MealPlans WB 13th December 2010

happy35

I will be making beef casserole, parsnips, turnip, roasties, carrots and spring cabbage for lunch tomorrow. Tea will be sandwiches possibly tuna

haven't decided in which order but the rest of the week will be:
fish fingers, HM mushy peas with HM wedges
HM vegetable soup with pearl barley
lamb chops with veg depending on what I have left in the fridge after soup and sunday lunch
Fresh pasta with HM spicy tomato sauce
HM spicy tomato and lentil soup

Katgoddess

Sun - Shepherds Pie with baked beans
Mon - Cheese and Apple pork chops with mash and peas (good food recipe)
Tues - Spag Bol (Taking the toddler to the London Aquarium and to look at the London Eye and Big Ben, so will probably make this Mon night to heat up when we are back :eek:)
Weds - Leftovers (OH working lates) Payday!
Thurs - Leftovers or Beans on Toast for me (OH working lates & toddler will eat at nursery)
Friday - Tuna Pasta Bake
Sat - Eating out
Sun - Eating at MIL

Lunches - Leftovers, beans/scrambled egg on toast, soup, sandwiches.

Baking - gingerbread men, little mince pie cakes (good food recipe), christmassy weetabix cake.

Snow is forcast for the end of the week, but as long as my tesco delivery turns up on wednesday, I'll be fine for a while. ;-)

elf06

Katgoddess wrote: »

Sun - Shepherds Pie with baked beans
Mon - Cheese and Apple pork chops with mash and peas (good food recipe)
Tues - Spag Bol (Taking the toddler to the London Aquarium and to look at the London Eye and Big Ben, so will probably make this Mon night to heat up when we are back :eek:)
Weds - Leftovers (OH working lates) Payday!
Thurs - Leftovers or Beans on Toast for me (OH working lates & toddler will eat at nursery)
Friday - Tuna Pasta Bake
Sat - Eating out
Sun - Eating at MIL

Lunches - Leftovers, beans/scrambled egg on toast, soup, sandwiches.

Baking - gingerbread men, little mince pie cakes (good food recipe), christmassy weetabix cake.

Snow is forcast for the end of the week, but as long as my tesco delivery turns up on wednesday, I'll be fine for a while. ;-)

Oooh please could you share the recipe for Christmassy weetabix cake

Kitchenbunny

Here is my mealplan for the coming week:

Sun - Roast Dinner
Mon - Meat Feast Pasta Bake
Tues - Tomato soup with croutons and a bread roll
Weds - Poss. stir fry
Thurs - Black bean chicken with noodles
Fri - French Bread Pizzas (homemade)
Sat - Lasagne, making additional portions to freeze

Lunches will be sandwiches or leftovers, and any puds will be yoghurts or fruit. I might do some baking, too. Have a good week, everyone.

KB xx

BlimusOreilly

This is a bit uninspired this week as I haven't got the money yet to start re-filling the freezer.

Mon 13th: Turkey Carbonara
Tues: HM Foccacia and pesto pasta
Weds: Chicken Fajitas & salad
Thurs: Fish n chips (Takeaway)
Fri: Stew and dumplings
Sat: Out
Sun: Out

CupOfChai

Blimey, that time again already? Well THIS week I'm doing:

Monday - L: LO pasta (didn't have it in the end, been feeling poorly and couldn't face it). minced beef pie, oven chips and beans (could manage this!).

Tuesday - L: sandwich. chicken in sauce with rice.

Wednesday - L: LO chicken in sauce and rice. tattie stew.

Thursday - L: out with work. spag bol.

Friday - L: sandwich. (ready meal) fish pie and (tinned) peas. Sorry about the distinct lack of OS in Friday evening, I'm going to be busy then because...

... Saturday - L: sandwich etc on train back up to see family for Christmas/New Year (excited!). I have already demanded we get fish and chips, from a particular chippy. For some reason I've found that the fish and chips are generally better the further north in England you go. Possibly at some point this reverses and the fish and chips in the far south are equally good, don't know, never been there. Anyone else noticed such a trend?

