Yes another meal planning thread! I love cooking but it's starting to feel like an effort and very samey, we both work FT and have a toddler but we do cook from scratch. Budget is roughly £200 month and this consists of breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, toiletries, nappies, cleaning products etc. We try to have fish once (sometimes twice) a week, 5 meat meals and 1 veggie. At least 2 meals a week have to be pre batch frozen as DH also works 2 nights a week and only has 1hr at home between jobs for dinner.
I meal plan a month at a time and have a week 1 and 2 and then repeat, this means I can keep it slightly varied but also be wallet friendly, we feel like we eat well but are getting bored, so please inspire me. We're also doing slimming world at the moment but I can factor that in quite easily as it's such a flexible diet.
Recently I have been making lots of chilli, curried mince, chicken casserole, chicken soup, jacket, beans and cheese, fish fingers (help me think of a decent fish dish!), chicken thighs roasted with lemon and chilli, roast on a Sunday, spag bol.....it's just all so samey! DH is a chef but by the time he gets home he's fed up of cooking and I love it so he does other things while I cook. He is full of ideas but his 'chefy' ideas aren't so budget friendly!