Our weekly meal plan - summer

 Hello!

Man Wonderful is sat watching the Tour de France on the TV this afternoon. We had a 3-mile walk this morning and came home to a huge salad, using up the raw veggies in our fridge as today is Veg Delivery Day!

We have been having our weekly fruit and veg delivered for a couple of years now - this was invaluable during the Lockdowns, and it is a fab way for us to eat healthily and within our budget.

For those who don't knw, Man Wonderful is retired and I had to retire with ill health.  (We were both teachers when we met almost 22 years ago...where did that time go?!).  Consequently, we need to bit a little careful with our pennies.

I can choose what we would like from the online farm shop, and most of the products are from local farms. 

Today we had the following delivered:

. 1kg apples

. 1 bunch asparagus

. 1 avocado

. 1 bunch bananas

. 2 large heads of broccoli

. 1 green cabbage

. 1 red cabbage

. 1kg carrots

. 1 bunch of celery

. 500g courgettes

. 1 cucumber

. 1 bunch fine green beans

. 1 melon

. 1 paper bag of little gem lettuces

. 500g mushrooms

. 1kg onions

. 2 large oranges

. 1 kg satsumas

. 1 kg pears

. 3 peppers

. 500g plums

. 1 paper bag of spinach leaves

. 1 bunch spring onions

. 500g cherry tomatoes

. 1 kg large tomatoes

Nothing comes with plastic wrapping, and the delivery is in a large recycled veg box.

You might think that's a lot of fruit and veg for two people - and you would be correct!! It is the base of what we eat.

What we usually eat in a day:

Breakfast

Most days we eat porridge oats, soaked overnight and eaten the next day with 1/2 a banana.  Some days we have rye bread toast or scrambled eggs.

Lunch

Every day we eat a huge salad featuring raw veg as well as salad veg.  We have tinned fish/beans/sliced quorn/eggs for our protein.

Dinner

Most days we eat a veg protein or some fish with a huge pile of steamed veggies.

Sometimes we have a stir-fry with quorn.

Once a week we have a Man Wonderful veg chilli.

Often we eat homemade curry.

Occasionally we eat at daughter's house.

Puddings

Fruit, fruit and more fruit.

Sometimes rye bread toast (Man Wonderful).

Tracey xx