GROCERY HAUL (ALDI) + MIX & MATCH MEAL PLAN 

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I’m a single pensioner living in Brisbane on a tight food budget. I’m also coeliac, I understand the minefield being gluten free. These recipes are very helpful and I will definitely be giving them ago. Thank you I have followed your videos for sometime actually from the Freya days.

The meals sound great, looking forward to seeing more cooking! I've never heard mix and match before, so basically you are buying ingredients that go in multiple meals? I should start doing that

Yes, I really enjoyed this style of meal planning video. We just finished a giant bowl of pasta salad, and tomorrow I'm making lentil sloppy joes - yum!

I would rather buy the cheaper eggs and buy the more expensive rice like basmati that has a wonderful smell, texture and flavor naturally. I find when I buy the cheaper rice it has so many broken pieces that it has a tendency to come out mushy and tasteless…I am all about texture and taste…if I am going to use my calories on a starch like rice I want to enjoy it not just to be a filler. Though even if it is the main filler…you still want it to be a nice texture and flavor. So, an investment of a large bag of rice at Sam’s or a whole Sale club ( if in your area), is the way to go in my opinion. Not having to run to the grocery store every week, saves on gasoline, time, and health…the less time spent in grocery stores among sick people you’re less likely to have to spend time at the doctors office and nursing loved ones. It seems to be a win win situation for me. Buy buying large pieces of meat, chicken etc, you can make quite a few meals from that one piece of meat. A roast for example can yield: a roast dinner on Sunday, take some to make a cottage pie, roast beef sandwiches, barbecue sandwiches, stew and homemade vegetable-beef soup. By going by portion size of 3-4 oz per serving and adding sides of starches and vegetables…this one large roast will yield plenty. If not enough to make one of these dishes, make wraps, and save any scraps in a small container that you will add to later with other scraps of cooked meat to make a five meat pizza to stretch until next pay day( roast beef or steak scraps, pork… ground sausage, roast or pork chop), bacon, pepperoni ( 4 slices cut into 1/4 pieces), then embellish with anything you have a dab of: hot or salad peppers, mushrooms, etc. Do a clean out the fridge pizza with any vegetables you want to use up, barbecue pizza out of any leftover chicken that doesn’t serve you or your family. Any tiny pieces of chicken boiled off of carcass while making chicken stock…use to make pot stickers.