Menu - Week 27/2/12

Well here I am -  late again!  Seems to be the story of my life lately.  I get things part done (the writing and shopping for the menu) but don't get them finished (the blogging). For March my resolution is - Be Better Organised!!.  I can't do year long resolutions because I get bored and slack and I forget  - so I find it better to have a monthly goal which hopefully will turn into a habit!

Our household goal this month is to get a worm farm to reduce our contribution to waste.  We don't have much food wastage but peelings and the odd bit of leftover rice etc make me feel guilty when I put them in the bin so a worm farm will help there.  Also it will provide fertiliser for the herbs for free.  I used some of our sage with last sunday night's roast.  Very yummy!!

This weeks menu:

Monday:
Breakfast - toast and fruit
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - pork (leftovers) and veg stir fry with soy rice (cooked by Claudia)
Dessert - yoghurt

Tuesday:
Breakfast - cereal and fruit
Lunch - sauteed mushrooms and garlic on seeded toasted roll
Dinner - pepper and lime chicken with vegetable stir fry
Dessert - easy apple pie

Wednesday:
Breakfast - banana bread
Lunch - cream of vegetable soup and a crusty roll
Dinner - pork chops and vegetables
Dessert - apple pie (leftovers)

Thursday:
Breakfast - boiled eggs and toast
Lunch - toasted cheese and tomato roll
Dinner - sausages, chips and salad
Dessert - yoghurt

Friday:
Breakfast - waffles and maple syrup
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - sweet chilli pork balls, rice and broccoli
Dessert - choc chip cookies

Saturday:
Breakfast - out
Lunch - out
Dinner - home made pizza and salad
Dessert - icecream

Sunday:
Breakfast - croissants and jam
Lunch - bacon and cheese rolls with salad
Dinner - home made tacos
Dessert - fruit salad

This week's household spend was $20 fruit and veg (co-op) and $90 for the rest of the household supermarket expenses.  Have had to buy more milk though so that was another $3.  Am starting to run out of a few dry goods basics so will have to do a bigger shop this coming week.  Hope your household budget is going well.

Eat well, Live well!
Cheers
Susie

Menu - Week 20/2/12

More timely this week because I have started the week in a more organised frame of mind!  Some weeks are just train wrecks but this week is starting well.  The $20 box of fruit and veg is still coming and I have some lovely variegated eggplant and red banana chillis to use up before tomorrow so I am going to be a bit creative with tonight's vegetable offering!  The banana chillis I am going to put into a soup that I will have for lunch tomorrow and thursday.  My daughter is back at school so she usually has a meat and salad roll and a fruit salad as her meal at school and when my son is working he takes a salad and a fruit salad.

Monday:
Breakfast - Cereal and fruit
Lunch -      sandwich
Dinner -     roast chicken and vegetables
Dessert -   golden syrup dumplings

Tuesday:
Breakfast - pancakes
Lunch -      vegetable soup
Dinner -     chicken ceaser salad
Dessert -    none

Wednesday:
Breakfast - Toast and yoghurt
Lunch -       everybody out
Dinner -      sausages on the bbq, chips and salad
Dessert -     fruit salad

Thursday:
Breakfast - cereal and fruit
Lunch -      vegetable soup
Dinner -     steak on the bbq, potato salad, carrot salad, tomato salsa
Dessert -   none

Friday:
Breakfast - banana bread
Lunch -      cheesy jaffle
Dinner -     morroccan drumsticks with tumeric and almond rice and middle eastern vegetables
Dessert -    watermelon

Saturday:
Breakfast - banana bread
Lunch -      sushi
Dinner -     lamb korma, saffron rice, dhal and pappadums
Dessert -   yoghurt

Sunday:
Breakfast - croissants
Lunch -       hot dogs
Dinner -      roast pork and vegetables
Dessert -    none


I have started growing my own herbs and if I can keep the possums from eating them I should be able to start harvesting in a few weeks.  I love fresh herbs in cooking - chives in scrambled eggs, mint in greek yoghurt, sage with pork - ooooh my mouth is watering!!

Eat well, Live well!
Cheers
Susie

Menu - Week 13/2/12

Better late than never I say!!

Monday:
Breakfast - Toast and fruit
Lunch -       Sandwiches
Dinner -      Soy/sweet chilli pork balls and rice
Dessert -     Fruit

Tuesday:
Breakfast -  Toast and yoghurt
Lunch -        Everybody out
Dinner -       Home made burgers
Dessert -      Icecream

Wednesday:
Breakfast -   Toast and fruit
Lunch -         Left over vietnamese noodles
Dinner -        Pasta with bacon and peas
Dessert -       none

Thursday:
Breakfast -    Boiled eggs and toast soldiers
Lunch -         Tuna salad sandwich
Dinner -         Cheesy scrambled eggs
Dessert -       none

Friday ;
Breakfast -   Cereal and fruit
Lunch -         everybody out
Dinner -        Honey/soy chicken wings and rice
Dessert -       chocolate

Saturday:
Breakfast -    Blueberry muffins
Lunch -         Garlic bread
Dinner -        Turkish lamb pizzas
Dessert -       fruit yoghurt

Sunday :
Breakfast -    cereal and fruit
Lunch -         leftovers
Dinner -        Chicken schnitzel, chips and salad
Dessert -      none


Eat well, Live well!
Cheers
Susie

Menu - Week 6/2/12

I am on time with this weeks menu!!! Sky don't fall in ......please.

