Meal plans WB 26th September

mummy2jack

Its going to be a eating out the freezer for the next few weeks for us...

Monday
Shepherds Pie for myself and DH
Spag bol For DS

Tuesday
Hot dogs

Wednesday
HM cheese and onion Quiche, Wedges & salad

Thursday
Carbonara with HM garlic bread

Friday
HM Pizzas (toppings will be whatever we have in the fridge)

Saturday
Marinated Chicken drumsticks with savoury rice

Sunday
Sausage casserole, Roast potato and veg

Breakfasts
Toast
Cereal
Mini Pancakes

Lunches
HM potted cheese sandwiches
Beans on toast
Ham sandwiches
soup

Snacks
Yoghurt
fruit
HM cakes/biscuits

Puddings
Jam Roly poly
Apple pie
Blackberry crumble & custard
Rice pudding
Ice cream

freakyogre

Monday - college

Tuesday - chicken chow mein with rice noodles

Wednesday - going to my sisters

Thursday - college

Friday - sausages with leek and potato cakes

Saturday - meatloaf with pasta and tomato and chilli sauce

Sunday - mixed bean chilli with rice

117pauline

Day
Plan
Friday
Chilli and rice
Saturday
Gammon and eggs
Sunday
Roast lamb, roast potatoes etc
Monday
Roast Chicken
Tuesday
Chicken and Gammon pie, homemade wedges
Wednesday
Sausage, beans and wedges
Thursday
Beef and Mushroom casserole
I have been watching this thread for months and thought I would share our menu plan. Like many others we are eating from the freezer after all the fantastic offers that have been around recently.

rising_from_the_ashes

mmmmm, quick question - as I'm blown away with what most of you are eating!

Where do you get all your recipes / are they saved on here somewhere?

Several I'd love to try .......

DM visited yesterday and made Roast Chicken with roasted potatoes & veg which was yummy (if a bit odd to see her cooking in my kitchen) - enough left for tonight and a few bits for the dog & cats so they're happy too.

After that, back to the freezer.......:(

CCP

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

mmmmm, quick question - as I'm blown away with what most of you are eating!

Where do you get all your recipes / are they saved on here somewhere?

I'm a big fan of the BBC Good Food website - www.bbcgoodfood.com - you can do a search on the ingredients you've got, which is very helpful when trying to use stuff up, and the recipes are usually pretty reliable. I've also got a lot of recipes (although none on this week's plan) which I got from this thread - one of the great things is that people are always willing to share tasty recipes. :T

rising_from_the_ashes

CCP wrote: »

I'm a big fan of the BBC Good Food website - www.bbcgoodfood.com - you can do a search on the ingredients you've got, which is very helpful when trying to use stuff up, and the recipes are usually pretty reliable.

Great, thanks - will be having a trawl through that one for ideas:D

CCP wrote: »

I've also got a lot of recipes (although none on this week's plan) which I got from this thread - one of the great things is that people are always willing to share tasty recipes. :T

mushroom and spinach stroganoff would be wonderful, please:D (I did check the bbc food one, but not on there!)

CCP

mushroom and spinach stroganoff would be wonderful, please:D (I did check the bbc food one, but not on there!)

Erm... blush... it was from a jar.

(An M&S jar which was on special offer, admittedly, but still... )

rising_from_the_ashes

CCP wrote: »

Erm... blush... it was from a jar.

Sorry, but .....:rotfl:

It sounds lovely and 2 of my favourite things - sigh, nevermind!

Sure you will all get sick of me asking:o



I've started a word doc and have been picking up recipes from the Grocery challenge and other places and copying them into this.

Thought this would be better than printing them off as I will be able to search by an ingredient I need to use up:) (which is often my issue with cookery books as I don't really have hours to spend looking through loads to find something to suit)

Glitzer

Hi all! :wave:

DH and I have been burying our heads for quite some time and desperately need to get our finances under control. Especially with our weekly shopping which for the two of us plus our (nearly) 17 month old DS seems to come in at £80 or thereabouts most weeks, plus two or three trips to the Sainsubury Local or Tesco Express, each of which invariably ends up at £10-20 a time!

So I have been half-heartedly meal planning without much success but I am determinded to stick to it as much as possible now and see what a difference it makes. For example I have just had to throw out an entire packet of 3 chicken breast fillets which I didn't realise we had! :eek: We got an Asda delivery yesterday.

Yesterday (Sunday) - Roast chicken with 4 veg plus potatoes, also cooked for my brother and step dad, whole medium chicken used!
Tonight (Monday) - Mustard chicken (using up the rest of the mustards we had in already) with jacket potatoes (left from last week)
Tomorrow - some beef casserole of some sort, I have a slow cooker so will hunt down a recipe
Wednesday - prawn and chorizo risotto
Thursday - a chicken dish using the slow cooker, again need to hunt a recipe
Friday - chicken and tarragon.

I am assuming that with the amount of chicken thighs and beef we have we will be able to freeze some for next week.

DS has tins from the Asda children range as DH and I like to eat a lot later than he needs to.

I think my main problem with meal planning is I always think I have more than enough to freeze off another night worth but my DH is a huge eater.

ETA I have been given a new slow cooker by a neighbour who got doesn't use it and I've never used one before!

rising_from_the_ashes

Hi Glitzer, I found this site when I was given my sc http://slowcookerrecipes.org.uk/slow_cooker_chicken_recipes.htm some good tips for getting started (I didn't have a clue!) and some good ones on here too http://slowandsimple.com/

HTH