This is the meal plan for our first month. This is a list of the meals that my family ate this month. There is nothing fancy so people with limited experience in the kitchen should be able to recreate these dishes.

4 people for an entire month means we are looking at 120 serves of breakfast, 120 serves of lunch and 120 serves of dinner. It’s a hard task but we can do it!

I am terrible at being told to eat certain things on certain days and that’s why I’ve made a monthly meal plan instead of a weekly meal plan, there’s nothing worse than feeling like you don’t have a choice. For this reason I have told you how many serves or meals of each food I have allowed for and I will leave it to you to determine what day you eat each meal. This will allow you to buy items from the shopping list as you need them instead of buying them all at once. Here is the shopping list for the ingredients required for the Month 1 Meal Plan.

Breakfasts

70 serves of wheat biscuits (2 biscuits per serve)

45 serves of porridge

5 serves of toast with jam (2 slices per serve)

Lunches

67 sandwiches

33 serves made from the leftovers from dinners

8 serves of Bacon and Vegetable Impossible Pie (either on a sandwich or with salad)

6 serves of Pasta Bake

6 serves of Bubble and Squeak

Dinners

2 nights of Spaghetti Bolognaise

Spaghetti Bolognaise Pastries

2 nights of Bacon and Vegetable Impossible Pie (served with salad)

Chilli Con Carne Burritos

Mexican Pizza

Bacon and Cheese Pizza

Nachos with Carrot and Potato Chips

Curried Sausages and Rice

Curried Sausages and Rice Pastries

Sausages with Vegetable Fritters

Creamy Curried Chicken with Rice

Sausages with Mash and peas

2 nights of rissoles with vegetables

Salmon Patty Burgers

2 nights of pumpkin soup

2 nights of Chow Mein

Chow Mein Pasties

2 nights of Vegetable and Lentil Soup

Bacon Carbonara

Four Bean Casserole

Chicken Drumsticks with Hasselback Potatoes – served with salad

2 nights of Chicken and Vegetable Stir Fry with Oyster Sauce and Noodles

Mexican Chicken Tortillas

Snacks/Treats

You can make your choice of the following (but not all of them)

Carrot Sticks

Jam Drop Biscuits (makes 24)

Oat Biscuits (makes 12)

Pancakes

Cupcakes (makes 24)

Chocolate Muffins (makes 12)

Anzac biscuits

Honeycomb

Weet-Bix Slice

Bacon and cheese scrolls (makes 12)

Caramel Biscuits