MealPlans WB 19 April 2010

freakyogre

Hope it's ok to post this. I couldn't see it had been started.

Next week for me should go like this: -

Monday – going out on a work do, so no idea

Tuesday – prawn stir fry with noodles – kinda new, don’t think I’ve actually had prawns in a stir fry before!

Wednesday – [STRIKE]pasta bake (not sure what yet) - this may change as I have some other bits to use, so would rather not 'create' more food![/STRIKE] made cauliflower cheese instead

Thursday – broccoli and red pepper quiche with wedges and corn on the cob

Friday – macaroni cheese with bacon/gammon

Saturday – southern fried chicken with wedges and mini corn on the cob

Sunday – fragrant pork and rice one pot <-- new recipe for the week

I'm going to make a quiche at the weekend as have loads of gammon and eggs to use, so will have that for lunches during the week. Mmm!


What's everyone else having?

Boodle

Hi Freaky

This is what I have planned for next week:

Breakfasts
- Porridge for me and DH
- HM Fig and Oat Bars for girls (also one a day for DH at work)
Banana and fruit juice for all. Toast with peanut butter, jam, HM marmalade or yeast extract also available

Mid-am snack: Fruit

Lunches
- Hummus, avocado, peanut butter, yeast extract or canned beans with or without pickle/chutney/salad on wholemeal bread/crackers/in HM wraps.
- HM scones
- "Cheese on toast" (had this with fried onion, mushroom and sliced garlic, steamed spinach and a great big dollop of HP on the side today - lush! )
- Leftovers
All usually with a side salad

Mid-pm snack: crackers, carrot, nuts

Dinners
Sat: Tapas - Chick Pea, Sausage and Garlic Stew, Creamy Garlic Mushrooms, Patatas Fritas, and salad bowl
Sun: Sausage, mash, veg and gravy. Blackcurrant sorbet with wafers.
(Tea) "Cheese" and Potato Pie with crisps. Fruit plate. Biscuit or cake.
Mon: Baguette Pizza, Coleslaw and salad
Tue: Hawaiian Beans on rice with spinach
Wed: Thai Veg Curry with naan and avocado salad
Thu: Crispy Deep-fried Tofu Fingers, Chips and Peas
Fri: Mixed Veggie and Peanut Stir Fry with rice

Puds if requested can be fruit, soy yoghurt, semolina, rice pud or vanilla/choc pud. Girls have porridge for supper. There is popcorn for late-night snacks

Hope everyone has a great week! x

champys

Thanks freakyogre - I was just halfway making my plan. Have to re-think a little, as we had a meal at our neighbours this week, and it looks as if the weekend is going to be nice weather which means DH is going to request a BBQ. That means some of last week's stuff moves along.

Friday - tortellini & tuna salad
Saturday - BBQ (sausages, HM chili sauce, couscous, rocket salad with pear & blue cheese)
Sunday - re-cycled beef ossobuco, probably in spicy sauce with chick peas, brown rice, lambs lettuce
Monday - pork, noodle and cauliflower stir-fry
Tuesday - HM pizza and salad
Wednesday - turkey 'hawaii', rice and spinach or salad
Thursday - taking my elderly neighbour on a trip to the UK, so DH will have to dig into the freezer until I am back on Monday. (However the neighbour's husband is a good cook so it is not unlikely DH will benefit)

Have a good week, everyone!

hotcookie101

Thank you for starting the thread freakyogre

We are not doing too badly with the old menu planning, I like having some idea of an easy dinner to cook on nights when I'm late/on duty so it doesn't end up in a takeaway at 8pm :eek: quite often I will get the dinner prepped 1-2 days in advance for these nights so we don't have any choice lol

The plan for this week is:

Sun-boiled ham, with spinach ricotta dumplings and mustard sauce (econ gastron) with roast spuds and purple sprouting brocolli
Mo-Ham and cheese omelettes, with chips and salad.
Tu-cauliflower macaroni cheese (maybe with some ham or pancetta)
We-Asian style steamed salmon (jamie oliver MOF) with steamed rice and greens
Th-Spaghetti bolognase with salad
Fr-Pork chops, with a mustard, mushroom and cream sauce, saute pots, something green
Sa-Steak, green beans (or other veg) with a potato, onion and rosemary gratin
Su-Roast chicken, spuds, veg etc

We are getting a taster box from the Well Hung Meat company that comes on the friday-so the steak and chicken are from that, the pork chops are in the freezer and we have pretty much everything else that we need for the week bar the fish, which I haven't completely decided on, it may be roasted white fish with leeks (from Jamie @home) or something completely random depending on what looks good at the fishmongers

Hope everyones weeks go well

CCP

Thanks for starting us off freakyogre but - does that mean it's Thursday again already?! :eek::eek::eek:

Apparently so! This week I've got:

Edit - slight change of plan as Waitrose didn't have any ready-made polenta and I'm not in the mood for standing over a boiling pot to make some:

Friday - sausage and fennel ragu (from delicious magazine) [STRIKE]with polenta wedges[/STRIKE] with HM garlic bread
Saturday - sausages and apple braised in cider (from a Waitrose recipe card) with potato and celeriac mash and green beans
Sunday - boiled bacon [STRIKE]with baked polenta with rosemary, cherry tomatoes and parmesan[/STRIKE] with parmesan capaletti (mini tortelloni) in tomato and pesto sauce
Monday - Basque eggs with LO bacon and HM focaccia
Tuesday - pasta al lago (bacon, cheese and egg - sort of (but not really) carbonara)
Wednesday - root veg, tomato and bean casserole
Thursday - steak and ale pie (from the freezer) and some sort of veg (it depends what's in the veg box that arrives on Thursday)

I won't be doing any baking as I could do with losing a bit of weight, but there may well be some stewed pears as my fridge is currently full to overflowing with them!

