Meal Plans-Week Commencing 9th October 2006

bluemoon_3

I love this thread, so I'm going to join in.

I'm trying to cut my shopping bill right down in the run-up to christmas, and also trying to use up some of the bits lurking in my kitchen cupboards. Breakfast will be weetabix or porridge, and we'll have fruit for snacks. We're vegan, so any mention of meat, fish, eggs, dairy, etc, will be a veggie substitute, usually HM.

Tuesday - Lunch: Beans on toast Tea: Shepherds pie, butter beans, mushrooms, peas, gravy
Wednesday - Lunch: Broth with HM bread Tea: Macaroni cheese (might add some spinach to this)
Thursday - Lunch: Tomato Pasta Salad Tea: TVP and mushroom pie, mash, peas, carrots, gravy
Friday - Lunch: HM tortilla wraps, tofu "egg salad", lettuce, tomato Tea: HM chips, mushy peas, curry sauce
Saturday - Lunch: "chicken" noodle soup, HM bread Tea: HM pizza, salad, Garlic bread
Sunday - Lunch: Cheese and tomato on toast Tea: Puttanesca
Monday - Lunch: noodles, stir-fried veggies Tea: Fishcakes, chips, beans

CoD_2

this week we're having...

tonight chicken and veg pie with puff pastry (made with leftovers from roast dinner)

chilli con carne (made last week in freezer)

chicken and veg pie mark 2

chicken and veg stir fry (have everything in)

pasta with pesto (homemade pesto)

errrrr next sat.... salmon with basil oioli (sp?!) with veg.

Headintheclouds_3

Great thread, so thought I'd join in (feeling virtuous that I only spent £26 on groceries this week) :beer:

Saturday lunch: Baked potato, tuna and salad, Greek yoghurt and honey; dinner was salmon, couscous, veg and 1/2 bottle of Rioja
Today's lunch: Beef brisket with wholegrain rice and broccoli, tin of rhubarb, rest of the wine; dinner was hm pizza with olives and a few slices of brisket
Monday/Tuesday: Brisket and veg stew
Wednesday/Thursday: Fishcakes and veg
Friday: Salmon and veg or salad

Salad for lunch during the week (I make a nice dressing and take a Dairylea triangle or two as a treat!)

homealone_2

Sassers wrote:

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

mini treacle tarts with old bread..... hmmmm sounds nice would you mind sharing recipe?

joannasmum

Our plan for the week is

Sunday: Chilli con Carney at grandmas
Monday: Bacon in Creamy tomato sauce over Pasta.
Tuesday: Scouse with Dumplings
Wednesday: Sausage and Mash with carrots and swede
Thursday: Chicken Curry, making double in slow cooker
Friday: Chinesse meal out, payed by BIL
Saturday: Bonfire party, Taking other half of chicken curry

Lunch for DD and me will be soup or sandwiches, DH get his lunch provided at work. DD and DH have porridge for breakfast and I have toast.

scottishspendaholic

Hello everyone,

I'm feeling very seasonal this week - here's my meal plan:-

Tonight we had:- Nigella's coca cola gammon, boiled potatoes and sweetcorn (yum! Very easy too, find the recipe here:- http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/N/nigella/bites8.shtml#recipe1)

Monday:- lunch is thai chicken noodle soup (just made 6 portions, smells yummy!); tea is sausage casserole (already made too!) and mash

Tuesday:- lunch is leftover sausage casserole (she hopes!); tea is HM fishcakes and salad

Wednesday:- lunch is mozzarella, basil and tomato seeded batch rolls; tea is pumpkin and butterbean stew

Thursday:- lunch is made for me; tea is butternut squash risotto

Friday:- lunch is split pea soup (to be made); tea is cottage pie with sweet potato mash (OH cooking!)

Saturday:- lunch out at in-laws 60th (paid for!) and tea is at in-laws!

Thanks for all the inspiration!

scottishspendaholic x

BusyGirl

Meal plan for week beginning Monday 30th Oct:

MON:roast chicken, potatoes, carrots, broccoli (boil stock and freeze some of meat to make pies next week) & strawberries

TUE: chicken fajitas, rice & hm smoothies

WED: tea at mum's :j

THUR: frozen hm spag bol,spag & fruit

FRI: meal out as DD1 birthday (going to see Chitty Chitty at theatre):D

SAT: roast lamb, potatoes, veg etc & birthday cake with cream

SUN:lamb hotpot and hm bread & hm smoothies

gingin_2

Peem wrote:

OK this week (you know, since posting these meal plans on here, I am sticking to them. Used to plan and then wander off my own sweet way through the week - brill idea PP)

Me too Peem, it makes life so much easier, never done this before but my days of popping out to Tesco's for a couple of items and coming home with a couple of bags of unnecessary items are gone!

EagerLearner

Here's mine for this week:

- MON - Pasta with green pesto and parmesan (have in)
- TUES - Jacket potatoes and cheese (have in)
- WED - Salmon fillets, potatoes and broccoli
- THUR - Pork fillets and mediterranean cous cous
- FRI - HM yellow chicken curry and rice (have in)
- SAT - Salmon fishcakes and cous cous
- SUN - HM spag bol

So I have 3 meals out of 7 already plus have cous cous, so need very little this week which is good...

This thread is so inspiring!

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

I'm doing the store cupboard challenge, so beware of strange meal combinations!

Tuesday - Lasagne & Salad
Wednesday - Cheese & Potato Pie & Baked Beans (already made and in freezer)
Thursday - Fishfingers, Waffles & Peas (me) Hamburger, Curly Fries (OH)
Friday - Takeaway Treat
Saturday - Pizza (BOGOF)
Sunday - Roast Beef (Reduced), Yorkies, Roast & Mashed Potatoes & Veg

OH doesn't eat breakfast except for weekends when he might have bacon sandwiches (2 packs of bacon in freezer) or crumpets (BOGOF in freezer). I seem to have a fad for Cheerios at the moment!

Lunches are usually sandwiches or soup - cheese, leftover roast, egg, tuna etc.

Hopefully a cheap month!!