Our weekly meal plan! 4th - 10th August! #MealPlanningMonday

Last weeks meal plan went well. We ate everything apart from the pizza on Friday, we ended up having pizza for lunch at my dad's so ended up getting a takeaway from the Fish & Chip shop. My favourite meal from last week was the Honey sesame chicken with potato and green bean curry. It was a fun recipe to make, seeing it all come together and it tasted good too. Usually I am not a fan of green beans but this time I really liked them. My family loved the one pot pork and beef cheeseburger macaroni, it was a little too cheesy for me though.

I don't know what I have on this week, Stu wants to do something today but it depends on the weather and both the girls are home tomorrow so I am going to try and do something fun with them. The girls are busy for the rest of the week though they have loads on and have so far kept me informed about where they are going to be. Hooray!

On the menu this week we have:

Monday - I am not sure yet, it depends on what we end up doing and the weather, it's forecast rain for most of today.

Tuesday - Gousto meal - Chicken Katsu Salad With Curried Coconut Croutons. My family are not usually fans of salads but love anything which includes chicken katsu so that swung it.

Wednesday - Tuna and sweetcorn fishcakes with new potatoes. I always say Stu will eat anything but when it comes to seafood he becomes fussy. He will only eat tuna if it isn't obvious and in his face. This should be hidden enough. 

Thursday - Gousto meal - Sesame Pork & Egg Fried Brown Rice. We have had this before and really enjoyed it.

Friday - A help yourself evening. 

Saturday - Gousto meal - Sausage and mustard sarnie with smokey potato wedges.

Sunday - Pie, mashed potato and vegetables of some sort.

What are you eating this week?

A photo every day for a year! 27th July - 2nd August! Week 31 of #Project365

Sunday again, these weekends are coming around far too quickly for my liking. We're into August now and it feels like Summer is going to go by so fast. It's only a couple of weeks until my fellas birthday, then Ellie's a couple of weeks after and then Becky's soon after that and then it will be heading into Autumn. Eesh! Time needs to slow down!!

I hope you are all having a good weekend. We haven't been up to much and don't have anything planned. The weather isn't supposed to be great today or tomorrow with Storm Floris hitting. Stu was meant to be cutting the grass but I don't think the weather will allow it so I will do it during the week.

Now for a photo every day!

208/365 - 27th July

The Lionesses did it again and won the Euro's. It had to go to penalties but we got there in the end! They are an amazing bunch of ladies.

209/365 - 28th July

Home made steak and ale pie with mash and veg, not made in my home though, we went out for tea to the pub. With 30% off on a Monday it is an affordable treat.

210/365 - 29th July

My youngest! I caught her just as she was coming in and asked for a photo and she surprisingly said yes! The Nirvana t-shirt she had on wasn't an off the shoulder one a few months ago but she hated how tight it was around her neck so it has been customised. hehehe 

211/365 - 30th July

I tried and tried with the printer and got it printing last weekend but it wasn't great so we caved in and decided to get a new one. It was only £35 which surprised me, I thought it would have cost a lot more. It's near enough the same as our old one with the scanner on but works a million times better!

212/365 - 31st July

I caught Becky just before she was going out and got a photo from her too. hehehe She wasn't as sleepy as she looked, she had been sneezing. She was blaming hay fever.

213/365 - 1st August

Another ladybird in my garden! There seems to be so many this year. The other day, everywhere I looked there was a ladybird crawling about.

214/365 - 2nd August

My favourite pre-made pancakes. They were part of a meal from my Gousto box! Hot honey bacon and fried egg pancakes.

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

This week my Word of the Week is:

Stu didn't get the job he applied for and had an interview for earlier this week, there was 30 other people being interviewed and only 2 jobs so the odds were against him. Oh well, just getting the interview has given him the motivation to apply for more jobs and our week has been filled with me going through all the job advertisement websites and picking out suitable jobs. That is a full time job in it's self. lol and when Stu has got home from work he has been applying and filling in the application forms.

