MealPlans WB 27 November 2008

lil_me

Thanks for starting this, hope PennyPincher is ok

Right, us, me, them etc bit of a muddled up week but trying to use up for as long as possible before I do xmas shopping...........see what I can find in freezer, might be a bit repetative but needs must. Edit as I go through and find stuff, might need to day switch yet.

Thursday - sausages, egg, beans
Friday - Turkey steaks with something
Saturday - Lasagne for me, DP burgers, DSs chicken strips with some wedges etc
Sunday - Mince and dumplings, mash and veg
Monday - Chicken curry and rice
Tuesday - Fish and chips
Wednesday - Lasagne & GB

fedupandskint

Well here we go at trying to be more inventive for the third week rather than buying ready meals. This is my 3rd week of storecupboard challenge, altho' I am buying a bit of meat this week to see me through as almost cleared the freezer out a last!!

Thurs - HM butternut squash and gorgenzola risotto
Fri - SC Shin beef casserole and dumplings
Sat - HM chicken curry
Sun - minute steak and HM potato wedges
Mon - Frozen haddock, JP and frozen veg
Tues - Pasta and HM frozen tomato sauce
Wed - Sausage casserole, rice and veg

Maybe only need to by sausages now but always get a bit tempted at the butchers! This meal planning helped to focus and realise I still have almost a weeks worth of food to go yet!:o

Lunch will be HM soup or leftovers

Also will do some baking, pickling (just in the nick of time for Xmas!) and batch tomato sauce cooking and soup making:T

frugalswan

Thanks, Pen-Pen. Here's mine for the week:

Last night (as I'd just got back from emergency trip to hospital): takeaway (I know... bad me Didn't feel like cooking)
Tonight: Chicken Fajitas
Saturday: Moussaka
Sunday: Chicken Pie with mash and veggies
Monday: Leftover Pie with something (on own, so don't mind what I eat with it)
Tuesday: Tomato and bacon risotto
Wednesday: Shepherd's Pie with veggies
Thursday: Pasta Bake

Lunches will be sandwiches or leftovers, supplemented by cheapy chocolate bars (a weakness, I know) and some cakes if I can make some this weekend. Puddings will generally be ice-cream with crumbled biscuits over the top or yoghurts. I've still got my Christmas Cake to bake (it's a quick one so it doesn't really matter how long I leave it) so I might bung a sponge cake in at the same time to maximise oven use.

Have a good week everyone.

x Frugalswan x

Paige

Hi Everyone
Heres our:
Fri- Chicken korma ,rice and naan, fresh fruit salad
Sat - Visiting friends all day but need to take 2 puds
Sun- Pizza, salad,yougurts (wrapping pressies so having a quick meal)
Mon - Creole chicken, noodles, choc mousse
Tues - Lasagne and garlic bread, Banana cake
Wed - Potato and mushroom gratin, pork chops and stilton, broccoli and peas, fairy cakes
Thurs - leftover bits with rice or pasta, leftover fruits/cakes or yogurts

All HM. Breakfasts - cereals, brown toast ,OJ. Lunches - cheese, egg or tuna rolls, eggs,beans or soup with toast. Fruit and mini fromage frais. A choc treat if budget will allow !!

Have a great week.

Paige X

frugalswan

Paige, could I get the recipe for your Creole Chicken please? It sounds lovely and I'm trying to find new things to feed the OH

Emmenelle

Its getting easier this meal planning lark!! New Years resolution is to do more batch cooking and try and get a really light shop every 6 weeks...

Monday - HM Beef & Bacon Burgers with HM Spicy Wedges
Tuesday - Chicken Dippers with DS
Wednesday - HM Toad in the hole with Rustic Roasties
Thursday - HM Tomato Pasta & Garlic Bread
Friday - Spicy Sausages, rice, egg, pepper, onions & garlic
Saturday - Cheese Puff Tart (nicked from Thriftlady), Soup & Bread
Sunday - Roast Pork & Strudel

Will be making Chocolate Flapjacks (a firm family favourite now!!), a Victoria Sponge and Oat & Raisin Cookies and Choc Chip & Walnut Cookies, subject to not having any bicarb of soda!!

Good week to all! :j

hope6804

Hi hope you don't mind me joining in, my first time although I have been reading for ages. Just hope this all goes to plan.

Friday Pork Steaks in stove top gravy a la Rachael Ray
(the woman is god!:A )


Saturday Tex Mex Night
HM chilli, HM Spicy wedges, HM Potato skins


Sunday beef Ribs with roasties, brocolli carrots and swede


Monday Stew & Mash, Apple crumble & custard for the kids
(4 of them)
Chicken Myers made with HM condensed chicken soup
(OH & me)


Tuesday Chicken & Rice Stoup a la Rachael Ray :A


Wednesday Liver & onions with cheesey mash


Thursday Chicken Stovies

Will also be baking more of the great recipes for cookies that I have found here, weetabix brownies, millies cookies & hobnobs.

Lunches will be sandwiches, HM soup, eggs of some form only me and DD3 in the week

Allegra

Friday - turkey korma (freezer) (DD scrambled egg)
Saturday - chilli con carne (DD southern fried quorn burger)
Sunday - toad in the hole (with veggie hot dog for DD)
Monday - spicy beef stir-fry (DD fried eggs)
Tuesday - chicken dopiaza (DD quorn burger)
Wednesday - sticky chicken skewers (freezer) and parsley potatoes (DD baked beans and potatoes)
Thursday - shepherdess pie

Baking: cheese and onion scones, apple and sultana scones, Twink's hobnobs, and something else appley if I have the time and the energy (there are apples that need to be used up).

FemmeAuFoyer

Hi everyone,
Friday Chicken/veg/pasta soup. Bread. Choc sponge pudding and custard
Saturday lunch Pasta with stri-fried broccoli, bacon bits, raisins, sunflower seeds. Fruit
Dinner Pasta with smooth tomato veg and ricotta sauce. Fruit n yoghurt
Sunday Lunch probably sandwiches or salad. Fruit
Dinner Green lentils in cream sauce with sausages. Rice Pudding
Monday Lunch Pasta with tomato and bacon sauce. Fruit n yoghurt
Monday Dinner Rataouille and couscous. Fruit
Tuesday Dinner Tartiflette and salad. Fruit
Wednesday Lunch Beans on toast. Fruit
Wednesday Dinner Beef stew and polenta. Fruit n yoghurt
Thursday Dinner Pizza and salad. Apple compote and yoghurt

All HM of course! Other lunches will be just sandwiches or such when the children stay at school for lunch. Here in France the children either eat school lunches or go home, There's no packed lunch like in UK. Mine eat at the canteen twice a week. Breakfasts are combination of porridge and toast. Afternoon tea is generally bread and jam, but I do often make cakes and biscuits too. We eat a lot of sourdough bread at the moment. Yeast is relatively expensive here so I try to make sourdough as often as I can and save money on the yeast!

Edited: forgot to say that we are eating up the cupboards and freezer at the moment, hence lots of pasta - my cupboards are awash with packets of pasta!

juliapenguin

Saturday: lunch - HM chilli bean soup with yellow-stickered fresh coriander - hooray!
tea - Chinese takeaway and a bottle of wine in front of X-factor - even bigger hooray!
Sunday: lunch - HM bread and cheese with leftover soup from Saturday
tea - visiting Indian friends who are cooking - lucky me...
Monday: toad in the hole, potatoes, veg and gravy
Tuesday: frozen pizzas and HM Remoska chips
Wednesday: HM curry from freezer with brown rice
Thursday: book group party so not sure - I need to make something to take.
Friday: chicken breasts with spicy couscous