Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Today I have a huge grocery haul to share with you.
Of everything that my family eats in a week while in quarantine. And I'm also going to
show you our meal plan for this week for the five of us of what we're having for dinner.
So my husband just went to the shops. We go once a week. If we could possibly go and get
enough food for two weeks, we would but we cannot physically fit it into the fridge.
We worked out that with the five of us, we now have to make 105 meals a week because
we're all at home all of the time. All of us eat normal sized portions, even my three
year old. So I will run you through our meal plan of our dinners and then I will just talk
you through all of the ingredients. So first off, I'll show you our weekly meal plan.
I made this principle, it's on my website, so I'll link it down below if you're interested.
But I just printed it off, framed it, and this sits on our home command center. But
on Monday we are having a red lentil chili and I'm actually going to make a double batch
so that I can freeze half of it. Then on Tuesday we're having tuna fish cakes. Wednesday we're
having Hunter's chicken. Thursday we are having a veggie Thai green curry, but because that
is quite spicy, the kids are going to have Quorn nuggets which they really love. On Friday
me and Matt are having bean burritos and the boys have a similar type of thing, but it's
like quesadilla's so I'll show you what goes into that. Saturday we're all having a veggie
sausage casserole. We have found some delicious vegetarian sausages, so I'll show you them.
And then on Sunday we are going to be having a gammon roast with veg. So here is all of
our food laid out and I've tried to separate it a little bit into breakfasts, lunches,
snacks, and then all of the dinner ingredients. So I'll just start off over here at the breakfast
stuff. So we have got some Oatly milk because we have this in our coffees. The boys do drink
cow's milk, but that comes from a delivery service that we get to our door. Then I've
got some more maple syrup because the boys loved that on pancakes. And I've also got
some golden caster sugar because I'm going to make some muffins with the boys. I've got
flour and I've got all the other ingredients, but I needed this sugar. Then we've got the
chocolate chip brioche rolls. The boys love these as a snack or as a little extra after
their cereal in the morning.
We kind of bulk bought all of our cereal so I haven't got that to show you today. And
then Matt has a red grapefruit every morning and sometimes I will. Then we've got some
berries. The boys love strawberries and blueberries in the morning. We've run out of jam, so I've
got that for jam toast on the weekend. And then we have a lot of yogurt. Caleb and Jackson,
my two youngest sons, they really love these sucky things and there's no nasties in them.
But then I've also got some of these for puddings as well. So I've got this little thing that
I put into the fridge so I've just put it into that container, but we have got quite
a lot there because each of them will have one a day. Now we're getting into snacks and
lunch, so I've got the caramel Snack Jacks.
We all love these in this house, so I've got that for all of us. Then we've got bagels.
The boys have got really into eating these Warburton thin bagels. They're really yummy.
They like them with soft cheese or just normal cheese or jam or anything. They're really
really yummy. Then we all really love hummus and then I've got some mini breadsticks as
well. But we have carrots with the hummus and red pepper with the hummus as well. So
I do probably go through about two of these a week. Then we've got some bread for sandwiches.
I've only got the one loaf, but that should do the boys and Matt. I'm trying to lay off
the bread while we're at home. Then I've got some bean snap pots. This is because Fraser
just loves baked beans for lunch. And then we've got some Wotsits.
We've also got some skinny popcorn. The kids really like them as a snack, so I'll put that
into their snack tray as well as Babybel's. Then I've also got some ham for lunches. They
can have ham and cheese sandwiches or just ham or ham bagels as well. They normally have
some grapes with their lunch or some kind of fruit as well, but they're really into
these purple grapes at the moment. And then I've got these green olives. I really crave
these so sometimes I'll just have them as a snack, so we got some of those. They're
just the basic ones from Sainsbury's, but I really love them. Then, got lots of apples.
These are the pink lady apples. The boys have one a day pretty much. We have got some in
the fridge, but we definitely needed some more as well as they love bananas as a snack
as well.
We've got quite a few tangerines over there as well, so we didn't need to get any more.
But they like them as a snack too. Carrots and peppers are probably their favorite vegetables.
They'll often have these raw as a snack or alongside dinner. So we've got more of that.
