We hope they’ve helped save your sanity over the school holidays! We’re going out with a bang with 5 quick, easy and delicious recipes for you to try this week. The summer holiday juggle is REAL, but hopefully by now you’ve been taking advantage of our Summer Family Meal Plan series (find more inspiration in our Week 1, Week 2 and Week 3 instalments). In our final edition of 15 minute meals or under, we bring you 5 more super speedy, zero fuss dinners for the week ahead. For reference, I shopped for this Meal Plan in June 2024 at Aldi and it cost £27.16
Why use a meal plan?
⭐️ Knowing exactly what food to buy for avoids food waste, saving you money. ⭐️ Having a plan for dinner each night avoids the mental load of “what’s for dinner?” questions every night. The printable shopping list can be found here.
15 Minute Meals {Week 1}
15 Minute Meals {Week 2}
15 Minutes Meals {Week 3}
Meal Plan 26 {SLOW COOKER SAVIOURS}
➡️ There are no side dishes in this meal plan to keep things quick and simple, but you can add anything you like, remembering to add them to your shopping list! ➡️ Remove ingredients for any meals that you don’t want to cook. ➡️ The shopping list includes the cheapest version of each ingredient. Obviously if you want to buy lower fat mince or free range etc, that’s personal choice. ➡️ Please note that there is a section in the shopping list titled ‘store cupboard‘. These are not in the main list but if you don’t have these ingredients already in, you’ll need to add them on to your shop. ⭐️ We have added long-life dried tortellini pasta to the shopping list as its so handy to have in the cupboard and is a more cost effective choice than the fresh version, however you can choose whichever type, in any flavour you prefer. Dinner 2 ⭐️ This recipe calls for cooked chicken. It’s better value to buy uncooked chicken, so this is what we added to the shopping list (you’ll obviously need to cook it! You can do this in your air fryer, or oven, depending on how much time you have), but it’s up to you what you go for. ⭐️ We bought 25% beef mince because it’s better value, however, you can buy whichever you prefer. Dinner 4 ⭐️ The microwave rice in the shopping list is there for convenience, however if you’d rather just cook your own, that’s OK too – just allow the extra time for this. ⭐️ We’ve added the plain 2-pack naan to the shopping list, but choose your favourite kind.
