Mealplanning - weekly, fortnightly or monthly?

melt71 · 20 March 2006 at 4:13PM

I know this has been touched on before in various threads, but following on from the other 'summer mealplanning' thread I wondered how you do yours? I am planning to do a fortnightly mealplanning but use it in conjuction with a shopping list to do a main shop at the start of the month. I have quite a few ideas but I don't want us to get bored with eating the same stuff all the time!

Would you be willing to post your meal plans on here to help me? Any tips would be welcome as well. So far I have tried to plan meals a week in advance but as from 1st April I want to do convert to doing a month in advance as I think it would be a better use of my time.

There is just me and my 8 year old daughter (plus at weekend my OH). so the meals will have to be family friendly/freezer friendly and not too fiddly as I'm not the best cook!

Thanks

mirakl · 20 March 2006 at 4:18PM

ok here goes: (and please excuse the spelling

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Mon Risotto
Tues Spagetti bolognaise
Wed Lasagne
Thur burgers
Fri corned beef hash
Sat steak & chips
Sun Chicken pie

Mon Roast beef
Tues meatballs
Wed tandoori chicken
Thur toad in the hole
Fri Chilli
Sat Chinese soup
Sun thai red curry

Mon nachos with chilli
Tues chicken curry
Wed fish & chips
Thur Falafels
Fri Quesidillas
Sat Tacos
Sun Roast Chicken

FZwanab · 20 March 2006 at 4:46PM

Here's mine:

Chicken curry and rice
Cod Fillets mash and beans
Meatballs, onions, mash and gravy
Tuna pasta & parmesan
Spag Bol
Corned beef cabbage and potatoes
Corned beef hash
Spag. Carbonnara
Shephards pie, peas & Garlic bread
Loaded potato skins - tuna, sweetcorn & mayo
Fish stew
Mince stew
Salmon mash & Broccoli
Quiche & carrots

nic82 · 20 March 2006 at 4:54PM

Here's mine for last week. Please note that I'm very new to menu planning and OS in general, so it isn't anywhere near as good as everyone else's.

One of my meals does include a ready made sauce :eek: but this is mainly because people have bought me shopbought sauces as part of food parcels when I moved into my new house (rude not to use them really :rotfl: :rotfl: )

Also, I go shopping on Mondays, hence my meal planner starting on Tuesdays.

Tues - Salmon, potatoes and salted cherry tomato and herb salad (a la Gary Rhodes - really easy and really tasty)

Wed - Gammon steaks with HM potato wedges, salad and fried egg

Thurs - Sweet and sour chicken with rice, stir fry and prawn crackers (this is one of the shop bought sauces :eek: )

Fri - chicken wraps with cheese, crispy bacon, salad bits and bobs and HM wedges

Sat - treated to a meal out

Sun - minted lamb chops, mashed potato, vegetables.

Mon - tuna pasta bake with HM garlic bread and salad.

Feel free to ignore this post, as reading it back, none of this looks very OS, does it?

cyrilsneer · 20 March 2006 at 4:58PM

I do a big Tesco.com shop and Boots shop at the beginning of the month for all the basics and then shop on a Monday morning for everything I need for the meals Monday to Thursday and then again on Friday morning for the weekend.

Here's this week:

Mon - Jacket Potatoes, Tuna and Sweetcorn
Tues - Sausage Casserole, Peas and Mash
Weds - Chicken, Pesto, Broccoli Pasta with Green Salad
Thurs - Grilled Cod with Tartar Sauce/Cheese Topping, New Potatoes and Green Beans

Puddings are:
Strawberry Yoghurts
Chocolate Mousses
Banana Custart
Ice Cream

Hope this helps

cyril x

Heth_2 · 20 March 2006 at 5:24PM

Here is my meal plan for the next couple of weeks:
Tonight - roast peppers stuffed with mushrooms and ricotta, steamed broccoli and carrots
Tues - thai noodles with prawns and straw mushrooms
Wed - pasta with 3 tomato and feta sauce
Thursday - pasta with spinach, ricotta and pine nuts
Friday - chicken casserole, mash, steamed veg

