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Meal Planning Monday

8 months ago
by DawnieBrown in ,

I’m back! After all the chaos of summer I’ve finally managed to get organised again and get some menu planning done :) Here’s what’s on the Brown household’s menu this week :)

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P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE, even better I’ve now added a pdf download of all my meal cards so you can just print them off to get you started :)

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

Meal Planning Monday

9 months ago
by DawnieBrown in , ,

It must have been a couple of weeks since I last posted a meal planning monday, it’s been a crazy couple of weeks! This week however I’ve managed to put a plan together for the week. Well actually I was so exhausted, I just gave all the cards to my husband who chose the meals we were having this week :) So here’s what is on the menu for the Brown household this week:

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P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE, even better I’ve now added a pdf download of all my meal cards so you can just print them off to get you started :)

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

Meal Planning Monday

10 months ago
by DawnieBrown in , ,

I’ve been so busy today I almost forgot to post this. We have guests on Friday so I’m doubling up the veggie sausage casserole ingredients to feed the masses, I love meals that you can just bulk up like that with no hassle :)

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P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

Meal Planning Monday

11 months ago
by DawnieBrown in , ,

It’s a busy busy week ahead with Fathers Day, Hospital Appointments, Client visits and then not to forget I head to London for Britmums Live on Friday, but somehow I’ve pulled a menu together for this week :)

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P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

Meal Planning Monday

11 months ago
by DawnieBrown in , , ,

Hubby is away this weekend and so meals are going to be quick and easy, mainly because unpacking shopping and cooking when I’m home alone with MasterB and MissB is chaotic :) But here is what is on the Brown household’s menu this week…

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P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

Meal Planning Monday

11 months ago
by DawnieBrown in ,

It’s a four day weekend so hopefully fun packed days with not much time to cook, so this weeks menu is quick and easy meals :)

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P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

P.P.P.S I’ve got another new recipe for you – Slow Cooked Mediterranean Vegetables and Tomatoes with Polenta :)

P.P.P.P.S Don’t forget if you fancy winning some vegan friendly beauty products there is a competition still running on my blog to win £40 worth here.

Meal Planning Monday – National Vegetarian Week

1 year ago
by DawnieBrown in , ,

This week is National Vegetarian Week, now in this household it’s vegetarian week every week but I’m hoping to find a few more vegetarian recipes to try out over this week so hopefully next week I’ll have some new dishes to share with you :) If you fancy winning some vegan friendly beauty products there is a competition currently running on my blog to win £40 worth here. But on with the vegetarian delights on our menu this week :)

P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

Meal Planning Monday

1 year ago
by DawnieBrown in ,

I admit my meal planning this week was done during the mad dash to get everything sorted and packed before going to Cybher for the weekend so the menu is a little on the unimaginative side but here it is :)

P.S. If you like the look of my magnetic meal planner you can find my post on how to make one HERE

P.P.S. Don’t forget to check out my Veggie Recipe page for other veggie recipes and to link up any of your own veggie recipes :)

How To Make a Magnetic Meal Planner

1 year ago
by DawnieBrown in , , ,

I’ve been meaning to make one of these for ages since I saw some similar ideas on Pinterest. We have so many lovely meals that we cook but quite often they were forgotten as we tried new meals.

Every week I already plan my menu before doing the shopping but having to go through all the recipes to get the ingredients etc took forever so I decided to simplify things and create meal cards with all the ingredients listed on the back.

So here is a step by step guide on how to make a simple menu planner:

1. To create meal cards, open a word document and create a table with 4 rows and 2 columns. Then type your meals in one box and the ingredients in the other box. I’ve done 40 meals at the moment and this is probably the thing which takes most time.

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2. Print off the meals onto coloured card. I got a bit technical here and grouped my meals into four categories. Slow cooker meals I printed on pink card, 15 minute meals I printed on blue card, salads are on green card and meals which take a bit longer to prepare are on yellow card. Of course you don’t have to be as picky as me, you can print them off on any type or colour card you like.

3. Now we are lucky in our house as we have a laminator (being married to a teacher has some advantages) so I then cut the cards out, put the ingredients behind the meal card and laminated them. I managed to fit about 5 cards in each A4 laminator sheet so I only used eight of them. If you haven’t got a laminator then they are cheap enough to buy, we got ours from Tesco but you can get them from Amazon for about £12.50 Here. They also come in very handy for making reward charts and laminating kids artwork! But if you don’t want to go to the expense of buying a laminator then you can always just print on both sides of the card or you can buy Transparent printer labels which you could use and just stick to the card.

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4. Now my kitchen has lots of steel and we have no space on the fridge so I decided to buy a magnetic notice board to use for my meal planner. You can of course just use the fridge if you have space but this is the board that I got from Amazon.

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5. Once I’d made the cards, I needed somewhere to store them and with a bit of searching I found this small magnetic basket which is just the right size and was only £5.25

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6. I also found these lovely magnetic days of the week pegs from this website, but there are other types around on eBay or if you’re feeling crafty make your own :)

7. And then it’s just a case of choosing which meals you are having in a week and pegging them to the magnets. Shopping is now a hundred times easier as all the ingredients are listed on the back :)

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So there you have it, this can be really cheap to make if you use the fridge as all you really need are the pegs, magnetic basket and some coloured card :) I’ve attached a pdf document below with my 40 vegetarian meals and ingredients on it below to get you started :)

40 Vegetarian Recipe Cards

Meal Planning Monday

1 year ago
by DawnieBrown in , , ,

This miserably wet weather is making me add lots of warming comfort foods to this weeks menu! You can’t beat a nice veggie roast dinner or spicy veggie sausage casserole :) So here’s what’s on the menu this week

  • Veggie roast dinner with all the trimmings! We use the Linda McCartney Roast and serve it with yorkshire puddings, stuffing, cranberry sauce, peas, roast potatoes, roast parsnips and roast carrots with gravy
  • Pasta bolognaise, made with dolmio and veggie mince (some nights we need quick meals)
  • Chilli and Spring Onion Feta Salad with fresh bread
  • Grilled asparagus, red onion and haloumni salad
  • Tomato, Artichoke Heart and Butterbean Pasta Soup
  • Spanish style veggie sausage casserole – this will be this weeks slow cooker experiment and if it works it will be blogged :)
  • Twice baked potatoes with spring onion and creme fraiche served with beans

For those of you interested, last weeks slow cooker experiment was successful and I’ve blogged the recipe here >> Tomato, Chickpea and Spinach Curry – Slow Cooker Recipe

You can check out more of my veggie recipes here and link up any veggie recipes that you’d like to share :)

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