MealPlans WB 16th March 2009

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!

Havent been around much but thought I would start the mealplan thread agai this week. This week we are having:

Monday-Toad In Hole, Mini Roasties, Carrots & Sprouts
Tuesday-Shepherds Pie, Cabbage & Peas
Wednesday-Fish, New Pots, Carrots & Peas
Thursday-Chicken Stir Fry
Friday-Egg, Chips & HP
Saturday-Chicken Curry & Rice
Sunday-Lamb, Roasties, Mash, Yorkies, Cabbage, Parsnip & Peas

Hope you all have a good week.

PP
xx

SunnyGirl

Morning Penny it's just what I need to keep busy so I'll post mine for the next week.

Monday - Potato hash & crusty bread

Tuesday - Spaghetti Bolognese, salad & garlic bread

Wednesday - Chicken curry & rice

Thursday - Sausage casserole

Friday - Quiche, wedges, peas & garlic bread

Saturday - Minestrone soup, naan bread, sponge pudding & custard

Sunday - Roast lemon & herb chicken, roast potatoes, brocolli, carrots, stuffing & gravy.

Breakfasts are cereal, toast, yoghurts, fruit or smoothies.

Lunches are soup, sandwiches, humous & veg sticks, pate & toast, things on toast & leftovers.

Snacks are things from the lunch menu, Twinks, weetabix cake, yoghurts, a packet of crisps each per day or fruit.

I hide veggies very craftily in nearly all of the meals using the food processor to finely chop them so the kids don't know what they are :rotfl: Happy cooking everyone.

Boodle

Morning girls Here is ours...

As ever, meat, poultry and dairy is organic. All meals/cakes are HM. We only drink tea/coffee, milk, orange juice or water.

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Breakfasts are porridge (with or without cinnamon/dried fruit,) toast with HM jam/HM Peanut Butter/Marmite, HM cereal or cornflakes. All followed by a banana or banana smoothie.

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Mid-Week Lunches (Sat at Parents', Sun we swap meals)

Mon HM Peanut Butter and HM Jam Sandwiches/on Toast, apple

Tue Mature Cheddar and Mixed Nut Scones, apple

Wed Kidney Bean and Sweetcorn Couscous, yoghurt

Thu Spicy Pease Pudding and Salad Sandwiches, apple

Fri Tropical Pasta Salad, apple

DH also takes to work: kiwi fruit/carrot sticks, yoghurt, and a HM bake.

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Dinners

Fri Mature Cheddar, Onion and Thyme Risotto with salad leaves

Sat Nachos, Herb Baguette and Salad. Hm Ice Cream.

Sun Mince, Yorkshire Puddings, veg and boiled potatoes. Blueberry and Apple Pie with cream.
(Tea) Salmon Sandwiches with crisps. Blueberry and Apple Pie or Apple Flapjack.

Mon Italian Fish Bake with roasted potatoes and salad.

Tue Kidney Bean and Sweetcorn Couscous

Wed Yellow Dahl, Bombay Potatoes and mini naans with salad, mango chutney and lime pickle.

Thu Tropical Pasta with salad leaves

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Puds can be any of the snacks below plus cheese, yoghurt, rice pud, semolina, vanilla/choc pud.

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Snacks are fresh or dried fruit fruit, carrot and celery sticks, digestives, Apple Flapjack and HM Brioche. Also some crusty buns I found whoopsied to help fill my growing baby-filled tum!

kunekune

Another week in the part-time carnivore household:

Sat: spaghetti carbonara, made with veggies for those who like veggies and bacon for the boy
Sun: hazelnut & vegetable loaf, roast potatoes, green veg, gravy
Mon: vegetable stir fry with noodles, steamed trout for grown ups
Tues: macaroni cheese, grilled tomatoes
Wed: aubergine & black bean chilli, cornbread
Thurs: potato & onion tart (hm pastry), salad
Fri: takeaway curry ("might not have a meaty one," says OH)

We're eating meat sandwiches at lunchtime, btw, it's just the family meals that are mostly vege.

Penny-Pincher!!

Boodle wrote: »

Morning girls Here is ours...

As ever, meat, poultry and dairy is organic. All meals/cakes are HM. We only drink tea/coffee, milk, orange juice or water.

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Breakfasts are porridge (with or without cinnamon/dried fruit,) toast with HM jam/HM Peanut Butter/Marmite, HM cereal or cornflakes. All followed by a banana or banana smoothie.

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Mid-Week Lunches (Sat at Parents', Sun we swap meals)

Mon HM Peanut Butter and HM Jam Sandwiches/on Toast, apple

Tue Mature Cheddar and Mixed Nut Scones, apple

Wed Kidney Bean and Sweetcorn Couscous, yoghurt

Thu Spicy Pease Pudding and Salad Sandwiches, apple

Fri Tropical Pasta Salad, apple

DH also takes to work: kiwi fruit/carrot sticks, yoghurt, and a HM bake.

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Dinners

Fri Mature Cheddar, Onion and Thyme Risotto with salad leaves

Sat Nachos, Herb Baguette and Salad. Hm Ice Cream.

Sun Mince, Yorkshire Puddings, veg and boiled potatoes. Blueberry and Apple Pie with cream.
(Tea) Salmon Sandwiches with crisps. Blueberry and Apple Pie or Apple Flapjack.

Mon Italian Fish Bake with roasted potatoes and salad.

