Posts Tagged ‘recipes’

  1. Meal Plan ★ 23rd – 29th July, 2012

    July 22, 2012 by Cassie

    2012-07-21 12.46.35

    Our first delivery from Andy and Ted Fresh Produce. Looking forward to using it in this week’s meal plan!

    Click on the image on the left to download my Weekly Plan/ Meal Plan Template.

    Please let me know if you use it and what you think! If you have any requests or suggestions I’d love to hear them.

    Meal Plan:

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    ♥ Monday – Miso Glazed Scallops with Soba Noodles
    ♥ Tuesday – Mushroom Risotto
    ♥ Wednesday – Dinner with Granny & Poppy
    ♥ Thursday – Dinner at Ikea with Amy!
    ♥ Friday – Cauliflower Soup
    ♥ Saturday – Simple Braised Lentils with Chicken
    ♥ Sunday – Beef & Red Wine Pies

    Two new themes for this week’s meal plan – Our first delivery from Andy and Ted Fresh Produce and Charlotte Wood’s new book – Love and Hunger.

    We’ve been wanting to get a fruit and vegetable delivery for a while but have stuck to buying from our local grocer to keep prices down. I finally convinced Mr Monkey to order one these weekend from Andy & Ted (they deliver on Saturdays). This company is a little different from some of the others – you pay per box but you are able to pick which items are in each box. We paid $38 which gave us 10 options. For our money we got:
    ♥ Avocado (2 pieces)
    ♥ Bananas (5 pieces)
    ♥ Beans (0.40 kg)
    ♥ Broccoli (2 heads)
    ♥ Cauliflower (1 whole)
    ♥ Kiwifruit (4 pieces)
    ♥ Leeks (2 pieces)
    ♥ Mushrooms (0.2 kg)
    ♥ Potatoes (Desiree) (8 pieces)
    ♥ Tomatoes (4 pieces)

    Not bad for $38! They buy all the produce direct from the growers at the markets and deliver it straight to our door in a huge wooden box. The produce looks great – like what we get from the Grocer compared to the major supermarkets. I’ve based our meal plan for the first half of this week around the veggies we got delivered and then will reorder on Thursday night for a new delivery on Saturday.

    Last Saturday I attended a high tea at Better Read Than Dead bookshop with author Charlotte Wood for her new novel Love and Hunger. I’ve just finished reading L&H and loved it. I’ll hopefully write a full review soon but the rest of the recipes for this week are from the novel. I’m even making my own pastry for the pies!!!

    Should be quite a fun week this week. I’ll let you know how it all goes. :)

    What’s on your meal plan this week? And do you get your fruit and veg delivered?



  2. Meal Plan ★ 16th – 22nd July, 2012

    July 15, 2012 by Cassie

    2012-07-11 13.22.01

    Garnet Pilaf from last week

    Click on the image on the left to download my Weekly Plan/ Meal Plan Template.

    Please let me know if you use it and what you think! If you have any requests or suggestions I’d love to hear them.

    Meal Plan:

    ——————
    ♥ Monday – Mushroom Risotto
    ♥ Tuesday – Dinner at Granny & Poppy’s house
    ♥ Wednesday – Takeaway
    ♥ Thursday – Chicken parcels, cous cous and veggies
    ♥ Friday – Pesto Pasta
    ♥ Saturday – Dinner at Granny & Poppy’s house
    ♥ Sunday – Miso Glazed Scallops with Soba Noodles

    Sorry my meal plan is late again this week. I had it all organised but we have spent the day at my in-laws house and I haven’t had a chance to finish off this post. So I thought I’d quickly finish it now while we watch TV!

    Mushroom risotto is back on this week as we were supposed to have it last Saturday but I got lazy and we had 2 minute noodles, peas, corn and fetta instead.

    Tuesday I should be heading down to my parents’ house to babysit my niece. Wednesday my sister is coming back with me to babysit Lily while I go to the Buddhist Centre so I thought we’d probably just get takeaway to make it easy.

    We still have some Lenard’s chicken in the freezer so I’ve decided to take out the Florentine Breast Filo parcels and serve them with cous cous and veggies.

    Saturday I’m attending a High Tea at Better Read than Dead Bookshop with author Charlotte Wood. My parents are babysitting Lily and then we will be heading down to their house afterwards.

    I have my Uncle’s birthday party on the Sunday and I am not sure if we will be coming home that night or early Monday morning for Lily’s swimming lesson. But if we do come back I’ve planned Miso Glazed Scallops with Soba Noodles

    to use up some of the kilo of scallops that Mr Monkey bought last week! If we don’t end up coming home or don’t feel like cooking I’ll simply move it on to next week’s meal plan.

    What are you eating this week?



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