- whatever we have in!)
Wednesday- toad in the hole, potatoes (mash or roast) and veggies.
Thursday- mince meal (spag Bol, shepherds pie, Mexican)
Friday- homemade pizza or soup and baguettes (everyone has a school dinner)
Saturday- pasta for the kids, we eat later.
A bad week is more like:
Roast dinner on Sunday ....... forgot to turn the oven on, so ends up sausages from the freezer with vegetables.
Monday: stick yesterday's chicken that didn't get cooked in the oven before the school run, jacket potatoes in before swimming, listen to everybody moan that they don't want jacket potatoes AGAIN. Honestly, the way some Monday's go, they should just be grateful they're fed....
Tuesday...already loosing the will to live (hey, I said it was a bad week!) pasta with cheese and beans for the kids, give them some fruit for pudding to make up for the lack of veg with dinner.
Wednesday- totally lost the will....whatever is in the freezer. Sometimes this means one child has fish fingers, whilst another has a veggie burger, or some leftover mince something or other (I'm not always great at labelling, so sometimes I just have to wait until it defrosts before I figure out whether it's mexican, spaghetti bolognaise....etc etc)
Thursday- some form of pasta with a jar, yes, I know they already had pasta on Tuesday...fortunately not every week is a bad week...
Friday- frozen pizza, or french bread pizza, or some other high carb dinner.
Saturday- toss up between a third pasta dish or a visit to the local chip shop....
Fortunately not every week is a bad week! Sometimes the week is a combination of the above, some good, some bad. We try to always get some fruit or bpvegan at every meal, so even if the meal is a quick and easy one, there is something healthy served with it. Of course, the ideal is a perfectly balanced meal every day, and that's what we aim for, but we are a normal, busy family, and sometimes we just have to do the best we can for our own survival.
Roast dinner on Sunday ....... forgot to turn the oven on, so ends up sausages from the freezer with vegetables.
Monday: stick yesterday's chicken that didn't get cooked in the oven before the school run, jacket potatoes in before swimming, listen to everybody moan that they don't want jacket potatoes AGAIN. Honestly, the way some Monday's go, they should just be grateful they're fed....
Tuesday...already loosing the will to live (hey, I said it was a bad week!) pasta with cheese and beans for the kids, give them some fruit for pudding to make up for the lack of veg with dinner.
Wednesday- totally lost the will....whatever is in the freezer. Sometimes this means one child has fish fingers, whilst another has a veggie burger, or some leftover mince something or other (I'm not always great at labelling, so sometimes I just have to wait until it defrosts before I figure out whether it's mexican, spaghetti bolognaise....etc etc)
Thursday- some form of pasta with a jar, yes, I know they already had pasta on Tuesday...fortunately not every week is a bad week...
Friday- frozen pizza, or french bread pizza, or some other high carb dinner.
Saturday- toss up between a third pasta dish or a visit to the local chip shop....
Fortunately not every week is a bad week! Sometimes the week is a combination of the above, some good, some bad. We try to always get some fruit or bpvegan at every meal, so even if the meal is a quick and easy one, there is something healthy served with it. Of course, the ideal is a perfectly balanced meal every day, and that's what we aim for, but we are a normal, busy family, and sometimes we just have to do the best we can for our own survival.
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