Meal Plans WB 21 December 2009 - Christmas Week!

Kadeeae

We're "menu plan free" for the next two weeks, there's a ton of HM 'fast food' in the freezer so will eat as and when except of course for Xmas & Bx. Day I'll still pop in to get inspiration for after the New Year . . . when we start all over again!

Thanks to everyone who posts on this thread, more than once I've come up with an idea for 'next weeks menu' because of one of your meals and it's really helped to get more variety into our meals.

Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and nothing but the best for 2010 :beer: 'See' you next year!

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!

Thanks for starting the thread and I cant believe it's Xmas next week:eek::eek::eek::eek:

This week we are having:

Sun-Stuffed Chicken, Parsnip, Roasts, Carrots, Yorkies & Peas
Mon-Fishfingers, Mash & Beans
Tues-Away (Easy Baked Spud, Cheese & Colesalw)
Wed-Sausage, Mash, Cabbage & Carrots
Xmas Eve-Take Away with friends
Xmas Day-Goose/Gammon, Roasts, Yorkies, Stuffing, Pig & Blankets, Cauli Cheese, Parsnips, Sprouts & Peas
Boxing Day-Bubble Leftovers & Buffet Food through day (Cold meat, pickles, s/rolls, quiche, pork pie etc)
Sunday-Chops, Boiled Spuds, Cabbage & Carrots

Have ordered delivery for Tuesday with Ocado as I had a £15 off voucher. Our Xmas food with added stuff needed for cupboards and freezer came to £90 after discount and offers:j:j:j....that includes treats, puddings, some ready made fresh cauli cheese (delish!), pate, sausage rolls, quiche, pork pies, part baked baguette, olives, sausages x 4, bacon, pork chump chops x 2, chickens x 2, cheese board etc etc. Quite pleased with all that:D We are away for the Xmas period, so that covers all we need whilst away too!!

Have a lovely Xmas everybody.

PP
xx

tigerlily

champys wrote: »

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!

The Turkish lentil soup sounds nice........do you have a recipe?

ShillyShally

Busy week coming up with visitors and Christmas (I'm also still trying to use up the contents of my freezer before the Big Day!)

Sunday : Bacon & leek quiche, salad
Monday : Squash & sage risotto
Tuesday : Suasages & mash
Wednesday : Spag Bol
Thursday : Egg & chips
Xmas Day : Seafood cocktail; rib of beef with trimmings and trifle or xmas pud Saturday : Cold roast beef, salads & leftovers
Sunday : Home made soup, jacket potatoes.

Have a relaxed and enjoyable week everyone.

champys

tigerlily wrote: »

The Turkish lentil soup sounds nice........do you have a recipe?

Hi tigerlily - Turkish lentil soup (mercimek çorbasi) is lovely and soooo easy, I make this all the time. As follows.
Put together in a pan 1 cupful of red lentils, 1 onion, 1 carrot and 1 potato - the vegetables roughly chopped. Add 1 litre water and 750 ml chicken or beef stock. Or just add water and one or two stock cubes. Cook until everything is soft - I do this in the pressure cooker in exactly 10 minutes, but otherwise I guess it takes 25-30 minutes. (You can also successfully use a slow cooker).) While the lentils and vegetables are cooking, take a small saucepan and put in half a tbsp of butter and a dessertspoonful of plain flour. Cook on a very low heat and stir butter and flour together while cooking until they are well mixed and slowly bubbling away.
When the soup mixture is cooked, add the butter/flour mix to it and blend it all with a stick blender (or in a food processor). Add seasoning to taste.
When serving, put some lemon wedges on the table so everyone can squeeze a little lemon juice into their soup. If you like, you can sprinkle the soup with fresh or dried mint when serving.

Fivenations

Already? Where did last week go?

Monday - Salmon, rice and spinach - japanese style
Tuesday - Boys night to cook so probably pasta
Weds - Works lunch so dinner will be a light stirfry supper
Christmas Eve - Italian Christmas Eve dinner - Spaghetti with clams, breaded scallops, scampi, cods bites and calamari for the men, gluten free seafood for me, marinated roasted and pickled vegetables, salad, panetone and assorted fried and baked pastries.
Christmas Day - Lunch around 3 as will still be full from yesterday! Antipasto misto - smoked salmon, Milano and napoli salami, coppa, parma ham, mortadella, anchovies, olives, marinated veggies, mozzarella and other Italian cheeses. Roast Capon with all the usual trimmings, plus large dish of Italian pork and chicken stuffing that will last us several meals. Fresh fruit salad, panetone, cheese, whatever goodies are left from last night. Then grazing on leftovers in the evening.
Boxing Day with friends
Sunday - Glorious leftovers.

lil_me

Ooooo good idea, I can work out what I need from the shop doing this, ages since I did a proper plan. I will add to as I find stuff in freezer/fridge/cupboard so please excuse the editing. I don't inc veg on list as changes with mood.

