Easter Monday Meal Plan: Pace Eggs, Pizza and 5:2 Diet Recipes

Easter Monday Meal Plan: Pace Eggs, Bread, Cakes and 5:2 Diet Recipes

Easter Monday Meal Plan:

Pace Eggs, Pizza and 5:2 Diet Recipes

I hope you have got time to read my meal plan for this week, as I have decided to post a monthly meal plan………got you! Happy April Fool’s Day! A Happy Easter to all my family, friends and readers too. I have had a wonderful weekend, and plan to have a relaxing day today as well. I have managed to cobble together a meal plan, and I have set aside some “me time” on the laptop to share it with you today. All my Easter baking has gone to plan and we have enjoyed home-made Hot Cross Buns, pies, bread, cakes as well as “pace eggs” over the weekend, as well as a huge fish pie on Good Friday and some wine poached salmon on Sunday. We decided not to exchange or give Easter eggs this year, but enjoy home-made cakes and bakes instead, as well as some naughty desserts, served with edible chocolate spoons! This week also includes my monthly (April) Organic meal plan, which will be posted tomorrow, so do pop back to read my latest seasonal post, which has four new recipes to make and enjoy. I am still maintaining my weight on the 5:2 diet, but usually for only 1 day a week, but, I will be cranking it back up to 2 days (a week) next week, in an attempt to lose my “Easter treats” lbs! I hope you all enjoy the rest of your bank holiday today, and I’ll see you later today with the new Herbs on Saturday challenge. Bye for now, and I hope you find some inspiring recipes to make in my meal plan for this week. Karen

Pace Eggs

Calories in EGGS:

Small egg (37g) = 54 calories

Medium egg (50g) = 70 calories

Large egg (68g) = 90 calories

Jumbo egg (75g+) = 100 calories

Pace Eggs

NB: I am entering my plan into Mrs. M’s Meal Planning Monday link, which is a great way to share your plan, recipes as well as find new ideas for the week ahead. 

Monday 1st April:

Salmon and Spring Vegetable Bake (recipe to follow)

Salmon Bake

Tuesday 2nd – Fast Day – 500 calories:

Breakfast: Low-Fat vanilla yoghurt (45 cals) & small banana (65 cals) = 110 calories

Vanilla yoghurt and small banana

Lunch: Smoked Salmon Pitta Pizza = 194 calories

Smoked Salmon Pitta Pizza

 Tea/Supper: Meat-Free Scotch Broth = 146 calories

Meat-Free Scotch Broth Recipe

 1oomls skimmed milk for tea and coffee = 35 calories

TOTAL: 485 calories

Wednesday 3rd: 

Honey Roast Chicken

Honey Roast Chicken with Winter Roots

 Thursday 4th:

Chicken and Mushroom Pie with Mashed Potatoes

Friday 5th:

Fish – not sure what yet, but probably haddock or hake

Weekend 6th and 7th:

Saturday: Soup and sandwiches

Sunday: “Sunday Lunch” Chicken, Sausage and Vegetable Hotpot

Five-A-Day Family Supper Recipe: “Sunday Lunch” Chicken, Sausage and Vegetable Hotpot

 Recipe:

Pace Eggs – Natural Dye

Traditional Easter Marbled Pace Eggs

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Serves	12 Pace Eggs
Prep time	15 minutes
Cook time	5 minutes
Total time	20 minutes
Allergy	Egg
Dietary	Vegetarian
Meal type	Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack
Misc	Child Friendly, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold, Serve Hot
Region	British

This is a very old British tradition & method of colouring and dying eggs to be boiled and eaten on Good Friday & throughout the Easter weekend. There are commercial dyes available nowadays, but I still prefer the traditional natural methods of colouring my Easter Pace Eggs – onions skins (and also spinach & beetroot water).

Ingredients

• 12 free-range eggs
• 6 - 8 onion skins (red and yellow)
• tinfoil
• natural non-coloured string

Optional

• butter
• beetroot water or spinach water

Note

This is a very old British tradition & method of colouring and dying eggs to be boiled and eaten on Good Friday & throughout the Easter weekend. There are commercial dyes available nowadays, but I still prefer the traditional natural methods of colouring my Easter Pace Eggs – onions skins (and also spinach & beetroot water).

Directions

Step 1	Peel the outer skins away from red and yellow onions. Wrap the skins around the eggs in a random way - you do not need to cover the egg completely.
Step 2	Encase the eggs with the onion skins in a piece of aluminium foil - covering completely, OR tie pieces of non-coloured string around the eggs.
Step 3	Boil the eggs for about 5 -7 minutes. Take off the heat and allow to cool in the water.
Step 4	Peel away the string, aluminium foil, onion skins and arrange the coloured eggs in a basket or egg holder - for the centre of the Easter Breakfast, Tea or Brunch table.
Step 5	You can "polish" the eggs with a bit of butter to deepen the colours and give them a gloss. Alternative dyes include, beetroot water and spinach water for red and green eggs.

Pace Eggs

Link to all of my 5:2 Diet Recipes:

Gourmet 5:2 Diet Recipe – Scallop and Prawn Platter with Chilli Herb Vinaigrette

Lavender and Lovage 5:2 Diet Recipes

Free-Range Eggs

Note: The beautiful blue and white china that is used in my Pace Eggs photos, is Churchill China, and the pattern is Penzance; I am working with Churchill – you can read more about it here: Churchill Blogger