Meal Plans-Week Commencing 9th October 2006

purplegrape

My meal planner looks rather dull in comparison as I only have me to cook for, which means lots of yummy leftovers for me!

Mon: Cheesy Mash and chicken bake with steamed carrots
Tues: " " leftovers
Weds: Steak Fajita's - YUM!! (Some reduced offer steak in the freezer calling my name)
Thurs: Chicken and butterbean Cassoulet with brocolli
Fri: " " leftovers
Sat: Chicken curry with mini paddadoms.
Sun: Veggie Chilli.

(Guess who bought a whole chicken and portioned it today...)

Lunches are either sandwiches or some smoked mackrel I got cheap, couscous and salad.

Man, I'm HUNGRY!!

monty100

Ok, so this week we are having:

Sun: Beef stew and dumplings (out all day so no roast), pineapple and golden syrup sponge and cream
Mon: Twice baked chicken legs and cous cous (didn't eat these last week)
Tues: Mince and pasta
Wed: Roast chicken and all trimmings, jam sponge pudding and custard
Thurs: Pizza and salad
Fri: chicken rissotto
Sat: sausage, chips and beans

I like the idea of recording it here - my 'menu plan' is usually a scruffy bit of paper or back of envelope that gets put in bin half way through the week. So at least if its here I can find what I meant to do:rotfl:

clu

hi this has been great for ideas, esp since I get boooooored thinking of somehting new every week this week we are having;

Sun: salmon & gnocchi bake
Mon: soy sauce and honey pork loin, green beans and mash
tues:bacon and bratwurst pasta
wed: bacon risotto
thurs:funky (soy sauce and teryaki marinade)chicken and rice
fri: chicken curry

lunch, carrot leak and butter bean soup, DH can fend for himself have to cater dinner for him as he will not touch so many things!
sat: start all over again

csarina

Today we had:

Roast chicken, stuffing, roast spuds, cauliflower, carrots and gravy. Followed by chocolate fudge cake with butter sauce.

Monday Cold chicken and salad.

Tuesdau Macoroni cheese baked tomatos and jacket spuds.

Wednesday The rest of the chicken picked off the carcass and lemon cous cous

Thursday sausage and mash, baked beans.


Friday HM fish and chips.

Saturday Liver and bacon casserole. Mash, cabbage and carrots.

Peem

ThriftLady - I detect a common failing between us for cookbooks. First thing i did on seeing this post was head to amazon (though I am on a cook book diet!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frozen-Assets-Cook-Eat-Month/dp/1891400614/sr=8-1/qid=1160947621/ref=sr_1_1/202-5324367-7427020?ie=UTF8&s=books

BusyGirl

Here's mine...

MON -Sausage casserole, potatoes, cauli and broccoli
TUE -Chilli (made last week from freezer), rice and left-over veg
WED -Shep pie and carrot/swede
THUR -Veg bol and pasta
FRi- -(lazy tea) Pizza and oven chips
SAT -Quorn/veg Lasagne and veg
SUN -I'm going out for a meal with friends but I'll have to plan something for the kids and OH, otherwise he'll just go to the chippy! :eek: So probably be sausage, mash and veg

puddings will be fruit, banana cake, yoghurt and smoothies

thriftlady_2

Peem wrote:

ThriftLady - I detect a common failing between us for cookbooks. First thing i did on seeing this post was head to amazon (though I am on a cook book diet!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frozen-Assets-Cook-Eat-Month/dp/1891400614/sr=8-1/qid=1160947621/ref=sr_1_1/202-5324367-7427020?ie=UTF8&s=books

Cheers Peem, I've actually read this book, and although I liked the concept I didn't much like the recipes;)

frankiegirl

Thrift lady here is the link for the book.... the book itself is not that great for recipes but I picked up loads of time saving tips .... here is one of which i still do today.... before starting i would chop up onions mushrooms, grate a block of cheese and anything else etc... have them sittng in bowls ready to use before i start i would use 3lb of mince cook it and put onions on it... then make two mince and onions pies, add peppers mushrooms and make bolognese sauce by this time the mince looks bigger with the extra ingredients added in... then i put some into freezer bags for spaggetti bolognese along with a bag of grated cheese with each one. then with the remaining mince i would make a large lasagne let it set then cut them up and bag them! so out of 3lb of mince i would have 6 or 7 meals for 6 of us!
Do the same with chicken .... cook a bulk of chicken chop them up and add curry sauce, sweet and sour or what ever and bag them it is really time saving and to be honest the book is only good for ideas and tips rather than recipes.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Frozen-Assets-Cook-Eat-Month/dp/1891400614/sr=1-1/qid=1160984717/ref=sr_1_1/026-7804891-3759603?ie=UTF8&s=books

frankiegirl

Ooops! didnt realise the link for the book has already been posted!

tidy_sum

thriftlady wrote:

This week I will be mostly not meal planning:D because I can't seem to stick to my plans. i like reading everyone else's though:T

:rotfl:

Thanks thriftlady, I know what you mean, my meal plan didn't go to plan! Managed to follow about 4 days of the plan. If I didn't work full-time then I'm sure I'd be able to plan and stick to it, but life is just too busy sometimes.

I've got a 3-day plan though - maybe I should start small and try to build on this!!!

Monday - Pizza (probably with chips)
Tuesday - Steak Pie with potatoes and veg
Wednesday - Chicken with lemon sauce and boiled rice (not made last week)

I've made a list of everything that is in my freezer and have enough meals for the 2 of us for about 30 days. The challenge is to use up the majority of this stuff, defrost the freezer in time for Christmas and enjoy re-stocking it! I have about £140 budget for groceries this month and plan to only buy veg a day or two in advance.