The essentials .................... part 2

Time to get..........

Organised!!

 

Cook books, recipes, food apps and other such things. 

To start with you need to meal plan, to do this you will need a selection of recipes for inspiration, to make life easier in the beginning, get a selection of cook books and start to sift through them, later on you can use apps and websites to source out possibilities, then just make note of ones that you like etc

Apps

Some are good, I like free apps (who does not!). Some are okay and will offer up free stuff but then require finances to access more (my opinion on this, meh, ambiguous). Some require a fee or subscription, Why? dont get this bit, as 99.999999 % of recipes are available online, in a blog etc anyway, so why????

I like Yummly 
Just as an example ........

Websites

 

There are loads, loads and more loads!

Sooooooo

oooooooo there are 7 days in a week (feels like 12 sometimes!), plan your meals around when you like to go shopping, mine tends to be on a Friday when its my day off, so Friday morning I sit down look through the cookbooks and decide what I fancy cooking. 

Make things easier by mixing in a slow cooker recipe with a 30 min meal, with a 2 hr preparation meal, then I can cherry pick what suits me best on the day.

So an example this is this weeks menu :-

Beef and Bean hotpot bake

Pork and Garlic bread bake

Fish and leek grills

Bacon and tomato risotto

Sausage and butter bean bake

Turkey and macaroni

BBQ pulled pork

As I said I don't specify a day as this allows flexibility as sometimes you don't know how your day will go xxx