Menu plan for February 2013

Breakfast choices

Yoghourt and fruit

Toast with toppings

Boiled eggs, rice, pickled vegies

Oatmeal with honey

Rosti with poached eggs

Lunches

1. Scrolls
2. Sandwiches
3. savory muffins
4. Quiches
5. Salads
6. Cornish pasties
7. arranchini
8. Rice paper rolls with fillings
9. savoury mince tarts (puff pastry)
10. chicken empandas
11. homemade sausage rolls

Need to bake 3 cakes per week,

yoghourt,

fruit tubs-

fresh fruit

Llelo and I to have leftovers from the night before's dinners.

Dinners

1. Vegetarian curries - potato lemon and coriander, dhal, dhosa, lentils with lemon and mint
2. Steamed fish packets Chinese style with steamed rice
3. Butter chicken and rice
4. Chinese style beef pot roast
5. Portuguese style fresh sardines
6. Hugh's vegetarian chilli
7. Fritatta Empty the fridge
8. Smoked fish, leek and potato soup (HFW pg 82) Changing this to smoked fish, chorizo and potato soup
9. Nigella's roast chicken (on red peppers with lemon in cavity etc), rice, roast spuds and vegies
10. Chinese Chicken Rice
11. Falafels, hoummous, pita breads, tabbhouli made with quinoa
12. Roast chicken wings with roast spuds, fennel and onions (HFW pg 131
13. Thai fish curry and rice 
14. Ham, black eye beans, potato and carrot soup (boil ham bone, add 1 tb worcestershire sauce, 1 tbl apple cider vinegar, 2 teas black pepper)
15. Quiches
16. Fish pie, peas and corn
17. Crab cakes rice  and salad
18. Beans and tomato soup (HFW 97)
19. Homemade baked beans and rice
20. Mackeral, celery, orange salad (HFW 208
21. Lamb, spinach and chickpeas (HFW 256) Fried polenta chips and salad
22. leftover chicken rice chicken with noodle soup
23. Empty the fridge sushi
24. caldo verde
25. roast pumpkin, chickpea and quinoa salad
26. Sweet potato blackbean red pepper stew with cous cous
27. Sweet and sour prawns, rice, chinese vegies
28. Butternut pumpkin and chickpea patties http://foodblogandthedog.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/butternut-squash-and-chickpea-cakes-with-salsa-raita-and-red-onion-maramalade/
29. Spag bol for a treat for Giaan?

*Still in freezer

Ok, So I have to buy the following for this menu:

6 chorizos

2 chickens

1kg mince

2kg's chicken wings

Smoked fish

Dried chickpeas

quinoa

Eggs

Milk

Fruit and veg

Coconut milk

Flours etc.

January's total food expenditure worked out to $180 per week for our family of seven. Not too bad I guess. Will see how it goes for February and if I need to tweak it more to bring it down further.