MealPlans WB 14th September 2009

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!

Thought I would start the thread:D Isnt it quiet with the children back at school!

This week we have:

Sun-SC Beef, Yorkies, Roasts, Mash, HG Carrots, HG Cabbage & Peas
Mon-Sausage Cassarole & Baked Spud
Tues-Quiche, New Pots & Salad
Wed-Chicken, Mash & Corn On Cob
Thurs-Egg & Chips
Fri-Curry & Rice
Sat-BBQ or Lasagna depending on weather
Sun-Lamb, Roasties, Yorkies, HG Carrot/Swede Mash, Peas & Minted Gravy

Breakfasts will be things such as: porridge, toast, eggs, cereal, bacon/sausage butties on weekend. Always fruit juice or fruit on offer, jam, honey, marmalade etc.

Lunches for DD are sarnies/rolls with cheese/ham/marmite or leftover chicken etc, yogurt, fruit & popcorn. We have leftovers, jackets, soup, sarnies or something on toast.

What are you all having this week?

Have a good one.

PP
xx

debtmuncher

lol was coming to see what you are all having as i am currently doing mine! not going to get much help here so off to browse previous ones!!:p

ps when we start hte new weeks could we have a link to the previous week? just its handy if we only have one poster and stuck for ideas lol

debtmuncher

right on a 19 day planner but have catered for 16 days as dh usually out on the sats at ma in law for tea with the kiddies.

starting from today

chicken or vegetable korma , rice nan bread
hopefully leftover veggie korma or chinese beef curry (the sauce just a 99p one from the local shop...tasty)
roast chicken and trimmings
toad out of the hole lol mash veggie casserole baked beans
chickpea n carrot curry and trimmings
vegetable korma and trimmings (base sauce from previous meal)
spaghetti bolgnese (cous cous for one child) veggie version as well
chilli con carne n a veggie version
porkchops roasties mash n veg
sausage plait new potatoes n veg
chinese veggie curry or colmans curry
hm pizza
cowboy pie and a veggie version
chicken keiv proably mr ts boiled potatoes and veg
porkchops roasties mash and veg
beef casserole dumplings and mash.

winniepooh

ok here goes,


Today - hm fish pie and green beans
Tomorrow - sausages, potatoe gratin beans or veg
Saturday - Out at the inlaws
Sunday - were at thomas land so were just having beef taco's when we get back
Monday - Beef Curry in the slow cooker
Tuesday - Gammon in the slow cooker
Wednesday - feta, bacon (gammon) pasta.

I'm going to try and make curried carrot and leak soup for my lunch in the week and ds will take pack up to school.

Boodle

My planning is getting a little complex as starting to wean lil'un so need to make sure I have something in for her too. Also we decided to start having something to light while I am finishing cooking dinner - we found that it stops us nibbling in the evenings.

Breakfast
Grapefruit or mandarin segments followed by:
toast with HM strawberry jam, HM marmalade or marmite
or branflakes with sultanas and raisins
or porridge with blueberries or sultanas and raisins
Ground rice for baby (and probably me too cos love it with some sugar in and drizzled with maple syrup... mmm...)

Lunch
Saturday: out
Sunday: Vegetable soup. Green lentil and sausage meat loaf served with peas, carrots, steamed potatoes and gravy. Black Saturn's chocolate mousse. (Baby: potato and veg)
Monday: Organic cheddar sandwiches. (Baby: potato and veg)
Tuesday: Organic egg mayonnaise sandwiches. (Baby: banana)
Wednesday: Baguette Pizza (Baby: butternut squash)
Thursday: Marmite/peanut butter sandwiches (Baby: banana)
Friday: Organic cheddar and onion pie (Baby: potato and peas)

Dinner
Saturday: HM organic beef burgers in buns with salad and potato wedges (Baby: Peas)
Sunday: Bread and organic butter, sultana scones with HM strawberry jam and tea (Baby: potato and veg)
Monday: Vegetable Soup. Smoked salmon and broad bean spaghetti. (Baby: banana)
Tuesday: Breadsticks and mangetout. Butternut squash and tomato layer bake with salad and baguette. (Baby: butternut squash)
Wednesday: Mixed green salad with avocado. Green lentil and sausage meat loaf with baked beans and HM oven chips. (Baby: avocado)
Thursday: Pear and pecan salad. Organic cheddar and onion pie with peas and steamed potatoes. (Baby: pear)
Friday: Granny Smith wedges with coriander raita. Tiger prawn rogan with mixed vegetable pilau, salad, chutney, pickle and mini poppadoms. (Baby: apple)

Puddings can be fresh/dried fruit, organic cheese, organic yoghurt, semolina, or organic vanilla or chocolate ice cream.
Snacks can be fresh/dried fruit, carrot, crackers, digestives or popcorn.

