Our weekly meal plan! 12th - 18th May! #MealPlanningMonday

Monday again and it's not a bank holiday which seems a rarity this month. lol I hope you all had a good weekend and those across the pond had a great Mother's Day! We had a quiet one with the usual housework, watching TV and just pottering around the house. It was quite lovely!

Last weeks meal plan went well, our favourite meal was the Creamy Pork, Apple & Mustard Casserole, it's one I will be making again. It was so simple to make and tasted so good. Poor Becky was at work and missed out and it's something that I think she would like. I ended up with a sandwich one evening while my family tucked into the meal I cooked as I knocked my plate on the floor. Oops! They did offer to share but I didn't want to take food from them. That'll teach me to sit at the table to eat.

I don't have much planned for this week but I do have some important phone calls to make, I am building myself up to make them. I hate making phone calls at the best of times but I know when I ring the people that I need to it's always a bit of a headache. I get passed from pillar to post and then have to wait for a call back anyway, sometimes days later. Ugh! I am also going to make sure I am eating a proper lunch each day. I have slacked a little on eating breakfast too so I am not eating anything until mid afternoon and then it's just snacky things like crisps and biscuits with a cuppa. I need to stop making myself so busy that I forget about eating. It's not a good thing. I am going to make a point of making at least a sandwich.

On the menu this week we have:

Monday - Gousto meal - Hawaiian Crispy Chicken Loaded Fries With Pineapple & Chilli Sauce. A new recipe for us which I am looking forward to.

Tuesday - Vegetable fingers (like fish fingers but with just vegetables and BBQ pasta which is just pasta coated in mayo and BBQ sauce. I may add some sweetcorn to it too.

Wednesday - Home made quiche. It's been ages since I last made one, we'll have it with chips. 

Thursday - Gousto meal - One Pot Baked Mushroom Stroganoff Tortiglioni. Last time my family had this they didn't like the idea of it but absolutely loved it.

Friday - Pizza waffle fries! Simply waffle fries topped with pizza sauce, onions, salami, pepperoni and cheese.

Saturday - Gousto meal - Bacon & Egg Bao Buns With Sriracha Ketchup.

Sunday - Pie and mash!

What are you eating this week?

A photo every day for a year! 4th - 10th May! Week 19 of #Project365

This Sunday has came around really quickly! I have had a good week, it has felt like a full one but at the same time it doesn't feel like I have done much, as you can tell from my photos. A slow week always includes a lot of food photos. lol

I hope everyone over the pond is having a great Mother's Day. It got me wondering why Mother's Day is on different dates depending on what country you are in but Father's Day is always the same date. It turns out Mother's Day here is always the fourth Sunday of Lent, has been celebrated since the 16th century and is more of a religious thing and in the US it only started in the early 20th century! Father’s Day doesn’t have ancient or religious roots and from what I can read it was only created because Mother's Day was a popular thing and people realised that dad's should be celebrated too! So there's a little history lesson for you!

We don't have much on today, in fact we have no big plans at all. It's going to be a lazy day of staying in our pj's, watching TV and eating some nice food. Just as Sundays should be!

Now for a photo every day!

124/365 - 4th May.

We went out to eat and all had some delicious food. I was quite jealous of Ellie's meal. BBQ chicken & cheese toasted baguette with fries and some salad.

125/365 - 5th May.

Doctor Who was my something on in the background show this week. I have watched it from the first episode with Christopher Eccleston. I forgot how much that show makes me cry.

126/365 - 6th May.

Rainbow Drops! They were my favourite when I was a child, I remember getting them from the school tuck shop for about 10 pence a packet. They're still pretty good now.

127/365 - 7th May.

Strawberries and chocolate ice cream. It would have been normal cream but I forgot to buy it.

128/365 - 8th May.

One of my favourite things to do during the week is to pick the Gousto meals. The one's I was picking on Thursday are for in about 3 weeks time.

129/365 - 9th May.

I got some chocolate and cherry cream muffins as a treat from Morrisons. I did not expect them to be as big as they were.

130/365 - 10th May.

My nail varnish is doing well, it has been on a week and is only looking a little bit tatty. Ellie told me to buff my nails with a nail file before I put the polish on and it sticks better and she is right. Before I tried buffing my nails the nail polish didn't last half as long! They of course looked better a week ago, I've cut them right down since as long nails really annoy me!

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This week my Word of the Week is: Full!! #WotW

This week my Word of the Week is:

It has been a full week, full of fun, food, family and we've had a full house too. It has been quite a lovely week all in all.

I mentioned yesterday how I planted the last of my seeds, my little greenhouses are full of plants and the newly planted seeds have already started growing! I am thinking about putting some of the bigger one's in the ground, maybe if the weather improves a little. Hasn't this week been a chilly one compared to last week. I had to get my jumpers and winter slippers back out. Brr! Thankfully it's supposed to warm up again over the weekend and into next week. The shorts might be coming back out. I keep thinking it's cold for this time of year but it's only May, we have the rest of the summer for heat, sunshine and me complaining that I am too hot!

