Weezl and friends Phase 2 -giving it a whirl for Shirl! Testing meal plan for a month

weezl74

Allegra wrote: »

Monday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner pasta funghi

Tuesday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch walnut spread
Dinner panzanella

Wednesday
Breakfas t seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner bean curry

Thursday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch tangy bean pate
Dinner sweetcorn fritters

Friday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch olive tapenade
Dinner shepherdess pie

Saturday
Breakfas t pancakes
Lunch green pea soup
Dinner calzone

Sunday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch cloddies
Dinner tomato & olive pie

Week Two
Monday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner pea risotto

Tuesday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch walnut spread
Dinner veggie burgers

Wednesday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner sweetcorn fritters

Thursday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch tangy bean pate
Dinner calzone

Friday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch olive tapenade
Dinner shepherdess pie

Saturday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch lunchtime risotto
Dinner saag aloo

Sunday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch surprise soup
Dinner nut roast


Week Three
Monday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner onion tart

Tuesday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch tangy bean pate
Dinner red pepper pasta

Wednesday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner bean curry

Thursday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch tangy bean pate
Dinner panzanella

Friday
Breakfast seed bread
Lunch olive tapenade
Dinner shepherdess pie

Saturday
Breakfast pancakes
Lunch green pea soup
Dinner calzone

Sunday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch cloddies
Dinner tomato and olive pie


Week Four
Monday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner pea risotto

Tuesday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch walnut spread
Dinner veggie burgers

Wednesday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmous
Dinner moroccan rice

Thursday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch walnut spread
Dinner calzone

Friday
Breakfast seed bread
Lunch tangy beanpate
Dinner BNS risotto

Saturday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch lunchtime risotto
Dinner saag aloo

Sunday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch surprise soup
Dinner nut roast


Week Five
Monday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch houmus
Dinner onion tart

Tuesday
Breakfast porridge
Lunch walnut spread
Dinner red pepper pasta

Wednesday
Breakfast seed spread
Lunch tangy bean pate
Dinner moroccan rice

which of the above lunches would people swap for 2 pasta salads and 5 red lentil pates for max varietiness? xxx

artybear

Oh I think I am very materialistic compared to you all:(

I was looking at engagement rings that were thousands of pounds (from Tiffany's:eek:)

Off to open wine now

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

Oh I think I am very materialistic compared to you all:(

I was looking at engagement rings that were thousands of pounds (from Tiffany's:eek:)

Off to open wine now

arty I was just thinking in my kitchen just now that I have phrased myself wrongly about this

please don't think of my 'thrift' as a virtue.

It isn't (well sometimes it is!)

but often it's ignoble things like fear.
your worldview sounds very healthy and optimistic please don't feel it's wrong in any way :A

Allegra

shanks77 wrote: »

BTW you were saying yesterday who shops monthly erm well i do. I have 2 freezers so not short of space and i doesnt take that much longer to shop for a month as a week and i really cant be *rsed going to supermarket every week, searching for place to park, queueing to pay for food then coming home and unpacking. I would much rather get it out of the way than to have it hanging over my head each week. I dont mind the shopping part its the above mentioned that do my head in.

I totally sympathise with that. I do not shop monthly any longer though, but the only reason for that is DD has very particular but rather transient tastes - that is to say, she'll eat one particular thing for weeks on end, then she'll suddenly and without warning go off it, which when we shopped monthly would leave us with sizeable stocks of stuff she would no longer touch. This is why it makes more sense for us to shop weekly - plus the fact that the only fruit and veg she'll eat is fresh.

And i hate shopping for clothes, shoes etc its my idea of hell and i wouldnt enjoy it even if it was someone elses money (who could afford it). People at work hearing that think i am strange but hey who cares.:)

Snap ! And the reason for this is that I can never, ever find something that fits. I have to take three different sizes of trouser into the changing room - and then find that none of the three fits. And don't get me started on ladies size 9 shoes....

Anyway, back to food. I love Jamie. I love Nigella. I love reading their books, watching their shows, and using their recipes as a sort of template for frugalisation (hey, I made Jamie's chilli for quarter of the price ! Of course, then it's not Jamie's chilli anymore.... Except, in my mind, it is. Go figure). I love Jamie because he grows his own, Nigella because she eats cold leftovers straight from the fridge. On the balance, I probably prefer Nigella because she always appears to be teetering on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and it appears to be only food that keeps her propped up on the right side of it... And oh how I can identify with that !

But do I get a kick out of making a Nigella recipe, or a Jamie one ? Only if I found bargain ingredients to make them with. That's what gives me a little kick every time - getting the best value, making things go further, wasting absolutely nothing. My local shops are a little Asda and a large Waitrose, and I do pop into the latter fairly regularly - amazing just how many bargains can be picked up there ! But do a big shop there ? Yet many do. Every time I am queuing up there with my 99p packets of Doves farm yeast and 79p packets of dried chickpeas or whatever, there is someone parting with the best part of £200 quid for something that even I would struggle to cover a month's meals - and you know there'll be there next week for more of the same.

I do not have a strong desire to acquire stuff. I am pretty impervious to the Neverland of foodie advertising. I live inside my own head far too much for whatever is happening on the outside world to have much effect But when I read a Weezl recipe - or any other odds-and-sodds Old Style type of advice - I want to have a go. Even lardy nettles (although I am valiantly resisting that one so far) !

Oh, and in case anyone's thinking that I am projecting a "holier than thou" attitude, please do not think that :eek: I am not saying that the way I am is better than being the other way - just that this is the way I am. None of us can help the way we're made. And I haven't a slightest problem with anyone who cooks Nigella and shops Jamie - as long as they can afford to.

BTW, I do have a spending weakness - just the one Shall I tell you what it is ?

weezl74

I'm gonna guess it as books Allegra

weezl74

can I be really naughty and ask more about why young arty is browsing for engagement rings?

weezl74

Allegra wrote: »

And I haven't a slightest problem with anyone who cooks Nigella and shops Jamie - as long as they can afford to.

thank you. That's what I always mean, but I don't put it across so well

artybear

weezl74 wrote: »

can I be really naughty and ask more about why young arty is browsing for engagement rings?

lol I sometimes do it to freak mr arty out-and wedding dresses.

I'm a bad girlfriend:rotfl::rotfl:

Then he freaks me out by not freaking out:eek:

Well I think you are all very virtuous, I love clothes, shoes, books, pretty things but do try and get the best possible deal when I buy them.:(

weezl74

artybear wrote: »

Well I think you are all very virtuous, I love clothes, shoes, books, pretty things but do try and get the best possible deal when I buy them.:(

I genuinely think it isn't the thrifty or the generous who are virtuous, since both can be done with a bad heart.

thrift can be meanness and generosity can be irresponsible.

or

thrift can be careful, and self disciplined: and generous, can be fun, gregarious, optimistic, and well, generous

weezl74

ps I love mr arty for not freaking out