Meal Plans! WB 4th February 2007

redspot24

Meal plan for the week is off to a good start already - had planned a cheap and cheerful pasta/pesto dish for tonight but my parents visited and mum had bought a sausage and pastry plait plus little potatoes, so that saved me money/hassle! :j Mum's are fab!
Anyway, menu plan for rest of week is:
Sun - roast chicken with potatoes, veg
Mon - steak with another portion of the potatoes and veg
Tues - fajitas with leftover chicken and peppers
Weds - jacket potato with hm bolognese from freezer
Thurs - pizza
Fri - jacket potato with baked beans
Sat - tuna pasta
I'm away with work from Weds-Sun so the meals are fairly quick and easy; don't want dbf to realise how easy some of the meals I usually cook are :rotfl:
Breakfast is branflakes with raisins; lunches are ham and cheese sandwiches Mon & Tues, then dbf is having fajita wraps (Weds & Thurs- using some of Tues' dinner) and pizza on Fri.

It's so satisfying to feel all organised!

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

This week will be a bit of a strange one as me and OH are out a fair bit, so here goes:

Monday - me out, OH probably toasted sandwiches (he's addicted!)
Tuesday - me late home (gym) OH, scampi, chips & peas - me fishfingers
Wednesday - OH funeral/wake, pizza & salad
Thursday - me late home (gym) OH, Sausages, mash & peas, me - salmon, mash & peas
Friday - me out for lunch so snacky tea, OH - chicken curry

Breakfasts will be cereal, toast or bacon sandwiches.

Lunches will be chicken, cheese, ham, egg with salad, soup or pasta.

Littlemiss-lotsofdebt

This week will be a bit of a strange one as me and OH are out a fair bit, so here goes:

Monday - me out, OH probably toasted sandwiches (he's addicted!)
Tuesday - me late home (gym) OH, scampi, chips & peas - me fishfingers
Wednesday - OH funeral/wake, pizza & salad
Thursday - me late home (gym) OH, Sausages, mash & peas, me - salmon, mash & peas
Friday - me out for lunch so snacky tea, OH - chicken curry

Breakfasts will be cereal, toast or bacon sandwiches.

Lunches will be chicken, cheese, ham, egg with salad, soup or pasta.

Fivenations

Chuncky soup and cheese toasties
Pasta with meatballs
Veal stew - UK loosehouse, not the cruel Dutch crate one
Tuna rice veg thingy
Veg curry
Pizza
Pasta fagioli

Pooky

Got mine all organised yesterday...

Sunday - Toad in the hole, roasties, parsnips, cabbage and carrots

Monday - HM pizza - pepperoni and peppers - HM coleslaw

Tuesday - HM fishcakes and wedges for DD's - Left over beef stew made into a soup for DH and I

Wednesday - Curried turkey quiche (turkey from xmas), mash and salad

Thursday - Spag bol, HM garlic bread

Friday - Sausage meat burgers in HM rolls with HM chunky chips and veg

Saturday - Gammon and broccoli pasta bake (gammon left over from xmas in freezer).

Need to make rolls and muffins for lunch boxes - banana ones this week as I've got a glut of brownish looking ones.

MATH

sexymouse wrote:

Hi Math, Can you tell me your recipe for this please? It sounds really yummy.

It's on eof those 'in me ed' meals that comes out differently every time but this is the bare bones of it.

Chop the bacon and fry off in a little oil.

Add the sliced mushrooms and courgette cut into battons and saute until soft.

Chuck in some white white to deglaze the pan.

Add cooked pasta.

Stir in carbonara sauce (shop bought or HM, depending how busy I am)

Mix and heat through

Sprinkle with grated cheese and grill.

Penny-Pincher!!

MATH-your menus sound scrummy. How do you make your lamb pasties?

PP
xx

MATH

Loobysaver wrote:

Wow that sounds interesting. I haven't had Spam for years, how do you make them??

Chill the tinned spam so it 'cuts up neater'

Slice into fairly thin slices

Make up batter (destructions on the side of packet)

Dip the slices into the batter and deep fry

Eat

Notes: Mr Granddad used to fry, then re-batter and fry again and then repeat until they were like door steps:eek: .

We all know that deep frying is not very healthy so here is a little tip. Add half a tomato and a sprig of lettuce to the side of the plate and you render the meal calorie and fat free.:rotfl:

MATH

Penny-Pincher!! wrote:

MATH-your menus sound scrummy. How do you make your lamb pasties?

PP
xx

It's dead easy!

Brown off some miced lamb and chopped onion until the fat runs.

Drain and add a couple of good tbsps of mint jelly and a cup of cooked peas.

Roll out some puff pastry (I use shop bought) into a large oblong (my kidz tell me they're called rectangles now. LOL)

Arrange the mince mixture in a sausage shape down the middle of the pastry.

Cut into the sides of the pastry to make fingers and then flip them over the mixture to lattice the top.

Put on a large baking sheet, brush with beaten egg and bake for 30/40 min at 220 c

Serve with gravy with some mint jelly chucked in. I like to pour this throught the gaps in the lattice before I serve.

If you find the pastie dries while cooking, next time add a little gravy to the mix before assembling.

It's delicious with steamed veggies of any kind.

TKP_3

Here's mine for the week :

Sunday - Roast Chicken, roast potatoes, leek, butternut and red pepper (roasted together)

Monday - Spicy tomato meatballs on wholemeal spagetti with veges on the side

Tuesday - Lamb in red wine and Rowan Jelly Pudding, with veges

Wednesday - Spinach, gorgonzola and bacon ristotto

Thursday - Light chicken Korma

Friday - Steak and chips

Saturday - I'm in London at the MSE meet, so I'll eat there OH will have takeaway