MealPlans WB 17th August 2009

misskool

I'm always sneaking in to have a look but never post as I batch cook everything on a Sunday and we eke it out through the week.

Sun : Pan fried pollock with fresh salsa, beans with garlic and white wine, potato salad
To eat: Chicken and chorizo stew with onion and red peppers with rice, mushroom and mixed seafood risotto with salad, potato, chickpea and chard curry on its own or with naan.

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Have been running down the fresh stuff in my fridge as I'm off on my holidays for a week on Friday with DD and tribe to the Isle of Wight.I have in my fridge at the moment
2 boxes of fruit juice
two tins of ginger beer (free from M&S)
5 eggs,
half a lb of bacon,
one block of cheddar ,(trying not to open so I can take it with us on Friday
about a pint of milk.
I have bread in the freezer and some spuds in the veg basket .I only have
Monday; (tonight's dinner) Potato's, veg from freezer, and pork fillet from freezer dipped in dry sage and onion stuffing mix and ready to cook in my Remoska
Tuesday;Breakfast ;bran Flakes,Lunch boiled eggs and ryvita;Dinner Chicken Kiev and spuds and sweetcorn from freezer
Wednesday breakfast,Porridge;Lunch; cornish pasty from freezer;Dinner Chicken and bacon and pasta
Thursday Breakfast,bran Flakes; lunch spanish omelette with peppers and chopped veg from freezer;Dinner probably round at DD's as I will be helping her pack for all the five children
Friday Will be up early to make picnic stuff for the children to eat onboard the ferry to the island.
My fridge will be bare until I come home then it will be off to the shops to restock on fresh stuff.I make sure that all the fresh stuff is used up and nothing gets thrown away

Maitane

freakyogre wrote: »

[/LIST]Thank you I take it it doesn't matter which pastry you use?

I got caught out.. hee hee. I wouldn't say it would matter.

I tend make savoury shortcrust out of laziness, I can't be bothered to make puff pastry, it takes too long by hand . Plus I find puff pastry on the bottom goes soggy.

In the days of making beef wellington (I'm not planning to do it again unless Mr Maitane grows me a cow), I'd make a short pastry for the bottom and puff for the top. Cheaty but good.

freakyogre

Maitane wrote: »

I got caught out.. hee hee. I wouldn't say it would matter.

I tend make savoury shortcrust out of laziness, I can't be bothered to make puff pastry, it takes too long by hand . Plus I find puff pastry on the bottom goes soggy.

In the days of making beef wellington (I'm not planning to do it again unless Mr Maitane grows me a cow), I'd make a short pastry for the bottom and puff for the top. Cheaty but good.

Thank you again! I'll give these a go one day (with shortcrust )

I've never attempted puff pastry and doubt I ever will! I know my dad says it's easier to just buy it and he used to be a chef, so it sounds like too much hard work to me!

newlywed

Hi all, late again but have made my mealplan:

m: kippers (me) smoked mackerel (oh) with leftover ratatouille and roast sweet potatoes
t: turkey, lentil and veg curry from freezer and yellow stickered peshwari naan
w: chilli from freezer - in wraps
t: smoked salmon omelette
f: marlin steaks (from aldi) and veg
s: chicken casserole with veg
s: toad in the hole

Think I only need milk and lunch bits for the week and for the week before payday that's pretty good going

frugalmumof4

as i have got organised again, thought i would post, this week we are having.....

chickpea, mushroom pasta bake
root vegetable cobbler
potato cabbage and vegetarian sausage casserole
slow cooker green beans, carrots, courgette, onion stew with rice
green lentil and vegetable stew
butterbean and potato curry
take in night-- hm fish cakes, oven chips, peas and 4p curry sauce

Shopping this week £59 for 6

CCP

That sounds so nice! I usually save cobblers and similar dishes for colder weather - it gives me something to look forward to at the end of summer. I might change my mind now you've mentioned it, though - your root veg one sounds very appealing!

thriftlady_2

Yes, I know it's Thursday. I don't often post on this thread because I find I don't stick to my plans. However, I'm finding that I'm sticking to them more and more lately so here goes:

Monday -Leftover roast chicken hashed with potatoes, carrots and onion, leftover gravy and bread sauce. Green veg

Tuesday- Sausage and barley broth, bread The stock used for the broth was made from the chicken carcase eaten on Sunday. This meal allowed 1lb of sausages feed 5 generously.

Wednesday -Smoked mackerel, brown rice pilaff, salad
there was smoked mackerel leftover, so we've had smoked mack pate for lunch

Thursday-Leftovers from the freezer -bean stew combined with bolognese sauce to make 'Cowboy Beans', American biscuits (sconelike quick bread) and salad

Friday -Onion bhajis, split pea and coconut dhal, rice, mango chutney

Saturday- Crispy Duck Pancakes- The duck was a bit of a splurge. I shall bung it in the oven for a few hours, shred it saving the fat;) and serve with cucumber, spring onions, hoisin sauce and Chinese pancakes (I've got loads of these in the freezer as they come in 100s), blackberry, apple and almond cobbler

Sunday -hoping there'll be leftover duck-Braised lentils with duck, sausages and carrots, potatoes fried in the duck fat, a green veg, leftover blackberry and apple cobbler

The duck carcase will be made into stock on Monday;) I like to roll one meal into another by using leftovers, making stock, saving fat from roast to fry up potatoes etc

Puddings on week days are usually fruit or hm plain yogurt with honey or hm jam.

newlywed

The sausage and barley broth sounds like the kind of soup my OH will eat (he doesn't really do veggie soups :rolleyes:) and all the stuff I usually have indoors anyway.

Will make a note of that one for later. Thanks thriftlady.

CCP

I second the vote for the sausage soup - that sounds divine. I don't really do soup in the summer, though, so roll on winter! :snow_grin