Meal Plans-Week Commencing 9th October 2006

Penny-Pincher!!

To help us get more motivated, I thought if it was OK with everyone else to maybe list our meal plans for the next week.

If we can make an inventory of food we have in...maybe we can get a few free meals out of it IYSWIM. It will also help us cut down on wastage of food and wastage of money-as we buy just what we need. It will also save time and maybe we can use the SC more with the cold weather coming in which will also be cheaper on energy efficiency

I know meal plans enable me to become more organised and make sure we have a decent meal each day and we remember to get the meat/fish/poultry out the freezer the night before:rolleyes:

My next 7 meals from Monday will be:

Roast Chicken, roasties, yorkies, carrots, french beans, parsnips
Lamb Stew & Dumplings
Toad In The Hole, mash, carrots and cabbage
Chicken Muck Muck & Rice (leftover chicken from roast)
Shepards Pie, cabbage and sweetcorn (already made in freezer)
Egg & Chips
HM Fishpie and peas

Basically, I have all the food already in the freezer but just need the fresh veg and fridge items for the week-but will do Lidls for F&V as they are still half price. I always make extra when I can, then either have the next day for lunch or freeze. Made 2 shepards pies last week so will use the other one this week-next week I will make another 2 and so forth. I have so much food in the freezers that I want to use most of that up before buying much else for the freezer- honestly dont think I will need to buy main meal items for a couple of months.

So come on...what you scoffing this week???

Hugs y'all.

PP
xx

Wonder_Girl

Oh what a good idea, for the next sevan days we will be having -

Minted chicken pasta
Roast dinner
Home made pizzas
Spaghetti bolognaise
Sausages mash and veg
Fishfingers, homemade chips and beans
Chicken tonight and rice

A pretty average week i guess

gingin_2

I'm definitely up for this as I need to get organised!

Mon: Acapulco Chicken (chicken in a spicy sauce with kidney beans and peppers) and rice

Tues: Fish pie

Weds: Chicken with Salsa and new potatoes

Thurs: Beef "throw everything in" Stew (make a big batch to freeze at least 2 more meals)

Fri: Chilli and Nacho's (make double batch of chilli to freeze)

Sat : Fish and Chips (from the chip shop )

Sun: Roast Chook

No puds for us.

taplady

we will be having the following - not sure in which order yet!

Pizza and salad
Stew and dumplings
lasagne
cottage pie
tuna fishcakes
fish and chips
roast beef

I am at work for 2 of the nights so eat there. We eat either veggies and new pots, rice, or mash with them.
Quite a basic menu but thats the way we like it!;)

thriftlady_2

Aah, I love this board, where else can you go where people are interested in what you're having for tea ?:D

Sat - Garlic chicken and rice (DS1 on duty for this one) pineapple for pud
Sun - Baked salmon, veg and baked spuds, roast quinces for pud
Mon - Sausage and bean casserole, baked spuds
Tue - Spaghetti and hidden veg sauce plus cheese
Wed - Beef tajine with quince, mash
Thur - Fish cakes, peas and sweetcorn
Fri - Baked lentils, baked spuds and some sort of crunchy salad

I love making menu plans, but I change them all the time depending on which cookery book I'm reading:D

flourgirl

Our meal plan for this week is

Jacket Potato with HM Cheezy Coleslaw & Salad

Savoury Mince & Cheese Cobbler (from freezer) Cauli & Sprouts

Sweet & Sour Chicken & Brown Rice

Jacket Potato Tuna Sweetcorn Mayo & Salad

Chinese Takeaway (after Weight Watchers!!)

Pasta Bake Salad & Garlic Bread (Pasta Sauce in freezer)

HM Quiche & Salad HM Potato Salad (pastry case in freezer)

Puddings will be Fruit Crumble, Yogurt, Eton Mess, or Fresh Fruit.

I love this site, it's really made me think, and get organised. I've always had the theory "know today what your having tomorrow," it makes life easier.
You're not thinking at 4pm OMG what are we going to eat tonight!!

Sassers

Hi everyone - I'm drooling reading some of these dinners - can I come round to yours?
I'm a newbie poster but love this thread.....thanks to all your fab ideas I now have a fully filled freezer!So everything below I've cooked in bulk and portioned...
sorry to ramble on, I'm a real foodie - specially if it's on the cheap!!! This below has cost me with store cupboard bits and pieces about a tenner

Thai Prawn curry and rice (1 1/2 Lb prawns for £1.50 from the bargain bin at Makro! Freezered and made enough for six big portions - whoohoo!):j :rotfl:
Kippers with oodles of butter, grilled tomatoes and HM bread (kippers 30p bargain from Tesco's and their organic toms 10p):T
Sausage caserole with big HM yorkies and mash: (most expensive meal of the week) :eek:
HM carrot and corriander chunky soup with HM bread;)
Potato skins with bacon bits and cheese and a chilli/ mayo dip:D
Tomato and mozerella pasta bake:p
Oh and I'm gonna use up all the old bread, crumb it and make mini treacle tarts tomorrow YUM!:j

tiredwithtwins

ooooh, im going to watch this with interest!
I try and wait until monday to sort out weekly menus, as i go to sainsburys and netto to see what they have reduced in the meat dept - find these 2 tend to do the biggest reductions! sainsburys reduce a lot of their organic meats ... and netto just half price everything - last week got 2 2kg chickens for £2.50, and 12 lamb chops for just over £4 - all were the day before their use by date. in sainsburys i got an organic chicken 2.5kg for £2, and 2 pork joints for about £3. fed 2 adults and 3 ravenous kids for the week!
just bung it all in the freezer and get it out day before i need it

thanks for doing this - some great ideas!

:T :T :T

recovering_spendaholic

These ideas are really great and I will be trying lots of them. I have to go into hospital on Monday for a hysteroscopy and I am totally bricking it about the whole thing and I haven't done any meal planning as I can't let myself think past Monday, but these ideas are great and there are some nice simple things which I should be able to do once I've got Monday over with.... I have to say that Roast Quinces has me intrigued.. What is it?

Strepsy

I never plan meals more than a day or two ahead. I really should try to do this though as I know I buy too much food. I do use it up before best before dates so I suppose it's not too bad, I hardly ever chuck anything away, though I know I could save money doing things this way. I'll be interested to see a vegetarian one, you lot eat a lot of meat. lol

I'm intrigued about the baked lentils thriftlady? I have a bag of red lentils sat in the cupboard awaiting inspiration.

thriftlady_2

Roast quinces are just quinces baked like apples with loads of sugar. I have a glut of them at the moment.

Baked lentils are made with the big continental lentils not the red ones. Red ones cook to a mush but continental one hold their shape. The recipe is here
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=3044090&postcount=6