Mealplans WB 2nd August

Chaos_Monkey

Hello All

Just been doing our meal plan for next week, and the shopping list to go with it. I'm glad there's this thread, as it gave me the idea to do meal plans - before we were just spending a fortune in the shops with no coherrent thought to what we were actually going to be able to make out of what we'd bought!

In no particular order:

Pitta pizzas and salad
Cauliflower curry (DH is making this up, I think!)
Pasta and garlic bread
Ham, egg and chips
Paella

I'm away on site one night next week, so DH will have to fend for himself and probably make something like seafood (I can't stand the smell), and I think we'll be away the weekend, so this week's is a bit short.

CM

marchio

Hya all,
Last week went a bit out as DH bought and cooked steak on Tues for celebration and then decided to visit Mum in residential home and take her out - she likes combo of chick breast and BBQ ribs and the home don't do that!
Today Thai chicken curry with rice and French beans from the garden
Sun: Roast ?? No good offers at Mr. T today will visit Mr. M tomorrow, but will be with Anya potatoes and runners from the garden.
Mon: visiting MIL in residential home and taking her out for lunch
Tues: not sure - risotto? or beef rendang that I didn't make last week
Wed: chicken stir fry with peppers, carrots, spinach & maybe red cabbage all from garden
Thur: paprika goulash
Fri: tuna, pasta bake
Hope everything goes to plan for everyone, and if not then even better than plan
Cheers

CCP

freakyogre wrote: »

Mmm, I don't suppose you have a recipe for this? It sounds delicious

I certainly do. It's one of my dad's recipes and you're right - it is delicious!

It's all really simple - the rice is just cooked in coconut milk instead of water, with the lid left off so it all evaporates leaving sticky, coconutty rice. :drool: The beans are just kidney ones from a tin, which I throw in with the boiling rice to up the meal's veg content (and I just like beans! ).

For the rest of it - chop the courgette into small cubes and stir-fry in a splash of oil until tender. Add the prawns (if you're using raw ones, which I will be this time) and cook until starting to go pink, then pour over some sweet chilli sauce from a bottle. (If I'm using cooked prawns I add them at this point, so they don't get overcooked.) Heat until the chilli sauce is hot, then serve spooned over the sticky rice.

Last week I experimented with chunks of chicken breast instead of the prawns, and that's pretty good too.

Hope you like it!

freakyogre

CCP wrote: »

I certainly do. It's one of my dad's recipes and you're right - it is delicious!

It's all really simple - the rice is just cooked in coconut milk instead of water, with the lid left off so it all evaporates leaving sticky, coconutty rice. :drool: The beans are just kidney ones from a tin, which I throw in with the boiling rice to up the meal's veg content (and I just like beans! ).

For the rest of it - chop the courgette into small cubes and stir-fry in a splash of oil until tender. Add the prawns (if you're using raw ones, which I will be this time) and cook until starting to go pink, then pour over some sweet chilli sauce from a bottle. (If I'm using cooked prawns I add them at this point, so they don't get overcooked.) Heat until the chilli sauce is hot, then serve spooned over the sticky rice.

Last week I experimented with chunks of chicken breast instead of the prawns, and that's pretty good too.

Hope you like it!

Thank you I'll definitely give it a go, probably with chicken as I have that already (and my courgette plant is producing many small, but perfectly formed courgettes) I've just had a quick cupboard check and I have kidney beans and creamed coconut so it's a sign that this must be made! Thanks again

chefandyam

No! Another week can't have gone by so quickly! Inching closer towards handing in that dissertation at the end of August. Sigh.

So, to food:

Dinner
Mon: baked potato with cottage cheese, salad from garden
Tues: Chicken liver and egg with mahed potato, carrots
Weds: Wholemeal pasta with chard and peas from garden, lemon and garlic
Thurs: Carrot, potato, ginger and mint curry with rice
Fri: Mixed bean chilli with rice
Sat: Mackerel fishcakes with beetroot and carrot salsa (again, from the garden - thank you rain!)
Sun: Split pea, bacon and carrot soup.

Lunch
Mon: Blue cheese and salad sandwich
Tues: Baba ganoush with pitta and cucumber sticks
Weds: Beans on toast
Thurs: Baba ganoush leftovers
Fri: Garden salad with OH's Surprise Dressing
Sat: Cottage cheese on Ryvita
Sun: Leftover fishcakes and salsa

There will also be a Victoria sponge that I'm making for tea and cakes with friends this afternoon, but I'm hoping the leftovers might last a bit longer than that.
We also had our cheapest grocery week ever this week. So pleased! We're saving the money we would normally have spent and putting it in the recently started Wedding Fund, go us.

Have a great week, everyone.

carolinejane_2

Ready to have another go at this never seems to work for me but I will keep trying

Sunday - Cooked bbq chicken with something not decided yet
Monday - Bolognaise with pasta
Tuesday - Sausage casserole
Weds - Beef Stroganoff
Thurs - Chilli/Bolognaise depending on portions left
Frid - Fish and chips
Saturday no plans yet depends on social diary:D

Pink.

carolinejane wrote: »

Ready to have another go at this never seems to work for me but I will keep trying

Hi carolinejane,

What is it that doesn't work for you? I'm just interested because I found when I was first meal planning that there were just some days that I didn't fancy making what was on the meal plan.

The way that I dealt with it was to meal plan for five days in the week and buy the ingredients for those five days. I don't allocate a meal to the day until the morning. This way I could still chop and change if things came up or the weather was hot (when it was forecast to be cold and I had a stew planned ). For the other two days we eat out of the freezer/storecupboard or have soup and a pud or a snack meal.

If you tell us what you find isn't working, perhaps we can help?

Pink

carolinejane_2

Thanks pink thats actually a much better idea. I am also a little naughty in grabbing something after work (or during even:o) when I am too tired to cook anything. On the other hand I have started some serious batch cooking now so need to start using this from the freezer which explains my meal plan this week.

I will take the days out of the plan and try again. Thanks.

wssla00

The problem with reading the meal plans is I always want other things after I have planned! LOL

OK this week wssla00's shall mostly be eating:

Monday: Beans on toast
Tuesday: Fritatta
Wednesday: Veggie curry
Thursday: Lasagne and salad
Friday: Gammon and trimmings
Saturday: Quiche and salad
Sunday: Roast chicken and veg

Have a good day all

hotcookie101

Only planned one change so far this week lol


Mo: Spinach and ricotta gnocchi with ham and mushrooms (economy gastronomy recipe-dumplings in freezer) with salad
Tu: [STRIKE]OH cook something, or slow cooked beef ragu with pappardelle, salad and garlic bread[/STRIKE] Guinea fowl, mushroom and chard tagliatelle bake, with mascarpone sauce, and boursin and parmesan cheese, salad
We: herb crusted fish, with new potatoes, broccoli and carrots
Th: Chilli with rice
Fr:southern baked chicken, corn on the cob, coleslaw and chips
Sa: OH is working, so probably chickpea stew for me, he will have freezer ready meals (home made)
Su: again OH working, I will make a coq au vin for freezer, omelette for dinner and he will have freezer ready meals

Am sure it will change again at some stage...