Meal Plans-Week Commencing 9th October 2006

shell2001

Well its that time of the week again so here goes...

Sunday - HM Pizza (am at work so quick tea and girls love making them!)
Have home cooked ham, chopped chicken breast onion sweetcorn for toppings.

Monday - HM Spag Bol (with hidden veg ) & HM garlic bread (HM chips for DH with the bol)

Tuesday - Toad in Hole, HM Chips, Peas, Sweetcorn & Onion Gravy.

Wednesday -HM BBQ Chicken Drumsticks/thighs, Egg Fried Rice, Stirfry veg

Thursday - HM Mince beef pie, Roasties, Veg & Gravy

Friday - Scrambled egg, sausages & Toast (HM Bread )

Saturday - The outlaws are over so 2 meals on the go as they dont eat what we eat and my lot dont eat what they eat :mad:
Tata Ash with Dumplings (will do in slow cooker as at work till
4pm)
HM Chicken Nuggets (huge batch in freezer) with HM Chips,
Peas for DH and DD's
Pudding - HM Lemon Cheesecake (using condensed milk)

Rest of week Lunches sandwiches or soup, crudets, fruit.

Snacks/treats - Everyday biscuits, may try the jam muffins

Also will do sugar free jelly and yoghurt for pudding as treat during week (but only if they eat all their tea! that goes for DH too.

Breakfast - usually cereal, porridge or toast.

So this week need to buy Veg, Stewing steak (will get a tray from butcher at market on friday for £5), Eggs, Spuds, Lemons and cheap digestive biccies.

pigpen

Well... I'll try my first meal planner.. I usually do whatever I can be bothered to do.. but this week I shall try planning..

Monday ~ roast chicken (DH can have quorn lemon and pepper pieces) with salad and new potatoes.
Use carcasses for chicken stock

Tuesday ~ yesterdays chicken stock for turkey casserole. DH will have meatless stew.. or I may fling in some quorn pieces we have if it looks bland.
remainder goes in the freezer for my lunches.

Wednesday ~ toad in the hole (never made my own before so here goes!!) with mash and veggies.

Thursday ~ chicken dippers (DH will have fish cakes) with roasties and veggies, whatever we have in the house)

Friday ~ sausage casserole (DH gets veggie sausage casserole) with crusty bread

Saturday ~ pasta with whatever combination od sauce DH makes!! Saturday has just become his day to cook!!! I decided I do enough.

Sunday ~ veggie savoury mince with mash

Desserts & snacks .. we have fresh fruit, yoghurts and HM fruit cake

breakfasts .. we have toast, weetabix, porridge or sandwiches.

Lunches.. the children have hot school meals. I have freezer leftovers and the 2 littlies have cheese straws.. I will endeavour to learn to make my own!!.. or they have sausage rolls or noodles or sandwiches.. I'll try not to visit Cooplands out of laziness!!!

Shopping list: [STRIKE]huge sack of potatoes (Sending DH in a bit), [/STRIKE][STRIKE]2 roast chickens (local butcher does them for £3 for 2 and saves fuel cooking them), [/STRIKE]mushrooms, mixed veggies for savoury mince... and [STRIKE]salad [/STRIKE]and wraps because my 15 year old just scoffed it all! not to mention the hundred loaves and 12 gallons of milk we go through!!

How does that sounds for a first attempt???

shell2001

Good job Pigpen, you find you will save money by planning like this. I do a months plan at a time and have found it brilliant. Instead of going over my £350 budget like I use to every month I know come in under it or on target but have paid for extra things like haircuts, DD lunch-club, tights for DD's etc. Normally this would have been spend on the card so not budgetted for.

It really is a great feeling and takes some of the pressure off.

Penny-Pincher!!

Hi Guys!
Cant believe another week has passed:eek: :eek: :eek:

Pigpen-Im still in shock with how many kids you have:rotfl: ...you do very well.

This week mealplans are:

Sunday:Roast Lamb, Roaties, New Spuds, Yorkies, Carrots, Cabbage & Cauli
Monday-Chicken Fajitas, rice and salad
Tuesday: HM Fishpie, Carrots and French beans
Wednesday: Chicken Chausseur with mash:D
Thursday: Shepards Pie, Cabbage & Carrots
Friday: Gammon/Pineapple & Chips
Saturday: Toad In Hole, Mash, Cabbage and Carrots

Breakies will be either cereal/toast/porridge/fruit juice/scrambled eggs or bacon butties:D
Lunches will be soup/sarnies/baked spuds/something on toast or leftovers from previous day. Luckily, DD has a free lunch at school but when shes at home she has what we have.

