Mealplans WB 19th September 2008

bertiebots

angelnikki wrote: »

Hi bertiebots

You can plan your lunches & snacks too if you want Some people do I dont bother though because I usually just have toast for lunch when DS is at nursery / on weekends and during the week when DS is home we have eggy bread / omelette / sandwiches / etc. As we always have bread, eggs & cheese in already, lunches dont really effect my shopping, so there's no need to "plan" it IYSWIM ? HTH

Nikki x

Of course..doh! I always have lunchy things in too .I am getting confused because of the meal plan/budget thing iyswim! I am in the middle of trying to cut down my food budget (again) as well .I never saw the point of doing a meal plan before because I like to be spontanious sometimes but I am begining to see the light. I think I need to step away from my slow cooker for a week!!!:rotfl:

kraftykat

Hi Everyone,

Here goes.....

TODAY - Chicken dopiaza with rice (fishfingers, mash & baked beans for kids).

FRIDAY - Bacon & mushroom tagliatelle (freezer) with garlic bread.

SATURDAY - Chinese style pork chops (in freezer, need to marinade them), salad & spicy wedges.

SUNDAY - Roast chicken, mash, roasties, stuffing, carrots, peas, turnip & chicken gravy.

MONDAY - Chicken tikka masala with rice & naan.

TUESDAY - Breaded haddock, mash, veg & white sauce.

WEDNESDAY - H/m cottage pie (make extra one for freezer) with lattice potatoes.

THURSDAY - Chilli (from freezer) & rice or baked potato.

Have a good week everyone!

TKM

Hi Everybody
This week we're having

Saturday - HM Chicken in cream and marsala sauce with roast baby new potatoes and tenderstem broccoli
Sunday - HM Chilli con Carne and Baked Potatoes (and some for the freezer)
Monday - HM Harira, Flatbreads and Couscous (freezer)
Tuesday - HM Cottage Pie (and some for the freezer)
Wednesday - Noah's Penniless Mummy's Cornish Pasties and Chips
Thursday - HM Pizza
Friday - HM Ragu Bolognese and Spaghetti (freezer)
Have a good week everybody

moneysavinmonkey

Sat Lunch - Baguettes
Sat Dinner - Breaded Sole (M&S) w/ lemon garlic potatoes
Sun Lunch - Squash Soup
(+ use other half off squash to make squash curry in advance)
Sun Dinner - Tomato Pot Roast Shoulder of Lamb
(+ use some leftover lamb to make sherpherds pie for freezer)
Mon - Ragu w/rest of leftover lamb
Tue - Beef + Guinness Stew
Wed - at a friends for dinner
Thu - Squash Curry w/ poppadoms
Fri - Duck legs w/ plum sauce - had this before but going to try in the slow cooker this time

Weekday lunches to include: ham sandwiches (gammon joint I cooked up last Saturday still going strong!), pasta salad, beans on toast, jacket sweet potato...

strawberry_laces

Did post this on another thread so apologies if you've already read this.

I was going to go to Mr T's today to spend yet more money. Tuesday I decided to go through my freezer instead and I wrote down everything. That night I made meal plans and have enough food until 12th October :eek: .

Tonight - is Fish fingers and chips
Friday -Pizza and Garlic bread
Saturday -Spagetti Bolognese
Sunday -Roast pork
Monday -Suprise dishes (portions of individual left over food I've previously frozen, everyone will get a different dish)
Tuesday - HM breaded fish and wedges
Wednesday - Sausage casserole
Thursday - Suprise dishes (again)

melli_2

champys wrote: »

Have been digging up light and low-fat recipes for the benefit of OH's waistline. The plan now looks like this:

thur - artichokes, red lentil salad, green beans
fri - chinese beef/mushroom wraps
sat - tomato & bread soup, courgette/goat's cheese crumble
sun - creole chicken parcels
mon - kedgeree with salmon & prawns
tues - courgette & smoked chicken loaf
wed - summer goulash
thur - grilled grain burgers and provencal tomatoes

good luck, everybody!

Champys what is your recipe for courgette/goat's cheese crumble?

Friday - out for a meal
Saturday - stir fry with courgette and carrot (can you even stir fry carrot?) and dried mushrooms and dried pak choi
Sunday - potato and onion soup (batch cook for lunches in the winter)
Monday through to Thursday - sausages and whatever is in my veg box and my fridge

lunches will be pasta salads (aubergine pesto or tuna or garden salad)

newlywed

melli wrote: »

Saturday - stir fry with courgette and carrot (can you even stir fry carrot?) and dried mushrooms and dried pak choi

Yes you can stir fry carrot but it still stays fairly crunchy. Either cut into thin batons (strips) or else use a peeler to create "ribbons"

moneysavinmonkey

Hi Champys, yes you can definately stir fry carrot.
You need to make sure the pieces aren't too thick (unless you like it really crunchy) - sometimes I just get potato peeler and makes thin strips to stir fry really quick.

lol -newlywed beat me to it!

great minds think alike, and fools never differ

NoahsPennilessMummy

money saving monkey.....how do you do your shoulder of lamb? and what size do you usually get? i looked at some in Mr T`s but some were whole and some half and had no idea of the size I would need...for 3 of us
many thanks
claire

moneysavinmonkey

to Noahspenniless mum -

I usually get a shoulder of lamb with bone in from the butchers. Not sure the size exactly but it's quite big and costs about £7-9.

The recipe is a Jamie Oliver one - basically you stuff rosemary + garlic into the skin them throw the meat into a biggest roasting tin along with chopped up in large pieces celery, carrots, leeks, tomatoes - then chuck in a couple of tins of tomatoes + some wine. I think the recipe calls for 1/2 bottle of wine but I'm a bit stingy so normally just put in a glass then top up with water!! Double cover it with foil + bang in oven on gas mark 4 for 4 hours. ( I think - i'll check the exact timings + oven temp tonight incase my memory is wrong!)

When it's done I take the meat out and it literally it just falling apart. There is only 2 of us (but OH probably eats double the amount of meat I do!) and I'd say we usually eat a quarter of the joint... Just serve it with roasties or mash + some of the veg and the tomato/wine sauce

I then separate out the rest of the meat and divide into 3-4 portions can make ragu/sherpherds pie etc with it so I make a couple of things for the freezer and usually have another lamb meal that week.

The recipe is in the Jamie's dinners cookbook,
or there is a version here

I just got a new slow cooker so i'm going to try it in that this time, will probably use a rolled joint without the bone as my slow cooker isn't big enough.