Butterfly_Brain

The weeks are really rolling by fast :eek:
Still running the freezers down hopefully it will last till pay day then I am off to Freezer shoppers club to fill up again

Sun: Roast Beef and Y pud with roasties, swede, carrots and runner beans

Mon; Chicken korma with boiled rice

Tues : HM meatloaf with HM tomato sauce, new potatoes and runner beans

Weds: HM Sausage plait , mash and beans

Thurs: Spag Bol

Fri: Salmon with a layer of ricotta cheese, spinach and breadcrumbs, salad and new potatoes

Saturday : HM Ham and pineapple pizza with wedges

Sun: Roast Pork, stuffing, Roastie potatoes, carrots, parsnips and broccoli

Freakyogre The trick with using prawns in a stir fry is to add them last and only cook for a couple of minutes or they will be tough x

Kadeeae

Ooo...see a few good ideas, thanks guys Sort of stuck between colder weather meals and warmer weather ones atm. I do a casserole and it ends up warm outside. Something light like fish and salad and it's freezing out - can't win!


SUN- (BH) Lamb Chops / Yorkies / Veg / Gravy (Me) Cheeseburger w/all the trimmings & Chips

MON- Potato & Chorizo Gratin (new) / Veg / Roll

TUE- Chicken Kiev / Garden Salad / Chips

WED- Beef Casserole w/lots of veg / Crusty Roll

THU- Grilled Turkey Slices / Stuffing / Veg

FRI- Sausage / Egg / Chips

SAT- Subway ~or~ HM 'Fast Food' out of the freezer


Glad we're all making it through the ash cloud thus far, hope to see you all out the other side!

Enjoy your weekend

ladymarmalade

Hi everyone, its a while since I posted on here as I have been so busy. But here are meal plans for me and OH

Thursday: Sausages and cider onions
Friday: Honey mustard chicken and parsnips with spring greens
Saturday: Sausage and leek hash (although there were no leeks int he shop, so could possibly turn into a takeaway of I am feeling lazy!)
Sunday: Tandoori chicken pittas
Monday: Tomato tuna rice and garlic bread
Tuesday: Cajun chicken and hm chips and salad

Hope everone has a lovely week

LadyM:o

Nottoobadyet

Yay the thread is back!

May change, but for the moment -

Dinners -
Fri - leftover veggie cottage pie
Sat - lentil soup with veg and noodles
Sun - veggie goulash
Mon - probubly more goulash :-)
Tue - Moroccan spiced veggie mince cous cous
Wed - Peanut noodles stir fry
Thursday - possibly veggie mince pasta bake

Lunches - soups (have leek and potato in the fridge, plus leftover lentil from saturday) and leftovers, if there are!

One night may be swapped for dinner out as a friend is in town, but we'll see.

mummy2jack

Fri - HM Fish pie with green beans
Lunch - Ham salad sandwiches

Sat - HM Carbonara & salad
Lunch - Crumpets

Sun - Toad in the hole, veg and roast potato's
Lunch - Cheese on toast


Mon - HM Cauliflour cheese
Lunch - Beans on toast

Tues - HM Spag bol & Garlic bread
Lunch - Toasted tea cakes

Wed - Stuffed chicken breast wrapped in puff pastry, new potato's and veg
Lunch - Spaghetti on toast

Thurs - Cheese and red onion pastry puff with jacket potato & salad * Using leftover pastry from wed *
Lunch - Ham salad sandwich

Fri - Pizza baguette
Lunch - Egg on toast


Snacks will be
Fruit
Yogurts
HM cakes / Biscuits
Ice cream

Hope everyone has a good week x

SunnyGirl

Thanks to Freaky Ogre for starting us off There are some lovely sounding meals on here this week. I feel a bit at the plain & simple stuff that I'm dolloping up but, like Kadeeae I'm struggling with the weather (no sign of any ash here either btw ) and keeping to my rule of one meal cooked for all 6 of us. I refuse point blank to make more than one meal for any of the slightly fussy (DD & DS2) eaters :p

CCP Am making your butternut squash & spinach quiche for tomorrow's meal - can't wait!

Here goes anyway:

Monday - Scrambled Herby Eggs & Beans on Toast

Tuesday - Chilli, Rice & Garlic Bread

Wednesday - Cheese & Vegetable Flan (using bought puff pastry, red peppers, courgettes, cream cheese with herbs & garlic and some mozarella) Wedges & Salad/Beans

Thursday - Twice Baked Potatoes or Baked Potatoes with Tuna or Cheese and Carrot & Sultana Salad

Friday - Cooked Meat, Caribbean Red Rice, Salad & Garlic Bread

Saturday - Falafel in Pittas with Salads

Sunday - Gammon, New Potatoes, Peas, Green Beans & Parsley Sauce or Gravy (for the parsley sauce haters!)

Have a good weeks cooking everyone