After this I won't be meal planning until I get back, seeing as I won't be in charge of the choosing and cooking of meals!

LolaLemon

Can anyone help me please, I really want to start planning our meals, but my son is going through a strange food phase of near enough no food! He's 3 and ALWAYS eaten loads of different veg, now im lucky if he will eat 1 forkfull! I have even tried hiding it, but thats no good when he wont eat what im hiding it in!

to help you out i'll give a bit about us
Us is me (just turned 28!!! im too young to be 28 :rotfl:)and my 3 year old son (4 at easter).
We both have severe allergy to cows products. so that means no ice cream cheese:( yoghurts:( cream:( and for my son, no beef (he cant take any cows products) strangely i can eat beef, but if u make your buttericing with a splash of milk my throat closes!

I am a reasonable cook, and willing to learn.
I try and make all my food HM, sometimes i will see a good bargin on sauces (and dairy free), but i tend to use them when im struggling for time (i still add to them, some fresh veg etc)

Instead of cows milk i use goats milk, which is fine for breakfast and cooking with, but my son cant eat the goats or sheeps milk yoghurts (i havnt tried tbh)
I did buy some sheep cheese this week, there was no cheddar like goats available, as i wasnted to try a pizza, but havnt gotten round to making a base yet hehe
Goats cheese is a bit salty for me, son doesnt like.

Im getting sick of pasta, tomato based pasta. I miss Lasagne:(

ive found us eating porridge for dinner as thats what son wants when i ask him what he would like for dinner, and tbh, if its what he wants and i know he will eat it, then its what we have, but it is also a cop out from me, as i dont want to cook for it not to get eaten and go to waste and i dont want to make food an issue.

So all help is fully apprechiated!

Oh, i make packed lunches for his nursery, normally sandwiches with some pre packed cooked meat on (that hasnt got milk added!) with cucumber (only way he will eat them!) or boiled eggs to be mashed at nursery -- he asks for the sandwiches as thats what all the other kids have, i prefer to make pasta, wraps, soups, but they dont get eaten much

beckseven

Hi, i am long overdue for joining this thread! My meal plan this week is
M-Tuna pasta
T-Chicken drumsticks with curry sauce, onions, and 10p noodles and green beans(yummy?-we'll see!)
W-Pork chops with mash and carrots and gravy
Thurs-sausage casserole with mash and carrots
Friday- fish fingers, wedges and mushy peas
Sat-salmon with cous cous and roasted carrots
Sun-chicken thighs with roast potatos and carrots and peas (real carrot theme going through this!)

Lunches will be butternut squash soup, sarnies and jacket potatoes with aldi beans

JulieGeorgiana

LolaLemon wrote: »

Can anyone help me please, I really want to start planning our meals, but my son is going through a strange food phase of near enough no food! He's 3 and ALWAYS eaten loads of different veg, now im lucky if he will eat 1 forkfull! I have even tried hiding it, but thats no good when he wont eat what im hiding it in!

I'm going to be controversial now... but why does your 3 year old get a choice of what he wants to eat?

He's not eating what you give him because he knows it will worry you, it's a power play. A child of 5 only needs the equivalent of 8 tablespoons of food in a 48 hour period. If he doesn't want to eat, then let him go hungry.

Give him a multivitamin if you are worried (they taste like sweets) and if he's hungry after dinner, then fruit should be the only option.

I did this with my son when he was 3/4 and now he's 8 and he eats anything, and tries things he knows he doesn't like to see if his pallet has changed. He doesn't like mushrooms, but we had portabello mushrooms in a white wine sauce with Pasta the other day... and he ate it!

People are envious of the fact he is like this, but all you do is don't give them the choice. And don't make a big deal of them not eating.

Breakfast and Lunch is enough food to sustain your son, so if he skips dinner... he'll be fine. Just make sure that he doesn't get rewarded for missing dinner (desserts/sweets) and he only get's fruit and veg if he get's hungry!

