Nearly Back-to-School Menu

Tuesday ~ Tuna Casserole
Wednesday ~ Hot Dogs
Thursday ~ Tzatziki with Feta Salad and Chicken Wraps
Friday ~ Left over Tuna Casserole
Saturday ~ Char Sui Chicken Wraps
Sunday ~ Meatloaf
Monday ~ Bacon, Potato & Egg Salad plus these recipes
Tuesday ~ Japanese Pancakes

Success from last week:
Balsamic Chicken with Bean & Corn Salad it is like our favourite taco salad

New Year Menu

After I made up a menu of what I wanted to makes, which is salad because we had one of those catastophic days, well it felt like it hot winds and scary.  Then it became cold for the odd day as well.  We were able to go to the regional centre on one of those colder days, quite by accident and it turned out to be a sale day at my favourite clothes shop.  In the end I had enough food money left, and there wasn't much for the deposit on a dress and four lots of mince until next week.  Coles mince was cheap again and we got a cheap bottle of sweet and sour sauce.  I'll make the rest of the salads when some more money comes during the week.  Can't wait to try the haloumi one.  The fattoush salad we made into a wrap it was beautiful with the mint in it.  

Tuesday ~ Mixed Vegetable Fritters with Salad (Coles)
Wednesday ~  Balsamic Chicken with Bean & Corn Salad
Thursday ~ Rocket, Radish & Avocado Salad
Friday ~ Tuna Fattoush Salad
Saturday ~ Sausage & Cheese Roll with Balsamic Onions
Sunday ~ Pork Stroganoff
Monday ~ Spaghetti Bolognaise
Tuesday ~ Sweet & Sour Pork
Wednesday ~ Pasta Sauce Chilli
Thursday ~ mince
Friday ~ Frankfurter Hot Pot
Saturday ~ Tomato & Onion Chipolatas and one soft chorizo maybe Sausage & Lentil Stew
Sunday ~ Beef Sausages
Monday ~ Black Bean, Chorizo & Sweet Potato Chilli
Sausage & Mustard Mash with Mustard Mash

Post Christmas Menu

Tuesday ~ left over Paella
Wednesday ~ left over soup
Thursday ~ Chunky Potato, Corn & Bacon Soup
Friday ~ Mushroom Burgers 
Saturday ~ Salami Carbonara
Sunday ~ Hot Dog Hot Pot
Monday ~ Sausage Bake with Rocket Pesto
Tuesday ~ Kransky Pizza or Kransky Pizza
Wednesday ~ Chicken, Pesto & Tomato Pasta
Thursday ~ Bolognaise
Friday ~ Cabanossi Pasta
Saturday ~ Ravioli with Mushrooms & Thyme
Sunday ~ Spicy Indian Potato & Spinach Curry
Monday ~ Chilli Kabana & Pumpkin Soup using kransky

Interesting recipes:
Kransky rolls with Sauerkrat & Mustard

Pre-Christmas Menu

Thursday ~ Poached Chicken with Ricotta
Friday ~ Lasagne
Saturday ~ Pork Sausage & Bean Soup
Sunday ~ Chunky Potato, Corn & Bacon Soup
Pancetta Pasta Salad

Hamper Menu

Tuesday ~ Canneloni for two

Wednesday ~ Beef Ravioli with Bocconcini & Basil Salad

Thursday ~ Tortellini, Pumpkin, Pancetta Salad

Friday ~ Gnocchi Bolognaise

Saturday ~ Canneloni 750g

Sunday ~ Ricotta & Spinach Lasagne

Monday ~ Canneloni 750g

Tuesday ~ 500g pork sausages

Wednesday ~ Ravioli

Thursday ~ 500g frankfurters

Friday ~ 750g Bacon Lentil & Vegetable Soup

Saturday ~ 250g kransky

Sunday ~ 575 kabana

Monday ~ 300g bacon pieces
Tuesday ~ Spiced Rice & Bean Salad 
Roast Pumpkin with Green Beans & Balsamic Dressing  
Pork Sausage & Bean Soup
pesto prosciutto pizza, do we have prosciutto?
Continental Frankfurt Bake   
Pesto, Prosciutto & Boccoconcini Pizza

Recent success:
Pasta Papparadelle with Kabana
this was very nice

Fresh Pasta Menu

Well I bought up big on food last time, and found going into my next fortnight I won't have to buy food in the first week, just some in the minor pay, plus three meals.  Um yeah, makes sense to me lol.  I have put all the pasta recipes together unwisely, but found a good site with recipes with vegetables.  They seem expensive even without buying the pasta, but not too much so. 

Sunday 2nd ~ Gnocchi Bolognaise (uses Leggos bolognese chunky pasta sauce)
Monday ~ Canneloni & Salad
Tuesday~ Lasagne x 2

shopping for:

Wednesday ~ Mexican Corn, Coriander & Tortellini Salad
Thursday ~ Waldorf Agnolotti Salad
Friday ~ Beef Ravioli with Bocconcini & Basil Salad
Saturday ~ Tortellini, Pumpkin, Pancetta Salad
Sunday ~ Three Bean Agnolotti Salad
Monday 10th  ~ Ravioli, Parmesan Bake (uses pork sausages)

Interesting recipes:  Chorizo, Spinach & Tortellini Salad 

In the meantime my daughter had a cheese making class at school, and yesterday brought home a large amount of beautiful feta cheese.  She immediately made herself a Greek Salad  I chose to substitute a chorizo recipe from last week for this:

Spaghetti with Chorizo, Feta & Spinach

and then I am thinking of adding to the menu these two items to use it up and enjoy it, something where the cheese doesn't get lost.

Vegetarian Turkish Pizza
Pumpkin, Spinach & Feta Spaghetti

So I already have means over from last fortnight, amazing.  I guess I will just drop off the Canneloni and Lasagne. 

