A new year to begin meal planning and getting organized! This year we are going to go on a journey and meal plan our dinners using the 200 Weeknight Dinner E-Book.Each week as you join in you will find my time saving and money saving tips! Please feel free to join in with your own tips! We can all learn together as we provide wonderful food and dinner time memories with our families!
Marinated Chicken & Vegetables
Bacon Spaghetti
Vegetable Soup
Tuna Fusilli
Chilli Beef
- This week there are 3 easy quick dinners with less than 6 ingredients and an easy quick vegetable soup that can be made weeks in advance!
- Marinade the chicken on Sunday evening in a shallow tray
- Chop corn, carrots & broccoli on Sunday night.
- Slice red onion and freeze ready for Friday if you are time poor!
- Place extra marinade in a zip lock bag to freeze for the next time you make this.
- Make soup on the weekend – this recipe is easily doubled & tripled and frozen!
- Make extra Tuna Fusilli for lunches the following day.
- Cherry tomatoes can be a little more expensive but they do tend to keep well in the fridge.
- Buy tomatoes if you want to save a little money this week.
- Place extra serves of marinade from Monday night into a few zip lock bags and freeze and label.
- Freeze each onion in a separate zip lock bag.
- Buy a bunch of lemons while on special and squeeze into ice cube trays ready for dressings and baking recipes.
- Instead of buying Fusilli pasta for the Tuna dish you can simply use spaghetti to save a few dollars.
- This week fresh parsley is required.
- Consider growing your own as a start to your herb garden.
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- This week organize a box for your freezer box supplies like zip lock bags, marker & ties.
- Go through your freezer and throw out of date food away. Throw out any unhealthy food too!
- If you organize your pantry, flavor and cold boxes you will only have to buy 12 fresh ingredients for the week!
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As a full time working mom of two who is also going to school, anything I can do to simplify my routine (and budget!) is a winner for me~
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This is the first week I am joining in and I loved how quick my shopping trip was! I already have a growing herb garden so I know this will be handy in the coming weeks! Heres to saving! Thanks Ruthie