SHOPPING LIST: Vegetable and Butter Bean Minestrone (batch of 4 portions: 1 for today, 3 for the freezer)
Meal Plan 7, Saturday lunch (batch, vegetarian)

[ ] 2 onions
[ ] 3 carrots
[ ] 2 courgettes
[ ] 1 head of garlic (you need 3 cloves)
[ ] 1 tin chopped tomatoes (400 g)
[ ] 1 tin butter beans (400 g)
[ ] Reduced-salt vegetable stock cubes (you need 1 cube)
[ ] 30 g small dried pasta (for today's bowl only)
[ ] Wholemeal bread (1 slice, optional)
[ ] Dried oregano (1 tsp)
[ ] Olive oil (2 tsp)
[ ] Black pepper

Cupboard check: garlic, stock cubes, pasta, oregano, olive oil and pepper are probably already at home.
Equipment: 3 freezer bags or shallow containers, and a permanent marker.
Freezing: cool within an hour, freeze within 2 hours, use within 3 months. Freeze it without the pasta.