It’s getting cooler here in Australia which means I like to make more winter-style meals and dishes. I enjoy mixing up my dishes during the week so that I’m not making a similar meal two or three nights in a row. Meal planning helps me ensure that I have variety during my week and I can make sure that my family isn’t chicken every night!
Here is Erin’s weekly plan, she is a lovely reader of mine. Erin is a mum of 3, a girl, 7, boy just turned 5 & a baby who has just turned 3. She works part time – busy lady! I hope you can find some meals in Erin’s plan.
MEAL PLANNING TIP
Family favourite meals – make a list of each family members favourite dinners. Ask them some questions like below to prompt you to have a good list of 20 or more dinner ideas:
- What is your favourite chicken dinner?
- What is your favourite pasta dinner?
- What is your favourite roast dinner?
- What is your favourite easy dinner?
- What is your preferred way for me to cook fish?
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Find more of my meal planning tips here:
MONDAY
Chicken sausage tray bake with pesto swirled yoghurt – This looks amazing and appears to be a fast weeknight dinner idea.
RECIPE: Chicken Sausage Tray Bake with Pesto Swirled Yoghurt
TUESDAY
Honey, soy & garlic chicken sausage rolls – Hubby is away so again something easy & pack some for the kids lunch boxes the next day.
RECIPE: Honey, Soy & Garlic Chicken Sausage Rolls
WEDNESDAY
Roast pumpkin & chicken bake – My eldest has hockey training on Wed’s so I make this during the day and then reheat when we get home. Perfect!
RECIPE: Chicken & Roast Pumpkin Pasta Bake
THURSDAY
Thick & creamy pumpkin soup with some buttered crusty loaf – My son has footy training Thurs nights so again I will make this during the day & reheat when we get home, yum!
RECIPE: Super Easy Roast Pumpkin Soup
FRIDAY
Steakette works burgers with gems – Hubby picked up some yummy steakettes at a country butcher the other week when they were there for footy so I just froze the other half. All 3 have swimming Fri afternoons so this is perfect & easy.
RECIPE: Deluxe Steak Burgers
SATURDAY
Salmon Quinoa Fritters – Erin didn’t include anything for Saturday so I thought I would put in one of my newest recipes, which I am loving!!! These are light and delicious, for a cold night you can serve these with roasted or steamed vegetables.
RECIPE: Salmon Quinoa Fritters
SUNDAY
Avocado on toast with a boiled egg chopped up & chia seeds sprinkled on top – yum, this looks like a perfect quick and easy dinner for a sunday night!
RECIPE: Avocado Egg Toast with Chia Seeds
BAKING
Cinnamon scrolls – Erin didn’t have any baking included in her amazing meal plan so I thought I’d pop in these cinnamon scrolls. They are absolutely delicious. I have made them countless times through winter, everybody gets excited when they smell them cooking in the oven.
RECIPE: The Most Delicious Cinnamon Scrolls
4 comments
I love reading your meal plans Kat, but I also appreciate the readers that send through their plans as well, thank you so much to everybody that has done so recently, these inspire me to create something different for my tribe who always complain that they want something different.
Hi Maz! I’m glad you enjoy them. I personally love seeing my readers’ meal plans too, variety is good 🙂 Have a great day.
Those cinnamon rolls looks absolutely scrummy!
Here’s my plan for the week ahead:
Monday: Pasta bolognaise
Tuesday: Thai chicken curry, rice, roti bread (Mr Busy cooking)
Wednesday: Mum’s Minestrone (a bean free version) (me cooking)
Thursday: Honey soy chicken, veggies, rice (Miss Sunshine or me cooking)
Friday: Fend for Yourself Friday
Saturday: Burgers and wedges
Thanks for sharing, Tracy 🙂 Minestrone is a great dish in Winter