My Raisin Family

Hey Guys! I have heard of a lot of vloggers that do this Monthly Favourites video, so I thought I would do a bloggers version! I will show you my favourite items in the areas of: Organisation, Kids, Books, YouTube creators, In the Kitchen, and more! Let's get right into it, shall we? I have been loving cooking in my Thermomix this month and one website I have been loving is  The Road To Loving My Thermo Mixer . I have gotten so many recipes for lunch box snacks, dinners, soaps and more from this website for a long time. The recipes are quick and easy and are a simple and healthier version of the store-brought varieties. The kids love most of the recipes I have made and even help out with them! The winner in the Organisation category are these pantry containers! I LOVE these! I keep this one filled with snacks for school lunches and it is so easy for the kids to pull out of the pantry to grab one snack from the front two bins when they make their lunches (We

Hey Guys!  Just a quick update on the meal plan for the rest of the week! Turns out my daughter is not celiac!!! So it's back to meal planning as normal and not having freak outs over whether I would be able to keep up with making GF food for her! So here are the meals we have planned for the rest of the week: Wednesday: Chicken patties with veg (we had a sneaky Maccas treat for dinner last night as we thought it would be the last time we could) Thursday: Savoury Mince Friday: Noodles/Pasta Saturday: Party pies and hot chips Sunday: At Church (we have an amazing opportunity to hear from one of my favourites - Christine Caine on live link through our multi-campus church! So we will be having dinner at Church) Hope you guys have a great week! Jacqui xxx

Hey Guys! Sorry about not posting last week. We have had a week of pretty much just eating leftovers and a night out for dinner, so there wasn't really much to put on a meal plan. This week will be a bit up in the air as well, as we find out on Wednesday whether one of our kiddos is coeliac. So we have a meal plan for two days, and then it will be seeing what she can and can't eat from Wednesday onwards.  This Monday night for dinner is a family favourite: Spag Bol! I will be testing to see if I can make this a Gluten Free meal. If it does work, I can big batch it and just serve hers with GF pasta.  Tuesday night we will be having Chicken tenders with 3 veg. As I have said before, our main 3 veg we have with dinners are peas, carrots and mashed potato. We do have more or others at times, it just depends on whether we have those in the freezer or not at the time.  I have considered some meals for the rest of the week, we just have to check ingredients.  We

Hey Guys! Welcome back to another Meal Plan Monday! I don't know about you guys but I am finding that when I only meal plan for the week, it is so much easier to stick to it! This week we have a birthday (mine), a sports carnival for school, and a midweek meeting for church I have to factor in to meal planning, so some of these meals will be make ahead ones so I am not scrambling to get dinner ready before I have to leave the house.  Monday: Sausages and three veg (peas, carrots, mashed potato) Tuesday: Chicken Parm and chips (recipe  here ) Wednesday: Savoury Mince Thursday: Butter Chicken and Rice Friday: Noodles/Pasta Saturday: Beef Mac and Cheese  Sunday: Mum cooks The recipe for the Chicken Parmesan is from  Jamerrill's Large Family Table . I have been following her for a few years on YouTube and her large family living is an inspiration. You can find her YouTube channel  here . Hope you all have a great week! Jacqui xxx

Hey Guys! Here is our meal plan for this week starting 4/6! Monday: Party pies, sausage rolls and chicken rice  Tuesday: Potato topped meatloaf with veggies and sweet potato mash Wednesday: Homemade pizza This is State of Origin (Rugby League Football) and it is huge where we are, hence the pizza night ;) Thursday: Potato and Leek soup with bread rolls (might do something else that is super simple for the kiddos to eat - they really do not like soup) Friday: Pasta/Noodles Saturday: Hot dogs (one of the boys requested this and I am liking this idea...) Sunday: Mum cooks! My mission for this week is to use my Thermomix every day. This is why there are a few things on here that I can quickly and easily make in the thermomix as well as various snacks for school lunches. This weeks snacks include: milo and banana muffins, pikelets, yoghurt, custard, boiled eggs, popcorn and a few others. Apart from the Thermomix recipe community, the best website I hav