Twas the Week Before Christmas
Twas the week before Christmas
Mum is scratching her head
What will she feed the family?
How will she keep them all fed?
The kids are all growing
Their legs seem a-hollow
One wants a snack
And the others all follow
When what to their wondering eyes should appear?
Than a house full of goodies, all that Christmas cheer
But mum says “hands off”,
“That’s for Christmas you know”
The kids want to eat
While mum shrugs “dunno”…..
Okay, well that’s as far as my creative talents will take me. LOL. What I’m really trying to post here is my menu plan for this week. When I woke up yesterday morning, I thought we were in for a quiet week. By the time I went to bed we’d added about half a dozen more activities. So my quiet, get ready for Christmas week has turned into an “aaarrrrrhhhhhhh, Christmas is coming faster than I can say Merry Christmas” type week. Which makes menu planning kind of essential if we’re all going to survive (or at least eat).
So, I need some kind of plan. And it would be good if it could include lunches cos I HATE working out what to feed the kids for lunch during holidays (yes, lunch ideas would be most welcome).
MONDAY
Lunch: Homemade pies
Dinner: We’re taking my in laws out for dinner at the local pub (not a lot of choice here in the middle of nowhere). They both have birthdays in December and we never know what to buy for them. This makes a nice clutter free gift and I’m sure they’ll appreciate it as much as anything else we might spend our money on. Also means I don’t have to cook tonight OR decide what’s for dinner. :jump:
TUESDAY
Lunch: My brother and his family are coming down for a BBQ lunch. They live just under 2 hours away and haven’t yet seen our *new* house (we’ve been here nearly 3 years!!!!). Slackers!!!!
Dinner: Leftover bbq. Homemade pies or tinned spaghetti as back up plans if not many leftovers.
WEDNESDAY
Lunch: Salad
Dinner: Have 1 kid off to a birthday party sleep over and another coming to stay here for a sleepover. I know she eats pasta so will cook some pasta and spaghetti bolognese sauce.
THURSDAY
Lunch:
Dinner: Chicken Munchies with chips and salad
FRIDAY
Lunch:
Dinner: Town Christmas Pageant with local service groups selling tea so I don’t have to cook!
SATURDAY
Lunch:
Tea: Tacos
SUNDAY
Lunch: Chip sandwiches at the beach
Tea: BBQ
MONDAY
Lunch: Cold Meat and salad
Tea: Roast Turkey with Roast Vegetables and cheesecake for dessert. We have a tradition in our family that the years we’re not going to be home Christmas Day, we have a Roast Turkey dinner together at some time earlier that week. So we’ll do that Christmas Eve this year. 
Okay, I will post this and add in the rest of the lunches later…..inspire me peoples. Pleeeeaaassssseeeeeeee…….
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Wow, you are so organised! The worst thing about food when it comes to Christmas is that you buy all this nice stuff and then you want to eat it before it’s even time. Then Christmas arrives and all the Christmas food is gone! *d’oh*
Toasted / grilled sandwiches with some salad on the side?
We found mini pizza to be a good lunch good. I just use regular slices of bread instead of fancy/expensive pizza bases. I used to make my own pizza bases but it is a bit of extra effort - using beer as the liquid works fantastic in a pizza dough mix.
Great fun cutting up all the ingredients and then letting the children put together their own pizza.
Omlettes are also a good quick fix if your children can tolerate eggs (mine can’t).
Your reddish colour on the side is extending half way across the column and making your entries very hard to read darl.
Yeah, toasted sandwiches are a good standby. What about wraps filled with chicken strips and salad? Eggs on toast? Hot dogs?
L, My vote is on chip sarnies for the entire week. Well and truly my favourite food….sad really….I’m told spuds are full of vitamin C! Lisa x great planning. I’m doing leftover lamb burgers tonight, then a green chicken curry w/rice tomorrow night if these are any help at all. Great standby at our place after baked beans & spaghetti, is the tasty BLT. I always have a pack of bacon in the freezer for just such “can’t be bothered; would you all go away and eat raw vegetables so I don’t have to cook” moments.
Thanks for the great suggestions!
Bettina - I’m sorry about the page issue. I was hoping it was only me that was having trouble!!! I’m hoping it will fix itself. Anyone else having trouble with the page not loading properly?
Thanks for sharing your menu plan. You’ve inspired me to do one of my own :-).
Libby
Yes, over here, (waving hands), red halfway across the page making it very hard to read. The comments section is ok, although the comments load with a blue background which changes to green. Did you design it that way?
Lunches?
Toasted sandwiches. Bacon & egg muffins. 2 minute noodles with a stack of toast. Pancakes. Fruit and cheese platter. Individual platters or just one HUGE one for everyone to share. Fish’n'chips.
waving hand here on the red/purple thing - I really can’t read the page.
River and Tracy - thanks for responding about the colour issue. It’s not supposed to be doing that so I’m working on that. In the meantime, I have attempted to use a different font colour in my posts in the hope that it’ll be readable. Highlighting the text also helps. I know it’s a nuisance and I really am very sorry. Hopefully we’ll get it sorted out soon.
Libby - hope the menu plan goes well.
River - thanks for those suggestions.
Hope you didn’t order a Chrisco Hamper! Lots of unhappy customers haven’t received theirs as yet.
I’m having no problems with the colours at all in the blog at any stage. If it helps I’m using a windows vista platform and firefox as my browser.
Tracey - I was on Today Tonight a couple of weeks back about my Chrisco dramas. Seems that was the tip of the iceberg. Glad I got in early and got my money back.
Marita - thanks for that. I think it was showing up fine in firefox but possibly not IE.
Tracey - no, I have wanted to on a number of occasions but they’re a bit on the expensive side for my tastes. I can understand why some people would find them good though. How sad that they’re having so much trouble this year. I wonder if the business will survive?
Is working ok now.
Thankyou most precious 1.