My last attempt at meal planning went very well. We really enjoyed the meals I chose and I was very excited as I tried out new recipes and got back to cooking from scratch every day. It also helped with the budgeting and shopping – meaning less trips to the supermarket and less impulse spending!
If you want some inspiration for your meals (or you’re nosey like me and want to see what everyone else is cooking) then pop along to At Home With Mrs M for Meal Planning Monday. There is a linky too so you can add your own meal planning blog post should you so wish.
This week I have chosen another 3 recipe books to try out. I picked Nigella’s Kitchen again as it is a very large book, so I’ve got lots of recipes to get through! Rachel’s Food for Living is yet another book I’ve had for a while but haven’t got round to cooking from – I saw some very nice looking recipes as I flicked through. The final book is Fabulous Pasta, which I’ve had for years and years and used to use quite a bit. It’s good to dust off some old favourites, especially as it’s just a generic cookery book and not one written by a celebrity chef!
So here is this week’s meal plan:
Monday: Pizza
Tuesday: Italian baked pancakes with cheese and tomato from Rachel’s Food for Living
Wednesday: Lemony salmon with cherry tomato couscous from Nigella’s Kitchen
Thursday: Gnocchi with tomato sauce from Fabulous Pasta
Friday: Chicken Curry
Saturday: Beef and spinach cannelloni from Fabulous Pasta
Sunday: Roast turkey
3 comments
Mrs M says:
May 2, 2011
All sound lovely!
I think Kitchen is one of my most favourite cookbooks ever!
amylane says:
May 2, 2011
It’s just so huge – I think I’m going to be cooking a lot from it 🙂
Mrs M says:
May 3, 2011
There’s some really great recipes in it – I’ve not cooked half of what I want to so far!