We also needed some more butter over here. And then I've got some salads. I've got a
rocket, which sometimes we have with potato and onion or I can have these as a bit of
a lunch with some tuna or some tofu and stuff. I've got that in the fridge. So that salad
is for me. And then we're getting into the dinners. So all of these ingredients here
are for the red lentil chili. I've already got the red lentils though because we bought
two kg's of them on Amazon because we couldn't find it in the shop and I know we'll go through
it.
Red lentils are such a good replacement for beef we found. And this recipe is a HelloFresh
one that we're just remaking. So we needed peppers, sun dried tomato paste. This, I think
is the secret ingredient in the recipe. It Is the spicy chipotle chili paste. You only
need a little bit, but it makes it really smoky and really yummy. Then we've got four
cans of the red kidney beans. We've got some onions, coriander to go on top, lime to go
on top and this is also for a gin and tonics as well. And then we've got a lactose free
yogurt which goes on top and then it also has cherry tomatoes in it. For the tuna fish
cakes, I'm doing this recipe, it's actually my friend Kerry Whelpdale. She shared it on
her Instagram and I was like, "I'm going to try that for the boys."
I think they'll really like it. It's pretty much mashed potato, three cans of tuna, an
egg and breadcrumbs and you just put it all together. And we're going to have that I think
with some salad or some raw veggies. So that's that night. For our veggie sausage casserole,
we have got the Linda McCartney vegetarian sausages. These are so good. They come frozen,
but you wouldn't even know that they're not real sausages. You can make this recipe easily
with normal sausages. And it's a really good one to try. I get this little sachet here,
which is sausage casserole. Tells you how to make it on the back and it's just really
easy. Just add in some onions, a red pepper, lots of mushrooms, and then this is a sauce
and you just put it all in the slow cooker. Well that's what I do. And then I serve a
mash, so I've got some potatoes there.
I've also got some of these potatoes for our gammon roast. We've just got a really small
joint here. And I'm going to make that on Sunday. Just stick it into the oven. You could
slow cook as well, but just so yummy. The kids love it, I think because it's so salty
so we don't have it all the time, but they really do like it when we do. And then I've
got loads of veg. I was thinking we could have some broccoli or some green beans, some
carrots or something with this roast. Then we're going to do the Hunters chicken. This
is such a yummy one. If you've never tried it. We get this Hunter's chicken jar and it's
a really sweet smoky sauce and you basically just put these into a baking tray. You can
wrap them in bacon. That's how you're supposed to properly do it, but we don't actually do
the bacon.
We just stick that into a tray with all of this on top and some cheese on top as well.
So I've got the cheese. Just stick into the oven and then it comes out really yummy and
we all like to eat it. So I've got the Hunter's chicken and we're going to just have that
with chips and some peas, I was thinking. Then for the night that we're having bean
burritos and quesadilla's, I've got some more wraps, but we do actually have some leftover
as well. And I've got some black beans for the burritos, but I've got all the other ingredients.
Pretty much it is brown rice, some salsa, some avocados, some of the plain yogurt as
well. And you can make a really yummy vegan bean burrito. And it's delicious. But then
for the kids with the quesadilla's, you just buy some refried beans, spread that onto one
of the wraps and then add some cheese or some chicken if you want.
And then you can just almost fry it like a pancake in the frying pan and it's really
yummy. Good source of protein. I'll link a video down below because I actually made a
whole video about quesadilla's. That's how much my kids really like them and I grew up
on them as well. So it's a really yummy one. Then I forgot to show you that I've got this
glaze for when I have salads. It's really yummy. It's a balsamic vinegar glaze and I
ran out, so I just got some more. And then the only other dinner I wanted to show you
is we're having a Thai green curry one night. So I just buy this little paste. It's only
a small one. And you just put it in the frying pan with your coconut milk and we're just
going to have it with veggies, but you could put chicken into it.
I'm actually going to try it with chickpeas. I've started putting chickpeas into our Indian
curries and it's just really, really yummy and again, good source of protein. But I was
also going to put in a courgette and some green beans and then just serve it on rice.
And then the only other thing that we bought was some chick pea pasta. It's really yummy.
It's gluten free. And we had run out so Matt saw it and pick some up. So we'll probably
have that next week. So this is everything that I wanted to show you from our huge shopping
haul this week. That is everything that we need for our 105 meals and about a million
snacks. But yeah, let me know what you think in the comments below and I'd love to know
what you guys have been making over and over while you've been in quarantine. And thanks
so much for watching. I'll see you in my next one. Bye guys.