Mealplans WB 1st October

pinkypig

Hi everyone. Our plan for the week;

Sun - Lasagne, HM garlic bread and salad.
Mon - Gammon, roast potatoes, cauli cheese and peas
Tue - left over gammon risotto and salad
Wed - pasta bake
Thurs - char grilled chicken, roast veg and cous cous
Fri - spicy wraps, poppadoms, chilli dip and onion bhajis
Sat - HM pizza

Hoping for another frugal week as house insurance, car tax and Christmas are looming :eek:

Hope everyone has a good week

PP xx

Pernicious

Hi everyone,

My first time joining in on this thread I hope you don't mind, I'm looking forward to getting some inspiration as we tend to cook the same things regularly! We aim to eat vegetarian meals about half of the week as it's cheaper than eating meat everyday but I'm really struggling to find some quick & easy veggie recipes.

This week we're planning:-

Today - Turkey stir fry & noodles
Monday - Spaghetti Bolognaise
Tuesday - Kale & mushroom lasagne
Wednesday - I'm out for a work colleague's leaving do but my DH will have pork chops with rice & veg
Thursday - Leftover kale & mushroom lasagne & garlic bread to make it a full meal
Friday - Chicken enchiladas
Saturday - Vegetable risotto

[Deleted User]

Dinners for the coming week is
Mon; beef casserole (left over from last week in the freezer)
Tues:Chicken salad (chicken from freezer)
Wednesday: Bangers and mash (also from freezer)
Thursday : Pork chop and saute potatoes and veg
Friday Fish and chips (both from the freezer)
Saturday Chile and rice
Most of the stuff from the freezer or cupboards as I am trying to use stuff up and economise this month

Billie-jo

Due to not been well last week most meals never got done so have carried them on over to this week.
Meals in no particular order and dont plan anything for Saturdays TRY to do one new menu per week which will be in RED

Pasta with mushroom sauce and sausage
Sweet & sour pork with rice
Chicken fricassee with mashed potatoes, broccoli and sweetcorn
Roast of some sort with veg and potatoes
Soup either spicy parsnip or roasted tomatoes and red pepper with cheese & onion toasties.
Liver & onions

Fundamental_2

Hi all

I subscribed to this thread a couple of weeks ago in order to give myself a kick up the 'arris and get my food spend and meal planning in order. Just me and my DD at home termtime (elder DD is at Uni).

Here is my dinner plan for the week:

Mon: Meatballs in Tomato Sauce and spaghetti with garlic bread. Meatballs are premade by the butchers I use; Sauce is homemade in a large batch then frozen in 2-portion size containers; garlic bread is from Farmfoods. I often make the garlic bread but also buy in as a time saver.

Tue: Breaded chicken fillets with wedges and whole green beans. Homemade wedges and self-breaded chicken. Farmfoods veg.

Wed: Chicken and Bacon salad with croutons and toasted Ciabatta. Homemade croutons and dressing.

Thurs: Shephers Pie with veg and gravy. Homemade pie with frozen veg.

Fri: Breaded chicken goujons with vegetable rice and salad. My daughter loves to get involved with making the goujons - I think it's the messy nature of the process!

Sat: Homemade lasagne and salad. I normally buy this in frozen but I thought I could do better - plus my daughter isn't a fan of the white sauce so I have got a recipe that we will be trying to make together - hopefully she will like this version.

Sun: Roast pork with roast pots, veg, york puds and gravy. Only york puds are bought in; veg is fresh steamed.

So that's it for this week; I know it's a lot of chicken but we both really like it! I have pretty much my planned all my meals out for the month and bought all the meat required.

I haven't included breakfast and lunches as DD will have toast/muffins/cereal in the mornings and packed lunch for school.

I will need to stock up as the month goes on for:
Bread
Milk
Salad
Potatoes

I can see the benefits of meal planning already. Too many times I would grab some chips from the chippy or nip down to KFC or Mcd's as it was quicker and simpler - trouble is it gets expensive at £10.00 a time for us both - do that once a week and it's £480.00 wasted.

At the moment my recipe selection is very basic but I am going to keep trying new things as time goes on - I am actually enjoying researching for more varied/interesting food combinations.

All comments/suggestions welcome

Thanks and take care

FDM

Skint_yet_Again

Hi fundamental glad the meal planning is working well for you. We usually start a new thread each week so the latest one is Meal Planning week beginning Mon 8 Oct .... link below

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4217223

Anyone can start the new thread for the following week its just a case of checking towards the end of the week that no-one has beat you to it and started one already

Have a good week x

Fundamental_2

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

Hi fundamental glad the meal planning is working well for you. We usually start a new thread each week so the latest one is Meal Planning week beginning Mon 8 Oct .... link below

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4217223

Anyone can start the new thread for the following week its just a case of checking towards the end of the week that no-one has beat you to it and started one already

Have a good week x

Ah sorry - will repost over there.

Thanks

FDM