(sat and sun we are visiting family so no meals)

Monday - pasta with spinach and mushrooms
Tues- salmon, probably with some sweet potato mash and steamed veg
Wed - risotto with smoked fish
Thursday - filo pastry parcels with leeks and chestnuts, with some steamed veg
Friday - pasta carbonara

Penny-Pincher!! · 20 March 2006 at 5:36PM

I havent got my meal planner to hand as its in kitchen on fridge, but normally evening meals are things like:

Roasts-normally sunday
Shepards Pie and veg-normally thursday
Egg, bean & HM Chips-normally friday
Lamb stew and dumplings
Spagbol & garlic bread
Curry & Rice
Toad In Hole, mash, veg and onion gravy
Chilli Con Carne, rice and salad
Chops, mash and veg
HM Pie (left over meat from roast), spuds and veg
Sausage, mash and beans
Chicken Chausseur, mash and veg
Fried Chicken, corn on cob and mash/gravy(not too often though)
Something on baked spud
HM fishpie and veg

I normally do a meal plan for about 8 days at a time and try and get 1 free meal from this...leftover items in a quiche, or pie/curry etc.

PP
xx

black-saturn · 20 March 2006 at 5:38PM

I do a main shop once every 6 weeks as I've found that buying things in bulk works out a lot cheaper in the long run. Then I pop to the supermarket when I've run out of bread and milk and stuff like that.

PoshPaws_3 · 20 March 2006 at 5:56PM

Here you go :

Tue : h/m Bacon & Sausage Quiche (using 2 sausages from pack of 8)
Wed : h/m Pizza (using 2 more sausages, Pepperoni & cheap Mozzarella)
Thur : h/m Chicken Pie (using leftovers from roast chicken, in freezer)
Fri : h/m Cowboy beans & sausages with rice
Sat : BBQ chicken wraps & h/m wedges, Banana & Choc cake.
Sun : Roast Chicken done in Slow Cooker, veg, stuffing etc. Ice Cream & fruit.
Mon : h/m Tuna pasta bake

Tue : Smoked mackerel and couscous salad
Wed : Chicken risotto (using 2nd breast from Sunday's chicken)
Thur : Cowboy beans (using 2nd half, frozen from previous week, with extra sausages)
Fri : Mince & onions done in SC, veg, mash.
Sat : Spicy beef h/m pizza (using yellow sticker mince for 60p & cheap Mozzarella as before)
Sun : Chicken pie (using leftover leg meat, done in white sauce maybe).
Mon : Spaghetti Bolognese.

Well, that's how last week and this week are currently panning out, anyway!
I shop on a Tuesday, weekly, and make a list according to the next week's menus. However, if when I'm shopping, I see marked down stuff or BOGOF that's too good to miss, I get them, freeze them and weave them into the following week's menu plan. Couple that with sometimes making extra-large versions of some things (which then get frozen for another day), I find that some weeks, I've got four meals out of the seven, already.

hilstep2000 · 20 March 2006 at 6:09PM

Last week I bought a huge chicken, reduced from £3.99 to £1.99, so that helped!
We had:

Sunday: Roast Chicken
Monday: Chicken Korma (the rest of the leftover chicken mixed with sweetcorn and mayo to make sandwiches for lunch)
Tuesday: Toad in the Hole
Weds: Spaghetti Carbonara (With Campbells condensed cream of mushroom soup)
Thurs: Ham, egg, chips.
Fri: hm Shepherds pie (Mince layer, swede and carrot layer, then potato layer)with baked beans.
Saturday: Chinese stirfry (using on chicken breast between four of us, plus loads of veg ) and hm egg fried rice.
No one ever complains in our house, they just eat it!!!

melt71 · 20 March 2006 at 7:46PM

Thanks to everyone that has replied so far. I would be very interested in any recipes that use up left over - such as quiche? Is it simple to make or quite complicated?

For all the basic recipes I am happy to go on the indexed link but I can't find anything for Quiche.

Thanks again

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