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Recipe: Monday meals ideas – jazz up the same old, same old

November 30, 2015 by Shari

I feel like the year goes fast enough, without planning your Christmas day meal in November. So, if you can bare with me I’m going to give you some meal inspiration that isn’t very Christmasy for one last week, before I hit you with my Christmas treats in December!

I feel like when we get to this part of the year, we can get a little over the day to day routine.

We are sick of cooking the same old, same old week in and week out. If you’ve hit the wall and just want to pick up a BBQ chicken and some hot chips on the way home from swimming lessons – I see you, I feel you… I have another option for you.

Why not mix up your standard weekly fair with one of these recipes. I have two recipes that will take your weekly stir-fry to another level. And if your ‘go-to’ is Mexican {like me}, then I have two recipes that flip your Mexican ingredients upside down.

Family life is busy.  Children’s activities, school commitments and social activities fill our calendars.  It’s easy to get overwhelmed and the healthy habits we try so hard to adopt can easily fall by the wayside. I believe that supporting ourselves and our families to be happy and healthy by providing wholesome, real food options is one of the most important and valuable things we can do.

For me, having an organised kitchen and planning meals in advance helps me to stay on track when it comes to healthy eating.

 

GoodFoodWeek's chili squid stir-fry GoodFoodWeek's peanut beef stir-fry  GoodFoodWeek's Mexican lasagna GoodFoodWeek's Mexican fish and chips

Chili Squid Stir-fry

Peanut beef Stir-fry

Mexican inspired lasanga

Mexican inspired fish and chips

Have you ‘jazzed up’ one of your go to meals lately? If you have whipped up one of my recipes, I would love for you to share it on social media – don’t forget to use the hashtag #goodfoodweek. 

 

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Filed Under: Dinner, recipe Tagged With: beef, Chili, cooking at home, dinner, fish and chips, lasanga, meal planning, Mexican, peanuts, quick and easy, squid, stir-fry, the end of the year

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