Meal Plans w/b 30/6/12

Boodle

I hope it is ok with everyone if I start the thred - just been drawing up my plan and list with a cuppa so thought I would share.

Any snacks come from the fruit bowl. I always buy apples, pears, bananas and sometimes kiwis but mil has kindly been bringing some with her on mondays which helps everything last a long time.

Breakfasts
Apricot, Pumpkin Seed and Cocoa Flapjacks with a banana. Soya milk/tea for me and littlie. Eldest at breakfast club so am sending a carton of soya milk and spread with her. Hubby takes cereal and banana with him.
Decided to make an almond and dark choc chip plaited loaf too... still working our way through the easter choc and found some marzipan at the back of the cupboard last night!

Lunches
Pumpkin Seed and Roasted Pepper Scones or Veggie "Tuna" Pasta Salad. Carrot sticks. Fruit. Soya dessert pot. (I will be having the same minus dessert pot: salads not enough anymore )

Teas
Crackers, pepper slices, carrot, raisins. Soya milk/cuppa
Sunday will be something on toast/sarnie, with carrot sticks, probs sliced pear, and [STRIKE]raisin + choc chip buns[/STRIKE] the almond + choc chip loaf above

Dinners
Sat: BBQ Pizza, garlic baguette, popcorn, carrot sticks
Sun (at lunchtime): Walnut and Spanish Olive Roulade, veg and gravy. Bottled cherries and custard.
Mon: Thai Green Chick Pea, Veg + Potato Curry (slow-cooker) with poppadoms (had wed pie instead)
Tue: Vegetable Sausages (Sains' Basics ) with baked beans and chips
Wed: Lentil and Tomato Cottage Pie (slow-cooker) (had mon curry instead)
Thu: Soup or broth (slow-cooker) Roasted Red Pepper, Tomato and Almond Soup with homemade bread
Fri: Pacific Pie (slow-cooker) with greens

Suppers
Soya milk/hot choc for girls, we will have popcorn or toast + probs extra fruit for me ( ) later on.

Hope you all have a good week x

CCP

Thanks for starting us off, Boodle - I've just been doing my plan, too, and was going to start a thread if no-one else had.

Boodle wrote: »

Sun (at lunchtime): Walnut and Spanish Olive Roulade, veg and gravy. Bottled cherries and custard.

The roulade sounds really nice - could you share the recipe, please?

This week I've got:

Friday - broad bean, tomato and chorizo pasta with salad
Saturday - cured ham and roast tomato pizza
Sunday - seafood stew with olive bread
Monday - roast carrot, lentil and feta salad
Tuesday - Thai prawn noodles
Wednesday - carrot and sesame burger with salad
Thursday - Greek lamb stew (from the freezer), possibly with HG potatoes (I'm not sure if they're OK or if they've rotted - I'll have a look tomorrow :undecided)

Boodle

CCP wrote: »

The roulade sounds really nice - could you share the recipe, please?

We must both feeling quite Spanish, what with your Friday meal all broad beans and chorizo

The Spanish olives are from Approved Foods, preserved with cumin and garlic so they have quite a distinctive flavour - not great for nibbles and need toning down somewhat. They made a lovely savoury pate with an eye-equal quantity of walnuts all blitzed up. Was nice in a sarnie and also bits dotted across the top of a homemade pizza gave a lovely sausage-like boost to it. I plan on making another batch of the pate to fill the roulade.

The roulade itself is a scone mix (200g self raising flour with 50g marg rubbed in - marg has salt in it, so I just add pepper- then I stir in 100ml soya milk and 1 tsp malt vinegar to bring together.) I just roll or press the dough out into an oblong, spread with the filling, then roll up and bake.

Kitchenbunny

Afternoon! Thanks, Boodle, for starting us off this week. I've just finalised my mealplan so here goes:

Fri - chilli con carne with potato wedges
Sat - Black Bean Chicken with Noodles
Sun - Mexican Chilli Beef & Bacon BBQ Tortilla Pie
Mon - Cajun Chicken Strips with Salad
Tues - Soup c/w HM Croutons
Weds - Lasagne with 1/2 a garlic bread
Thurs - Turkey Tikka Masala with Brown rice
Fri - Pizza
Sat - Moussaka
Sun - Roast Chicken Thighs, Potatoes, Veg & Gravy

Getting a few days' ahead so I'm a bit more organised. At least this way I'll definitely have the ingredients in for next weekend when I go shopping. Whew, it might get changed if this hot weather continues. I've bought a ham to bake and it turns out to be the hottest day of the year!

There's fruit and a few biccies for snacking on, though we're still trying to avoid them. Cereal for breakfast, and sarnies or leftovers for lunch. Have a good week, everyone.

K xx

daisy_butterfly

Thanks Boodle!

Is there any chance that I could have your recipe for Apricot, Pumpkin Seed and Cocoa Flapjacks? Looks like your recipes are popular today!

