Menu plan w/c 21 Aug

medsdemon

Sunday have In-laws for dinner so it will be something with chicken breasts in a creamy sauce with new potatoes and veg. Dessert will be a blackberry jelly with optional cream as they're both on diets.
Monday-Feta pea & chive tortilla with greek side salad
Tuesday-chilli con carne from freezer with tortilla chips, guacamole, salsa and sour cream
Wednesday- spaghetti pomodoro
Thursday- Spicy Moroccan Chicken & couscous
Friday-White Cabbage Gratin & Baked potatoes
Saterday- sausage and herb stuffed aubergines, roast new potatoes and salad

Lunches are H/m soups from freezer ( lentil, carrot and coriander & spicy sweetcorn) or pasta bake portions.

Breakfasts are toast, choice of 3 cereals, eggs, pancakes etc

snacks/puddings are fruit, yoghurts, h/m cakes

bramble1

Planning went out the window towards the end of this week, so starting from today

S -None
S - Lamb chops with chips and beans
M -Hot dogs
T - Honey and mustard pork kebabs with pitta and rice/pizza
W - BBQ chicken drunmsticks with jacket potato
T - Pulled pork burgers
F - Fish and chips

Islandmaid

Did quite well last week, only swapped 1 meal and that was pre-cooked from freezer.

This weeks offerings will be -

Sun roast chicken and gammon with roast tatties, cauli cheese, peas
Mon toad in the hole and veg
Tues Chiili and nachoes (from freezer 'stash')
Wed. HM burgers and chips
Thurs chicken, leek and ham gratan, from sundays leftovers (frozen)
Fri liver and bacon casserole and mash - again from freezer stash
Sat leek and potatoes soup with HM rolls (will be just the 2 of us)

Starting to feel more positive about the batch cooking, it is deff saving time during the week, and in turn money, no 'sod it lets have a takeaway moments'

Take care all x

freakyogre

Monday - meatloaf with mash and green beans

Tuesday - vegetable frittata with salad

Wednesday - pesto chicken kebabs with roasted veg pasta

Thursday - falafel burgers with pitta/wraps and salad

Friday - quesadilla with caramelised red onion, chicken, peppers and cheese

Saturday - grilled asian ginger pork chops with rice/noodles

Sunday - homemade salmon fish fingers with wedges and peas

beadgirl87

Hi,

Can I join please?
I had my first attempt at batch cooking tonight
I only feed myself, but bf pops round a couple of nights a week for dinner.
Monday - Chicken and bacon pasta bake (cooked tonight)
Tuesday - Sausage and mash, carrots and green beans.
Wednesday - Lasagna (cooked tonight)
thursday - Jacket potato, cheese, bacon, green beans.
Friday to Sunday - Visiting family at home.

Can I ask, how do I cook my frozen food?
Tonight I made a lasgnage and a pasta bake, they are in plastic tubs to go in the freezer. When I want to eat it, do I defrost it first? Cook in microwave or in oven? How long? I have an electric oven.
Hope someone can help, I'm a bad cook but trying to improve!

sharloid

Wow, everyone seems to eat a lot of meat. We have a grocery budget of about £100 a month so we eat a pretty much vegetarian diet!

CupOfChai

Hi everyone, I've not been in one of these for ages!

Monday - Lunch: hummous, carrot and pitta bread. Dinner: Spanish chicken and rice.
Tuesday - L: leftover chicken and rice. prawn stirfry.
Wednesday - L: hummous, carrot, pitta. chicken kiev, mash and beans.
Thursday - L: sandwich. bacon & tomato pasta.
Friday - L: LO pasta. sausage, chips and beans.
Saturday and Sunday - being fed elsewhere.

Not very interesting, is it? Don't worry, I am gathering new meal ideas. Thinking of having a go at a stroganoff or something, not really had that before but think I might like it.

blondy24

Hello Everyone,

My meal plan is;

Monday - SC Sweet and Sour Chicken with Rice
Tuesday - SC Sausage Pot
Wednesday - SC Coq au Vin with Mash
Thursday - SC Burgundy Pork Stew with Dumplings and Jacket Potatoes
Friday - HM Pizza and Salad

MrsWoolfe

Hello All!

Goodness haven't done this for ages- but did a bank statement audit at the weekend and was horrified at how how DH's little "extra spends" were:eek: so am back to meal planning with a vengeance!!! had been really good before- but just fell off the wagon a bit..so this week's menu is:

Monday: Fried Rice- (turkey/lots of veg)

Tuesday: Keema, sauteed green beans and chapatti ( cheating a bit here went to see Mum @ wkend and her a lovely SIL cooked lots of chapattis for my freezer and she cooked loads of keema and is off to france for 2 weeks so sent us home loaded up! - yes I know, I'm spoiled:o:D)

Wednesday: Rougaille (tomato dish), green beans, spiced pumpkin and chapattis

Thursday: Pumpkin, bean & chorizo bake/stew- I'm making this one up got the idea off Mexican food made easy and will be adapting....

Friday: Steak, mixed veg, & Mash

Saturday: Crab Soup & fresh rolls

Sunday: Jerk Chicken and salad

The good thing is that most of of this is things I already have in my freezer/cuppboards so this week's shop was just bread,milk,eggs and yogurts!

Lunches are: fried rice, noodle soup, spanish omlette with salad (x2) filled pasta tossed in some pesto for DH on one day while I use up any of the pumpkin dish in a wrap which I think will be pretty tasty;)

Snacks- multi seed crackers with cheese/deli meats, olives, carrots with hummous, yogurts with a handful of oats/seeds/nuts mixed in.

think it looks ok for a "using stuff up" week! If I do say so myself!;)

MrsWoolfe

Gorgeestwo

Hi, could I join this please too? I think meal planning is going to be the only way I'm ever going to get our grocery spending down so some sort of acceptable level!

Monday - Pizza, potato wedges & salad
Tuesday - Beef & veg stir fry
Wednesday - Sausage & mash
Thursday - Lasagne & salad
Friday - Fish Cakes & veg
Saturday - Beef casserole
Sunday - Probably roast chicken, but may be having the whole family round, so might do bbq dependant on weather