MealPlans WB 24th August 2009

Penny-Pincher!!

Where's Boodle?

NoahsPennilessMummy

Heres mine


Sat 22nd Greek stuffed tomatoes, salad and HM bread

Sun 23rd Roast chicken and veg

Mon 24th Chorizo pasta

Tues 25th Something on toast night

Weds 26th Shepherds pie and veg

Thurs 27th chicken and chorizo paella

Fri 28th cheese and onion flan, wedges and beans

Sat 29th fish and chips tea

Sun 30th Lamb shanks and veg

Mon 31st chicken pie, mash and peas

raphanius

newlywed wrote: »

fri: toulouse sausage butterbean casserole http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3949/toulouse-sausage-and-butter-bean-casserole

looks delish...will be adding that to my meal plan w/b 31st august

Kadeeae

angelicmary85 wrote: »

Hiya,
Yeah I do my 4-weeks worth of planning then just order it meal by meal when it comes to do the shopping, it makes it easier for me to keep track of what I've ordered!......

Think I may just go ahead and give it a try, if it doesn't work can always to back to weekly plans or maybe even fortnight. Thanks!:beer:

angelicmary85

thriftlady wrote: »

Thursday- Chorizo, potato, pepper hash with fried eggs on top

That sounds so good - but I don't like fried eggs, could they be substituted with something else?

I'm loving this thread...I've got so many ideas now I don't know what to choose for next month!! :T

angelicmary85

Kadeeae wrote: »

Think I may just go ahead and give it a try, if it doesn't work can always to back to weekly plans or maybe even fortnight. Thanks!:beer:

I've just managed to persuade my sis to give it a try. She's one of those people who goes to Tesco and buys whatever she sees...Got her to do a meal plan for her and her daughter from ASDA (the cheating way so ease her into it gently!) and she was amazed at how much she saved! She told me the total was about a 1/4 of what she normally spends :T

champys

Next week one of my friends is coming to stay with her 3 kids - so special meal planning required for those days, including puddings! Here goes.

Today - chick pea/chorizo stew with couscous, stir-fried courgettes
Sunday - pasta with courgette sauce (or tomato sauce depending on whar's in the garden)
Monday - collecting a quantity of organic beef, so we'll have entrecote, green beans and baked polenta squares
Tuesday - friends arriving: devilled chicken drumsticks, HM wedges, salad; semolina pudding with raspberry coulis
Wednesday - Amercan-style cottage pie, mixed veg salad; creme brulee
Thursday - barbecue, couscous salad,; raspberry chill
Friday - out for dinner
Saturday - friends leave, I guess we'll eat leftovers! If there aren't any, it will be tortellini in brodo (just frozen a good quantity of chicken stock).

Tomorrow I will make a batch of HM barbecue sauce, caramelised onions, Georgian beetroot puree and hummus for extras/lunches. And we've just extracted a lot of honey, which will go nicely with fresh baguette.....

Glad I have got all that sorted out, thanks to this thread :-) Have a nice week!

thriftlady_2

angelicmary85 wrote: »

That sounds so good - but I don't like fried eggs, could they be substituted with something else?

Of course! My daughter is allergic to eggs so she won't be having one, and my sons may well choose not to -it's a case of 'who wants an egg on their hash?'

thriftlady_2

I've just done a virtual shop online and decided that I need to spend less this week so I've made a few changes as detailed in blue below;)

thriftlady wrote: »

Monday- Me and OH are having lamb's liver and onions plus mash. Kids are having hm pizza they don't do liver:rolleyes: Might do the kids bacon, beans and mash if feeling lazy.
Will put some mung beans in a jar to sprout in time for Friday's stir-fried veg

Tuesday- Spaghetti with hm pesto -pesto made with almonds or walnuts instead of pinenuts. This requires Parmesan cheese which I've run out of so I'm going to make chorizo pilaff instead -chorizo, rice and veg. I already have the chorizo sausage which will do two meals.

Wednesday- Homity pies these are cheese and onion pies, made popular by the Cranks veggie restaurant back in the 70s

Thursday- Chorizo, potato, pepper hash with fried eggs on top

Friday- Sweet Chilli Salmon, rice and stir-fried veg Will see what fish is cheaper -mackerel probably 'cos I want to serve oily fish for health;) might not serve it with sweet chilli and stir fry.

Saturday- Hm Burgers with blue cheese and bacon, hm oven 'fries', salad, raspberry cheesecake Buying blue cheese in order to serve mince is exravagant I think, so I'll do a Keema curry instead.

Sunday - Morrocan style lamb stew, couscous, raspberry cheesecake for the cheesecake I will need to buy digestives and cream cheese, neither particularly pricy, but unecessary, so I'll make a pud using what I have, I have lots of breadcrumbs so it'll be Treacle Tart and cream (cream is allowed at the weekend;))

tracyk

3rd week in & this seems to be working - thank you guys for the inspiration :beer:

Sunday – HM salmon fishcakes with salad, Apple Pie & ice-cream or custard

Monday – Spaghetti Bolognaise with garlic bread

Tuesday – Baked spuds with left over bolognaise sauce

Wednesday – Cod in butter sauce, new potatoes & broccoli

Thursday – Bacon, lettuce & tomato sarnies

Friday – Sausage & pasta in tomato sauce with garlic bread

Saturday – out - BBQ


Off out now, armed with shopping list