Meal planning

I've made meal plans for a few years now. But every now and then I get side tracked, either I get stuck in a rut and I'm just making the same few dishes over and over again. Or I have the best intentions and buy all the ingredients for the meals I've planned.....then wind up eating out or dinners that consist mostly of toast. Scrambled eggs on toast, baked beans and toast or peanut butter toast.

I need to get back into the habit of cooking from the meal plan, so I'm posting it here for a bit of accountability. So here it goes, seven dinners for the week. Not necessarily in the order I'll cook them, I usually swap nights around here and then to fit in with our schedule for the week.

• Meatball Risotto with a side salad - loosely based off this recipe, except I make my own meatballs instead of using Italian sausage. http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/27634/tomato+and+meatball+risotto
• Left over Risotto - I'm not a huge fan of leftovers but this makes a big dish and it tastes even better the next day
• Pork chops, mashed potatoes and steamed beans, broccoli and carrots
• Oven baked fish and homemade chips with a salad
• Chickpea burgers - based off this recipe, except I cut the eggs down to just one egg white and use hardly any breadcrumbs http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/23438/chickpea+and+vegie+burgers
• Roast chicken with roasted veggies and steamed beans
• Rice paper rolls using the leftover roast chicken 

It's a bit of a mix, a few meat and three veg type meals (boring but simple) one vegetarian meal and no side dishes of toast!

Thankful Thursday #1

My poor neglected blog. Life got busy, crazy busy. My husband and I both had minor, but time consuming, health problems. Work was busy and this blog was just one of many things I let slip. 

But now I'm trying to get into a routine of posting here more regularly. I've always been a list maker and I've seen the Thankful Thursday lists floating around on blogs and knew I just had to join in. So here it goes!