Also yesterday I said how I had a full house with Becky and Ellie's people over. It is so nice how they all get along. The age gap between my girls is just over 5 years and it used to feel such a big gap but now not so much. They both like lots of the same things and mostly get along well, they of course get on the best when they are ganging up on me of course. hehehe Lots of time was spent gaming on the Nintendo DS's which are back in favour again. I can't believe ours still works, it's years old and had been in the garage for about a year. I am amazed that it still had some charge on it.

My Sky TV planner was full during the week, it turns out with all the recorded episodes of the soaps, The Handmaids Tale that I downloaded until I caught up and the other random stuff I was running out of storage. I had a clear out and it's back to just things that I haven't seen yet. I shouldn't really bother recording the soaps, 9 times out of 10 I watch them and if I miss them I could always get them off catch up but since Sky TV doesn't have the reminder option anymore I look at the guide and see when they're on with the big red R for record there!

We have had some lovely meals over the last week, one at the pub. I had the garlic mushrooms for starters and steak and ale pie, mash and veg for my main! It was of course so good and my belly was full! During the week we had Creamy pork, apple & mustard casserole! It was amazing, another full belly plus the strawberries and ice cream for dessert. The only day my belly wasn't full was on Wednesday evening when I thought I would eat my tea in my armchair and I had put it on the arm of the chair while I sat down and whacked my plate with my elbow and it flipped over! Ugh! It spilled everywhere and I ended up just having a sandwich while watching the rest of my family eat! They did offer to share but I wasn't going to take their food from them.

My head was full of plans and things that I need to do so I decided to write everything down which always makes everything seem more manageable. It's not bad things, just things that need doing and need booking. May is going to be a quiet month for us then after that things will get busy. The end of the college year for Ellie in June, we have a few things on in July, maybe a night or two away sometime over the summer and then the birthdays! The girls are not being helpful, usually by now they have lists full of presents that they want for their birthdays but not this year. If they have wanted anything they have been buying it themselves throughout the year. I will keep saying it was so much easier when they were little and wanted every toy out of the Argos catalogue!

How has your week been? I hope you have had a good one! I am of course linking up with Anne who blogs at Raisie Bay for her Word of the Week linky!

What I have loved this week! Week 19. #FridayFavourites

Happy Friday! This week has felt off again with having another bank holiday on Monday, not that it makes much difference to our lives as it's my fellas normal day off work, Ellie's day off college and Becky was sleeping for work but it made Monday feel like another Sunday and then the rest of the week has felt strange. Anyway I of course have some favourites and I am linking up with Erika and Andrea to share them.

Grey's Anatomy!

I saved a few episodes up to binge watch them and I really enjoyed them. It made me think of the time when I first started watching Grey's Anatomy and could just watch episode after episode. There's only a couple of episodes left of the season so I know there's going to be some sort of big disaster or drama. Eek! 

Planting seeds!

I had a lovely afternoon in my garden on Saturday planting the rest of the seeds that I had. I don't know why I hadn't thought of putting the seed packets in front of the pots before, so I can keep track of what I have planted. When they first come through they always look the same.

I also of course did some more weeding and digging. I love my garden but not the weeds that keep coming through. Hmmf. I was walking around taking photos of the green shoots coming through the flowerbeds to check on an app that I have if they were weeds or the flowers that I had planted. I really would be lost without the Plant Identifier app.

A full house!

On Monday it felt like we had a full house, we were all home with it being a bank holiday and my girls "friends" come over too. It was nice, they all get on and are lovely kids. I say kids but they're either in their late teens or early 20's. lol It was nice to feel like I was needed making sure everyone was fed and had everything that they needed and wanted.

Clouds!

Do you ever just sit outside and look at the clouds? I do and it makes me happy especially when I see things in them like an upside down dinosaur.

Doctor Who!

The new season is a few episodes in and I am enjoying it even though this Doctor is not my favourite, my favourite will always be David Tennant. I love how it keeps mentioning things from previous episodes, like Midnight and I seem to be ending every episode with lots of questions. You can tell it is building up to something big. Eek! It has made me want to watch the older episodes so I have gone right back to watch the episodes with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor. It is the TV show which is on my TV when I want a bit of background noise for now.

Garlic mushrooms!

We ate out on Sunday evening and hadn't planned on getting a starter but as soon as I saw the garlic mushrooms I had to get them. 

I've had them plenty of times from the pub before and they're so good! I have tried making them at home before and they're just not the same so it was a real treat! The sauce is delicious and the garlic ciabatta bread is cooked to perfection!

Meeting's and phone calls!

I've have a couple of good phone calls this week that I can't really talk about. They were nothing life changing but were positive. During the week Ellie had a meeting at college, it was just a catch up but it was helpful for her and it was nice for her to hear that she is doing well. 

What have you loved over the past week?