Meal Plans WB 21 December 2009 - Christmas Week!

SunnyGirl

Good morning I have continued planning as normal for the Christmas/New Year period & am finding that it is making life much easier :T

Penny Pincher Hope that you are having a good few days with your friends and are feeling more rested?

:xmastree:We are having:

Monday - Chicken Sweet & Sour with Rice

Tuesday - Pasta Bake

Wednesday - Mixed Vegetable Soup & Flatbreads followed by Ice Cream

Thursday (Our family meal) Avocado Prawn Salad, Roast Turkey, Roast Potatoes & Parsnips, Carrots, Sprouts finished off with Sesame Oil & Bacon Lardons, Pigs in Blankets, Lemon & Rosemary Stuffing, Cranberry Sauce & Gravy. Christmas Pudding & Cream.

Friday (My parents coming) Prawn Salad with Sweet Chilli Sauce, Hot Roast Gammon, New Potatoes, Carrots & Broccoli & Parsley Sauce. Fresh Fruit Salad, Mince Pies & Trifle (for DH;))

Saturday (Friends coming round) - Chilli & Rice with Garlic Bread & Salad

Sunday - Potato Boulangere with Gammon, Carrots, Peas & Yorkshire Pudding.

Breakfasts are toast, porridge, fruit & yoghurts.

Lunches are soup, cheese & crackers, pate, leftovers & whatever the children want to help themselves to

Snacks will be Christmas cake, mince pies, fruit & probably selection boxes for the children :rotfl:

Have a good Christmas week & a peaceful & enjoyable holiday everyone :xmassign:

Norman_Bean

No meal planning for me, we'll be going to UK on Sunday :T so I'll eat whatever my mum puts in front of me and be grateful for it

Have a great Christmas and I'll be back planning with a vengence in the new year

Norman x

Boodle

Hi everyone I didn't realise Xmas was next week until I looked at the calender this morning to meal plan :O

DH breaks up on Friday, so have been planning around the fact we will probably be nipping here and there. I am making a barley soup to keep in the freezer for times we might get caught out as I haven't planned lunches for Mon-Thu for this reason. We will probably be having later breakfasts and lunches, therefore will all have our main meal at about 5-6pm, then DH and I something little for supper later on (olives and carrots, or popcorn, or a cheeky mince pie etc.) Snacks will be the usual fresh or dried fruit, DD's puds the usual fruit or soy yoghurt. I will be making some chocolate muffins and biscotti so that will be breakfasts all week, but there is bread in for toast and branflakes too.

Saturday
B: Branflakes with raisins, sunflower seeds and almonds
L: Out
Vegetable burgers in sesame buns with gherkins and ketchup

Sunday
B: Vanilla french toast
L: Savoury onion roll with veg, potatoes and gravy.
Winter green lentil salad. Cake and custard.

Monday: Loaded skins with winter bean salad
Tuesday: Tapas - chick pea stew, beef in red wine, spinach with green olives, avocado and patatas fritas. Helado de chocolate afterwards.
Wednesday: Veg soup and baguette or dumplings
Thursday: Veg soup and garlic bread

Xmas Day
L: Sweet potato, pecan and spinach salad... Mushroom wellington with maple roasted parsnips and carrots, sprouts, red cabbage, sweetcorn, stuffing and roasted potatoes with bread sauce, cranberry sauce, mustard and gravy... Christmas pud and custard.
Bubble and squeak, or sandwiches. Probably a mince pie or two, or some leftover Christmas pud

Boxing Day
Lots of people over so I plan on doing sort of all-afternoon buffet:"Xmas bubble pie", sausage rolls, mushroom puffs, bought onion bhajis with mango chutney and mustard dip, crisps, jam sandwiches, crackers with hummus and mushroom pate, mince pies, Xmas cake and a HM tunis cake.

Have a great one all :j x

hotcookie101

Cannot believe its Christmas already! slightly EEK!

Plans are (shall I see how many times I change it this week?! :ROFL: )
Sa-something from freezer for me as OH away
Su-pork chops, with mushroom, mustard and creme fraiche sauce, mash &cabbage (and maybe carrots)
Mo-Spag bol, garlic bread, salad
Tu-Lamb chops, veg with saute potatoes
We-Macaroni cheese with cauli and brocolli
Th-roasted chicken thighs, with spuds and veg (hoping for a squash in veg box so can do loads to have the leftovers for the super soup )
Fr-Su-away
Mo-big roast with friends, either lamb or beef, depending if OH wants to go to butchers xmas eve or not to pick up a rib of beef..... Otherwise will be a leg of lamb

freakyogre

Friday - meatballs in a creamy sauce with pasta

Saturday - chinese takeaway

Sunday - leftover takeaway

Monday - chicken kiev with savoury rice

Tuesday - sausage pasta bake

Wednesday - chilli sausages with potato wedges

Thursday - chicken kiev with something

Friday - going to my sisters so will wait and see!

Saturday - going shopping (my first Boxing Day off work!) so will have to see what time we're finished

Sunday - pasta with chorizo, not sure what but I really must use it - found this so will give it a go minus the rosemary - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/166625/rigatoni-with-spicy-chorizo-and-rosemary-sauce

kunekune

I'm in a complete muddle, as I have severe jetlag after travelling to NZ and back in the space of a week ... we have quite a lot of meat in the freezer because OH and MIL don't appear to have cooked at all while I was gone, but other things we're really short of. And there are no Ocado delivery slots for the weekend. So I'm going to try and manage on minimal shopping until the big shop arrives on Wednesday. This is more some vague ideas than a proper plan.