Monday:
Breakfast- rockmelon and yoghurt
Lunch - pork rolls and fruit salad
Dinner - roast lamb and vegetables
Dessert - icecream

Tuesday:
Breakfast- cereal and toast
Lunch - lamb salad
Dinner- chicken schnitzel and steam vegetables
Dessert - mango yoghurt

Wednesday:
Breakfast - french toast
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - spaghetti bolognese and salad
Dessert - poached peaches

Thursday:
Breakfast - cereal and fruit
Lunch - cheese sandwiches
Dinner - Homemade burgers
Dessert - pineapple

Friday:
Breakfast - cereal and fruit
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - honey soy and sweet chilli chicken wings with rice
Dessert - icecreams from the shop (special treat!)

Saturday:
Everybody out til dinner
Dinner - home made pizzas
Dessert - yoghurt and fruit

Sunday:
Breakfast - croissants
Lunch - jaffles
Dinner - roast pork and vegetables
Dessert - fruit pastries (homemade)

Hope you all have a good week and your kids eat their veges!  Now mine are teenagers they eat practically anything but the younger years were a bit boring as far as what veges they would eat.  Carrots have remained a firm favourite as has broccoli.

Eat well, Live well!
Cheers
Susie

Menu: Week - 31/1/12

Sorry this is a week late - Back to School loomed large last week and everything got pushed to the backburner!

Monday:
Breakfast - cereal and fruit
Lunch - rolls
Dinner - teriyaki chicken wings and rice
Dessert - chocolates

Tuesday:
Breakfast - cereal and toast
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - chicken and vegetable stirfry
Dessert - mango yoghurt

Wednesday:
Breakfast - Toast
Lunch - salad
Dinner - turkish lamb pizzas with lemon and yoghurt
Dessert - fruit salad

Thursday:
Breakfast - rolls
Lunch - sandwiches
Dinner - butter chicken and tumeric rice with pappadums
Dessert - watermelon

Friday:
Breakfast - cereal and fruit
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - steak chips and salad
Dessert - pot luck

Saturday:
Everybody out all day
Dinner - prawns in tomato and wine sauce with feta and olives
Dessert - italian nougat

Sunday :
Breakfast - Croissants
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - hotdogs and salad
Dessert - rockmelon

Eat well, Live well!
Cheers
Susie

Week 23/1/12 - Menu

Sorry so late in posting this.  Have had a not so good start to the week with illness so everything has gone to hell in a hand basket!  Starting to get back on track today.

Monday :
Breakfast - Toast and spreads.
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - sausage sandwiches
Dessert - fruit

Tuesday:
Breakfast - toast and spreads
Lunch - everybody out
Dinner - chicken and vegetable honey/soy stirfry with rice
Dessert - Christmas chocolates (yes we still have them !!!)

Wednesday:
Breakfast - toast and spreads
Lunch - home made burgers
Dinner - Spaghetti bolognese
Dessert - Christmas chocolates

Thursday:
Breakfast - toast and spreads
Lunch - bacon toasties or savoury mince jaffles
Dinner - steak and vegetables
Dessert - fruit

Friday:
Breakfast - toast and spreads
Lunch - sandwiches
Dinner - lamb kebabs with rice and carrot salad
Dessert - yoghurt

Saturday:
Everybody out for whole day and evening

Sunday:
Breakfast - croissants and fruit
Lunch - hot dogs
Dinner - roast chicken and vegetables
Dessert - apple pie

Bit boring this week as I definitely have not felt inspired because of not being well.  Hopefully next week is better!  My daughter goes back to school next week so it's back to the routine of packed lunches.  My son starts uni in a month but will be working in the meantime so he takes salads to work.  I guess that will continue with uni.  Our fruit and veg box deliveries re-commence next week too and I always find them inspiring with the mystery of what we will get each week determining the menu.

Eat well, Live well!
Cheers
Susie

Week 16/1/12 - Menu

We are having a dessert free week this week to counteract the overindulgence in Christmas chocolate!!  This probably won't go down too well with my youngest but "them's the breaks"!

Monday
Breakfast: toast and jam or boiled eggs and toast soldiers
Lunch     : sandwiches and fruit
Dinner    : Morrrocan chicken, rice, veg

Tuesday
Breakfast: cereal and toast
Lunch     : toasties
Dinner    : Sausages, chips and salad

Wednesday
Breakfast: Toast and yoghurt
Lunch     : salad and fruit salad
Dinner    : Honey/soy chicken wings and stirfry

Thursday
Breakfast : cereal and fruit
Lunch      : sandwiches
Dinner     : home-made pizza and salad

Friday
Breakfast: Muffins
Lunch     : sandwiches and fruit
Dinner    :Lamb kebabs and salad

Saturday
Breakfast: Banana bread
Lunch     : Hot dogs and fruit
Dinner    : Home-made hamburgers

Sunday
Breakfast: Croissants and fruit
Lunch     : Pasta in a creamy/cheesy sauce
Dinner    : Roast lamb and veg

Sandwich filling options are: cheese, left-over meats from roasts, cold cuts, salad, vegemite or peanut butter.  I sometimes have baked beans but the children don't like them for themselves.

Eat well, Live well!
Cheers
Susie