I meal plan on a two week rota, which means I can plan my weekly shop 6 days in advance. My son does get asked if there is something we haven't had in a while and he fancies and if I can I will add it to the meal plan!

Then we stick to it. If I know he won't eat a lot of something I am making I will give him a slightly smaller portion. If he doesn't eat it, most food freezes really well and can be used up on a 'non-cook' day or as a lunch at the weekend.

You need to realise your son is 3, and he isn't old enough to decide what he wants... he would love cake and sweets and biscuits! Or porridge as it turns out.

LolaLemon

JulieGeorgiana wrote: »

I'm going to be controversial now... but why does your 3 year old get a choice of what he wants to eat?

He's not eating what you give him because he knows it will worry you, it's a power play . A child of 5 only needs the equivalent of 8 tablespoons of food in a 48 hour period. If he doesn't want to eat, then let him go hungry.

Give him a multivitamin if you are worried (they taste like sweets) and if he's hungry after dinner, then fruit should be the only option.

I did this with my son when he was 3/4 and now he's 8 and he eats anything, and tries things he knows he doesn't like to see if his pallet has changed. He doesn't like mushrooms, but we had portabello mushrooms in a white wine sauce with Pasta the other day... and he ate it!

People are envious of the fact he is like this, but all you do is don't give them the choice. And don't make a big deal of them not eating.

Breakfast and Lunch is enough food to sustain your son, so if he skips dinner... he'll be fine. Just make sure that he doesn't get rewarded for missing dinner (desserts/sweets) and he only get's fruit and veg if he get's hungry!

I meal plan on a two week rota, which means I can plan my weekly shop 6 days in advance. My son does get asked if there is something we haven't had in a while and he fancies and if I can I will add it to the meal plan!

Then we stick to it. If I know he won't eat a lot of something I am making I will give him a slightly smaller portion. If he doesn't eat it, most food freezes really well and can be used up on a 'non-cook' day or as a lunch at the weekend.

You need to realise your son is 3, and he isn't old enough to decide what he wants... he would love cake and sweets and biscuits! Or porridge as it turns out.

He gets a choice somedays as 1.I dont like being told what im eating everyday so why should he? 2. I dont know what i want to eat so someone elses suggestions helps.
He might only be 3, but I realised that he is not a baby and can make informed choices on his own, obviously its not life altering ones, but him choosing what he wants to have for dinner is an easy one.
He knows that for breakfast he can choose from the cereals in the cupboard, some toast, make pancakes or coisants (sp), 6 days out of 7 he wants porridge
Lunch is normally options of sandwiches, egges boiled/scrambled/omlet/poached, soup, noodles etc
Dinners nearly always consist of veg, rice, noodles, pasta, potatoes, chicken, fish, pork, lamb.... A lot of the time when he contributes he normally says something like "i want noodles" - so ill make a stirfry or HM spag bol, "rice" - i'll make a mild curry, or have it as a side, "pasta" - with HM sauce... or porridge - with jams, honey, spices etc....
Never has he replied with 'I want a cake' or 'i want sweets', probably as i dont have many of in the house, shop bought cakes are treated as a little treat when watching a film, or if i dont have any in and he (or me) would like some, we make our own.
Also he does try foods, a lot of strange new foods, some he likes, some he doesnt, he will try it and tell me 'mum im not eating that as i tried it and dont like it' he doesnt make food an issue and neither do i. if he doesnt want anything to eat, or he tells me he's had enough after only 1 forkfull, i make him aware that once its bed time then he wont get anything else and he's ok with that.
Fruit is easily available at all times for him to eat when he wants (no food gets taken upstairs ever)

Multivitimins contain hidden dairy, we've even tried prescription vitimins (for calcium deficit) but they contain dairy too.
My worry with him not eating enough is that he doesnt produce enough white blood cells and he can get very pale and lethargic quickly.

Someone has sent me a PM regarding this and suggests his nurserys could be part of it and tbh it could be down to them being late with snack, me getting their early but most times hes 'starving' as i pick him up (his words lol)