Lunches soup & sandwiches, need to shop for that too

Sunday - Sausages & mash
Monday - Steak stew
Tuesday - Scampi
Wednesday - Ham something
Thursday - Chicken something pasta ish
Friday - Chicken, Gammon & Beef will be cooked, yes just 4 of us but will last. Yorkshires, stuffing, piggy blankets, roast pots, veg etc all will be served
Saturday - left overs
Sunday - out with friends for lunch
Monday - Spag bol

Oooo, apart from Xmas day, veg and lunch stuff I have most of that (Xmas day is ordered) no need to go daft after all!

chickywiggle

hmmm what to have what to have............................

Sunday - h/m chicken and bacon pie and mash.

Monday - h/m chicken and veg soup (made from extra chicken cooked yesterday)

Tuesday - h/m chicken and veg soup (if some left) if not golden drummers and waffles

Wednesday - Sausage, mash and beans

:xmassmile: Christmas Eve - pizza

:xmastree: Christmas Day - Gammon, egg and chips (OUR traditional dinner me, hubby and baby) as hubby hates veg and I don't do roasts!!)

Boxing Day - hmmm gotta feed relies and apparently beans on toast won't cut it. Might go pick up some quiches and serve em with wedges and salad.

:xmassign:

tracyk

Ooh - feel much better now I've got the next week's meals on paper - just need to make a shopping list now:

Saturday – Chicken fajitas with sour cream & salad

Sunday – Beef casserole with dumplings (slow cooker)

Monday – HM French Onion soup & pizza

Tuesday – Pasta with HM tomato sauce with bits from freezer (Quorn escalopes, salmon, bacon)

Wednesday – Fish, mushy peas & chippy chips

Thursday – HOT BEEF BAP NIGHT (friends round) – roast beef, brisket, chicken baps, pickles, cucumber & onion, Pringles, Courgette cake & Banoffi Pie

Friday
·Breakfast – Bacon & Cheese butties
·Dinner - Roast Turkey, Pigs in Blankets, mashed spuds, roasted spuds, mashed carrots & parsnips, sprouts, broccoli, stuffing, bread sauce, cranberry sauce, Schloer & Champagne. Meringue nests with whipped cream & forest fruits

Saturday – BUFFET TEA – Turkey & salmon baps, dips, Pringles, Crisps, pickles, cucumber & onion, HM sausage rolls, chicken pieces, HM quiche, HM trifle & mince pies & ice cream

[FONT=&quot]Sunday – Turkey risotto & garlic bread[/FONT]

Next time I do a meal plan it'll all be over

Happy Christmas everyone :xmassmile xx

thriftlady_2

I've just finished my plan and my shopping list for tomorrow. I've done a virtual shop at Waitrose and was pleased to see I'm under budget even with 7 bottles of wine and a bottle of Baileys.

Today
lunch-leftover bean and veg soup
Supper -roast chicken, roast potatoes and veg, leftover bread&butter pud/mince pies

Monday 21st
lunch- cheese on toast or pitta pizzas
supper- Chicken barley soup and bread

Tuesday 22nd
lunch-beans on toast
supper- vegetable curry and bhajis

Wednesday 23rd
lunch- spaghetti, olive oil and garlic
supper- chorizo, butternut squash and pepper hash

Christmas Eve
lunch- sausage rolls, pickles, bread, cheese, celery
supper -Ham in Cola, baked potatoes, red cabbage coleslaw
Quince syllabub/mince pies

Christmas Day

breakfast- chocolate:p

devils on horseback as prelunch nibble (prunes wrapped in bacon)

lunch -roast goose, sage and onion stuffing, chipolatas wrapped in bacon, apple-quince sauce, gravy, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, peas, carrots
Christmas pudding/fruit salad/meringues and cream

supper- cold ham, cold goose, bread, coleslaw, pickles, other leftovers

Boxing Day
lunch- some sort of soup
supper- goose hash, pudding will be whatever is leftover

Sunday 27th
lunch- more soup
supper-ham hash with eggs (assuming there is ham left)

Monday 28th
no idea