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NEW! Meal Plan Monday is back!!!

Hey guys! 

It's been a while so I thought I would give Meal Plan Monday another go!
This time I will go through breakfasts, snacks and lunches and why we meal plan this way now.

So here it is!

Here is this week's meal plan (check out Large Family Table to find the meal planner).

I don't have Morning Tea on there because it is ALWAYS fruit and everyone knows to choose a piece of fruit. 

I also have for most lunches Make Your Own Sandwich. I don't make the kid's lunches, they do. There is always a variety of fillings/spreads available and quite frankly, I am not a slave. I have a LOT of other things to be doing at that time so they (with supervision) make it themselves. It also works better for them to make it, so that they take ownership and eat what they put in their lunch boxes. 
It is not quite summer here (where I am we have about 3 weeks of "winter" and the rest of the year is just hot and muggy), so afternoon tea consists of icy poles a few days out of the week. Otherwise it is all fairly healthy snacks.
I have found with breakfast cereals, if I do not specify the cereal for the day, they all eat the same thing until it's gone and want me to rush out and buy more. My answer: nuh uh... This way, they get a variety of cereals and I can make sure they have something like Weetbix on a particularly busy day. 
Dinners are planned around activities we have going on during the week. Tuesday's my son has Futsal games late afternoon so either something quick has to be made for dinner or a slow cooker meal. I have a rehearsal for my church worship team on Wednesday nights, so something that one of the other adults in the house can cook, or I prepare parts of the meal earlier on in the day. As usual, Friday nights are always noodles or pasta because the kiddos have an activity that takes them out until after 8:30pm. 
I also work around what we have on hand most of the time. We still have a few freezer meals from over a month ago that need to be used up, so there are a couple of those in there as well. 

So there is our meal plan for this week.

Thanks for reading!

Jacqui xxx

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