Meal Plans-Week Commencing 19th November 06

Fivenations

- Italian Beef Hash = made with pack of frozen potato/ Mediterranean vegetable mix reduced from 1.79 to 30p
- Pasta with spare rib sauce
- Salmon fish cakes
- Chickpea and sweet potato curry
- Burgers and chips
- Braised lamb with flagolet beans
- Paella - got to use up an assortment of prawns, mussels and squid lurking in freezer.

All served with either salad or veg, fruit or yoghurt. I only do puddings on SUndays.

Aril

My meal plan for this week is/was
Sat- peanut stirfry with noodles
Sun- roast lamb [joint already in freezer]
Mon- Honey ginger turkey [already got turkey]
Tues- Pizza [on offer..night off as everyone dashing around!!]
Wed- Chickpea and coriander curry with naan bread
Thurs- Tortilla wraps with peas, creme fraiche and smoked haddock
Fri- Pasta Milanese [this uses up the other half of the white wine needed for the turkey recipe]
No puds..small person has a yoghurt.
Lunches are piece of fruit, carrot, hm bread and filling [pate this week] and hm cake..choc cruchies and weetabix cake when they run out.
Breakfast is cereal and cup of tea apart from Sun when we have a special breakfast [croissants, muffins or something similar and filter coffee]
Aril

Chipps

Sunday: roast chicken etc
Monday: stir-fry chicken
Tuesday: out to dinner - it's my birthday!
Wednesday: chicken pie
Thursday: sausages & mash
Friday: soup & HM roll or cheese scones
Saturday: fish'n'chips - we are out in the afternoon packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child
Sunday: Dinner at my mum's ( mine & nieces birthdays, so family gathering)

earwig

sunday roast lamb roast pots and peas ans green beans

monday steak and mushroom pie homemade with chips and peas

tuesday take away

wednesday home made sweet and sour chicken with home made egg freid rice

thursday spag boll

firday lamb chops with wedges homemade and mushroom toms and peas

saterday take away

lynzpower

oooh bit late with mine

sunday- HM burgers & sweet potato wedges, salad, dressings etc
monday - HM chicken chowmein & boiled rice & HM oat cookies :drool:
tuesday - HM chicken in SC with wine/mushrooms/smokedbacon sauce & miniroasts
wednesday -sausage, mash, veg & onion gravy
thursday - were out at a mates for tea
friday - fish pie as the last one was such a success :beer:

GardenMillie

AussieLass wrote:

Tonight (Sunday): HM Pizza
Monday: Casserole - Slow Cooker
Tuesday: Yummy Patties,
Wednesday: Chicken Spinach Parcels
Thursday: Cottage Pie
Friday: Breaded Fish & HM Chips
Saturday: Beef & Pasta Bake (freezer)
Sunday: Breakfast Thatch

Tues, Wed, Thur, Fri & Sun nights will be served with vegetables or a salad depending on what I feel like making. :rolleyes:

Desserts are also what I feel like making on the day. I always have icecream or yoghurt & fruit for times when I run out of time. We like our puds.

I love chicken and spinach - could you please post the recipe for chicken and spinach parcels - thank you in anticipation.:j

Maxjessdru

Have had/will have:

Sunday Roast Duck (Lidl!)
Monday Leftover duck dopiaza and rice
Today Beef stroganoff and pasta
Wednesday Tuna steak and noodles
Thursday HM fish pie
Friday Sausage meatballs and pasta
Saturday Beef mince pasticcio

AussieLass

GardenMillie wrote:

I love chicken and spinach - could you please post the recipe for chicken and spinach parcels - thank you in anticipation.:j

I'm making these tonight. I've never made them before but I thought they sounded yummy too. Will let you know if they are.

Chicken Spinach Parcels

500g skinless chicken (I"m using cooked leftovers from roast in freezer)
1 tblsp plain flour
150g spinach, chopped (frozen is ok)
1 tblsp cracked black pepper
1 cup shallots (I don't have that much so will throw in some onion too)
1 tsp butter
8 medium mushrooms, chopped (I don't have any, so leaving them out, will pop in a zucchinni, I forget what you call them, there long and green )
1 tsp chicken stock
200ml cream
1 cup grated cheese
filo pastry or puff pastry sheets (filo would make a lighter meal)

Slice chicken into strips like a stir fry. Melt butter in frypan or saucepan, adding chicken, shallots, mushrooms & pepper. ( I will add cooked chicken at the end) Saute lightly for 3 mins.
Add flour & mix well. Add spinach, cream & ch stock powder.
Heat until sauce thickens and add cheese and remove from heat until cool.
(you can do this step earlier & assemble the parcels later on)

Layer 3 sheets or filo, slice in half, and spoon about 2 tblsp of mixture onto one end of the filo stack, then roll like a spring roll, tucking the ends in. (or just have puff or HM pastry)

Spray lightly with oil, sprinkle with sesame/poppy seeds and bake in hot oven for around 20 mins.

EDit: Ok, I just made them and they were scrummy. I decided to put red capsicum instead of the mushrooms/zucchini. Used 250g pkt of frozen spinach, and it was 250ml of cream. Made quite a bit so froze the extra for another night. I used puff pastry. Everyone loved them.

GardenMillie

Ausielass

They sound scrumdiddly, and I've got loads of spinach in fridge and some puff pastry in the freezer, I'm going to give them a go and will freeze the left-overs.

One of my dearest friends is in Brisbane and we always have the zuchinni/courgette and aubergine/egg plant conversation when we are swapping recipes.

Happy cooking:j

Penelope_Penguin

I'm now starting to plan for next week. Here's the beginnings of my meal plan:

Saturday - pancakes for children, then DH and I out to a party
Sunday - remains of rib of beef from Friday, with roast roots and yorkshires

HM rissoles from freezer
Lamb shank bargain from butcher, also in freezer
Pumpkin rissotto
Something with pastry
Something with pasta
Salmon and prawn fish pie

Sunday - roast pheasant with apple and cream

Penny. x