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

gien

Here's my meals for the week:
Monday
B: Pancakes, L: dahl, Jacket Potatoes, beans, cheese, ham, carrots
Tuesday
B: porridge L: sandwiches D:Cauliflower and potato cheese with sausages.
Weds
B: fruit and meusli L: dahl and beans on toast toad in the hole and veg.
Thursday
B: american pancakes L: meatballs and pasta and sauce pumpkin and potato or chicken mushroom soup, veg, bread, cheese
Friday
B: Porridge L: prawn fried rice pizza
Saturday
HM curry
Sunday
roast with trimmings.

I plan our lunches too because my daughter comes home 3 days a week and exceptionally my sons will be home too at the end of the week.

blue_eyes_2

Just re-vamped my meal plans and merged some of last weeks with some of this weeks. So here goes....
Mon - bean/spaghetti on toast
Tue - sausage casserole and mash
Wed - smoked haddock poached in milk with crusty bread
Thurs - omelettes
Fri - chicken pie
Sat - lentil soup and crusty bread
Sun - shepherd pie.

Some of the meals are complete comfort food as I am still not feeling 100% and will suit the beginning of the week. Most of the stuff we have in from last weeks shop and what was in the freezer. Sounds like everyone is doing well!

rising_from_the_ashes

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

Weds - gammon joint & carrot, swede & pot mash :jstuck to it!
Thurs - salmon & new pots :jstuck to it!
Fri -[STRIKE] LO gammon - maybe with new pots & salad? [/STRIKE] Toad in the Hole
Sat -[STRIKE]cod & chips [/STRIKE] LO TiTH
Sun - roast chicken & roast veg :jstuck to it!
Mon - chicken & leek risotto
Tues - chicken & leek risotto
Weds - salmon & new pots
Thurs - turkey steaks in breadcrumbs & new pots
Fri - chicken casserole & swede, carrot & pot mash (both from freezer) or toad in the hole TBC

So ... that was a bit of a funny period to try to cover:o - have decided I will work Mon - Sun

2 reasons - my weekly planner works this way:cool: and I tend to do my SM shop on a Sun so can get anything needed for the next week then:)

Also decided that I've loads of recipes (good at cutting them out of mags;)) / cookbooks that I never use so going to try to incorporate one new meal / week - lets see how that goes!

So ... based on this, revised meal plan of:

Mon - chicken & leek risotto (will make stock & soup from carcass tomorrow)
Tues - LO chicken & leek risotto
Weds - chicken & broccoli bake (new recipe!)
Thurs - turkey steaks in breadcrumbs & veg & new pots
Fri - toad in the hole & some veg *
Sat - salmon & veg & new pots
Sun - chicken stuffed with soft cheese & wrapped in bacon & veg & new pots

* think I may just do a one portion one as it didn't reheat that well (they are WW sausages so not all meat) - does anyone know how to reheat this so it doesn't dry out?

WantToBeSE

Rising- i tend to put in the oven for 10mins, and then pop under a low grill to crisp up again (about 5-10mins), as i find if i only oven them, they go soggy?

I am going to be having a very 'Chicken Heavy' week Next week, as its a skint week and i will be doing the infamous 'Rubber Chicken' yum yum yum..i LOVE it!!

coldcazzie

I messed up. Spent all last night putting together furniture and didn't go to bed til gone midnight and completely forgot to take the duck out of the freezer, so we had meatballs this evening, which was more of a success than last time (DD1 actually ate hers!) due to making tiny meatballs an inch across instead of twice that. Downside: took me bloody ages to make them! :eek: anyway, the duck will come out tomorrow to eat on Tuesday - we've to wait in for the delivery of a new heated towel rail so no issues doing a roast dinner for the evening, plus Tuesday is our cooking day, so we have chocolate chips to make chocolate brownie biscuits (affectionately known as splat biscuits )

Tomorrow is my grocery shop, aiming to spend less than £25, but that may not happen as I do need to get some chicken... meat from the supermarket instead of from the butcher always makes me cringe!