Breakfasts:
Homemade yoghurt + tinned fruit (Me)
Porridge + Choc Powder (BF)

Lunches:
Cereal (Me)
Chicken + Rice (BF)

Dinners:
F: Steak + Jackets
S: Asian Style Stuffed Courgettes
S: Okonomiyaki
M: Tarragon Chicken
T: Pasta and Sauce
W: Spicy Pork Raman

Snacks will be fruit and nuts

Skint_yet_Again

week beginning Monday 25th (in no particular order)

Sun - Beef stew and dumplings
[STRIKE]Home made Chilli Burgers and oven chips[/STRIKE]
Thu - Mustard pork with mash or wedges, tinned sweetcorn
Sat 30th- Chilli con-carne with veggies and wedges (pack meat out with mushrooms, peppers and baby corn
[STRIKE]Pork and mushrooms with garlic and herb sauce, pasta and garlic bread[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Chicken Fajhitas[/STRIKE]
Fri - Shop bought Pizza, wedges, garlic bread and poppin chicken

Hello again hope you have all had a good week and stayed on track. I have had one lapse this week.... ordered chinese last night :obut justified it to myself as am getting £16 rebate from VrginMedia for poor service

plans for week beginnng Monday 2nd July

tandoori chicken with wedges and salad
gammon, chips, pineapple, salad, tinned sweetcorn
Frying steak, chips, salad, more tinned sweetcorn
Roast pork with apple and herb crust, jacket potatoes, veg & gravy
chicken curry, rice, nan bread
chicken stir fry with noodles

*forgot its my birfday next week so will be out for dinner one night - have already budgeted seperately for this

Good luck everyone

CCP

Thanks, Boodle - the recipe sounds even nicer than the description. :drool: That might well turn up on my mealplan next week, albeit with HM marinated olives as I obviously missed the AF ones.

hotcookie101

Thanks for getting it started Boodle-your menus always tempt me towards veganhood, but I'm too much of an (ethical) omnivore to do it But I do try to make some of our veggie meals vegan...

Our plans for the week:


Mo 2nd ham and pea risotto (or prob just pea &mint, as we were supposed to have ham hock sunday, but OH is now away, and might switch tonight and tuesday...)
Tu 3rd pesto crusted trout, new spuds, veg
We 4th chorizo sausages & bean stew with mixed rice
Th 5th chilli, rice, black beans
Fr 6th tomato pasta bake
Sa 7th bbq lamb chops, veg
Su 8th roast chicken

miss_emmajane

I haven't planned breakfasts/lunches before - no idea why as it makes perfect sense!

Breakfasts -
Cereal, toast, eggy bread or porridge

Lunches -
Soup & a sandwich
Ravioli
Jacket potato with beans/cheese/tuna & sweetcorn

All with a HM muffin/packet of crisps/yoghurt/fruit

Dinners (in any order) -

Q-Chicken curry (slow cooker), rice & garlic flatbread with side salad
Q-Chicken, veg & noodle stir-fry with black bean sauce
Quorn sticky fillets, actifry crinkle chips & micro-veg
Pitta pizzas, savoury rice and salad
Veggie mince lasagne and salad
Spicy tomato pasta bake with salad
Mash potato, veggie sausages, baked beans and mushrooms

Nottoobadyet

Heyo kids. Last weeks plan went a bit screwy as I was poorly then had to go away for work. Mum coming to visit in a few weeks so need to be frugal for now. Have found a new fruit and veg stall which is incredibly cheap, so loads of veg in our meals. Its chilly here so warming fare is the way forward. Meals might be swapped out if someone else in the house decides to cook for a change.

Question for anyone in a house share - how do you deal with being the only one that cooks?? OH is facing a dramatic drop in income so I dont mind shopping for him, but roommie has just been eating whatever I cook which isn't a problem most of the time but is getting expensive to do every night! I dont feel comfortable asking for cash or excluding her from meals, would i be out of line to ask her to buy some ingredients (olive oil, eggs etc) that go into what I make? TBH I dont make anything especially for her, but there are less leftovers etc

Tonight - baked ziti
Saturday - spiced carrot and lentil soup w/bread and vegetarian chili
Sunday - veg stir fry with gingery peanut sauce and noodles
Monday -l/o chili, with rice
Tuesday - veggie pilaf rice
Wednesday - l/o carrot and lentil soup
Thursday - veg frittata

XSpender

Nottobadyet - I do not think you are out of line at all for asking your roomie to contribute cash or ingredients for your lovely list of home cooked meals though I do feel she is a bit out of line to scoff them and not even offer!

My meal plan is as follows:

Breakfasts

Me - GF cereal and toasted GF fruit loaf toasted
DH - Banana

Plus the odd bacon and egg sandwich over the weekend

Lunches

HM Tomato and lentil soup, Jacket pots with cheese, pasta bake already portioned up and in freezer, cheese or tuna sandwich and DH favourite Ald1 RM

Snacks

Tons of fruit, choc bics I got for nowt, GF chocolate cake, GF cheese and olive scones, yogurts

Dinners

F - 1/2 gammon steak, pineapple, peas and oven chips for me, something from the freezer e.g. sausages or burgers for DH who will get home very late tonight after being away all week

S- DH out so HM pizza for me with bacon and pineapple

Su - Roast chicken with roast pots, carrots, green beans, broccoli, yorkshires and gravy

Mo - Fruit curry with rice(made with l/o chicken)

Tu - Lemon chicken with rice and peas (made with l/o chicken)

We - Burgers (beef for DH, bean for me) with rolls (for DH) wedges and corn on the cob

Th - Pork meatballs in tomato sauce with GF pasta and garlice bread

Have a lovely weekend x