Friday: thinking of making an egg curry, either with pulses or vegetables, but I'm not sure what time I'll get in from work or whether OH and the children are going to work/school, so it's all a bit confused
Saturday: DD's birthday party, NOT held at home thank goodness. Vague plan for tea is that I'll do a caramelised onion quiche and have it with potatoes and sweetcorn.
Sunday: DD's birthday meal. Has requested vegetarian lasagna and pineapple upside down cake.
Monday: at home with children, OH at work weather permitting. Sausage and bean casserole, baked potatoes
Tuesday: at home with children, OH at work, OH's birthday meal. He hasn't told me what he wants yet. If he doesn't tell me soon, it's going to be a very un-birthdayish spaghetti & meatballs.
Wednesday: OH at home with children, I may be out for a while with some Nigerian students who are staying here over the holiday. Chicken breasts in some form.
Thursday: now we start the real plan. All at home. Trout koubliac, salad, mayonnaise
Friday: blueberry pancakes with bacon & maple syrup for breakfast; turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, roast parsnip, carrots, sprouts, gravy, cranberry sauce; christmas pud and brandy cream (DD either having meal without turkey or a pie of some kind)
Saturday: leftovers day

cuddlymarm

Hi

My week is a little confusing cos we collect DS2 from uni on Monday and DS2 arrives late on Tues so my plan is going to be flexible

Mon Probably takeaway
Tues Pie, potatoes and sweetcorn
Wed Toad in the hole and gravy
Thurs Takeaway (its tradition cos the turkey will be in the oven)
Fri Turkey, stuffing, carrots, brussels, roast pots, pigs in blankets, little sausages and gravy with lemon merigue roulade and cream for afters (well probably about 2 hours after)
Sat Usually it will be leftovers, bubble and squeak or turkey and salad etc (whatever we fancy) and probably the xmas pud and custard (we can't do justice to a heavy pud after a big xmas dinner)
Sun Egg and chips (again its a tradition that we have egg and chips cos we are usually fed up with rich food by this time)


We have lots of snow this morning so I am feeling really christmassy
Have a lovely week everyone
Cuddles

:xmastree::xmassign::xmastree:

CCP

kunekune wrote: »

Tuesday: at home with children, OH at work, OH's birthday meal. He hasn't told me what he wants yet. If he doesn't tell me soon, it's going to be a very un-birthdayish spaghetti & meatballs.

Personally, that probably would be my choice of birthday meal. Maybe I'm just strange! :D Hope you recover from your jetlag soon.

I wasn't intending to do a meal plan for this week but my plan went so wrong last week that I've still got loads of stuff to use up before I go to my parents' on Christmas Eve. So I'm having:

Tonight - turkey crispbakes (from M&S) with buttered veg (and maybe one of the cheese scones I'm making for my sister for Christmas - well, I've got to check they're OK before giving them to her, haven't I? ), followed by mincemeat and apple pie and ice cream
Saturday - out for a family Christmas meal at an Italian restaurant - probably pizza for me
Sunday - minted lamb en croute and veg of some sort
Monday - chilli con carne, hm guacamole and garlic bread
Tuesday - squash and pancetta risotto (from the freezer)
Wednesday - pizza (from the freezer)
Thursday - off to my parents' house for a few days - I'm not sure exactly what we're having, but there'll be lots of it, knowing my dad!

Have a lovely Christmas, everyone!

foxgloves

We have spent most of December eating all the freezer meals I'd been stashing in throughout Oct & nov and this has freed up a bit more budget for buying Christmas stuff while we've got guests staying. Went through freezer the other night and still got things to eat so going to try & clear it out for meals this week to make rooom for all the stuff I'll be making from turkey & ham leftovers after Christmas!

champys

Made my plan yesterday, but a new cookery book arrived in the post this morning, so I'm very tempted to change it all around! We should go for a shop as we haven't been for ages (I've been away), but we're a bit snowed in so DH is not too keen on driving over to town today. Here's the original plan:

Today: potato & green bean curry
Saturday: SC osso buco and rice
Sunday: chili sausages and mash or wedges
Monday: pasta in lime-peanut sauce
Tuesday: fish pie
Wednesday: chicory baked with goat's cheese
Thursday: chorizo-chick pea stew
Christmas Day: friends joining us. They will bring the starter and the cheeses. Main course will be poularde de Bresse (if I find one) or else another type of fowl as one friend does not eat red meat. Dessert will be chocolate-meringue semi-freddo (no x-mas pud as same friend not keen on dried fruit). Or DH might persuade me do do a trifle after all...
Saturday: Turkish lentil soup, leftovers

Have a lovely Christmas!

misscousinitt

Hi All

My normal meal plans from Thurs to Wed bring me up to Christmas Eve, but have planned a few options for the following week as I am at home and OH has to work!

So this festive season we are having/had:

Thurs: Cornish Pasty, Sprouts, Mash & Gravy
Fri: Out with Friends for a curry
Sat: Salmon with white wine and cream sauce, pasta & broccolli
Sun: Eat at OH's parents
Mon: Pasta with Chicken and HM pasta sauce from the freezer
Tues: Works Christmas Party
Wed: Round friends house - buffet food
Thurs: Cottage Pie
Fri: Turkey & All the Trimmings
Sat: Buffet Food round OH's parents

Sun- Wed: Haven't decided what days yet - A 2 course candlelit fishy meal for OH and I, Salmon Bake with Thai Spices, Rice etc..., Orange Braised Lamb Shanks, Slow pot roasted beef with red wine and redcurrant jelly

Thurs: Having a party!!!! Venison Casserole, Crusty Bread and Nibbles

Merry Christmas to you all. Enjoy the festive season....

A

xxxx