Meal Planning Monday 2016 Week 1

Happy new year! Well, almost - 2016 starts on Friday but this is officially the first meal plan of the year. I'm determined to shed the Christmas weight I'm sure I have put on (I haven't actually checked!) and then I do need to lose some more weight as I'm getting married in June!

Monday – bank holiday – going to see my sister in Southampton then staying the night at my parents'

Tuesday- day off
Lunch: any more Christmas leftovers
Dinner: I'll have chilli, garlic and lime salmon with prawns from this recipe and he can have chicken.

Wednesday – day off
Lunch: tuna nicoise tortillas based broadly on this recipe
Dinner: Sausage ragu with butternut squash ‘spaghetti’ for me from Inspiralized, with tagliatelle for him

Thursday- day off. New year’s eve
Lunch: smoked salmon pasta
Dinner: steak and chips (with prawns as surf and turf for me)

Friday – day off (bank holiday)
Lunch: naan bread pizzas
Dinner: roasted sausage and potato tray bake

Saturday

Lunch: on the train to Cheltenham

Dinner: with my school friends in Cheltenham

Sunday

Lunch: with my school friends in Cheltenham

Dinner: burger and chips as I'm not sure what time I will be back

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