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

Mrs_T_M

Sunday - HM pizza with a salad - This was very very good, even though I sprinkled waaaay too much crushed chilli over mine!
Monday - Vegetarian curry in the slow cooker with rice, naan and baked onion bahjis - In the slow cooker now. Will only take me 15 minutes to prepare things tonight, 20 or so to cook the onion bahjis.
Tuesday - BBQ pulled pork sandwiches with sweetcorn and potato wedges
Wednesday - Chicken pot pie
Thursday - Chicken Marsala with pasta and a salad
Friday - Jambalaya
Saturday - Chilli with beans over rice

coldcazzie

WantToBeSE wrote: »

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

Love meals like that

Nancy888

Hi - not been meal planning for a while and need to get back on it!

Here's mine

Monday - Braising steak and roast potatoes
Tuesday - Breaded chicken, jacket potatoes and corn on the cob
Wednesday - Stir fry
Thursday - Sloppy Joe mince and new potatoes with garlic bread
Friday - Gammon and chips with fried egg for those that want them
Saturday - Spag Bol
Sunday - Roast pork dinner

Lunches are ham sandwiches for DS2 (won't have anything else!) and various HM soups from the freezer for me, LO Christmas cheese and crackers with LO Christmas chutney

Mrs_T_M

I've finished my meal plan for the rest of the month now. I'll need to work on the one for February soon so that I'll know what to get at our 'big' once per month grocery shop.

8/Jan (Tue) - bbq pulled pork sandwiches with corn and potato wedges
9/Jan (Wed) - chicken pot pie
10/Jan (Thurs) - chicken marsala over pasta and a salad
11/Jan (Fri) - jambalaya
12/Jan (Sat) - chilli with beans

13/Jan (Sun) - toad in the hole with mash, sweet corn and onion gravy
14/Jan (Mon) - egg fried rice
15/Jan (Tue) - sesame chicken over rice
16/Jan (Wed) - chilli mac with tomatoes, mushrooms and beans
17/Jan (Thurs) - salmon and rice with steamed broccoli
18/Jan (Fri) - spaghetti with meat sauce
19/Jan (Sat) - pizza

20/Jan (Sun) - bean burger
21/Jan (Mon) - eggs, sausages, baked beans and cheese - maybe hm bread
22/Jan (Tue) - tuna pasta
23/Jan (Wed) - chicken and dumplings
24/Jan (Thurs) - pizza
25/Jan (Fri) - chicken and noodle soup with veggies
26/Jan (Sat) - spam and cheese, baked beans, and eggs on toast

27/Jan (Sun) - cottage pie
28/Jan (Mon) - beans and rice
29/Jan (Tue) - my birthday - being taken out by DH
30/Jan (Wed) - clean out the pantry chilli
31/Jan (Thurs) - lentil minestrone soup
1/Feb (Fri) - pineapple chicken
2/Feb (Sat) - toad in the hole with mash, sweet corn, and onion gravy

Here's hoping that I can stick to this. If I can, it will mean I can come in under budget for the month of January! My original budget was £20 for the entire month of Jan!

WantToBeSE

Mmmm i am in 'post- pizza heaven'. I love HM pizza and salad, and it was a perfect way to ease back into a full on week

Now, tomorrows dinner will be tarragon chicken with asparagus and coconut rice. I have never tried it before and am a bit hesitant...we'll see how it goes (might end up with beans on toast)

Mumof2_2

M - [STRIKE]Vegetable lasagne[/STRIKE] (no, had pasta, sweetcorn and tuna)
T - [STRIKE]Salmon fillets, rice and veg[/STRIKE] (think I'll do Monday's veg lasagne as the salmon fillets are frozen so won't hurt, whereas the veg will go past)
W - Lamb chops and veg
T - Tuna pasta bake (think I'll do Tuesday's food as had pasta tuna pasta tonight instead)


UPDATE:
Did the vegetable lasagne and it was gorgeous - extra bonus is enough left for me for lunch tomorrow :T! Took a while to do but it was time well spent - DD came out with me in the kitchen and did chocolate brownies which went down extremely well *rubs full tummy happily*!

meema4788

I am wanting to try and cut down on the amount of food we throw away. I defrosted our freezer yesterday and have made a list of what was in there with the aim of using it all up before I go out and fill it up again! I have made my first ever meal plan and without buying anything extra I have been able to plan for 2 weeks with what we have already got in! I have to say there's a few mismatched meals that we wouldn't normally have but heyho! We'll give it a try to use everything up!

I work shifts so need to be more organised!

Today's evening meal has been off the plan so its so far so good! I just hope the hubby and kids can put up with this next 2 weeks to get everything used up!

