MealPlans WB 21 March 2011

Kitchenbunny

Here's mine for the week:

Mon: Meatball subs
Tues: Spanish Omelette
Weds: Not sure
Thurs: Sweet & Sour Prawns with Noodles
Fri: Chicken Curry
Sat: Moussaka with Salad
Sun: Sausage Casserole (Not eaten on mealplan this week)

Lunches are sandwiches as usual, and there's fruit & some Twink's hobnobs for pud/desserts. Have a good week, everyone.

KB xx

Pink_Giraffe

Now I had done so well - I did a meal plan on Tuesday in my lunchbreak up to the end of the month and all I need to get is salad stuff for my lunches and bread and meat for OH's sandwiches. However, I seem to have left it on my desk (again!) but I know it starts:

Saturday - Pub lunch and bacon sandwiches for tea
Sunday - HM Quiche and salad (and chips for OH) for dinner, lunch will be boiled eggs and soldiers
Monday - Roast chicken, veg (and roast potatoes and yorkshires for OH) with gravy

Will have to fill the rest in tomorrow! I seem to think that chicken and ham featured fairly frequently through the week though!

Edit: Brought the list home, so the rest of the week is:

Tuesday: Ham, egg and chips (and I might have some beans instead of some chips)
Wednesday: Chicken and ham lattice pie with herby new potatoes & veg
Thursday: Chicken curry
Friday: Bacon & cheese kievs (on offer at the butcher) with jacket potato & sweetcorn. My mum will be here Friday night to stay but she has to have her main meal at lunchtime because of medical problems, so I will give her a sandwich and feel guilty!

Breakfasts are yoghurt & fruit.
Lunches are salads for me, sandwiches for OH.
Snacks will be tropical(ish) fruit salad, lemon drizzle cake and possibly twinks if I get round to making them.

hotcookie101

here we go again. We did Ok last week, bar last night when I got stuck at work with an emergency so not home til nearly 9, so takeaway pizza was the order of the day

Su 20th Bakers oven shoulder of lamb, and roast parsnips carrots and celeriac, leek &cauliflower mornay
Mo 21st shepherds pie hash(with parsnips celeriac and carrots and LO leek &cauliflower mornay
Tu 22nd lamb, pea and mint risotto
We 23rd crispy skinned mackerel with Asian dressing, rice and chinese greens (jamies fish suppers)
Th 24th pasta with feta, spinach and pine nuts (NK)
Fr 25th Pan fried sole with herby lemon sauce, roast/saute spuds, green veg
sa/su-away, will get takeaway or pizza on way home sunday

needstochange_2

I stuck to mine religiously last week and its saved me so much money

Heres this weeks:

fri:Omlettes, wedges and beans
sat: Homemade KFC Chicken (from economy gastronomy book!) with salad and coleslaw
sun: Thai chicken noodle soup (with leftovers from above)
mon:Chilli con carne, rice & salad
tues:pasta bake with brocoli
weds:Leftover soup
thurs:Chilli wedges]

Ill be making my own bread and some cheese/tomato scones

Breakfasts will be ceral or crumpets, lunches are leftovers, sarnies/soup and snacks are fruit and the scones!
yum

uolypool

Hi all I am fed up with meal planning each week, Its not actually the meal planning but the deciding what meals to have If that makes sense. Please help
I have a freezer containing all the usual suspects, mince beef pork and lamb
chicken portions on the bone lots of chicken breast ,and some turkey breast.Sausages , cod steaks and some breaded fish .
fridge has lots of milk , cheese butter eggs, all kinds of veg a fruit bowl full of apples, oranges, bananas, pears
Store cupboard chocker with loads of jars of herbs and spices flour you name it and I could poss have it.
So am setting the challenge of deciding what we eat this week for main meals.No allergies , no real dislikes apart from ds4 not liking anything too spicy .Please help:D

zippychick

Hi Why not take inspiration from our weekly meal planning thread? Ill merge this with that one once you get some input

Zip

ubamother

Would it help to inspire more variety if instead of thinking I've got this, what shall I make, you work the other round and say I fancy Italian/Greek/Indian/American/Traditional and then work out which ingredients will fit which theme. So the chicken for example, could be an italian chicken and rice dish, a curry, or barbecued/spiced and fried, the sausages could be toad in the hole for traditional or cooked and sliced on a homemade pizza.

And yes, I do know that good old English sausages on a pizza do not make it Italian - but with a bit of thyme and oregano I'd swing it!

freakyogre

Monday - BBQ pork steak with smoky corn

Tuesday - pasta with leeks and peas

Wednesday - staying at my sisters

Thursday - going to Thorpe Park Will eat at hotel

Friday - not sure what time we'll be home so won't plan anything

Saturday - [STRIKE]chicken fajitas[/STRIKE] taking my dad and stepmum out for an indian

Sunday - [STRIKE]beef stew with dumplings[/STRIKE] borlotti bean bake

Two new recipes, one should have been done this week but have shifted things around.

mrswive

How about coming up with 14 meals that you know everyone likes to some extent, then just rotating them; it's not quite as bad as, "It's Tuesday it must be bangers and mash" but at least you'll always have an idea of what you're doing and what to buy - I find that doing this means that I always have only the herbs & spices etc that I actually use, not a load of strange smelling things with a best before 2001 date cluttering up the cupboard!
Maybe a list of 'chicken' meals (If you haven't tried it yet, ChocClare's Chinese chicken {the 'tough' thread} is excellent), a list of 'mince' meals etc. A bit of time spent hunting through cookery books or the BBC Food website will probably save you loads of time in the future.
For leftover veg/ham/sausage a fritatta is always good.
I'm sure you'll get loads of great suggestions from the OSers.

M0neysav3r

How about:

Chilli-con-carne & rice, served with tortilla crisps and sour cream (using beef mince and doing double portions, seperate in half before you add the kidney beans and transform other half of meat into a bolognaise sauce for later in the week)
Moroccan Lamb (using lamb mince) served with salad and ciabbata
Roast chicken & trimmings
Turkey burgers or turkey kebabs with chips/jacket pots
Fish, chips and peas
Sausage & mash
Lasagne or spaghetti bol using frozen sauce made earlier