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Weekly Menu Plan 13 July 2015 – Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & School Lunchbox

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Indian weekly menu plan with breakfast, lunch, school lunch box and dinner – makes life easier when you are well planned!

Sundays are for setting aside 30-45 minutes to prepare a plan of all that I’ll be cooking in the coming week. It makes life so much easier when it comes to shopping, prepping and saves a lot of stress and time waste.

After my column in Huffington Post on 5 Benefits of Weekly Menu Planning, a lot of readers wrote in asking me to share my weekly plans. This is a vegetarian menu (has eggs) for a week, including kiddie lunchbox ideas. Do note that this is just indicative and you can take ideas from my menu. I follow the 5-2 way of life, so Mondays and Thursdays are very light and you can replace the soups and salads with regular meals 🙂

Here’s my plan for the upcoming week. Hope you find it useful. I have shared links of some of the recipes that you will find on my blog.

Thalagam

Bean Burgers

Green Smoothie

Breakfast Parfait

Onion Sambar

Yotam Ottolenghi’s crushed lentils

(c) Nandita Iyer 2006-2015

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