The November Food Challenge!

Flyfour, the children and I were having a family chat, about nothing in particular just some family fun and during a long car journey, when we started a conversation about our diet. We all talked a little about how we could reduce our monthly shopping bill, our monthly cost for school lunches or food when we aren't at home, be more mindful about what we were eating when we weren't at home and doing a couple of little things that we hoped would be better for our health. Little things like eating less meat and processed foods, eating more fish and vegetables and of course a lot more exercise!

It wasn't that we needed to reduce our shopping bill, it wasn't really that we even needed to eat more vegetables or less meat. It was just that we wanted to be a little more mindful about it all. I think I said something about how we could do a food challenge for November as that could help reduce our food bill a little, help us to be a little more mindful about what we were eating and would be fun and Flyfour thought it sounded like a great idea, and so did the children! The question was what would the challenge be? We talked about a few things that we all liked and then we decided it was obvious it had to be Sandwiches for our evening meals for the challenge!

We started listing a few of our favourite sandwiches, quite loose on the definition of what a sandwich was, I mean there was a Salad on the list, but we realised that a lot of our favourite dishes are bread-based! Here are just a few of our ideas.

Beans on Toast

Cheese Toasties and Soup

Breakfast Muffins

Bacon Rolls

Sloppy Joes

BBQ Chicken Burgers

Chicken and Salad Wraps

Smoked Salmon Bagels

Panzanella

Fish Finger Sandwiches

Tuna Melts

Bread Pudding

Fondue

Baguette Pizza

French Onion Soup

Meatloaf Sandwiches

Sandwich Sushi

We are going to pair up most of the sandwiches with a side salad or raw vegetables or sneak in extra vegetables to the sandwich/wrap/whatever bread-based dish it is that we are eating. I'm so excited and can't wait to see what savings we make and what dishes we can come up with!

Oh and Friday this week?

We're having Chinese style duck wraps for our evening meal. I'm so excited!