Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I thought I would share with you our
family meal plan for the week and our huge grocery haul. We're still at home, stuck in
quarantine, still having to feed our family of five, every single meal. And you guys really
enjoyed the last one of these that I did, so I thought I would share with you another
one. Also, disclaimer, my entire family is also here in the room while I'm filming. They're
homeschooling over here. Jackson's over there with daddy. I can't get away from them. So
you may hear them in the background listening to Paw Patrol and chatting away and stuff.
But first off, let me show you our meal plan for the week. So I have this frame that sits
on our family Command Center and it's basically just where we have our family calendar and
their chore charts and things. And it comes off, it just Velcros on so you can write on
it and then put it back as well. So I'll leave a link down below because you can print this
off for free just on my website. So, if I just run through with you what we're having
this week. So on Monday, we're having homemade pizzas and salad for the boys, and then we're
actually going to have a leftover lentil chili, which is in our freezer. Then on Tuesday,
we're having a veggie shepherd's pie, so it's basically just shepherd's pie with a quorn
mince and we're doing the Gordon Ramsay recipe. So I'll show you the ingredients.
On Wednesday I'm making a cauliflower mac and cheese, so it's got hidden veg in it for
the kids. And then Matt and I are also having a one-pot pasta, which might be a bit more
spicy. Then on Thursday, I'm making chicken escalopes. Friday, I've just put fish Friday.
The kids are going to have these posh fish fingers. Saturday, we've been getting a takeaway
each week and it's actually been so nice. We've been just getting it on Deliveroo. There's
actually a cafe near us called Midpoint if you're in Essex and it does really nice food.
All the kids can order their favorites. Jackson gets spaghetti bolognese. We can get something
nice as well. So we're going to get a takeaway on Saturday. Then on Sunday, we're having
a veggie chicken pie. So I'll show you what goes into that.
Then I thought I would give you some lunch ideas as well, because I know it's really
easy to make the same old thing every single day. But one day we're going to have to tuna
and cheese paninis for the kids. We've also got jacket potatoes, which they could have
with tuna or beans or cheese. Got cream cheese bagels, beans on toast. And the boys love
when we make grilled cheese in a pan for them. So now I'll just take you through the ingredients.
Okay, so I've tried to lay everything out in some sort of order. So over here, I've
got some breakfast things. Then I've got some snacks and lunches and then all the ingredients
for the dinners. So I'll just run you through. So for breakfast, I feel like there's not
a lot here, but we do have a lot of their stuff in stock. We bought some flour last
week so I can make some pancakes and I also make protein pancakes, and I've got everything
for that. So we've got this Oatly, this is what Matt and I have in our coffee. The boys
do have cow's milk, but that comes from a delivery service. Then I've got the boys'
favorite yogurts. This is their Suckies. They basically have one of these a day just as
a snack.
Then I was really excited to actually get some Haliborange. These are the vitamins that
the boys have. And I normally get them on Amazon every single month, but they're out
of stock. And so Matt did actually find them in Sainsbury's, so I'm really pleased to have
found their vitamins. I've got that. And I also wanted to show you, this is my favorite
teeth-whitening toothpaste. I feel like out of all the ones that I've tried, this one,
I can actually see a difference. So he got some more of that. Then we've got Matt's red
grapefruits. He has one every morning. Then we've got lots of strawberries because all
the boys like those. Then we've got some chocolate chip brioche rolls. These can be like a snack
in the morning or something as well as breakfast.
Then we've got some cereal for the kids. This one is the Kellogg Strawberry, Apple and Carrot
cereal with no added sugar. And then we've also got the more sugary Cheerios, which Frasier
really loves. This is the five-grain one. Then we ran out of jam and they love that
on the weekend. We've also got some cream cheese, which they will sometimes have for
breakfast, or as I said, on a bagel for lunch. Then we've got more cheese. We pretty much
just get the basic mature cheddar cheese from Sainsbury's and it's really yummy. Then I've
got some more breadsticks. This is like getting into snacks now. So I've got the breadsticks.
We've also got some hummus.
I always show these, but these are the Caramel Snack Jacks, which are basically just rice
cakes that we all love. And I love to have this on top of them. It's just a smooth almond
butter. We couldn't get the normal brand that we get, so we've got this one to try, but
this is also great. The kids love this on toast in the morning. And I always think that's
quite a good one on toast because it's got that bit more protein for them first thing.
Then I've got some more crisps. So we've got salt and vinegar and then we've got the Sunbites
Sweet Chili flavor. I think these are a bit spicy, but the kids still really like them.
So they've got that. Then we've got some Barny Bears. This is mainly for Jackson, but the
others do sometimes have them as well.
Then for puddings, we've got some Gold bars and we've also got some little Kit Kat bars.
These are the mini ones, so they can have one of these after dinner. Then we've got
more purple grapes. They're really into these at the moment. They love to have these alongside
any lunch that they're having. We've also got some tuna so that we can have the tuna
paninis. And we've got some beans because we needed a few more beans for the jacket
potatoes or on toast as well. We've got some bread, but we do also have some frozen bagels
and some frozen bread as well, which is perfect for toast. Then we've run out of ketchup.
