Meal Plan week 1 £15 per person.

 OK so this is the outline sketch of the meal plan for week 1 of the £15 menu - if you do not remember then what I bought is in the post here.  I need 21 meals for one person in total.  3 cups of tea a day within budget otherwise if I get thirsty there is always water!  The days here are interchangeable and I have assumed that you have access to one freezer drawer as most people have a fridge freezer nowadays.

Day 1

Breakfast - 2 slices toast and spread

Lunch - Slice of eggy bread made with one slice of bread and 1 egg (use margarine to cook)

Dinner - Lentil Dahl with homemade flatbreads

Day 2

Breakfast - 2 slices toast and spread

Lunch - Minestrone soup made from 1/4 of the tomato sauce plus small handful mixed veg and a small handful of pasta, use 1 slice of bread to make croutons

Dinner - 2 sausages with 2 scrambled eggs and 1/3 tin baked beans with 1 slice toast - OK it's a cooked breakfast but why can't I have this for dinner?

Day 3

Breakfast - 2 slices toast and spread

Lunch - 50-75g pasta in cheese sauce - make enough cheese sauce for 4 - freeze the remainder

Dinner - Lentil Dahl with homemade flatbreads

Day 4

Breakfast - 2 slices toast and spread

Lunch - cauliflower cheese using about 100 g of the cauliflower/broccoli and 1/4 of the cheese sauce

Dinner - Homemade pizza - top with 1/4 tomato sauce and 1 sliced sausage plus cheese

Day 5

Breakfast - 2 slices toast and spread

Lunch - baked bean "meatballs" in 1/4 tomato sauce with pasta - the 2/3 tin of baked beans left over from earlier in the week

Dinner - Lentil Dahl with homemade flatbreads

Day 6

Breakfast - 2 slices toast and spread

Lunch - Quesadilla with beans and cheese filling

Dinner -Pasta bake - 75 g pasta, 1/4 of the tomato sauce, 1 sausage sliced, handful of frozen veg, top with one slice of bread crumbled and some cheese.

Day 7

Breakfast - 2 slices toast and spread

Lunch - Cauliflower cheese with more of the leftover cheese sauce with 2 sausages on the side.

Dinner - Lentil Dahl with homemade flatbreads

I also have 3 eggs and some flour left over so I can make myself a batch of cupcakes for sweet snacks during the week!

I could also have made onion fritters (read bhajis but shallow fried) to go with my dahl.

At the end I have almost half the lentils left, some onions, some veggies, half of the pasta, half of the flour, 2 sausages, half of the garlic and most of the mixed herbs and curry powder to carry over into week 2. 

and I did not resort to beans on toast or a cheese sandwich which was my worst fear at the beginning...