Menu planning for a busy week!

If I don't plan ahead this week, I will probably go crazy!! (Okay, crazier!)

Monday and Tuesday - camping at the lake (cooking over a campfire, no Thermy - I hope I survive! but I will cook some things beforehand); Tuesday night - a baby shower (need to cook for that); Wednesday - homeschooling, dentist, and cooking for a birthday party (getting paid to make the cake); Thursday - all day in Cairns (70kms away) for Thermomix training, meeting, cooking class and dinner with Grace and Witek of Thermomix, Australia (and some special Thermomix visitors from Germany!) and spending the night at a resort; Friday - dashing back home to homeschool, clean house and prepare for Saturday, and helping run Youth Club; Saturday - more cleaning and preparing, as I'm running an "Allergy Alternatives Cooking Class" here that evening; then Sunday - church and hopefully have a break!!  Phew.  So it's going to be a bit of a juggle to organize meals this week - thankfully I'll have Grandma's help for some of them (as well as with the homeschooling!).  I've cooked some things ahead to take to our lunch in Cairns, but there's still so much to do...

I decided to add in my breakfast plan, as I've gotten a bit slack with breakfast lately, and need to hold myself accountable!! (And I thought some of you might like some new breakfast ideas - I've included photos for some.)  Here's the plan...

For more menu planning ideas, go to "Menu Plan Monday" at "I'm an Orgnanizing Junkie", or see my article here on "How I menu plan".


[tmx = prepared and/or cooked in my Thermomix]

Monday:
Breakfast: Blender Batter Blueberry Muffins (tmx)
Lunch: Sandwiches with cold meat & salad (on spelt bread)
Dinner: Campfire stew & spelt damper

Tuesday:
Breakfast: Fruit, toast (pan-fried damper) & fried eggs
Lunch: Potatoes baked in ashes, df sour cream (tmx-ed ahead of time!), raw vege sticks, fruit
Dinner: Spaghetti bolognaise with lots of veges in it (tmx) on spelt noodles (making double batch)

Wednesday:
Breakfast: Pink fruit cereal (tmx)
Lunch: leftover spaghetti & salad
Dinner: Baked beans (tmx)

Thursday:
Family fending for themselves (with the help of leftovers and Grandma!)

Friday:
Breakfast at Grandma's
Lunch:  Chicken pot pie with spelt rough puff pastry (made ahead in tmx, in freezer)
Dinner:  Leftovers & sandwiches

Saturday:
Breakfast:  Blender Batter Brown Rice Pancakes (tmx)
Lunch: Fish (cornmeal coating, shallow fried), mashed potatoes (tmx) & steamed veges (tmx)
Dinner:  Allergy Alternatives Demo - lots of yummy dairy free, gluten free, naturally sweetened, organic food!  (All in tmx, of course)

Sunday:
Breakfast:  Fruit, toast, eggs (poached in tmx)
Lunch:  Roast dinner (gravy in tmx)
Dinner:  Leftovers/sandwiches