Mealplans WB 29th June 2009

mookybargirl

My plan for this week, already a couple of days in....

Sunday - Pork Sunday dinner
Monday - HM meatballs and spaghetti
Tues - OH Steak and chips, me, salmon and roast potatoes
Wed - Chicken with a peppercorn sauce & veg
Thurs - Chicken rogan josh & rice
Friday - Birthday treat out
Saturday - Bangers, mash & beans

emmie1234

Hi all, this is my first time posting on here, usually do have some kind of meal plan :rolleyes: but I usually end up chopping and changing it during the week, but I'm determined to stick to it this week!

DD has school dinners, and toast or rice crispies for breakfast.
OH and I usually have toast for brekkie and a ham salad sandwich or tuna mayo sandwich at lunchtime.
OH and I don't normally bother with puds but the little one has rice pudding/fromage frais/ice cream after her Tea.

Main meals

MONDAY

Smart price cheese and bacon quiche, jacket spud, coleslaw and salad

TUESDAY

Lamb Chops, Steamed Potatoes (dug up from the garden ) green beans, carrots, gravy and mint sauce

WEDNESDAY

HM Spag Bol

THURSDAY

Chicken Curry and Rice - using 5p curry sauce from Mr. T's (mild enough for the little one) using chicken, onions, mushrooms and peppers.

FRIDAY

Fish Finger Pie... we all love this and its soooo cheap and filling

Grill 9 fish fingers, throw into a pyrex dish, cover with two tins of SP Spaghetti Loops or Baked Beans, Top with mash and grated cheese..num num... woud prob serve more than three.. but we're greedy LOL

SATURDAY

Sweet and Sour Chicken with stir fry veg and rice

SUNDAY

Roast Chicken, HM sage and onion stuffing, spuds, carrots, brocolli and sweetcorn, gravy and apple sauce, and HM Yorkshire pud.

joey_2

Mine for this week :

Today - quiche and oven chips (payday tomorrow)

Tuesday - macaroni cheese

Wednesday - jacket potato, cheese and salad

Thursday - gammon, new potatoes and salad

Friday - chicken tikka, rice, poppadums

Saturday - chicken pie, new potatoes and peas


(need some more summery food ideas!)

kunekune

Update. I reckon we all change things as we go, so I thought I'd tell you what we'd REALLY eaten.

tonight: Plan was takeaway and that's what we had ... but it was not very nice, just filled a hole, we'll not use that one again
Sat: Plan was meatballs, spaghetti and tomato/veg sauce ... I forgot to defrost the mince and went shopping in Leeds. We ended up having spaghetti bolognese and spaghetti & cheese for daughter, cos not being completely defrosted didn't matter.
Sun: Plan was gammon, mashed potato, carrots, broad beans, parsley sauce. This was a big change. I still had lots of bolognese from Saturday. And had double-ordered corn chips. So I turned it into chilli for us and the children had corn chips with baked beans and cheese.
Mon: Plan was soup & cheese scones, fruit salad. I looked in the fridge and found a lot of spinach and silverbeet. So we ended up having a spinach and feta pie with new potatoes and greek salad, son had potatoes and ham and a tomato (which he gave to his sister, not being keen on veg).
Tues: Plan was leftover gammon, cauliflower cheese. Well, obviously, no leftovers cos we haven't had firsts yet. Fortunately it has a long life in the fridge. I'm going to serve up the rest of the spinach & feta pie with various salads and maybe some of the 3 for £5 specials I got at M&S, such as smoked sardines.
Wed: (I'm out with people from work for a pizza) carbonara using the rest of the gammon, peas. This will be the same as planned except OH will use bacon not leftover gammon.
Thurs: quiche using hm pastry and some kind of vegetable filling. No ... cos I used the last of the eggs in my spinach & feta pie. So I think I will do cauli & macaroni cheese.
Fri: (I'm out representing our department at a fancy dinner) pizza (not hm!) - plan unchanged.

frugalswan

Boodle wrote: »

The pie was actually a success :T (With us anyway ) It was an invention to accomodate some sausagemeat in the freezer and a small pack of stuffing that had been in the cupboard since Christmas... Basically, make up 8oz shortcrust and squash together made-up stuffing and sausagemeat (about equal amounts by eye, not necessarily weight) to fill it with. I baked it for 15 minutes at 220 then another 35 minutes at 180C. Next time I will try to make a similar tasting pie with organic pork mince, breadcrumbs, onion and sage.

If it was the Chestnut Creams you were after: I mashed tinned chestnut puree with icing sugar and put in the bottom of serving dishes. I whipped double cream with icing sugar just to sweeten a bit, then used this to top the chestnut. Grated dark chocolate over the top. Yum!

oooh, thanks Boodle! It was the sausage pie I was after, and I'm very grateful for the recipe. It does indeed sound wonderful, and it's getting a place in my mealplan very soon! I have a feeling it'll be good cold too, so I can make it in the cooler hours of the day and have it cold that evening - yum!

Mind you, the Chestnut Creams do sound tasty too...

Henny_Penny

Hi, This is my first time to post anything!! I am trying to budget really hard and cut down our food bill, while eating well. This is my food plan for this week.
Mon - Roast chicken, roast pots, broccoli, carrots, peas,corn,yorkshire's and stuffing.
Tues - chicken,chickpea & potato curry with rice & nan bread, made with left over chicken.
Wed - HM Lasagne with salad & rolls.
Thurs - Sausages mash & beans.
Fri - HM Chilli with rice.
Sat - No idea any ideas gratefully received.
Sun - Out all day, pizza & garlic bread in eve.

But the best laid plans.....

Lemon_Verbena

Hi all,

This is a super idea, just joined MSE and looking at ways to save money, we tend to eat whatever I put my hands on and often end up going out and buying something like a takeaway because I've forgotten to defrost meat or don't have any idea what to make (lazy I know but working on being more organised!). I'll join in with my mealplan next weekthough, I need to survey freezers and cupboards and do a plan first. But I wanted to pick your collective brains before I do my plan. DH buys his lunch at the work canteen and spends £4.50 per day on sarnies, cake and drink. I've suggested we can cut that to around £2.00 per day if he takes HM sarnies or a pasta salad some days and he agreed :eek: saying he'll try it if its cheaper!

Sarnies I can do easy enough but my pasta salad ideas run to tuna and sweetcorn, sweet chilli chicken (using sweet chilli dipping sauce and chilli mayo with spring onion and peppers), chicken tikka pasta salad, and salmon, broccoli and cheesey mayo. I know I can probs make a million pasta salad variations with chicken and tuna but my brain is a brick wall and I can't think of any. Anyone got any suggestions, I want to make them tasty but cheap obviously. I can rustle up homemade muffins and biscuits and get him to take some fruit as well and as I've stuck my neck out have to do it all for £2.00 a day, is this possible or am I fooling myself?

curly_cabbage

I don't know how i have missed this thread, but it's such a great idea an so many idea's going to sort my list for next week an add that too.

CC

Fridayschild

Hi Emmie 1234 and anyone else who might know,


Does anyone know what a 5p curry sauce from Mr T's is? Is it Tesco, and if so is it in a jar or a packet? Thanking you all in advance.

KC

The_Golden_Goose

Slightly off tangent, I tried to meal plan this week and it all went a bit wrong.

Why?

Cos Mr GG made us late for an evening at his mothers and so my planned dinner, we didnt have (so two uncooked sausages are wasted) and we had KFC at hers (though she did pay)......

How does anyone else overcome this kind of situations??

Sorry if its a bit off topic!