The 'different meal for every day of the month' challenge

immoral_angeluk

:hello:
As today is payday for us tonight is our food shop and I'm on a mission... I have a new found love of cooking things from scratch and I want to be able to have a different evening meal for each day of the month and I'm compiling a list to go shopping with tonight so we don't buy anything unneccesary. We haver lovely new chest freezer so have the room to experiment a bit so I'm looking for suggestions.. there's 31 days in may so need 31 budget evening meals to meet my challenge and if anyone fancies joining in then feel free....

So far I have...

1. Toad in the Hole
2. Spag Bol
3. Chili con carne
4. Cottage Pie
5. Cauliflower cheese
6. chicken risotto/supreme (A concoction I made last night lol.)
7. Sausage casserole
8. Beef stew
9. Cheese and tomato pasta bake
10. Tuna Mayo and sweetcorn pasta
11. Lasagne
12. Jacket potatoes
13. Homemade Pizza(?)
14. Turkey with roast spuds and veg
15. Sweet and sour pork with strips of veg
16. Sausages boiled potatoes and veg.

I'm a good 15 meals short! Help!!

embb

Corned Beef Hash?
Fish & chips?
Salad?


Good Luck

Spendless

HM beefburgers with HM potato wedges and HM coleslaw

curry and rice

fajitas

immoral_angeluk

lol I'm frantically googling trying to find out how to make all these ideas!! I'm so rubbish at cooking!!

embb

Mince & Dumplings

newlywed

Bacon and potato hotpot on the cheapest meal ever thread is good.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=336033 (see post 5 for the recipe link). Lots of other ideas there too.

Turkey and sweet potato curry is one of my usual ones.

HM Meatballs?
HM Burgers?
HM Pizza (I cheat and use bought plain bases and add the toppings).

I do smoked pork sausage pasta - fry an onion, chop up smoked pork sausage, add jar of passata, herbs, paprika and cumin, sweetcorn too if I have any. Pour over cooked pasta. The kids love it.

Omelette (last night's tea)

newlywed

Good food website has some good easy recipes on. I use their 101 books and they are easy and very straightforward!!!

This one is on my plan again this month:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1502/onepan-prawn-pilau.jsp

lynzpower

enchiladas
bangers & mash
stirfry in all its guises
5 bean chilli
honeymustard chicken thighs ( chips/ wedges/ jacket) & salad
mediterranean veg crowns & pots as above etc
eg cheese feta & spinach pasties/. crowns
chicken & mushroom lasgne ( ise uturkey its cheaper!)
moroccan veg casserole with chicken legs/ thighs & cous cous

Plum_Pie

Curry and rice? So many good recipes on the board (vegetarian/thai/all types of indian)

They also freeze well!

How simple are you prepared to go...?

Grilled fish with a quick sauce* with new spuds and greens.

Quick sauces for me are:
olive oil or bit of butter warmed in a pan and
a chopped fresh herb (or 2) or
chopped capers or
chopped chili and
a squeeze of fresh lemon or lime or orange juice

I usually improvise which and taste as I go along!

Don't know how child-friendly this is... they could always have just the squeeze of citrus juice.

I also often have veg-only soup in indiv portions in the freezer and make 'instant stew' by browning some meat and adding it to a portion of soup, with some pulses and grains/spuds.

newlywed

Prawn risotto is good too (but do the risotto and just add the cooked prawns about 10 minutes before the end).

If Pork chops are on offer, they make an easy meal. I like to do them with my mum's recipe (unimaginatively referred to as "rice onions and potatoes"):

Layer of uncooked rice in a greased ovenproof dish. Add layer of sliced onions, cover with a layer of sliced potatoes. Pour made up stock over the dish to just reach the top of the potatoes. Cover. Cook in the oven for about 40 minutes + until all the stock is used and the potatoes are done.

Pour gravy over and it's lovely

exlibris

Would you consider it cheating to do a recipe with different main ingredients
eg. Lasagna also with chicken / vegetarian

Cauliflower Cheese with Broccoli or Cauli and Broccoli

Sweet and Sour beef/ chicken/ prawns

Also 'old fashioned' dishes

Meat Pie

Meat and potato Pie

Liver and onions

HM Quiche

Sorry brain gone can't think of more but I know there are many