How To Meal Plan for the month on a tight budget! + meal plan tips to save you money + Grocery Haul
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Because of food prices I just buy whatever is on sale every few days ….but to make it interesting I go by theme.each day Italian, Indian,Chinese, Mexican….so happy my sons are teenagers now & they can do their own meals on weekends …my son's don't like tuna much but a little in a grilled cheese or frittata is fine
I dont necessarily do a protein by day, but do a weekly plan. I do one pasta meal, one meat and potato meal (my hubby loves meat and potato day lol), one quick meal, one crockpot meal, one sandwich meal, one left over meal, and one mexican night. It depends on whats happening in our life and plans that determines what day of the week any of them fall on. Its not held hard and true always, but a guide for sure. I cant do monthly meal plans, its too overwhelming for me, but I have been consistent on the weekly ones for the last several months.
Great meal plan. Good idea to eat before you shop
Tuna – tuna, Mayo and sweetcorn jackets 👍
Would love to see a video of making carbonara! Never made it 😊
Lots of people enjoy chorizo eggs as a breakfast meal with fried potatoes.
Cheesy tuna pizzas?
Tuna burgers/fish cakes are good 🙂 x
Hi Claire, with the chorizo I would make a chicken and chorizo spanish chicken with the leftover yellow pepper & mushrooms with rice. And the tins of tuna i'd make Tuna Thai fish cakes, using tuna, boiled rice, cream cheese, corriander, ginger, garlic and fry them and make a salad…! You've probably used the ingredients for other things now but hopefully you try these. I hope you are keeping well.
Hi Claire with your tuna and potato you can make tuna patties. I hope this will help 👍
Bbc recipe chicken and chorizo paella – delicious, and will use up some of the rice you have!
Enjoying your channel, subscribed. Definitely helps the finances to meal plan
Thank you for keeping it real!🙏😊👍
Great meal planning video! 🙏😊👍
Love these videos, thanks for sharing. Do you stick to the same grocery budget each month? £69 leftover is great! 🙂
Enjoyed your meal planning video Claire you've given me some inspiration 🤠. I do love to meal plan (I do it weekly). I love to sit with a cup of tea and do it, I find it relaxing 😊
Thanks for sharing, I would have some chorizo on the pizzas lol
Tuna – you can make fish cakes with tinned tuna
The baby potatoes – boil them then squash them down. Drizzle with olive oil, salt n pepper on a baking tray for 20 ish minutes. It crisps them up
Chorizo – goes great in pasta bake, especially with chicken
Duck – Chinese 5 spice works great with it
A great video Claire.
Hi Clare. With the tuna you could make tuna fishcakes or tuna mayonnaise and sweetcorn to put on baked potatoes or wraps, pittas, baguettes or make tuna and cheese toasties or a tuna pasta salad.
You could make fish cakes with the tuna and sweetcorn you also have breadcrumbs so u would just need potato’s x
If you like Mexican inspired food, make some rice with the chirizo sausage cooked down, tomatoes, onions, peppers, cumin etc. Yum !
Even before the recent inflation and empty shelves, the longest I've managed to meal plan is a week; sometimes a bit into a second week to use up the left overs or incorporate a meat product into multiple meals. In part because I've used sales in the weekly circulars and also discounted items found shopping in the meal plan; along with pantry and freezer items.
A cold tuna pasta salad with chopped veggies, shredded cheese and say a ranch dressing instead of mayonnaise.
You can use the star pasta in minestrone soup. And for the tuna you could make salade nicoise.
With the Tuna, you could make Tuna patties (fish cakes) and with the little pasta, soup or Mac cheese (you could add bacon to the Mac cheese) or cook it like you would a risotto and add cheese, bacon and some butter 🍝🍜🥓
tuna in homemade fishcakes maybe worth a try
Tuna fish cakes Tuna sweet corn and mayo jacket potatoes you can part boil and roast new potatoes really yummy. 😋
Great video Claire, love the Chinese duck idea and I absolutely love a jacket potato too , ultimate comfort food 😊have an amazing week x
Hi Claire, what about fishcakes with the tuna? Just add mash, spring onion, use an egg to bind and coat with breadcrumbs, ideal if you have some bread going stale
Can I recommend new potatoes parboiled then air fried…Ive used them for a roast!
How about tuna fish cakes? We put grated cheese in too. Nice with salad this weather or any veg you like.
Please keep your cooked meat away from your raw meat in the fridge! You had raw bacon resing on top of open ham sitting next to a bag of raw chicken! Raw should be at the bottom of the fridge or contained so that it cannot drip or leake onto other food.
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Chicken, chorizo with rice Claire. Fry off the chorizo with onion and mushrooms, chuck in chicken. Add cooked rice..yum. You can also use bacon if you havnt got chicken. Great video as usual.😻❤️🙏
Pork and chorizo meatballs
One of my favourite lunches is tuna with melted cheese on toast and salad. Just to say thanks for all the videos – I LOVE that you keep it real!
Thanks
Hi Claire
Good video
I was just looking at recipes and came across cheese and onion pie that’s frugal if your family like mash
Take care xx❤️❤️❤️❤️
could use the potatoes and make a potato soup
tuna patties..same as salmon patties just using tuna.
Tuna fishcakes! They are yum
Tuna melts on baguette
Sometimes we do wrap pizzas and add tuna on top once cooked
Hi Claire, me again, I often cook chicken and chorizo stew don't over cook. I then add enough water to the pan to cook spaghetti in the mix of chicken. It's a one pot meal, the chorizo should be added together with the onions as this draws out the flavor you will give the spaghetti. Hero in Portugal chorizo is a staple we also add it to beef stew, chicken skewers with chorizo and peppers.
Hi Claire, as for tuna you have everghing in your pantry, chickpeas, tuna and eggs. Boil two eggs, one tin of chickpeas drained, and a tin of tuna everything mixed together and a good drizzle of olive oil, this here in Portugal is often a starter, and often a quick lunch also. You can also season lightly as the chickpeas and tuna ready have added salt.
Love the meal planning! I'd be lost without one.
I like to meal plan with theme days too. Makes things do much simpler! As for the tuna, if you don’t want to make a tuna salad, have you ever tried tuna cakes? You add breadcrumbs, an egg, and some spices and then form them into patties and fry them in a pan, just like you would a crab cake. My husband’s grandmother used to do that with tuna or canned salmon all the time.