We've run out of Matt's favorite sauce. This is the PERinaise Nando's Sauce.
And then we've got lots of fruit like bananas. We've got some riper ones and then some that
are a bit more green for later on in the week. They've got loads of apples. These are the
Pink Lady apples. We do have some more in our fridge because each boy will have one
a day, so we really do need a lot of apples each week. Plus I got some limes and some
lemons. This isn't for anything specific, but we have them in drinks sometimes. We tend
to put lime in so many recipes. We'll squeeze that onto our chili and stuff like that.
So for Monday night for the homemade pizzas, we've got a short crust pizza sheet. We've
got some tomato puree. This is actually ours from the fridge, but I wanted to show you
what goes on it. So we just literally put that onto the crust with mozzarella and Jackson
really likes salami. So we've got that for him as well. And then cook it in the oven
and we're going to serve that with salad for the boys. When I say salad, they pretty much
just like carrots, cucumbers, peppers all cut up into little bits and they'll have that
as a salad. They don't really love lettuce leaves as much as they love raw veggies like
this. So that's one night that they're going to have.
Then for the veggie shepherd's pie, I'm using the Gordon Ramsey recipe. That is my favorite
shepherd's pie recipe. I'll link it down below. You can make it obviously with normal mince
as well. But we're going to use some quorn mince. Then I've got some carrots to go in
it and onion. And then obviously those are potatoes to go on top. And then you have a
bit of red wine, a bit of stock and you cook it all down and put some thyme in it as well.
And it's really, really yummy. So we're going to have this one night as a family.
Then one night, we're also having chicken escalopes. I do have some chicken in the freezer,
but I did need some more. So we've got that. All you basically do for the chicken escalopes
is flatten the chicken with a mallet, cover it then in some flour, then beaten egg and
then breadcrumbs. And you fry it in a pan in vegetable oil and the boys just really
like it. It's delicious. Then I've also got some corn on the cob to go with it. And then
I'm not sure, I might do frozen chips. We've got sweet potato chips as well in the freezer
or I could do potatoes, something like that. So, that's one night. Also, needed some more
olive oil.
Then one night we're having a cauliflower mac and cheese for the kids. This is Jackson's
absolute favorite meal. So we've got some mac pasta and then you basically cook down
some cauliflower and then blend it with the cheese, the milk, the butter, and then you
cook it all in the oven and Jackson would just eat it all up. He doesn't know that it
has cauliflower in it or anything. On the night that the boys are having the mac and
cheese, we're going to have a one-pot pasta. I would totally eat this, but I think there's
a lot of cheese, a lot of calories and everything. And this one-pot pasta is my absolute favorite
recipe. I'll link it down below. I've shown it before on my channel, but it's delicious.
You just, in one pot, you throw in an onion, three different peppers. Then you put in the
pasta with some vegetable stock and then some tomatoes. It all cooks down into this really
yummy sauce. And then at the very end, you add in a tiny bit of cream and a ball of mozzarella.
And it's honestly so delicious.
Then we're also going to have a Jamie Oliver 30 minute meal, chicken pie one night. It's
such a good recipe, but we're actually going to make it with the meat-free pieces. We've
done it before and it tasted so yummy. So what goes into it is mushrooms, some Coleman's
Mustard, spring onions, a crème fraîche-type thing, or replacement like this. You cook
it all together with a vegetable stock and it's really delicious and quick. And then
you just put a rolled puff pastry on top. I put rolled puff pastry on the list, but
all they had was shortcrust. So we're going to see how that goes. I really don't know
how it's going to turn out. But that's that night.
Then on Fridays we tend to have some sort of fish thing. A lot of people in the UK do.
So we've got the boys these posh fish fingers, and then we might have chips or potato waffles.
So an easy night. They've also got some rocket for salads and lunches for me and Matt. We've
got some salad and we can add this. We've also got coleslaw, olives, tuna, whatever.
We can like mix it all together. Then we picked up some Lloyd Grossman. This is our favorite
tomato sauce. I've shown it before. And it's normally, I think it's like £2, but every
now and then they put it on offer for £1. So we tend to stock up a bit then.
I forgot to show you, we've also got some garlic puree. This is what I use in cooking
because it's so easy. We've also got a bit more ginger paste for cooking as well. And
some coriander to go on top of our chili. Then we also bought three of these, but they're
all in the freezer. So I thought I would just show you a box of one of them. So these are
the Fruit Spiral Lollies. The boys just love having these, maybe as a treat after lunch
in the sun. Then we also got some more Linda McCartney Vegetarian Sausages because I just
really like them. They're delicious. And we managed to find some more surface spray. So
we picked out the pink grapefruit one because that's probably my favorite Method scent.
Right, so that is everything that we bought this week to feed our family of five. I hope
you really enjoyed this video and got some ideas and inspiration from it. And if you're
still here, I would also love to know in the comments below, if you have any requests for
videos or any video ideas that you'd love to see on my channel. And yeah, thank you
so much for watching and I'll see in the next one. Bye guys.