Tue Kidney Bean and Sweetcorn Couscous

Wed Yellow Dahl, Bombay Potatoes and mini naans with salad, mango chutney and lime pickle.

Thu Tropical Pasta with salad leaves

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Puds can be any of the snacks below plus cheese, yoghurt, rice pud, semolina, vanilla/choc pud.

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Snacks are fresh or dried fruit fruit, carrot and celery sticks, digestives, Apple Flapjack and HM Brioche. Also some crusty buns I found whoopsied to help fill my growing baby-filled tum!

Wow......thats a great mealplan! How do you afford all that including the organic meat, cheese and poultry on £100 pcm?

PP
xx

Boodle

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Wow......thats a great mealplan! How do you afford all that including the organic meat, cheese and poultry on £100 pcm?

PP
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Hi PP We don't eat much meat or poultry (in fact, even tho I have stated that at the beginning there isn't any on the plan this week apart from the mince which was frozen last time I slow-cooked some!) But we find that the organic meat isn't a great deal more than the standard we were buying, just by a couple of pounds really and because we don't eat it that often it doesn't seem to show, iyswim? I think the beef mince was somewhere around £2.75ish per pack, and I add equal weight of frozen soya mince as well as tons of onion, celery and carrot to the slow cooker so that each pack of mince makes about 3-4 meals worth for me, DH and toddler DD. When we have wanted chicken, I buy the pack of chicken drumsticks which were about 1.50 I think, which I roast then pick the meat off. The meat makes one meal for the three of us then I use the skin and bones to make chicken soup.

We did notice the bill go up a couple of quid every week by switching to organic dairy but we decided we thought it was worth it. The organic milk is on 2x 4 pinters for £3, and 2 packs of organic Cheddar for £3 in Asda at the mo, and has been for quite a while, so that helps. We only go through about one pack of cheese a week. The main difference is between the organic yoghurt and smart price yoghurt we were buying, but tastes way nicer. And most of the time we didn't finish the big tub every week anyway so I only buy about 2 smaller pots per week. We don't go through many eggs either - maybe half a dozen a week (ETA I meant fortnightly -oops) - but we never did. Most weeks it is a case of using one in the Yorkshire pud mix and perhaps 1-2 in a HM bake. This week I plan to make less batter (I always make more than I need) and making a small batch of brioche-style bread with the other half of the egg.

There will be odd things that sneak though that aren't organic tho (:o ) such as DH's French-set yoghurts which he won't compromise on, and for example this week I couldn't find any organic Mozzarella. Actually, perhaps I should change my grand statement to "vast majority of meat, poultry and dairy is organic"

TBH I also haven't done it on £100 a month yet - even tho that is my "budget"! It would also cost a great deal more if we had meat or poultry several times a week but our meal plans haven't changed to accomodate the cost as we never really ate it much anyway, iyswim?

Hth.xxx.

ETA: Oh and thanks for the lovely compliment x Don't everyone's always look more interesting tho? I think such discussion was had about last week's plans too

Penny-Pincher!!

Boodle-You do very well hun. My mouth was watering whilst reading yours....it normally happens whilst I'm reading Penelope Penguin's MP too.

XX

cheerfulness4

I also wanted to say Well Done on such an inventive mp to Boodle. I love all the plans but really love it when someone breaks down how they do it so well on a tight budget. Very encouraging.

Was just knocking my own plan up but think I'll spend a bit of time over another coffee giving it a bit more effort. :rolleyes:

newlywed

Here's mine:

Sat: Chicken pizza melts, garlic bread and salad (friends over - postponed from last week).
Sun: Shep pie or lasagna depending on my mood - plus veg

Mon: Salmon and leeks
Tue: Turkey and veg curry and naan
Wed: fish and oven chips and veg of some sort
Thur: Chicken in bacon and veg
Fri: sausage and leek hash
Sat: Mince and veg in gravy in giant yorkies
Sun: Smoked pork sausage with leek and butterbean bake and veg

Think we're sorted other than sausages and veg.

Lunches are:
Sat: scrambled egg baguette (with bacon for kids, smoked salmon for adults)
Sun: Fish fingers and oven chips - haven't had this for years
Next Sat: fritata/omelette and salad
Sun: maybe a risotto as evening meal will be late

Weekday meals are: leek and potato soup (freezer), minestrone soup (maybe) or butternut squash soup (depending on what I make), or leftovers.

Kel_3

Hi all,

I'm new to this thread but thought I would start posting! This week we are having:

Fri- chicken Fajitas
Sat - HM curry
Sun - Mums for dinner!!!
Mon - JO Billiant pasta
Tues - Ribs, Stir Fry veg and rice
Wed - HM Chilli and Jacket Potatoes
Thurs - Pork Chops, Potatoes, veg

Kel

dorry_2

thanks for starting thread, I haven't been on for ages and ages, seem to have got addicted to facebook!!:eek:

like pp, I am admiring boodles very impressed with your orgainsation x

heres mine, starting from tonight, as mr t is delivering food a 3:D

Friday: Take away night—- we will be watching and supporting Comic relief on tv tonite!
Saturday: butternut squash and sweet potato soup with crusty bread
Saturday tea: pork chops with gnocci and wholegrain mustard
Sunday: roast beef dinner withyorkies, roasties, sprouts, carrots and peas
Monday: sweet n sour chicken with brown rice
Tuesday: chicken korma with rice
Wednesday: sausages, organic mushroom, wedges and beans
Thursday: fish pie with peas