Meal Plans-Week Commencing 9th October 2006

domestic_goddess

What a great idea for a thread.... can we have it every week I have got some great ideas from here today. I did my meal plan yesterday and am about to go shopping to get things for it.

Sat - Cajun Chicken and rice
Sun - Slow cooker Gammon with Parsley mash
Mon - Tuna pasta bake
Tue - Gammon and chicken risotto
Wed - Hot dogs in buns (only a quick tea needed on a wed)
Thu - Spag bol
Fri - some sort of pasta dish!

I will make soup from the juices of the gammon for lunches as well.

I am also going to freeze bread in small portions so I dont need to pop to the supermarket at all!!!

newleaf

Here's mine. I'll be home alone for 3 nights Tues - Thurs. (everybody say aaahhh!)
Sun: Roast chicken dinner
Mon: Bacon suet roll, vegetables & parsley sauce
Tues: Omlette with mushrooms, cheese & tomato
Weds: Red lentil soup.
Thurs: Egg or Beans on toast
Fri: Steak & chips
Sat: Griddled tuna steak with vegetables

No puddings, but I am making mrbe's chocolate cake x1 tomorrow

elona

I have not decided which days we wil have certain dishes but basically-

Sweet potato cakes with salad

Huge quiche with baked potato

Cheat's Chicken Lasagne

Pea and ham soup with home made bread

Potato salad with hard boiled eggs and salad buffet

Home made pizza

Shepherd's pie or home made turkey burgers with potato wedges or salad.

Geordielass_2

I also do meal plan but sometimes swap meals around. We don't stick rigidly to the days.

Sat - Spagetti and meatballs - Pudding orange cheesecake
Sun - full roast chicken dinner - Pudding fruit & ice cream
Mon - Toad in the hole, carrots, sweetcorn & beans
Tue - Mince & dumplings
Wed - HM Soup with garlic bread - Pud - sticky toffee pudding & custard
Thu - Sweet & sour chicken with rice
Fri - Pasta with HM vegetable sauce

I think all your meals sound fab & I may pinch some of them for next week!

anniebooklover

My DD is very finicky with her eating so I find that there is very little I can prepare in advance for her (though she is getting much better). DS will eat almost anything except broccoli and cauliflower so I can get the vegetables into him in lots of ways! :rotfl:

However, today I have made a spag bol which is in the freezer alongside a big tub of vegetable soup (with far more vegetables than DD will actually eat!). I also have two days worth of chilli in the freezer.

Tomorrow I will make homemade macaroni cheese, cottage pie, minestrone soup and chicken balti.

I also have enough chicken to make homemade chicken nuggets but as DD likes to make them, I will save that for Monday!

Almost forgot to mention, my peppers have started to sprout so at some point I will have my own home-grown peppers to cook with (hopefully!).

Brassic

What a fantastic thread! I agree, it should definitely be made weekly!

This is my meal planner for the week (tues and thurs only hubby and I eating).

Mon - HM Italian Sausage carboara.
Tues - Breaded Chicken w/Baked potatos
Wed - Sausage Casserole
Thurs - HM Cheesy egg pasta w/ garlic bread.
Fri - HM Beef Curry in the sc, with hm bombay potato, rice and naan.
Sat - HM Bacon and Red onion quiche w/new potatos
Sun - Roast lamb
Mon - HM Shepherd pie

tidy_sum

Have to agree - this site is addictive. Although I joined ages ago I forgot my username so always just visited as a guest and never posted anything on the forums - but now it's the first place I visit. Especially like the Money Saving Old Style threads. Nigella was right about feeling like a domestic goddess!

Need to get my post count up so this week it will be (in no particular order)

Stew with potatoes and veg
HM Macaroni Cheese
Fish in sauce with mashed potatoes and broccoli
Honey & Mustard Chicken with noodles
Chicken served with lemon sauce and basmati rice
Salmon with new potatoes, carrots and broccoli

I realise there is only 6 there, but it's the OH's birthday this week so we'll be eating out on Friday.

I don't always plan 7 days ahead, usually thinking about what to make a day or 2 in advance. However, I'll be having a grocery challenge this coming month - a budget of £100 between the 2 of us. I've warned him not to moan about eating pasta!!! Shouldn't be too bad as there is plenty in the cupboards and freezer at the moment. And at least it'll get the stocks run down in time for a big shop before Christmas. I think the hardest part for me will be resisiting the special offers. I can't resist a BOGOF or deal if I know I will use it at some point...:o

Pooky

Well I've still not done my freezer or store cupboard inventory but did only spend £16 on the weeks shop in netto yesterday....so I'll have to bite the bullet and make it last all week.

Going on memory of the freezer contents, this week will provide....


1. Chicken, veg and barley soup (large pot in the freezer) with HM bread rolls.

2. Chicken stiry fry, 1 pack of breasts in the freezer and some frozen stir fry veg from lidl.

3. Beef stew and dumplings (braising steak in freezer) served in huge yorkshire pudds (in freezer from last week)

4. Pasta with peppers (bought 5 bags of mixed peppers for 10p a bag in sainsburys during the week - chopped them all up and froze them), onions and a passata sauce, HM garlic bread.

5. HM potato wedges, curried spinache quiche and veg.

6. HM tuna fish cakes (HM corned beef cakes for DH - fish allergy), HM chunky chips, peas and sweetcorn.

7. HM pizza with chilli beef (small portion left in freezer), DD's will have a baked bean and cheese one. Salad or veg, depends on what's left.


Breakfast is always the same, toast for DD2 and myself, cereal with fruit for DH, weetabix with hot milk for DD1.

Lunch's - sarnie, crackers, tortilla wraps, pitta breads, HM rolls, filled with ham, cheese, chicken, salad, marmite etc. 2 bits of fruit each (DD's get another bit each at school), HM popcorn, nuts, seeds, raisins, HM biscuit or cake or a food flask with soup, pasta, stew or beans.

Penny-Pincher!!

keep them coming

bulchy

Heres my plan, might change the running order, depends on which veg/salad I have in on the day:
1.pizza and salad
2.roast chicken with roasted veg
3.lamb stew with either giant yorkshire puds or dumplings
4.salad with tuna and pasta, son doesnt like tuna so he will have ham and cheese
5.veggie grills with salad and potato wedges
6.hm spinach and ricotta canelloni, son doesnt like this so he will have something from freezer (chilli or bolognese or whatever he fancies, hm of course)
7.sausage and bean casserole with rice
some nights we will have a desert, what we have for desert depends on whether the oven is on or not, when the oven is on we will have fruit crumble or an upside down cake, when the oven hasnt been on it will be yogurt, fresh fruit or maybe a steamed pudding with custard.
great idea by the way, have been given some inspiration for next weeks plan
Sue