Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and this week we want more salads please… 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 […]
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Meal Plan Monday – solo meal ideas please?
Meal Plan Monday is back this week asking for solo meal ideas. Because if you follow our social media, you will know that the husband and kids are off to France on holiday and I am staying at home because our old lady Layla, of 17 years is very poorly with cancer and I can’t […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – Mid January meals
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 […]
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 – back to normal ish.
Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and hopefully this week after having had covid, we are back to normal ish, and although both adults are still not fully on the mend (we have been told the tiredness, cough, and loss of smell could take a few weeks to go) we are hoping that this week will […]
READ MOREProper chips? Bring it on, Actifry…!
I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up, and we had chips, as part of a family meal, my nana or my mum used to roll out the rather scary looking deep fat fryer thing. If you are as old as me (yup, I went there) you will remember this contraption…? It […]
READ MORECan you survive without the supermarket? Take a Supermarket Siesta?
So a month ago, I wrote about taking a break from supermarket shopping. It’s not exactly my favorite pastime, so when the lovely team at Supermarket Siesta said “see if you can manage without it”, I thought it might be something I would like to try. I think if you live in a city or […]
READ MOREMy Nana’s lentil soup
My Scottish grandmother, known as Nana to us all, used to make a lentil soup that we all loved. On weekends when I was home from school (boarding, I used to spend time at her home when I couldn’t go to where my parents were) it was my favorite thing to arrive at her house, to the […]
READ MORESlow cooked sausage and lentil casserole
So this recipe is an easy and filling sausage and lentil casserole, hearty, filling and slightly stodgy. Perfect winter comfort food. It’s a bit of a hodge podge of ingredients, but it works and is very easy, and you don’t have to attend to it much, so it’s perfect for those days when you want […]
READ MOREEasy peasy omelette recipe…
Omelettes are a quick and easy meal, perfect, I find for the kids, or for myself when I walk into the kitchen and think “eek, I need to feed us, but there’s not a lot in the fridge or I haven’t planned” or as a last minute thing. I know some people get twitchy about […]
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