Any tips re meal planning would be helpful!

xxx

joedenise

I do my mealplans a month at a time. To start off you need to know what you've got in the freezer and cupboards. Using those things as a starting point add them in through the plan to use them up, and then gradually fill in the days in between.

I often do the plan by putting in Sunday roasts, the leftovers are then used to make additional meals which are either used that week or frozen for later in the month.

When that's all done you shouldn't have too many gaps left in the plan, so just put in some of your favourite meals to complete.

Denise

rising_from_the_ashes

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

I've finished my meal plan for the rest of the month now. I'll need to work on the one for February soon so that I'll know what to get at our 'big' once per month grocery shop.

Wow! That's really impressive Mrs_T_M :T I've got a long way to go before I can get to monthly plans

joedenise wrote: »

I do my mealplans a month at a time. To start off you need to know what you've got in the freezer and cupboards. Using those things as a starting point add them in through the plan to use them up, and then gradually fill in the days in between.

Ohhh that's a great starting point, thanks!


I have printed off another calendar which I thought I might mark up with what I've had at the end of each month and see if I can try to use them as the basis for monthly plans:)

Marmite27

Wk 2 UPDATE II

F 4th [STRIKE] Chicken Noodles with stir-fry veg & prawn crackers.[/STRIKE] Chinese takeaway
All kinds of failing going on for me today. OH had a mini strop and said that a meal where all of the components come from the freezer can in no way be considered a birthday treat. Then I felt pants as I've been back at work after being off for over a fortnight and I think I've lost all my immunity to the bugs so feel terrible - worse than last week! and decided a chinese was in order. Usually order chicken fried rice, chips, noodles and salt & pepper shredded chicken, but after another strop from OH we (read I) was brave and ordered something different. Really glad I did as I soooo enjoyed it. Got chicken in black bean sauce and could only manage half so the other half has gone in the freezer for another day. So instead of stuff out of the freezer stuff has gone in :rotfl:


S 5th [STRIKE] Tapas[/STRIKE] Chicken Noodles - Planning on cooking a meal for me and my OH as its his birthday this week. Lots of little dishes including: Patas Bravas, Chicken & Chorizo stew, Chicken Rice, Spanish Meatballs, Salad, Pitta bread, Fish Cakes and Ham & Potato Croquettes. Most of the stuff for this meal is in the freezer already (apart from salad stuff).

Now becomes chicken noodles! Tapas components live another day using up precious space in the freezer :rotfl: I don't mind really its himself's birthday after all, and money came out of a savings account for such things so hasn't impacted the grocery budget in anyway.


S 6th Pulled Pork with HM BBQ sauce, HM wedges, coleslaw & salad. Eaten as planned.
2nd week in a row I've missed out a day! d'oh. Maybe its because I was embarrassed as the pork was coming out of the freezer :rotfl:


M 7th [STRIKE]Chicken Curry, Pilau rice & poppadums.[/STRIKE] Jerk Chicken, Rice & Salad
You guessed it already in the [STRIKE]tardis[/STRIKE] *cough freezer! Last week when we had friends round there was a portion of curry that went in the freezer, OH can have that and I'll do him a fresh portion of rice. The time before that when we had friends round for a curry, there were two smaller portions of curry & rice frozen for me, I'll have one of those, and an easy night :rotfl:

OK so I didn't think the meal plan through enough. Had fresh chicken for Chicken Noodles and salad stuff for Pulled Pork, so logically this meal would be Jerk Chicken, to save freezing the chicken then defrosting later, and using up the salad stuff before it goes off. So did a little switching around as the Curry will wait until Thursday as it's in the freezer.


T 8th Spag Bol, Bol is... heck there's a lot from the freezer this week :T also my WI day, so try to have pasta on a Tuesday as himself can usually remember to put the pot on the stove Eaten as planned.


W 9th [STRIKE]Sausage Casserole, Crispy potatoes, green beans & spinach[/STRIKE] Chicken Curry, Pilau rice & poppadoms., Sausages from yep the freezer :beer: Crispy potatoes currently in Asda's freezers until I buy them :rotfl:

Someone forgot to get the sausages out of the freezer in time Now having sausage casserole on Thursday.


T 10th [STRIKE]Jerk Chicken with rice/peas/spring onion.[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]Chicken Curry, Pilau rice & poppadoms.[/STRIKE] Sausage Casserole, Crispy potatoes, green beans & spinach


Well that's another week planned, and no more scratching my head trying to work out what the heck to cook when I get in. My mission, (quite clearly from this weeks plan) is to try and make some space in the Freezer :rotfl: Have a good week guys


Had to jiggle it about this week, I think rather than assigning a day to a meal, I will do a list of meals, and then cross them off the list each day. Relatively pleased as we stuck to it, and 6 of 7 meals were eaten in the week they were planned. Not necessarily on the day planed but oh well, live and learn!