Mardathas meal planning thread

skyvicky123

sausage casserole with tinned toms, peppers, mushrooms etc and sausages chopped up so feels like more meat! We do in SC and luv it with mash or toad in hole, beef casserole, chick casserole...just wrote lasagne....then deleted! Chicken wings in marinade with salad (dinner for us tom!)

Hmmm LO chicken pie, beef pie, HM fishcakes and salad. HTH x

pennypusher

Hi Try sausage stew. Cook some sausages and fry some sliced carrots for a few minutes. Drain the fat and add a tin of tomatoes. I usually cook it with potatoes but it will be ok without. If it gets a little dry add some water. You can also fry some celery at the same time as the carrots if you like and bulk it out a little. Make sure you slice the carrots thinly and cook until they are soft like stew.

mardatha

Ok. Provisional menu plan. Subject to change. ( if I canny be a$$ed )=
MON- sausage casserole with tons of veg
TUES- chicken in remoska, mushrooms and onions & green veg
WED- HM meatballs, mushrooms onions tatties & green veg
THURS- HM fish cakes probably salmon
FRI- chicken salad
SAT- cheese omelette
SUN- liver & bacon & sausage and egg
We have porridge every breakfast and HM soups at midday, so just the one filling meal a day really. I dono why I cant get it under 40 quid !
many thanks for all help, yer all magic

Hardup_Hester

HFW did a cheap recipe on TV yesterday, tinned pilchards or anchovies in a shallow dish, cover with finely sliced onion & potato, add a cup of milk, cook in the oven til going brown on top.
Hester

Kevie192

Dizzybrunette wrote: »

Cowboy pie?!
Beans in the bottom
layers of corned beef
Mash potato
Grated cheese

Bake in oven until beans bubbling.
Very quick and easy if we have left over mash from sunday dinner,
prob not mega healthy but cheap and cheerful!

This sounds lovely! Gonna make it tomorrow night now. Do you use tinned corned beef or the ready sliced stuff? And is it layered like beans, beef, beans, beef or just 1 layer of each?

Thanks,

Kevin x

kitschkitty

jackieglasgow wrote: »

Mard. he will be OK with porridge because it is low GI but pasta is not, neither are mashed potatoes. The best potatoes for low GI are lightly cooked in their jackets - he might even be able to have more than two Another thing to try, instead of spuds, is celeriac, its delicious and nice for a change.

Jacket Potatoes are the highest GI cooking method.

Sweet potatoes are lower GI, while they may seem foreign/unusual, if you just treat them exactly like a normal spud (only orange!) the swap couldn't be simpler.

My OH won't eat that many different veg, but he actually likes sweet potato.

Also they're often only 99p a bag in Asda etc, so not so expensive.

Nelski

Have a look at this Mardartha might help with his BG

GI index of foods

so yes jackets are not the best at all having said that neither are jelly beans so lucky its not you :rotfl:

Emmzi

have a look here, I am not sure the pasta thing makes sense as it is low GI - especially whole wheat pasta, can you try him on that?

Also many recipes on this site.

http://www.diabetes.org.uk/Guide-to-diabetes/Food_and_recipes/The-Glycaemic-Index/

mardatha

He checks his blood sugar 2 hours after eating,. and when he ate pasta it was always sky high. The doc said learn what you can eat and eat it; and what you cant eat avoid . For some reason pasta, even the WM stuff, sends him into orbit. I wish his sell-by date hadn't run out, I would've taken him back.;)
Nelski my god imagine if it was me who was diabetic - I'd go mad !:eek::eek:

kezlou

rv;s a awkward so and so isn't he.

Hmm its a tough cookie this one, considering all the suggestions (all great i might add).

What's he like with pastry?

You could make some pastry with very marge and make some quiches, pasties, pies etc
Does he like leeks?You could change the leeks to onions though.

If he does how about this:

Chicken. leek and bacon pie / pasties.

4 rashers bacon, chopped, quite small.(provides all the salt you need)
oil for frying
2kg leeks, washed, cut and finely sliced or a mixture of onions and leeks works fine.
ground black pepper
800g cooked chicken meat, (or turkey)chopped into chunks
2 heaped tablespoons plain flour (or cornflour)
2 pints of vegetable stock
1/2 x 500g packet puff pastry or fresh if making you own

1) Fry bacon in oil till partially cooked add leeks / onions till brown add chicken and fry for a couple of minutes.
2)add two tablespoons of plain flour to the chicken and stir till coated.
3) add the two pints of veg stock to the chicken mixture, mix all together and bring to the boil for about 2 minutes.
4)Pour the chicken mixture into a sieve over another large empty pan and let the juices drained.
5) once all the juices are drained turn the chicken mix into a pyrex dish (or any glass dish) cover with the pastry and cook in the oven on gas mark 5 till pastry is golden brown.
6) I then use the drained juices as gravy.


We eat the above with mash and veg, its lush and very warming.

Cheese why could you make something with brie, cover with breadcrumbs and fry them. If that makes sense.

Now i know it says stroganoff but you could call it lamb or beef in a cream sauce. Less fancy name but it could help.

Beef stroganoff or just use lamb.
400g of beef cut in thins strips
1 onion sliced finely
2tbsp butter
2tbsp oil
1tbsp plain flour
1tsp tomato puree
2tsp mustard
2 tbsp of lemon juice
250ml of single cream (can use double if you wish)

Fry beef in 1tbsp of butter and oil till browned
Taken beef out of the pan but leave all the juices the pan.
Fry the onion in the other tbsp of butter and beef juiced till soft.
Sprinkle 1 tbsp of plain flour over the onions and stir to mix.
Add the tomato puree, lemon juice, mustard and cream stir all together.
Take the beef and add it to the cream mixture.
Once the cream starts bubbling serve immediately.

Hope the above helps.