The I will MEAL PLAN and not change my mind thread.....

Josslette

Hi everyone, I'm back at work tomorrow so I'm going to try and come up with a meal plan

Tonight - Homemade Minestrone soup, cheese toasties
Wednesday - Spag Bol
Thursday - Chicken Goujon Wraps, Salad, Crispy Potato Cubes
Friday - Going out for Thai food, OH will have spag bol
Saturday - Rump Steak, Salad, Oven Chips, Maybe a sauce?
Sunday - Chicken and Mushrooms, Tomato and Cream Cheese Sauce, Pasta and salad or veggies
Monday - Chicken, Chick Peas, Onion, Red Pepper, Passata, Paprika, Garlic made in to a casserole thingy. Served with rice.
Tuesday - Pea and Ham Soup(freezer), Part Baked Baguette
Wednesday - Sausages, Bacon, Fried Egg, Hash Browns, Mushrooms Baked Beans

And I already have most of that in. I'll just need to buy...
- Mushrooms
- Small Wraps
- Cream Cheese
- Salad Stuff

So hopefully a cheap weekly shop will need to get a few bits in for breakfasts though and some tuna for OH.

I've also calorie counted all of that with Myfitnesspal, so wish me luck that I'll stick to it! :rotfl:

winniepooh

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Sausage pasta for us tonight. Will have to dig out the recipe book for this one, as i cant remember.

Can you give me the recipe for the sausage pasta. Sounds yummy.

louby40

I've been meal planning for about 6 weeks now and it is definitely the way forward.

Meals this week

M - Steak and chips (kids with other parents so just us 2)
T - chili con carne and baked potatoes
W - chicken casserole, mash, veg
Th - lasgane, salad, garlic bread
F - pizza, wedges and salad
S - spag bol, garlic bread
Sun lunch - chicken, potatoes + veg

Got loads of mince in the freezer so want to use it up before I buy any more!

Shopping was £64 for 4 people this week (6 at the weekend as step daughters are here)

Louise

E2006

Still going well. I had to pop to the shops for some tea bags earlier, but havent bought anything else, or deviated from the meal plan/eating what we already have in plan.
We used the bacon/eggs etc for lunch today. The spare couple of left over eggs after this (that were a couple of days out of date) have been made into egg mayo for DH's sandwiches for packed lunch tomorrow. Tea tonight will be shepherds pie, that just leaves 2 more nights of this weeks meal plan. Ive been through the freezer/cupboards this afternoon and I have loads more food in, with minimum shopping needed next week :j

Meal plan: w/c Fri 28.12.12
Fri: HM pizza, salad, coleslaw and ovenchips
Sat: spaghetti bolognese and garlic bread
Sun: Cheeseburgers (DH & DS), chicken and salad in pitta (me)
Mon: Chicken pasta & garlic bread
Tue L: Bacon, eggs, beans, mushrooms, wholemeal toast
Tue Shepherds pie & veg
Chilli with rice/nachos
Ginger & soy salmon with veg & noodles (me)/ chinese style chicken curry with egg fried rice (DH)/ Fish fingers, chips and sweetcorn (DS)

Rainbow82

Hi, this thread is such a good idea, can I join? I love meal planning but a dreadful at sticking to it. Plan for this week is
Wed pasta and HM cheese sauce and broccoli
Thur. Chilli quorn fillet in pita and mushroom rice
Fri. Pita pizza and veg
Sat. Jacket and beans
Sun. Filled Yorkshire
Mon. Egg, Cajun wedges and beans
Tues. Bolognese
Wed. Quorn pie
Thur. cheesy potato bake

brunettegirl

Hello everyone,
I have been doing meal planning for about a year, i write on the calendar what we are having shop accordingly. I have noticed that I seem to swap food around and change things slightly.
So this year i was thinking about arranging meals in accordance to what we are doing....
so tmrw - lamb leftovers
thurs - chicken casserole
fri - fish & chips (homemade)
sat - meatballs
sun - sausage casserole
mon - pork chops and mustard mash
tues - chicken curry

Hopefully my busy days will be easier on the cooking side of things

[Deleted User]

Everyone is doing so well - congrats to you all. We are still eating leftovers from the festivities so won't be meal planning as such until the weekend - until then it's 'what ifs.....'

gien

Got home today after the break and we have brought back a load of food so I spent a few minutes sketching out some meals for the next few days. The kids are not back in school yet so we will have cooked lunches together. Usually my DD comes home for lunch 3 times a week.
Weds: L: spaghetti with pesto and meatballs, HM veg soup, salad.
Thurs: L:fried rice roast chicken and veg etc.
Fri: L: beans on toast with egg. chili with tortillas
Sat: L: toasted sandwiches ir savoury pancakes D:Chicken green curry with rice.
Sun: L: late breakfast/brunch D:chicken escalope veg and potatoes.

I have everything except some veg which I'll buy fresh tomorrow or thursday.

wannabe_sybil

wannabe_sybil wrote: »

Haven't read thread as blinding headache but determined to keep in with New Year's Resolutions. Will try and catch up.

The plan for tomorrow has gone west as we all have upset tummies and headaches. Meal plans so far

Tues: Lunch fish finger sandwiches - didn't work, I felt too ill still and father wanted omlet. OH not hungry, little bear rejected everything except tinned soup
Dinner chilli con charlie - this worked!
Weds: Lunch omlet
Dinner Bread soup Now going to be bendy veg soup with some scraps of bacon
Thurs Lunch Ham sandwiches
Dinner Sausage and mash
Fri Lunch Boiled eggs
Dinner Fish charlotte
Sat Lunch out
Dinner Beeferoni
Sun Lunch Eggs in some shape
Dinner Pork loin (bought as an extra special treat for New Year's Day dinner but we are none of us in a fit state.

I cater for my six year old son, my father and my husband. They all will eat different things.

The list includes stuff I know that we have in, a stock take of cupboards is on the cards.

Thank you for starting this thread

Thank you again for starting this thread. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

WantToBeSE

Rainbow82 wrote: »

Hi, this thread is such a good idea, can I join? I love meal planning but a dreadful at sticking to it. Plan for this week is
Wed pasta and HM cheese sauce and broccoli
Thur. Chilli quorn fillet in pita and mushroom rice
Fri. Pita pizza and veg
Sat. Jacket and beans
Sun. Filled Yorkshire
Mon. Egg, Cajun wedges and beans
Tues. Bolognese
Wed. Quorn pie
Thur. cheesy potato bake

hi Rainbow, would you share your Cheesy Potato Bake please? I have loads of potatoes to use up, so could put that on my meal plan for next week