L.L_2

I'm going to dive in and give this a go, might help me stay to my list on Saturday too.

Friday, take out night.
Saturday, pork loin, crusty bread and HM lentil soup.
Sunday, left over soup, roast chicken (dine in for 2 markies) roast veg, mash, gravy, melt in the middle choc pudding.
Monday, left over chicken, curry sauce and rice.
Tuesday, mince (with carrot, onion and turnip) with mash
Wednesday, spicy bacon pasta (or macaroni cheese), garlic bread
Thurday, chicken fajitas.

Fitzio

Right, don't usually post this early but here goes up until next Sunday:

Thu: Green Thai Chicken Curry & Rice
Fri: Sausage & Butterbean Casserole , Veg
Sat: Pizza & Salad
Sun: Steak Diane & Potatoes, Veg
Mon: Mince & Potatoes, Veg
Tue: Chicken En Croute & Potatoes (not HM!!), Veg
Wed: Lasagne & Chips, Salad
Thu: Salmon Fillets & Potatoes with Sauce, Veg
Fri: Chicken Arrabiatta with Pasta & Garlic Bread
Sat: Chicken & Leek Bake, Salad
Sun: Out for dinner to lovely steak restaurant to celebrate 1st anniversary!

This is all dependent on when baby decides to arrive though - it's due next Sunday! Most of the meals will have extra portions made to put in the freezer to cover for the next few weeks.

Lunches will be soups (made minestrone today), sandwiches/rolls, toasties.
Breakfasts are cereals, toast, hot stuff at weekend.

Have a nice week everyone. Hope I am not here next week though!! x

L.L_2

Good luck Fitzio, just send your lasange my way if you end up not needing it!

freakyogre

Saturday - [STRIKE]chicken stirfry with noodles[/STRIKE] ended up going to my dad's so didn't bother with dinner. Will have this tonight as took chicken out the freezer

Sunday - [STRIKE]mini pizza with salad and maybe some mini potato wedges (everything is mini )[/STRIKE] chicken stirfry with noodles

Monday - pasta in a cheese and broccoli sauce

Tuesday - vegetable rice (to use up broccoli)

Wednesday - paprika butter chicken with chickpea cous cous - http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/popular-ingredients/chicken/paprika-butter-chicken-with-chickpea-couscous-recipe_p_1.html (this was absolutely delicious!!)

Thursday - tuna pasta bake

Friday - tuna pasta bake

Saturday - [STRIKE]sausage and bean stew[/STRIKE] mini pizza etc (as above)

Sunday - [STRIKE]sausage and bean stew[/STRIKE] roast chicken with all the trimmings (including my homemade stuffing balls )


I need to try and eat some of the soup I have in the freezer for lunches as it's taking up valuable space!

newlywed

Here's mine....

Sat: Roast chicken and veg (will freeze leftovers for another day)
Sun: pork meatballs and mash with veg
Mon: Mackerel/Kippers and veg
Tue: Country chicken casserole (from freezer) and veg
Wed: Chilli wraps
Thur: Turkey curry (assuming there's some left to freeze after tonight )
Fri: Smoked pork sausage, butterbean bake and veg
Sat: Chicken and leek cobbler (using said frozen roast chicken)
Sun: Random one portion leftovers from the freezer

Lunches will be rolls, HM bread (thanks to thriftlady), and soups - or possibly cheese on toast and beans if I can't be bothered to make soup on saturday

Skint_Catt

:hello: Hi & bye - no meal plans for me this week as off to friends tomorrow, sat & sun then off up to edinburgh sightseeing for the week! I'll return 21st Sept :hello: