MealPlans WB 23rd November 2009

hotcookie101

Hopefully this week will go
Sunday-roast rib of beef, roast parsnips, cabbage, mashed swede and yorkies(HM!) with red wine gravy
Mo-Rare roast beef, rocket and horseradish sandwiches with HM bread, spuds sauteed in dripping or goose fat,fried left over veg, and roasted beetroot
Tues-Beef and butternut squash bake
Wed-either-italian lamb and beef stew or if we feeling beefed out(will make that and freeze it), pasta bake with roasted tomato sauce and garlic bread
Thurs-Chilli, rice and cheese.
Fr-Lightly smoked salmon fillets with leeks, potatoes and carrots
Sa-Lamb stew/hotpot with cabbage (and red cabbage for me!)

Jue_xx

Jue_xx wrote: »

Wow, well done! :T You're giving me food for thought now, as my food shops regularly reach the £110-£120 mark for a family of four. I think I'll have a go at this when I get in from work tonight. Have you done this week's plan yet? I would love to see it for inspiration.

OK, I've been through my cupboards and made my list, and there are several items that need using up. See how many you can spot:

Old El Paso Enchillada kit (few months out of date, but I'm sure it will be fine)
Tin ratatouille
Tin celery hearts (don't know when or how it got there)
Tin butterbeans
Tin chickpeas
7 (yes, 7!) tins mushy peas
2 tins apple & Blackberry fruit filling
Smoked mackerel fillets
Cheesy nacho wedge sachet mix
2 tins out of date evaporated milk (see enchilladas above)
Jar salsa
4 sachets onion sauce

So here goes:
Sat - Chicken enchilladas, cheesy nacho wedges, salsa (Filled Yorkshires for the kids)
Sun - Lamb crepe stack, salad, garlic bread. Apple & blackberry crumble & evaporated milk. Rest of the bottle of red wine from the lamb stack.
Mon - Meat & potato pie, mushy peas, gravy
Tues - sausage & chickpea casserole (pinched from earlier post, thanks!), mashed potatoes, veg
Wed - smoked mackerel fillets, (chicken dippers for the kids), rice, vegetables, onion sauce
Thurs - Turkey & butterbean hotpot, jacket potatoes, ratatouille, veg
Fri - HM calzone pizzas, salad, garlic bread

OK, so I failed on the celery hearts. :doh:Any ideas anyone?

Norman_Bean

No money to spend on food for rest of the month now so have planned 10 days :cool:

Sat - Start of rubber chicken = roast chick with roast pots, veg etc
Sun - Chicken and leek pie with bubble and recycled gravy
Mon - chicken / leek scraps made into pasta sauce with pasta
Tues - macaroni and leek pasta bake and veg
Weds - merguez sausages with mash and onions and peas
Thurs - macaroni scraps
Fri - chicken and potato curry with naans and rice
Sat - pumpkin pasta
Sun - pork strips - NO idea what to do with them!
Mon - spring veal stew scraps from freezer with jacket pots and veg

So can anyone help with the pork strips? I have got some out of date miso soup sachets and soy sauce, mirin sauce and rice vinegar so was thinking of maybe something oriental marinade - I've got a slow cooker and remoska if that inspires anyone???

Norman x

Norman_Bean

Jue_xx wrote: »

OK, so I failed on the celery hearts. :doh:Any ideas anyone?

can you put them in the hotpot? Might be nice?

ariarnia

There was a recipe in one of the supermarket mags for something called sticky fingers pork where basically you slice the pork into strips (belly pork into long quarters kind of thing) then marinade in a mix made of mustard(1tsp), ketchup(4tblsp), soy sauce(1tsp), and honey(1tblsp) then grill and serve on a bed of rice with oriental veg. (all amounts are subject to memory and not guaranteed to be accurate in any way)

I personally cheat and if you coat them in brown sauce just before cooking it tastes almost identical and yummy. You have to cook them on a lowish heat for a long time or the sauce caramelises but the meat doesn't cook. About 15 minutes on medium works normally - as a note you want the sauce to caramelise, and it works best if you cook the meat through without turning it (so the sauce doesn't fall off)

edit: you can do veg the same way, but be aware they take longer to cook under a low heat on the grill. (carrots take forever)

Norman_Bean

Thank you Ariarnia - you're a star and that sounds yummy - have got all of the ingredients so that's a result! Just need to stop 4 year old having honey on her toast for the rest of the week as it's running out :rotfl:

suziewuzie

Better late than never.
Fri - them - pizza (bought!!!) me omelette & salad
Sat - lunch - beans on toast
eve - quorn bolognese and linguine
Sun - hm soup (carrot and artichoke)
eve - roast guinea fowl (reduced in Sains last week), hg veg pots, kale, leeks
Mon - risotto with mushrooms and bits of guinea fowl
Tue - turkey cass (slow cooker) with all veg thrown in
Wed - hm broth type soup (guinea fowl carcass and bits, leek, potato, pearl barley, celery) followed by a fruit pud (apple or plums from freezer)
Thurs - see whats left in fridge, freezer, cupboards and garden

memelalou

Okay here's mine -

Sunday (today} - We have had for lunch sausages, mash, carrots and peas with the thickest onion gravy ever{the onions which i roasted with the sausage - so extra yummy}.

Monday - Broccoli and cheese pasta bake.

Tuesday - Thick cut ham, pouched eggs and chips {yum!}

Wednesday - Bog standard frozen cheese pizza with salad

Thursday - BBQ chicken melt with fries and corn on the cob {pub style}

Friday - HM vegetable soup with HM rolls

Saturday - left over soup for lunch. Jacket Potatoes with chilli already made from the freezer for tea

SailorSam

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Saturday – Pizza and Strictly
.

I'm looking for ideas what to eat, sitting here thinking ...
What goes into Strictly ?
Aah of course, it's Saturday.

stef240377

Have not posted in a long time but seeing as Xmas is fast approaching and i want a new car at some point next year decided to drift back and start using up what we have. Over the past couple of months have gone mental in the supermarket isles and now cupboards are full to over flowing and the same with both freezers. Got sick and tired of looking at everything thinking we have nothing to eat............ we must have if everything is ram packed so back onto meal planning.

Sun (today) - Roast pork with spuds and cabbage and gravy.

Mon - Chilli con carne with rice (already sitting in SC waiting to be turned on tomorrow.

Tues - Minestrone soup with HM bread (daughter making soup @ school as she is doing gcse cooking)

Weds - Gammon in sc

Thurs - Lentil and bacon soup using any left overs from weds.

Fri - HM Quiche and chips

Sat - Pork and apple hotpot.

Already made today, cherry and coconut loaf cake, banana and choc chip muffins and apple and cinnamon muffins. Have a fruit crumble in the freezer so should be ok dessert/snack wise this week.

Lunches will be whatever me and DH find in tins or sandwich form this week and kids have school dinners.
Estimate shopping to around £40 this week partly through having to get ingredients for daughters cooking lessons and wanting to get it around the £40 mark for the Morrisons voucher.