Mardathas meal planning thread

Penny-Pincher!!

mardatha wrote: »

I'm trying my first real, proper, serious menu plan. I am sitting here with big notepad, a pencil, a list of what's in my freezer, and I'm stuck !:rotfl:
Here is what I have in the freezer, meat only cos I can work out the veg meself LOL...
Lots of lamb mince
Lots of chicken thighs
Lots of posh sausages
Could we start with a week or is it easier to do a fortnight? Only two of us and we eat very very plain food. (OH diabetic and fussy, and I'm a rubbish cook )
No pasta
No rice
No curry
Just old fashioned food. Does anybody think they can help?

We eat a lot of lamb mince as I find beef difficult to digest sometimes. I do a basic and very easy savoury mince.

Chop an onion, fry a little. Chop a carrot into small pieces and add to onion. Add mince and cook through. The I add 2 oxo cubes and half pint boiling water, peas and tinned spuds. Cook slowly for 15 mins and it will thicken. Tastes lovely and you can use any leftovers in it.

Meatballs & Mash

Meatloaf & Mash

Sausage Cassarole & Baked Spud

Toad In Hole

Sausage & Mash

Chicken stew

etc etc

HTH

PP
xx

mardatha

Lovely PP, thanks pet x

mardatha

Just realised we seem to be living on mince & tatties and I don't even LIKE it :(v Can't think of anything cheap that he will eat. Help !
No pasta whatsoever (diabetic and it puts his BG through the roof)..
No rice likewise plus he hates it anyway...
No foreign stuff (aka chilli, curry, or anything with a funny name. I cant cook it and anyway he wont eat it ) ..
We like lamb WHEN we can afford it. Which means once a year ish..
We like lamb mince, beef stew, cottage/shepherds pies, & chicken. Eggs/cheese/liver
I need to stay under £40 for 2 of us for the week. As far under as poss
Anybody ???

Sublime_2

Tough one! Layered mince, and potato bake. Could use a tomato based sauce in between layers, and top with cheese. Bit like cottage pie, but different.

Rubber chicken. Using chicken carcass boiled up to make stock, and then soup. I can make enough soup to last 3 days with one carcass.

Stretch meals out using pulses. I love pulses, and lentils, and use them as often as I can, ie pork in my slow cooker, with butter beans, cider, and leeks.

jackieglasgow

What about mixing your mince in with some diced onion, carrot and turnip and making pasties Mardatha?

Stovies? Irish Stew (I know technically this is foreign, but its still Celtic ) ? casseroles?

No pasta or rice? Could you get away with making the mince into meatballs and having it with spaghetti?

Toad in the hole?

Quiche?

You haven't mention ham or gammon, will he not eat that? A joint once a month might be a good idea, for dinners - you could also use if for sandwiches, pie fillings and so on.

lilac_lady

Make your own beefburgers and serve with real chips. Let your OH come up with a menu?

Nelski

mardatha wrote: »

Just realised we seem to be living on mince & tatties and I don't even LIKE it :(v Can't think of anything cheap that he will eat. Help !
No pasta whatsoever (diabetic and it puts his BG through the roof)..
No rice likewise plus he hates it anyway...
No foreign stuff (aka chilli, curry, or anything with a funny name. I cant cook it and anyway he wont eat it ) ..
We like lamb WHEN we can afford it. Which means once a year ish..
We like lamb mince, beef stew, cottage/shepherds pies, & chicken. Eggs/cheese/liver
I need to stay under £40 for 2 of us for the week. As far under as poss
Anybody ???

Beans on toast
Turkey twizzlers
teddy shaped chicken nuggets
eggy soldiers

Sorry but I would be very new style on this one and tell him to cook his own:)

I get the wont eat stuff that puts his BG up but the no foreign stuff or funny names :eek::eek:

I remember my dad hated foreign muck but had to admit defeat when he found out my mum had been using garlic for years and just not told him Some men just need to grow up or cook for themselves I guess

rocketdog_2

jackieglasgow wrote: »

No pasta or rice? Could you get away with making the mince into meatballs and having it with spaghetti?
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Pink.

Hi Mardatha,

From memory he likes chicken and sausages too. These threads may give you some ideas too:

More exciting mince recipes

lamb mince recipes!

Chicken Thighs

What can I do with chicken breast fillets...

Rubber Chicken You could roast a whole chicken and use the leftovers to make pies/casseroles/soup etc

cheaper cuts of meat This one might give you some ideas of cheaper cuts of lamb to buy. Shoulder is cheapish near me at the moment.

Sausages recipes please!

I'll add this thread to your previous one on the same subject later to keep the replies together.

Pink

Rowan9

Fish? I've read your message a couple of times and can't see that your DH doesn't like it but maybe I'm missing something! If fish is ok then fish and home made chips - any fish that is on offer. Fish pie, fish cakes.
hhmm liver and onions twice in the week, cottage pie once,then again cooked up and mashed with extra greens as a kind of meaty bubble and squeak so it looks and tastes a bit diff, will he have a veggie day of say omlette (wrong sp but can't think how to spell it) ,veggies and pots, that's 5 days so far, then a fish day (smoked mackerel?) and then a spare for what you fancy - another fish day, pasties? Then the next week do something like a rubber chicken week and mix and match of these type of things, week after that do a roast of whatever is on offer and stretch it a bit then back to the first week's plan.
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