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MealPlans WB 9th November 2009

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  • Keiss_21
    Keiss_21 Posts: 2,652 Forumite
    My first time on this thread, so here's this week's meal plans:

    M: Pasta & cheese sauceadding some left-over gammon from Sunday's tea
    T: Toad-in-the -hole and veg, making some pancakes with some of the batter
    W: Spag bol
    Th: Pizza, though might give calzone a go! l
    F: Fish and chips
    S: Burgers in HM cheese rolls

    We always have at least two extra vegetables with each main meal, which will depend on what we have in the house. I get an organic veg box delivered every Wednesday, so sometimes the meals change a bit if there is something I fancy creating with the box contents.

    Have a good week


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  • New to meal planning so pretty sure I won't stick to this
    M: Me- Jacket potato, beans, cheese and salad. OH- Leftovers from Sunday
    T: Frozen pizza (I have a late shift and going out)
    W: Meatballs made with pork mince(whoopsied from £1.85 to 83p)
    T: Toad in the Hole
    F: Chinese takeaway(being begged for it)
    S: Pasta with arribiata sauce(from the freezer)
    S: Maybe make a roast, maybe not. Too far ahead to plan!
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  • Kadeeae
    Kadeeae Posts: 652 Forumite
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    memelalou wrote: »
    I gave birth to my baby on the first of this month:T, so i'm mostly using up my stock from freezer, especially as hubby is back at work tomorrow.

    Congratulations on your baby girl 'Scarlett' :wave:
  • Eltee12
    Eltee12 Posts: 768 Forumite
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    Morning All

    This week's main meals....

    Yesterday
    Me & OH - Roast Beef, Roast spuds, batter pud, gravy (and veg for me). Managed to save some for my mini-roast dinner lunch at work today
    DS-Macaroni Cheese (he doesn't like Roast Dinner!!!!!:eek:)

    Today
    All of us - Toad-in-the-Hole, mash (and mush peas for me & DS), gravy

    Wednesday
    Me - HM Lamb stew & dumplings (plus 2 portions into freezer)
    Them - HM Burgers with bacon & cheese

    Thursday
    All of us - HM Chicken nugs & potato wedges with feta, onion & tomato salad

    Friday
    Weekly treat from chippy

    Saturday
    Don't know, we're out Saturday night so probably pub grub

    Sunday
    HM Lamb hotpot or Rubber Chicken - depends what takes my fancy in the butchers.

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  • A bit behind as have been stuck inside with flu since friday..ugh:eek:

    Anyways plan for this week, still feeling really sick, so will be sticking to small portions, doubt I'll get in more than 1 meal a day this week

    Tuesday- Boiled eggs w/soilders
    Wednesday- Tomato/lentil soup
    Thursday- Stir fry veg w/eggs
    Friday - Lentil soup out of freezer
    Saturday- New covent garden october special Pumpkin soup
    Sunday- Potato and Leek soup

    Gonna go get whoopsie bread to go with soup tonight:o
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  • lilian1977
    lilian1977 Posts: 5,171 Forumite
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    edited 12 November 2009 at 11:35AM
    Hi - joining up to this thread if that's ok as I need to get back into the habit of planning meals.

    So, this week:

    Sunday - Roast chicken breast (from M&S dine in for £10) with roast potatoes and sweet potatoes (from bottom of veg bag!) and greens

    Monday - Stir fry veg and left over chicken with egg fried rice (using up OOD eggs) and a crunchy cashew nut and lime dressing

    Tuesday - Spanish chicken pie with roasted butternut and salad

    Wednesday - Houmous, sugar snap peas and baby corn - out at cinema (free screening)

    Thursday - Butternut squash curry

    Friday - Chick pea stew - must remember to soak chick peas on Thursday ngiht

    Saturday - pizza treat with X-Factor!


    Still using up loads of butternut squash from the Aldi super 6 offer so if anyone can suggest any other good veggie/chicken recipes I'd love to hear them!
  • SunnyGirl
    SunnyGirl Posts: 2,639 Forumite
    tiphat.gif Hi Lilian good to have you on board. I use butternut squash in soup with carrot its delish. I also like it cut into chunks & roasted to go with various meals. When I was following Weight Watchers I used to have it instead of potatoes as it was a 'free' food :D
  • lilian1977
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    Oh yum - and that's a great tip about the 'free' food, I might join up to Weightwatchers after Christmas so I'm nice and svelte for my wedding day! Not overweight now but would be nice to tone up and lose a few extra Christmas pounds! ;)

    Am changing tonight's plan already as found 2 cooked chicken breasts in Co Op for £1.90 so going to make Spanish Chicken pie (thanks tootoo for the inspiration!) so can have roasted butternut on the side. That can use up some of last week's Aldi peppers that are going a bit soft, and also have a salad with it to use up some 25p salad leaves whoopsied the other day. OH can take some for lunch tomorrow then too.
  • Change of plan tomorrow - not fishcakes - got lots of eggs to use up so using them hard boiled, the smoked fish (from freezer) and onion/spices to make a kind of kedgeree instead.
    Weight loss - here we go again - watch this space!

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  • ariarnia
    ariarnia Posts: 4,225 Forumite
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    I'm doing well, it's wednesday and I haven't had a single thing off the menu for this week yet!

    Cooked a woopsie gammon on sunday as people were complaining about not having any lumps of meat, then the fish pie which was supposed to be sunday lasted monday and tuesday!

    OH's having a compacted wisdom tooth out on thursday (poor baby) so I'm thinking about starting with the lasagnie then (without garlic bread as he'll sulk if it's too hard and he can't have any) so at a bit of a loss as to what to have tonight...
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