MealPlans WB 21st September 2009

Boodle

Guys, you are all so sweet and I feel so ashamed of myself. This week I gave up on it. I couldn't face it all, especially as I don't have much appetite lately. My dad is very ill, we are trying to move house, maintenance means my water supply keeps getting switched off meaning I have 2 bus-rides (2 1/2 hours each way) and back to my parents' house with the girls whenever that happens. I didn't have a chance to get my list together before we went shopping and so I though s*d it. We had bread and cheese last night. Then on top of the usual fruit and veg, I bought 2 pizzas, 2 jars of pasta sauces, vegetable burgers and I have breaded fish in the freezer I intend to use this week (At least the baby's menu doesn't have to change, but she might well be having a lot more banana, pear and avocado than planned!) Sorry to let you down

PP - as I had defrosted the pork anyway yesterday I'm going to put it in the slow cooker in a bit for dinner tonight. Unfortunately I forgot to buy the prunes I was going to put in. I think it will be onion, celery, carrot, garlic, the diced pork, stock, red wine and some plain flour to thicken. I forgot to get leeks too so we will have it with some whoopsied organic bloomer instead of the leek pud.

CCP

I don't think there's anything to be sorry about, hun - life gets in the way sometimes. At least you've made me feel slightly better about getting a takeaway on Friday!

I hope your dad gets better soon, and you get your water back, too.

Winged_one

This week's plan:
Tonight: Smoked haddock and brocolli pie (already in oven on timer)
Tomorrow: Leftover roast beef, leftover roasties as homefries, gresh veg
Wed: Feta chicken, freshly roasted spuds, roasted tomatoes
Thursday: Lamb and cannellini beans in crockpot
Friday: Sausages and Mash
Sat/Sun - visiting IL's so whatever's going

CCP

Having carefully worked out my meal plan for the week, the weather's now gloriously warm so my planned soups and casseroles don't seem nearly so tempting any more! I've ended up doing a bit of a rethink and my plan for the week (or what's left of it!) is:

Friday- was a takeaway pizza - just too tired to cook after running round at a work function all day!
Saturday - [STRIKE]sausage and green lentil casserole with green cabbage[/STRIKE] bacon-wrapped sausages with chilli-touille (spicy ratatouille - my dad's name for it!)
Sunday - minted lamb chop (last one from a pack I bought at the butcher's at the start of the summer) with cabbage and potatoes
Monday - [STRIKE]hm minestrone soup[/STRIKE] chilli con carne from the freezer, with cheesy bread (not hm, sadly)
Tuesday - out visiting a family friend all day - she's cooking dinner so no need to eat when I get home after all
Wednesday - [STRIKE]bacon, roast chicken and pesto risotto[/STRIKE] bacon, cherry tomato and pesto risotto, as all my hg toms have ripened at once
Thursday - [STRIKE]4 cheese stuffed pasta with courgette and tomato sauce[/STRIKE] pie made with leftover rubber chicken and bacon, with veg (Thursday's veg box delivery day)

Right, that's that - and this time I'll stick to it!

ali.b.123

Helyg - any chance I could have your recipe for hunters chicken???

helyg

ali.b.123 wrote: »

Helyg - any chance I could have your recipe for hunters chicken???

Certainly... it's the pub grub type rather than the Chicken Cacciatore type 9which I do also make sometimes). I make a BBQ sauce with a carton of passata, a couple of tablespoonfuls of brown sugar, half a teaspoonful of mustard powder, a teaspoonful of worcestershire sauce, half a teaspoonful of chilli powder and a tablespoonful of red wine vinegar or lemon juice (you can adjust all of these to taste). Wrap the chicken breasts in bacon, brown them in a frying pan, then put them in a casserole dish and pour the bbq sauce over the top. Cook in the oven for about an hour at 180 degrees. About 10 mins from the end sprinkle some grated cheese over the top of the chicken breasts so that it melts in the last bit of cooking time.

It's not very healthy but it sure is yummy!

helyg

CCP wrote: »

Having carefully worked out my meal plan for the week, the weather's now gloriously warm so my planned soups and casseroles don't seem nearly so tempting any more!

Brrrr it's far from gloriously warm here, my casseroles are going down a treat!

ali.b.123

helyg - many thanks. I always order that in pubs -but never sure on how to do the sauce - cant wait to have a go. !

Penelope_Penguin

Here's mine:

Saturday – HM sausage sandwiches, fruit; Pizza and Strictly

Sunday – HM flatbread and soup; Berkshire pork chops in plum sauce, roast potatoes, HG veg; baked HG apple and custard

Monday – Dexter burgers, HM bread rolls, salad

Tuesday – HM salmon fishcakes, orange and HG parsley couscous, HG veg

Wednesday – rabbit casserole, mashed potato, HG veg

Thursday – pasta with HG seasonal vegetable sauce

Friday – DH and I out for a meal; children at Explorer Scout camp

There's a cake in the tin, and a batch of flapjack. DS made some scones, which we ate at the weekend with YS clotted cream and HM jam

Penny. x

thriftlady_2

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Pizza and Strictly

Strange, that's what we're having on Saturday:D -haven't planned the rest though.