MEAL PLAN #1

We are excited to bring you our very first meal plan! Meal plan #1 includes one of our family favourites - Pad Thai. I learnt how to make this in a Thai cooking class, and find it 100 times better than any Pad Thai you buy at a takeaway shop. I hope you do too.

This week, you will find three vegetarian dinner options, and all recipes are gluten and dairy free. Simply adapt each recipe to suit your needs. If you have a meat lover in the family, then add a protein of choice to the vegetarian meals.

Bear with me as I make changes over the coming weeks to improve the layout of our meal plans, and blog. I would love your feedback & comments - was the plan easy to follow? Would you like the shopping list as a separate file to the recipes? Which meal was your favourite? Share your favourite recipes with us too! We love to know what others are eating, and if we like it, expect to see your recipe on a future meal plan.

Download Meal Plan #1 here.

Image found here (recipe is not the same)

HOW IT WORKS

Our very first meal plan will be ready to download from tomorrow morning - exciting!!

So, how does it work?

Every Wednesday morning a new meal plan and shopping list will be ready to download. Print it out, and read it through. Look at the shopping list, and check off everything you already have in your pantry.

Over the weekend grab whatever groceries you need, and get yourself into the kitchen on Sunday to do some baking and prep work. Any prep work which is suggested is entirely optional, but does make things a little quicker during the week. The Sunday baking is also optional.

The meal plan only includes dinner for Monday through to Saturday night. Sunday's are 'free nights', for you to cook your own favourite meal, or Sunday roast. Sunday mornings are 'Pancake Sunday' in our house, so I will include the odd new pancake recipe I have tried and liked.

All dinners are designed to serve four. I find them enough for two adults & a toddler, plus leftovers for lunch the next day.

Enjoy week one, and If you have any questions, then please leave a comment below.

Illustration by Monica Ramos found here

OUR EVENING MEAL

After a month of creating weekly meal plans to make dinner times easy, we decided to create this blog as a place to share our weekly menus, recipes, shopping lists and other foodie inspiration. 

As a busy working family of three - textile designer mum, firefighter dad & non-stop toddler - we find meal planning a great way to add order to the chaos of life. We love cooking & eating good, wholesome food.

Our focus is on recipes which are easy to cook after a busy day at work, and family friendly - we like our toddler to eat what we eat. We follow a refined sugar-free lifestyle, but still indulge in the odd treat here and there - we won't turn down a slice of birthday cake!

Welcome to the start of our food sharing journey. Enjoy.