Have a great week everyone.

PP
xx

Pandora123_2

Meant to post this the other day, after I actually planned the week's menus and we did a big shop. Usually I don't plan, but we have built up such a huge amount of food in the freezer/cupboards that I need to do some serious clearing out!

FRIDAY: Pasta with HM pesto sauce, salad

SATURDAY: Tacos with veggie mince, HM guacamole, tomatoes, Cheddar cheezly, spring onions, lettuce + mixed green salad

SUNDAY: Soup in slow cooker with soup mix, potato, carrot, cabbage, onion, garlic, passata and curry paste, salad and HM bread (FIL is taking us out for a big pub lunch, which is why we'll be having a light tea!)

MONDAY: HM veggie burgers on HM buns, salad w/ HM creamy garlic dressing, HM oven chips

TUESDAY: Spaghetti puttanesca (spicy tomato & olive sauce), salad

WEDNESDAY: HM potato, aubergine & mushroom curry with HM chappatis, sliced tomato and cucumber

THURSDAY: Roasted Greek potatoes, roasted beetroot, HM dolmades (rice-stuffed vine leaves), Greek salad

Breakfast: Toast, cereal or HM granola, coffee & fruit or a fruit smoothie.

Lunch: DH has sandwich, fruit, peanuts or crisps or bombay mix etc. I usually have fruit and Tom Yam soup with rice noodles (five minutes to make) and try to stay away from the salty snacks!

Pudding: If we have anything, it's usually fruit & custard or a bit of chocolate.

elona

Sunday
Roast potatoes, sprouts (DH loves them) carrots, chicken with gravy or cheese sauce and cheesecake or ice cream to follow.

Monday
Large home made quiche with potato wedges

Tuesday
Savoury turkey mince with sausages added so that it can be split into spag bol and shepherd's pie to avoid sulks!

Wednesday
Home made pizza

Thursday
Home made curry using chicken, mushrooms ,peppers etc

Friday

Cauli cheese for DH and me and pasta for DDs

Saturday
Home made soup and home made bread

All meals are subject to being swapped around depending on circumstances .

will also have ingredients for home made stuffed tortillas, omelettes, baked potato etc.

Peem

This week we shall be mainly eating .....

Sunday - Beef Stroganoff (from freezer)
Monday - Aubergine Pasta (from Freezer)
Tuesday - Fish and hash browns and peas (need to buy fish) (or maybe saustages since I have some in the freezer) (decisive, moi?)
Wednesday - baked potatoes and beans and salad (need to buy salad)
Thursday - omelettes (possibly, but I might decide on something more fancy)
Friday - ??
Saturday - Meatballs and pasta (kids starting to rebel since they haven't had them for a couple of weeks!)

So that's it

Going to try some broth for lunches though I don't think DD will eat it (i will try though)

flourgirl

Pandora 123 could you please tell me how to do the Roasted Greek Potatoes, they sound yummy:D .

Thank-you.

queenpig

Sunday - Roast pork, mash, peas, carrots, swede and yorkies.

Monday - Stew and HM dumplings (what ever veg and meat that is left off yesterday adding maybe sausages to bulk it out).

Tuesday HM baked bean pastys and HM potato wedges.

Weds- Meat loaf roast potatoes.

Thurs - Pork schnitzel and veggies.

Friday HM Pizza.

Sat - Mexican chicken and rice.

gingin_2

Grrr.. just typed out reply and lost it.

Pigpen we made Toad in the hole for the first time a few weeks ago, son has now declared it his favourite. I found the yorkie batter was more dense than shop bought and so it was more filling and better value iykwim.

Pandora those greek potatoes will definitely be made at some point, they sound yum as do all of the accompaniments.

Made roast pork for lunch today and oh wants another hot meal involving meat so he has been told to cook it himself, I am having soup.

Mon :- Tuna pasta bake

Tues :- Pot roast beef with winter veggies

Weds :- might well do Pandora's tatoes as carniverous oh is away, might well make a greek salad to go with it.

Thurs :- Acapulco chicken

Fri:- Thai curry

Sat:- Chilli nacho's or pizza

Sun :- Roast chook with the lot.

Soup, muffins and banana cake made for lunches otherwise it will be sarnies