Last week's meals

Pollo in Pottachio (link to recipe)
I've made this before and we all enjoy it. I use stock or fruit juice in place of the wine. I served it on pasta.

Slow cooker beef stew served with pasta or rice.

Jacket potatoes with cheese and baked beans.

Homemade pizza with ham and pineapple on.

Chinese style sticky pork served with rice and stir-fried vegetables.

Low fat oven chips with oven fish.

Toasted sandwiches with cheese and baked beans or ham and cheese.

Poppy seed chicken (link to recipe) served with rice.

Some recent meals

Swedish meatballs (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
The first night I served them with oven chips and steamed carrots, corn and green beans. The next night I had the leftover meatballs and sauce over pasta (delicious!) while the rest of the family had chips from the fish-and-chip shop and battered (fried) snapper that Grant had caught.

Chicken Divan (link to recipe)
I adore this and would eat it at least once a week. I add a teaspoon or so of curry powder to the sauce and it just makes it. Serve over rice.

We've been eating a lot of roasted butternut, potatoes and beetroot - I sometimes throw some onion in there too. So delicious and easy and I just add some chicken breasts or minute steaks to make up a full meal.

Some of this week's meals

Homemade hamburgers with oven wedges.

Chicken thighs "roasted" in the slow cooker, served with potato puffs, gravy, and steamed carrot, broccoli, corn and peas.

Creamy Lemon Tortellini Bake (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I left out the lemon zest and used leftover chicken instead of bacon (I think it would be awesome with the bacon though!) Everyone liked it - what a miracle - although Noah did pick out the spinach.

Beef stew with rice and steamed Brussels sprouts and broccoli.

Four Cheese and Sausage Stuffed Shells (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I couldn't find pasta shells so I just did the pasta, cheese mixture and tomato mixture in layers. I also halved the recipe as the original serves 12.

Some of this week's meals

Pork chops with roasted diced potatoes, steamed carrots and broccoli, and gravy.

Skinny Chicken Enchiladas (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I only had 10 inch tortillas so I used 4. I found this recipe serves 4 if the enchiladas are all you have. They were delicious! However, the kids didn't think so and acted as if I was poisoning them.

Stuffed pepper soup (link to recipe) out of the freezer as I wasn't in the mood to cook after a day at work.

Bobotie served with rice and steamed carrots and broccoli.

Pam's Lamb stir-fry (frozen product). It was okay, probably won't re-purchase.

Some of this week's meals

Slow cooked BBQ beef (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
We had this on rolls with not much else - bit of a rushed meal. It was good but the sauce is quite strong - I'll use fewer ingredients next time and add some water.

Cheesy taco pasta (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
Delicious. It is a small-ish portion, don't know if it would truly feed 6 as the recipe states. We got 4 generous portions out of it - in future I'd probably split it into 5.

Pasta with Italian chicken sausage, peppers and escarole (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I tweaked it a little: left out the red pepper flakes, added a can of chopped tomatoes to the sausage mixture, and left out the escarole.

Cheeseburger casserole (link to recipe)
(A new-to-us recipe which I will make again.)
I didn't have turkey mince so I used 350g steak mince and the rest turkey sausage meat. I also didn't have low fat evaporated milk or the cheese product - I used grated cheese and low fat sour cream. Everyone except Noah enjoyed this. I found the recipe served 4, not 6 (the portions would have been too small) but maybe that was because I was so hungry by the time it was ready.

Stir fry

Stir fry made with cabbage, courgette, red pepper, yellow pepper, onion, carrot, broccoli, leftover chicken, leftover pork and chicken flavoured instant noodles.

Chicken dinner

Skinless chicken thighs done in the crockpot; steamed broccoli, carrots and corn; risotto rice done with onions, garlic and chicken stock; gravy.

Stir fry

Now that life has finally settled down and we are in our new home country and Grant is back with us, we can move forward with our new "normal".

Tonight we had stir fry that I made with onions, carrots, capsicums (red pepper), cabbage and chicken breast. I then made a couple of packets of chicken-flavoured instant noodles and threw those in (without the liquid). Served with soy sauce to taste. Very tasty and only about 5 Weight Watchers ProPoints for the amount I had (21 for entire recipe).

Chicken dinner

Roast chicken thighs (done in the Crockpot), roast potatoes, steamed carrots and broccoli and corn.

Chicken and bacon risotto (WW recipe)

Daniel and I enjoyed the risotto but Noah wasn't keen. WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

Chicken and chips

After a horrible, no-good afternoon I just threw some chicken breasts and chips into the oven and Grant did steamed butternut and onion. Brownies and ice cream for dessert because I NEED COMFORT FOOD TODAY!

Fried chicken

I tossed some chicken breast pieces in a flour / breadcrumb / herb mixture and fried them. Served with savoury rice and salad.

Chicken pasta bake

I made a simple pasta dish - cooked pasta, cooked cubed chicken breast, can of chicken soup and some mayonnaise, cheese on top and baked until golden.

Chicken dinner

Roast chicken dinner with steamed veg and roast potatoes and a little leftover potato hash.

Sweet and sour chicken

Stir fried chicken and vegetables with sweet-and-sour sauce (from a jar - wasn't very good), on rice.

Zeko's

Take-away from Zeko's

Chicken and hash

Potato hash, leftover roast chicken, steamed corn and asparagus.

Chicken dinner

Roast chicken, low fat oven chips, steamed asparagus, broccoli, carrot and baby corn.

Chicken wings, chips, veg

Frozen BBQ chicken wings done in the oven with low-fat oven chips, and steamed baby corn, carrots and asparagus.

Poppy seed chicken

Tonight we had poppy seed chicken again with rice, green beans and butternut squash (mashed).