Christmas Hamper Menu

It will be my birthday just after the hampers arrive and then my daughters.  I have been buying some things for myself already, so the hampers will pay for the phone bill I am a little behind on, I am glad.  I am doing this in advance so I am right to go with the fruit and vegetable order.  

Friday 16th November (trip out to dentist) ~ Bacon & Avocado Burgers
Saturday ~ Ravioli Boscaiola
Sunday ~ Tortellini with Bacon, Tomato, Chilli & Baby Spinach
Monday ~  Tomato & Basil Agnolotti 
Tuesday ~ Prosciutto & Rocket Lasagna
Wednesday ~ Spaghetti with Salami Carbonara
Thursday ~ Tuna Pasta Salad
Friday ~ Vegetable & Chorizo Paella
Saturday ~ Lentil & Kransky Stew
Sunday ~ Pasta Papparadelle with Kabana
Monday ~ Lasagna

Interesting recipes:
Rocket Ravioli with Tomato & Olive Dressing
Mexican Pizza (uses pork mince)

Success from last week:
if you have pork sausages and not much else, try this, you won't feel deprived at all
Spring Rice with Sausage, Egg, Lemon & Pecorino 
 

Visit to the City Menu

This fortnight was pretty good.  I was away on Tuesday, driving to see my older kids.  I promised my daughter I would go to a Kasey Chambers concert for her birthday.  So I went a day early to go to dinner with my son and to have a break from driving.  On the way home on Thursday I stopped at the supermarket 50 minutes from home where I used to shop ages ago, I still love it there, and they still have great and cheap meat.  So I got even meat for this menu.  It turned out well, I didn't have to order fruit, I was going to do it while I was away.  The meat was enough, didn't have to buy much at all for the first week of this menu, just wraps, tomatoes, very little else.  I think hubby bought the pies for his and our daughter's tea one night but we have some left when my other daughter is away for Youth Group one night.  

While I was away I went to a Mexican restaurant, and a Malaysian restaurant, how lucky is that.  I had tostatas which were round and flat with feta on them, and at the Malaysian restaurant I enjoyed the roti and the tea they served. 

Tuesday ~ left overs
Wednesday ~ pies
Thursday ~ bolognaise
Friday ~ Chow Mein
Saturday ~ Sausage Casserole (we found a new way of doing it without using packet French Onion Soup)
Sunday ~ left over Chow Mein & Sausage Casserole
Monday ~ Butter Chicken Wraps
Tuesday ~ Zucchini & Parmesan Pasta
Wednesday ~ wombuk  Speedy Mix & Noodle Stir-fry
Thursday ~ Pork Sausage & Bean Soup (uses four bean mix)
Friday ~ Pies x 3 (eaten by accident)
Saturday ~ Veal Campagnola or Veal Schnitzel with Buttermilk Coleslaw
& Pea Mozzarella & Mint Pasta
Sunday ~ Butter Chicken Wraps
Monday ~  Spring Rice with Sausage, Egg, Lemon & Pecorino (uses Pork Sausages)
Tuesday ~ Mexican Chilli Bean Beef (uses Vegemite and cocoa)
Wednesday ~ Chicken Fried Rice with Egg & Buk Choy
Thursday ~ our hampers are here!!! Stir-fried Beef & Vegetable Chow Mein
or Lamb with Quince Paste for the rest of the quince paste.

Town Menu

 

I have made up a menu regardless if I got to the wholesale meat place, using things I have on hand that I ordered in the fruit and the odd can of things to minimise new purchases.  With some vegetarian to keep costs down.  Some were recipes we didn't get around to because of left-overs.

Wednesday ~ Lamb Sausage & Pumpkin Pilaf
or Japanese pancakes as I have double dipped, will have to make it next week 
Thursday ~ Baked Gnocchi Spanakopita with Currants & Pine Nuts
Friday ~  Char Sui Chicken Wraps
Saturday ~ Chilli Bean Nachos
Sunday ~ Tuna, Leek & Pumpkin Quiche
Monday ~ Chilli Sweet Potato & Beans with Polenta (made it before)

Interesting recipes:  Greek Feta and Vegetable Pie (uses pumpkin)

Spring Menu

Monday it seemed like we had nothing planned.  I ended up with a beautiful meal my husband cooked from Maggie Beer, called Pumpkin Macaroni Cheese.  Admittedly I gave him four recipes so it is his own, there was no feta used, it was sweet and lovely.  I finally got to taste her Verjuice that was hidden away in my pantry, and it is lovely, obviously excellent quality, and I realised Verjuice has a history and is not that silly after all.  

Tuesday ~ Chicken Scallopini with Verjuice, Capers & Asparagus
Wednesday ~ Nicoise Salad (uses buttermilk)
Thursday ~ Chicken Souvlaki (uses pita bread & feta)
Friday ~ Lamb Sausage & Pumpkin Pilaf
Saturday ~ Ham & Broccoli Quiche
Sunday ~ Spinach Impossible Pie
Monday ~ tea out
Tuesday ~ Bolognaise Pasta Bake

Back to School Menu

Condensing my menu down to week by week this time as I have shopped for this week and have menus for this week only.  

Wednesday ~ Sausage & Egg Muffin Burgers
Thursday ~  Greek Pumpkin & Rice Tart
Friday ~ Lamb Sausage & Pumpkin Pilaf
Saturday ~ Spaghetti Carbonara with Broad Beans
Sunday ~ Ham & Broccoli Quiche
Monday ~ Lemon Spaghettini with Egg & Rocket

Interesting recipes:
Angelhair Pasta with Parmesan & Rocket
Silverbeet, Broad Bean & Rice Soup