Today is the first day back at school for us, and since I'm a homeschooling mum, I'm surrounded by school books, papers, pencils, children, a noisy bird and a sleepy cat, trying to answer everyone at once... "Mum, I think I've forgotten how to do this!" "Mum, I'm hungry" "Mum, can I read to you?" "Mum, can you score this?" "Mum, I'm starving - when's lunch?" "Mum, I know how to fly airplanes now - I just learnt it in Science!" "Mum, how do you say 'drive' in Spanish?" "Mum, I think I'm going to faint if we don't have lunch soon!!!"... and so on. (Do you see a pattern here?)
Miss C & Shadow working hard... Lol!
Thankfully, I have some good incentives to encourage them to get stuck into their work: "When you're done you can have a piece of this Cacao Nib Almond Cake" and "Get that whole page of sums right and I'll let you play a short game on my iPhone!" (downloading Angry Birds as we speak...) So it's going pretty well here. However, I am a bit slow with the menu plan for the week - my apologies to those of you who have been waiting to link up. Three are finished school for the day, the other one is nearly done, and I'm having a 'blogging break'.
I really wanted to have a blog post done before today with healthy lunch box and snack ideas, but as you can see, I haven't had time yet. Maybe later this week when we're down at the beach for a short holiday... yay!! Yes, I know, strange time to take a holiday when school's just started, but we haven't had a chance to go away since last year and hubby has a few days off, so we're disappearing for a few days. (That's one of the things I love about homeschooling - it's so flexible.) I'll be taking Thermie with me (of course!) so we can keep eating healthy, delicious, low cost meals and snacks. I don't mind cooking when we're on holidays, as long as I have the Thermomix - it's so quick and easy it really isn't a bother. Although we usually have one or two meals out just for fun :)
So here's my plan for this week - feel free to post a link to your menu plan below. (Here's how.) And if you have any healthy lunch box ideas, I'd love to hear about them - leave a comment below, or come and have a chat on my Facebook page. Have a great week!
Monday:
(lunch) Baked potatoes, dairy free sour cream (tmx) & raw vege sticks
(dinner) Lamb & salad pizza with gluten free pizza base (tmx - base with lamb mince is cooked in oven then topped with salad and dairy free sour cream)
Tuesday:
(lunch) Raw vegan mushroom pate (tmx) with raw vege sticks & Cyndi O'Meara's gluten free bread (tmx)
(dinner) Steak, carrot & grape salad (tmx), and spinach & orange salad (from Rainbow Recipes)
Wednesday:
(lunch) Leftover salads & mushroom pate, boiled eggs (tmx), green smoothie (tmx)
(dinner) Chicken curry with sticky rice (all in one tmx meal), green salad, raw vege sticks
Thursday:
(lunch) Vege pasta (tmx - double batch for 2 meals), green salad
(dinner) Dinner out
Friday:
(lunch) Vege pasta (leftovers), raw vege sticks, green smoothie (tmx)
(dinner) Dinner out
Saturday:
(lunch) Steamed buns filled with spicy mince (made in tmx, steamed in Varoma) with salad
(dinner) Baked potato wedges, lightly steamed broccoli, peas & corn, (tmx) and raw vege sticks & green juice (tmx)
Sunday:
(lunch) Roast chicken & veges (gravy in tmx) with a big green salad
(dinner) Leftovers with spelt bread rolls, green smoothie (tmx)
Okay, all the schoolwork is done and I'd better dash off to the shop and do my grocery shopping for the week. You can share your menu by linking up below... and don't forget to leave a comment - I'd love to hear from you. :)
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