Kittenkirst

I mealplanned before shopping today but then had to re-do it all as managed to snaffle 2.5kgs of fresh parsnips for 15p so this weeks meal plan is
*Monday- 6am gym sesh, followed by cereal & milk
Lunch- chicken & carrot wholemeal rolls
Dinner- salmon, rice & sugarsnap peas
*Tuesday- breakfast- cherry smoothies
Lunch- chicken, blue cheese, pine nuts & pasta (new recipe)
Dinner- bootcamp! parsnip & potato rosti w/ poached egg (new recipe)
*Wednesday- breakfast- cereal or hot cross bun if theyve not gone on snacks!)
Lunch- chicken, puy lentils, aubergine, peppers
Dinner- chicken & parsnip pie
*Thursday: breakfast- cereals
Lunch- veg bolognaise (freezer) & pasta
Dinner- Boxercise class. either feta & spinach caneloni or parsnip, roast garlic & blue cheese soup (dependent on parsnip volumes!) (new recipe)
Friday- smoothie & kiwi
Lunch- chip friday at work (or tinned soup)
Dinner- pizza at friends for helping her move furniture for carpet fitting :0)

Chicken is heavily on menu this week as got lots of chicken from hot counter cheap so have stripped it for the fridge. Also got ys wholemeal rolls and hot cross buns! Blue cheese was from sainsbobs for £1.60 for half a wheel so trying to use up, salmons from freezer bought when ys (but still expensive for us!) Yum yum yum!

Now to try not yo be tempted by other foods/cooking!

scrappie_2

I'm not doing too bad this week, have managed to eat from my list. It's not a 'weekly plan' more of an ideas list. I always find if I plan, I want something else.

So, this year, it's no plan, just a list from which I will take inspiration!!

I'm off work for the next two weeks, so hope that I can really get into the swing of things.

My original idea for Jan was also to only use cash for food shopping, keep all recipts and see just exactly how much I spend. Well, that's out the window!! I have decided to add a selection of new dishes to the list - but that means I needed to buy lots of additional 'stuff' that was not already in the cupboard.

The cash flow 'audit' will now begin in Feb.

Katie22313

Hi All,

So I managed to stick to my list last week. Even managing to have leftovers from my chicken casarole on Sunday which I will put in the freezer for another meal.

This week:

Mon: Fish & Chips (from freezer) with sweetcorn
Tues: Curry HM (from freezer) Mixture of turkey korma & chicken tikka
Wed: Jacket Potato with Beans & cheese
Thurs: Spag Bol HM (from freezer) OH will have breaded chicken & chips
Fri: Toad in the hole
Sat:Pasta Bake
Sun: Lamb hot pot

Fingers crossed I stick to this as it is slowly clearing my freezer and im not wasting anything :-)

CatchFazed

I've had to do quite a lot of shifting around of plans this week - my chicken pieces weren't defrosted enough to marinade last night, so have had to shift this dinner to later in the week. Probably for the best though, as today is my first day bacl at work and I think I might need an easy dinner to ease me back in!


[STRIKE]Thurs 3 - HM shepherds pie (lamb from freezer)[/STRIKE] This was delicious! And left enough for my partner to have the next night
[STRIKE]Fri 4 - Out, but OH had leftover pie[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]Sat 5 - Visiting friends so they'll feed me[/STRIKE] Had a yummy pea, onion and garlic risotto
[STRIKE]Sun 6 - Sausage and mash[/STRIKE]
Mon 7 - Chicken kiev, wedges and peas
Tues 8 - Grilled chicken (from drumsticks and thighs in freezer, deboned and marinaded on Sunday night) with Leon pilaff rice
Weds 9 - Jamie's proper blokes fusilli sausage pasta
Thurs 10 - Out, but OH can have leftover chicken
Fri 11 - HM chilli (beef from freezer. Leftovers to freeze)
Sat 12 - HM chorizo and artichoke pizza, salad
Sun 13 - Lemon roast chicken with dauphinoise potatoes and broccoli
Mon 14 - HM turkey Phal and rice
Tues 15 - Slow cooked honey and garlic chicken (leftover chicken from freezer, and enough to freeze remainder for weekend)
Weds 16 - Nigella's Mustard and cider pork chops with gnocci
Thurs 17 - Hotdogs, rolls and wedges (don't judge me, love to eat like a child sometimes!)
Fri 18 - Beans on toast
Sat 19 - Leftover honey and garlic chicken with salad
Sun 20 - Chicken fajitas (chicken from freezer)

WantToBeSE

Morning all
Todays dinner is: Cheats pizza with tomato salad and avacado salad. So an easy night, will take 15mins from start to finish