I always laugh that people applying for jobs get creative writing their CV but looking through lists of jobs companies are very creative with the job titles as well. A Customer Experience Agent is just customer support, a Traffic Management Operative is someone who puts temporary traffic lights up, a Maintenance Cleaning Assistant and Hygiene Operatives are cleaners, a Relationships Engagement Partner, Lifestyle Assistant or an Activities Coordinator is a care assistant and an Appointment Setter and Closer is a cold caller. lol

I found a job for Stu that I wanted him to apply for and get just so he could have some awkward conversations when people ask where do you work. It was a job at a toy factory, an adult toy factory. Use your imagination and you are probably right. They even offered staff discount and said they wouldn't judge. lol It's immature to laugh about but I guess someone has to make those type of "toys". In case you were wondering it was too far to travel so he didn't apply. Hmmf.

Applying for a job now isn't just sending a CV and cover letter, there are follow up questions, online accounts to make on the companies websites and more questions to answer. How would you handle a situation where you were overwhelmed with tasks? What does good customer service mean to you? Where do you see yourself in five years? What interests you about this role? The strangest question I've seen is what did your parents do for work when you were 14 years old? Does it matter?

Stu hasn't been the only one applying for jobs and filling out application forms. Ellie has too but her filling out the forms has been much more amusing. I will have a whole blog post to write about her job hunting, it has been challenging from my point of view, helping her create a CV and explaining to her that the companies are not being sexist when they ask if she is a Miss, Mrs, Ms, Dr, or Reverend but come to think of it why does it matter. lol We have got creative with her employment history and skills. She has an interview soon for a volunteering job which at the moment is better than nothing. She's doing something good and will have something extra to put on her CV.

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 31. #FridayFavourites

Happy Friday and happy first day of August! I have had a good week despite not really getting up to much. I have enjoyed pottering around the house and just doing my own thing. I am of course linking up with Erika and Andrea to share the things that I have loved over this past week.

England winning the Euro's!

The ladies did it again and I couldn't have been happier. We went behind by a goal which seems pretty normal with the Lionesses and I wasn't worried in the slightest despite my family panicking, they got a goal in the 2nd half and it went all the way to penalties which of course was tense but they smashed it!

Honey Sesame Chicken With Potato & Green Bean Curry!

This was the meal I was most looking forward to from my meal plan and it didn't disappoint! I didn't add all of the curry powder and it was just right, a little tingle but not too spicy and it tasted delicious! I really should have taken a photo after I had made it as for once it actually looked like the picture from the recipe card!

WWE: Unreal - Netflix!

Going backstage with WWE Superstars and staff as they bring the company's spectacles to life, from Monday Night RAW to WrestleMania. I've watched wrestling off and on for years and it's not often you get to see what happens backstage and what goes into creating the shows. I watched all 5 episodes of the documentary over a couple of days and found it so interesting, especially when it came to the matches which were planned and how they changed so much when the shows started.

A job opportunity for my youngest!

My youngest has been applying for any job which is suitable for her and is having no luck so far. It's that time of year where all teenegers and young adults decide they want a job so it's bad timing but she came up with an idea of volunteering in a charity shop where she will gain experience, have something to put on her CV and a new reference as well. She's got through 2 stages of the process and the interview stage is next which she is part dreading and part excited for.

A single Brussles Sprout!

As well growing cucumbers, I have found three now I discovered a Brussles Sprout, just the one. lol I remember planting them in pots and growing it from a seed but I thought the plant had died after I had planted it. I am proud of it, it might just be the one so far but now I know I can grow them I might do better next year!

A new printer!

We have had our printer for years and years and over the last couple of years it has been really temperamental. I spent 2 hours messing about with it trying to get it to print something on Saturday so we decided it was time to get a new one. I thought the prices of printers would be at around £100 but we got almost the same as our old one for £35. Bargain! It is amazing and just printing the test page showed us how awful our old printer was.

A job interview!

I mentioned in my Word of the Week post about how my fella Stu isn't happy in his current job so he has been applying for others. He had an interview at the start of the week and heard back yesterday, he didn't get it. That wasn't a favourite of mine but Stu enjoyed the experience of the interview and just having the interview has inspired him to apply for more and more jobs. The job he had the interview for would have been perfect but he found out there were two positions available and they were interviewing 30 people so the odds were against him.

Cool weather!

It has been a lot cooler here and I am so happy about it. It is still warm enough to go out with a t-shirt and no jacket but there's no sweating, burning in the sun and feeling exhausted from the heat! Although as I am writing this it looks cloudy and like it could rain which I wouldn't be upset about, my garden could do with the it. I always think rain falling is better for the garden than me watering it using a watering can.

What have you loved over the past week?