Weekly Meal Plan #1

It's meal plan time! 🙌

Here are your recipes for the week - 7 cosy, family-approved dinners, a dreamy dessert and two lunchbox snacks to keep everyone happy. There's a good mix of slow cooker meals, quick weeknight pasta and a couple of weekend winners, so you're all sorted!

Bookmark this page so you can come back to it all week. Happy cooking! 🍽️ x

A piece of butter chicken on a fork with green vegetables.

Monday: Slow Cooker Butter Chicken

Set it in the morning and come home to the most incredible creamy, fragrant butter chicken. Serve over rice with naan!

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a baking dish of lasagne, with a tea towel wrapped around it, with a serving being lifted out

Tuesday: Easy Beef Lasagne

Layers of rich bolognese (beef mince, tinned tomatoes, tomato paste and Italian herbs) with fresh lasagne sheets and melted mozzarella and parmesan - no béchamel needed, just tuck in!

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An overhead shot of a bowl of cheesy taco pasta.

Wednesday: Taco Pasta

One pot, 20 minutes: beef mince and taco seasoning cooked up with pasta shells, beef stock, canned tomatoes, milk and a double hit of cheddar and mozzarella for the creamiest, cheesiest weeknight dinner.

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A bowl of creamy beef and mushroom stroganoff, served over egg noodles.

Thursday: Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff

Rump steak strips slow-cooked for 8 hours with Worcestershire sauce, Dijon mustard, sweet paprika, mushrooms and sour cream - serve over egg noodles, pasta, rice or mash.

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Freshly baked chicken fajita casserole topped with golden melted cheese and garnished with fresh coriander.

Friday: Chicken Fajita Casserole

Just 5 ingredients - chicken breast, fajita seasoning, red, yellow and green capsicum, onion and a Mexican cheese blend - all baked together in one dish for 30 minutes.

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Our deliciously simple old school noodle & beef chow mein recipe is packed full of cabbage, carrot, beef mince, curry powder and noodles - a classic family favourite. #chow #mein #beef #noodles #family #dinner #recipe #thermomix #conventional #healthy #cabbage #vegetable

Saturday: Noodle & Beef Chow Mein

Old-school beef mince chow mein with cabbage, carrot, curry powder, oyster sauce, soy sauce and hokkien noodles - on the table in 30 minutes and even better reheated the next day.

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An overhead shot of steak and mushroom pie with flakey pastry.

Sunday: Steak & Mushroom Pie

Chunks of slow-cooked beef chuck with mushrooms, bacon, Worcestershire sauce and rich gravy, all nestled in a blind-baked shortcrust base and topped with golden flaky puff pastry.

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A slice of butter cake with layeres of apples and almonds on top being removed from the cake.

🍰 Dessert - Easy Apple Cake

A moist butter cake layered with fresh Granny Smith apple slices, topped with flaked almonds and raw sugar that caramelise into a beautiful crunchy crust - ready in under an hour.

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A tray lined with multiple cookies in different flavours.

Just 4 ingredients - butter, caster sugar, sweetened condensed milk and self-raising flour - mixed together and customised with any add-ins you like (chocolate chips, Milo, Smarties!), making a whopping 100 soft cookies in 20 minutes.

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Our classic Apricot Coconut Slice is completely no-bake and takes just a couple of minutes to prepare! An all-time favourite in lunch boxes or for afternoon tea.

🥪 Lunchbox Snack - Apricot Coconut Slice

A completely no-bake slice made from crushed Marie biscuits, chopped dried apricots, butter, brown sugar, desiccated coconut and condensed milk - just press into a tin, refrigerate for 4 hours and slice.

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