GROCERY HAUL & MEAL PLAN FOR A FAMILY OF FIVE | MAY 2024

Hi everyone!

Hope you are all well and you have some sunshine on this Saturday morning! Here is another grocery haul for you all. Enjoy! And have the best Bank Holiday weekend! xxx

MEAL PLAN

THURS – Homemade pizzas for the play date. Mark is cooking for us – and yes, I was right! It was vodka pasta! https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/pasta-alla-vodka
FRI – Crispy cod soft tacos for the kids.
SAT – Curry night! As we still have some in the freezer to use up.
SUN – *Potential BBQ*
MON – Chilli out of the freezer for us. Fresh pasta and pesto for the kids, garlic bread and salad.
TUES – Greek night – homemade hummus, pitta, grilled chicken, olives, honey-halloumi in filo pastry with hot honey.
WEDS – All Day Breakfast

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hi everyone and welcome back to my channel so this is going to be another grocery haul and meal plan so if you want to see what we bought for the week ahead and what meals were we in then keep [Music] watching we have a Tesco order I I it a little bit to be honest because I did it in such a rush that I forgot the majority of the vegetables really okay I’ve forgotten like salad stuff I’ve got lettuce but no tomatoes and cucumber it’s not a hard CH it’s not like I can’t go out and get them and we do still have some carrots cett and peppers in and I think a bit of cucumber so we’re going to live we’re going we’ll be fine um but it’s uh yeah it looks a little like nutrition low um it is cuz I’m stupid but sometimes you know when you’re just doing it and I was doing it on my phone and I was in a rush I’d forgotten to do it and here we are um it is a Tesco one as I’ve said and I have worked with them recently over on Instagram um but this isn’t an ad and I’m just going to get cracking because otherwise I talk too much and yeah let’s get going okay so when I said I messed up with the veggies I I really wasn’t joking that there’s a lot of space here for veggies and and there are none um I do have a few things that like I made not of to buy but I obviously just forgot the everyday essentials that we always get so forgive me I will Stu up don’t worry but we did get some Chestnut mushrooms go team and some H lettuce and an onion which markers added we still do have some onions left um so that’s why I didn’t add any uh but I’ve basically forgotten tomatoes cucumbers mini cucumbers garlic um other bits and Bs we do have some stuff left in the fridge though um so it’ll just be a case of grabbing it when I need it I’m just going to turn this off we have a little Eco clean setting on this oven and can you see all that that’s like burnt off um dirt oh my God it stings my eyes though every time I open it G right let’s get back to business so um yeah this is rubbish but watermelon satum is but that is a crap looking one the only thing about getting your shop delivered is that sometimes you do get things that you wouldn’t necessarily pick yourself but it’s just look of the drawer um got some raspberries blueberries strawberries pomegranates and bananas [Music] and what are you called pineapple we do have apples left over that and some bananas that I’m going to make a banana bread with um but I got some more because I found when I don’t get them that’s when everybody wants them um so hopefully my family doesn’t disappoint me with my theory there tomato pure apparently tomorrow I should have put over there with the rest of the ibuprofen but we’ve got some of that some beans mix up smart added those he has them with Greek yogurt and honey and seeds and fruit in the morning uh rigaton he’s added macaroni I’ve added because that macaroni packet that I showed you last week I don’t know why but I thought it was going to be like a pastor and sauce type Vibe where the Macaroni was in it and I went to make it and it was like no need macaroni hun and I know that maybe that was obvious but to me I just didn’t think so I’ve had to save it repackage it back up and now I’ve got macaroni to do it with totalen or TotalOne sorry the Flor cheese one uh flatbread marks added that this so handy for nights where you have to be really quick with clubs these are a godsend um then we’ve got some Richmond sausages they were on offer the black pudding was also on offer I’ve never had Simon Ho’s black pudding before that sounds like you from mean it to be and then we’ve got some streaky bacon um these and these were 2 for5 so I got some battered Cod filp bites which I’m going to put in tacos for the kids these are to do an all day breakfast with at Daisy’s request and then I got two packs of ham because they all love ham um Chinese chicken thighs got those again and the Bigg is TE for £8 um because I’m going to do a barbecue again hopefully or an attempt at one because last time the day that we were me meant to do it it had a thunderstorm in the evening instead so we didn’t but never mind and then I got some lamb leg Stakes because these were on offer for5 so I thought I’d marinate those and Grill them to do with like like a Greek night type thing um Gran Bano cheese two packs of the mozella cheese milk halumi double cream yogurt Mark I did those CRPS for the is p fer pastry um just R pan of chow on offer corn to t- wraps bash buns um toasty and the leaning tower of bagels there uh I went for red onion and tri cuz they had no Sesame and um I thought I’d give those AO CU i’ not had them in ages and then Frozen stuff which I actually really quickly need to get away more hash brand bites so w down really really well the kids really like them some twister pea Blues Co fresh garlic Nan garlic bread slices again a great one to have in for quick meals cuz you can take out one per person and then leave the rest in the freezer and then stands favorite mint cornettos got some chocolate chip cookies and some dark chocolate digestives for Stan’s biscuit jar which is looking very sad and pathetic I call it St biscuit jar it’s obviously not it’s just that he really likes milk and cookies as he calls it as a snack um so I thought I would get a couple of new things to put in there more of these zombie