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

angelavdavis

egg and bacon pasta
pasta arrabiata
sausage and egg pie (sliced with a salad - leftovers for packed lunches!)
Lamb chop toad in the hole

pennypitstop_2

Meatballs in tomato sauce over pasta twirls
Fajitas
Chicken and Leek Pie

Just a couple of our faves!

As for 'summer eating' - maybe everywhere else in the country is having better weather than we are! The other night we had a beef stew - came in from work freezing, even had the heating on :eek: and the lovely stew and mash went down a treat, I can tell you!!! Probably our favourite summer meal is Greek / Feta cheese salad with a few chips/roast potatoes. Yum!

Elliesmum

I've been developing these menus for a couple of months now and we have a rolling 4 week menu plan.

Week 1 - Starts on a Friday

Sausage Casserole with jacket potatoes (b)
Pasta Bake with garlic bread
Roast Chicken with stuffing, roast potatoes and veg
Cottage pie with veg (b)
Beef curry with noodles
Egg, HM chips and beans
Spaghetti Bol (b)

Week 2

Corned Beef Hash (b)
Greek salad with spicy HM wedges
Roast Beef, yorkshire pud, roast potatoes and veg
HM pizzas
Sausage and Mash
Chilli and couscous (b)
Gammon and new potatoes, salad.

Week 3

Cheese pie and salad
Chicken fajitas, with savoury rice and salad
Steak Pie with mash and veg
Quiche, salad and HM wedges
Ham, jacket potatoes and baked beans
Sweet and sour chicken with rice
Lasagne and crusty bread

Week 4

HM fish fingers/fish cakes with mash and veg and parsley sauce
Chicken curry, rice and HM chips
Roast turkey with stuffing, roast potatoes and veg
Grilled bacon with broad beans, peas and mash
Spaghetti Carbonara
Cheese and ham omlette with HM chips and salad
Burritos with cheese and salad.

I'm currently in the process of costing out the above meals to see where it is cheaper to by stuff etc. Only other thing worth noting is I but all my meat from my local farm shop. Their quality is far superior to any of the supermarkets but I do realise I am lucky that I have one in my locallity.

HTH's

EM xx

PS sorry - (b) these are batched made meals and then frozen

Penny-Pincher!!

Our regular (monthly)meals are:

4 x Roast Dinners
4 x Egg, Chips & Beans
4 x Shepherds Pie & veg
4 x Sausage Meals (cassarole, toad in hole or sausage & mash) & veg
4 x Chops (lamb or pork), spuds & veg
4 x Fish or Scampi
Spagbol
Chilli
Curries
Stews (chicken or lamb)

HTH

PP
xx

Penelope_Penguin

We had this for tea yesterday. Posted it elsewhere earlier today, so copied it from there:

We had a lovely quick supper last night that I thought I'd share. It's adapted from one in *Jamie's Dinners*

Put pasta on to cook. Meanwhile, in a bowl, mix 6 chopped, fresh, ripe tomatoes, 2 handfuls of rocket, 2 handfuls of fresh herbs (I used coriander, basil, oregano, mint from the garden) handful of chopped olives, 6Tbsp olive oil, Tbsp balsamic vinegar, season. This serves 4.

Once the pasta is cooked, serve onto plates, and pour over the sauce. The Small Penguins had parmesan on theirs, mine was nice without.

I have a phote which I'll post if I can get it off DS's phone! I've mislaid my camera.



Rocket, along with the other herbs I used, is very easy to grow, if anyone wants to have a go next year.

Penny. x

Nova5

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

We had this for tea yesterday. Posted it elsewhere earlier today, so copied it from there:

Phwooar! Looks gorgeous. Not that much of a fan of Jamie Oliver - I think he's quite nice but his cooking is usually thrown together a bit haphazardly and I can't quite recreate it to look anything like yours PP. :rolleyes:

helping_hubby

Pork Schnitzel.
Use pork loin, you can buy this for £3 - £3.50 and 1 should do 4 portions. Cut the loin into medallion shapes and then bash it thin with a kitchen mallet.
Have a production line of flour, beaten egg, breadcrumbs. Dip the meat in the flour, then egg then breadcrumbs. And shallow fry.

nearlynewbie

I do 6 week rolling menus- diffferent meal every night for 6 weeks and have different winter and summer menus. I love cooking and it stops me (and my DH DSx3 +DD) gettign bored.
Chicken bake a great favourite all year round
One bag of frozen chicken pieces, 6 onions cut into quarters (peeled) one head garlic - split up into cloves but not peeled- enoguh potatoes to feed family - mix in singel layer in 2 baking trays with some olive oil , salt ,pepper and fresh rosemary - bake in a hot oven for an hour- serve with frozen mixed veg (winter) or salad(summer).

dawnylou

Bacon & Mushroom Salad
Cheese & Pineapple Salad
Veg Stir Fry
Mexican Beef Burgers
Tomato Pasta
Creamy Salmon Pasta
Jacket Potatoes with Bolognese
Sweet & Sour Wedges
Finger Lickin Chicken!
Crispy Topped Turkey
Egg & New Potato Salad
Pea Soup
Sesame Salmon With Veg
Crispy Herbed Potatoes
Chicken Broth
Hot Dog Buns with Fries
Spag Bol w Garlic Bread
Bacon & Chicken Salad
Chicken & Bacon Wraps


If any of the above sound good to you let me know and I'll get the recipe to you

machsmum

probably really obvious, but as I'm a rubbish cook, what are recipes for creamy salmon pasta and crispy topped turkey???