Welcome back to Meal Plan Monday. Sharing some Mid January meals as the weather is cold and we need comfort food. January seems to be going fast. I am feeling less blue this week as we settle into our routine and life is back to normal. Each week I share what we are eating, planning […]
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Meal Plan Monday – January blues?
Welcome back to Meal Plan Monday and me having a case of the January blues. Each week I share what we are eating, planning to eat or cooking and how we meal plan for a family of four with food allergies and Coeliac disease on a budget. We shop at Aldi and Asda mainly for […]
READ MORERoasted garlic purée – easy and delicious
If you love garlic, and love garlic purée then this easy recipe for roasted garlic purée is for you. We eat a lot of garlic in our house, and I use a lot of garlic and garlic puree for cooking, salad dressings, roasting veggies and adding to sauces. Garlic adds taste and flavour as well […]
READ MOREThe Veganuary Challenge doesn’t need to be particularly challenging
If you are thinking of joining in with Veganuary then this helpful post by Louise Palmer-Masterton, from Stem & Glory is really handy with tips and tricks on how to manage and eat well. It can be done. People who have participated in Veganuary provide an impressive range of statistics. For example, 98% of participants […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – Happy New Year
Welcome back to Meal Plan Monday and Happy New Year. Each week I share what we are eating, planning to eat or cooking and how we meal plan for a family of four with food allergies and Coeliac disease on a budget. We shop at Aldi and Asda mainly for convenience and also for food […]
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This recipe for a gluten & dairy free white sauce that I use for pasta sauces, in lasagna, and where a white sauce is needed. This is a basic Béchamel sauce and is very easy to make. I substitute plain flour with gluten free flour, and we use a plant based milk (usually unsweetened soya […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – rolling into Christmas
Welcome to the last Meal Plan Monday of the year and we are rolling into Christmas. I will probably do a sort of “what we might be eating for Christmas” next week but there is a lot of eating out and not so much meal planning happening as we approach Christmas so we will be […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – Silly season starts.
It’s Monday again and Meal Plan Monday is back as we slide into what I think many people call Silly Season as the end of term looms and Christmas is now properly on the horizon. I am loving reading other people’s blogs and what they eat and meal plan. I am super nosy about two […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – a busy week of meals
Welcome to Meal Plan Monday. This week we are busy as “silly season” starts in earnest and we roll into Christmas and December starts and it’s a busy week of meals. The teen is out not one, not two but three nights this week. She babysits to earn some money once a week and is […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – food allergy fail
The weeks are flying by and it’s Meal Plan Monday and I thought this week I would share a mum fail, a food allergy fail, before I kick off with our weekly meal plan. The teen was recently told it’s very likely she has Celiac disease. All her symptoms and markers point to that, we […]
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