fruit leathers the kids loved them and um yeah they seem quite nice by counts they were super cheap and they are just a top tier biscuit in my opinion these pepper are on offer so I’ve got the bigger packs I got some little bars bigger squeezes no long on offer sadly W um Peach and pear in tropical flavored jelly I thought that sounded really nice uh tubes Garfield Twisted cheese strings and then we got PR cocktail sebr Rich variety pack and Doritos and then over here just a random bits say Starbucks creamy vanilla they were still on offer which is why I bought them Apple chees I accidentally got a liter I meant to get two simple and Dove they marks Edition sweet um we’ve got a play dat cominging tonight so I thought i’ get a few little bits and then maybe save the others for Cricket because we usually like get snacks in as a group of friends for when the kids are finished just so they can chill for a bit we can still chat cherries and berries orange lemon and pineapple squash coconut Parks those marks ibuprofen and the paraca marks as well and then the Barista coconut is mine and that is everything so on to the meal plan um Sorry by the way if there’s background Roy I should have said that earlier but the dishwasher and the oven clean thing is on so you can hear a bit of noise that’s that’s what that is but let’s get cracking so Mark is cooking tonight and it’s another one of those I don’t know what he’s doing because I can’t tell the only Clues I’ve got is he’s added Gran and Padano and I think he’s added cream which makes me think that he might be doing the VOD Capac and if that’s true you have to check in the description box and see if I was right cuz it’s really nice it’s like a basically XII haded for capasta went viral a couple of years ago I used to make that um quite a lot and then Mark was when he was cooking one night he was like what is that recipe that she uses couldn’t find it but BB see had like made their own actually I’m pretty confident that’s what he’s making because his tomato puree as well if that’s the case I’m happy because it’s really tasty um and then for the kids we’ve actually got a play date tonight so Stan’s got like a group of friends that he’s had um for ages but as they get older they do kind of Branch off and like make new buddies and stuff don’t they and and kind of add welcome everyone into the fold and this little boy they used to be really close when they were at like preschool together and by a strange turn of events I also went to high school with his mom um so he’s coming around tonight and I want to like do a good job because a lot of the kids friends like when they come around for play dates and I know them it’s very chill I just let them go off and do their own thing and make a nice dinner this that and the other but when it’s like a first time thing I like to put a bit of effort in so I’m going to get the bread maker going in a bit and I’m going to do some homemade pizzas with them because I think it’s quite a nice activity it gives like the little one that You’ got coming around a bit of autonomy over what they’re eating because they get to choose and you know they’re a little bit nervous and they’ve not done anything like that before then it’s quite nice I just got so nervous then so I’m in the kitchen and I saw a movement in my garden you know like just peripherally and at first I thought it was the washing on the line and then I was like oh my God it’s piercing but it was my neighbor that dog escaped through into our garden at the weekend when was it Sunday night she must be checking something but like I could fully see it and I literally like froze you know like when you were doing headlights anyway um where am we up to yeah play dat so we’ve got him coming around um and that is that and then obviously Mark be doing Vlog Pastor I think sorry I I feel like you know when you just genuinely feel scared for a second um Friday is Cricket back on track now come on focus and I’m going to do some crispy cards nugget like uh fish tacos for the kids we’ve done those before they went down really well and it’s a nice quick and easy one because we need to get them there quite quickly after school and it can be quite Manic and then for Mark and I were’re leaving it open because sometimes he likes to grab a pizza um cuz it gets quite late by the time we get home so I’m just kind of leaving that open for now Saturday when you do Curry night we still got some in the freezer to cheese up and I’ve still got a sauce that I got last week that I didn’t end up using that I’m going to make for the kids and I’ve got some chicken in the freezer and got now we got rice so that would be really nice and it’s just a quick and easy one um Sunday I I’ve got down potential barbecue again because the weather’s meant to be really nice and we’re actually out visiting Mark’s mom on Saturday cuz it was her birthday earlier on this week um so we thought we’ll do that on Sunday cuz it’ll be a little bit more chill um Monday I’m going to do chili out of the freezer for us kids swimming and I’m going to do fresh pasta and Pasto for the kids so I’ve got some Pasto teas up and it’s a nice quick one and I’m going to do garlic bread slices with that and some salad if I actually buy the salad which I will do um cheese day I’m going to do Greek nights I’m going to do some homemade hummus Pitter I’ve got some lamb steaks I’m going to marinate and Grill got olives in we’ve got I’m going to do honey halumi in felo pastry and yeah it would just be like a nice little picky one that will be like filling and tasty but also quite quick cuz we still got to get out to the second round of swimming of the week um and then on Wednesday we’re going to do an all day breakfast because Daisy asked for that so I thought why not let’s do it and yeah that is everything I’m still shaking up you know when you just i s I don’t know what’s wrong with me I that’s anxiety for you it’s made my heart go anyway have a lovely day I hope you are all doing something nice and the weather’s been kind to you or you’re having a lovely evening if you’re watching this at night and I will see you all very very soon he