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Meal Plans W/B 25th November

Tealady_2
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Hi all
Couldn't see a thread started for next week so thought I would start it. My plan starts on Saturday
Saturday - Beef Noodle Soup - (beef already cooked)
Sunday - Meatballs and Pasta
Monday - Chicken and Pepperoni Pasta Bake
Tuesday - Cottage Pie
Wednesday - All out for dinner
Thursday - Spag bol
Friday - Fish Burgers, Chips and Beans
Breakfasts will be fruit, porridge, cereal bars
Lunches will be wraps, leftovers or Hm soup
Will bake some sort of cakes for lunch boxes just not sure what yet.
I am away with work Wed and Thurs nights so will cook the bolognaise sauce earlier in the week so it just need heating up and pasta adding to it for OH and DD. This stops them getting takeaway.
Looking forward to seeing everyones meal plans for the week
Couldn't see a thread started for next week so thought I would start it. My plan starts on Saturday
Saturday - Beef Noodle Soup - (beef already cooked)
Sunday - Meatballs and Pasta
Monday - Chicken and Pepperoni Pasta Bake
Tuesday - Cottage Pie
Wednesday - All out for dinner
Thursday - Spag bol
Friday - Fish Burgers, Chips and Beans
Breakfasts will be fruit, porridge, cereal bars
Lunches will be wraps, leftovers or Hm soup
Will bake some sort of cakes for lunch boxes just not sure what yet.
I am away with work Wed and Thurs nights so will cook the bolognaise sauce earlier in the week so it just need heating up and pasta adding to it for OH and DD. This stops them getting takeaway.
Looking forward to seeing everyones meal plans for the week
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Back on the bandwagon after a wobble last week...
Sat - HM Chicken Gousions with chips, HM Tzatziki and salsa
Sun - Chilli with tortilla chips, HM Guacamole and salad
Mon - Sausage. Mash & Veg
Tue - Pesto Pasta
Wed - LO Chilli
Thu - LO Pesto Pasta
Fri - @ Mums (normally buy rolls and filler)
Sat - LO Spicy Butternut Squash Soup and HM Rolls
Sun - Roast Chicken, Roast Potatoes, Yorkshire Pudding & VegWe spend money we don't have, on things that we don't need, to impress people we don't like. I don't and I'm happy!:dance: Mortgage Free Wannabe :dance:Overpayments Made: £5400 - Interest Saved: £11,550 - Months Saved: 240 -
Thanks for starting us off Tealady
Due to house full of poorlies we haven't eaten much on plan this week so some meals roll over from last week. As we've only been eating soup from stores some nights and leftovers/bits from freezer am hoping to save a bit on this weeks shopping bill ..... there has to be some positive from being ill
creamy chicken and mushroom pasta bake with garlic bread
chilli and wedges
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roast pork dinner
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Thanks for starting the thread. This week's meals are as follows:
Sat - Salmon fillet, stir fried veg (noodles for DH)
Sun - Roast chicken dinner
Mon - Spanish Rice (using some LO chicken + chorizo)
Tues - Beef stew
Wed - Chicken curry (using rest of LO chicken)
Thurs - Jacket potato, beans & cheese
Fri - HM Fish & Chips
Sat - Beef bourgignon, mashed pots & veg
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I've badly fallen out of the habit of meal-planning over the past few weeks, with the result that I've started wasting far too much food: in the past week alone I've thrown out an unopened bag of watercress (forgot it was there until it had turned to sludge), a whole squash / courgette (couldn't think what to do with it and left it so long it grew a fur coat), two big slices of chicken pie (meant to freeze them and never got round to it, until they had been there too long to be safe), and six pots of fruit yoghurt (far too far past their use-by date even for me).
I have to get things under control again, and a meal-plan seems a good place to start!
Saturday - HM chorizo and pepper pizza
Sunday - leeks and ham in cheese sauce, with HM bread
Monday - tuna pesto pasta bake
Tuesday - TBC - it has to be something quick - maybe a cheese and something omelette?
Wednesday - chilli con carne with garlic bread
Thursday - Thai prawn noodle soupBack after a very long break!0 -
Hi, this is us for next week:
Mon - mince, potatoes & veg
Tue - bacon & tomato pasta
Wed - fish curry and rice
Thur - chicken kiev, potato and sweetcorn
Fri - three-bean chilli with garlic bread
Sat - curry0 -
meal plan went well last week, only changed 1 day as didnt have time to make the cannelloni
this week will be:
Sunday, brisket cooked in the slow cooker, yorkshire puddings, mashed pots, broccoli, carrots, swede and peas
Monday: spinach and ricotta cannelloni
Tuesday: party tea as DS is 18 tomorrow and have friends/family over
Wednesday: Indian Takeaway for the 3 of us as DS bday and its his favourite
Thursday:not decided yet but have lots of meat/fish in the freezer- will update nearer the time
Friday:taco shells filled with chilli,salad and cheese
Lunches will be leftovers, sandwiches, choice of spicy pumpkin or tomato soup also lots of fruit
breakfast, cereal, toast or HM breakfast bars with smoothie0 -
Eating out the freezer this week.
Sat, chilli con carne & rice
Sun, cottage pie, and veg
Mon, beans and scrambled egg on toast (quickie meal
Tues, Jacket potato, garlic chicken and salad
Wed, HM pizza and chips
Thurs, Toad in the hole and veg
Fri, Veg curry & egg fried rice
Sat, Macaroni cheese
Sun, Roast chicken dinner
Mon, Chicken supreme and rice
Lunches will be any LO from night before, egg, ham, tuna or cheese sandwiches, Soup or pasta salad.
Snacks, fruit, yoghurts, HM cakes/ biscuits.G.C July £21.09/£1000 -
My meal plan this week goes as follows:
[STRIKE]Monday: Quorn Roast dinner with trimmings
Tuesday: Me ~ Quorn Coq au vin mash and green beans
DDs ~ Quorn SF chicken bites, noodles and peas[/STRIKE]
Wednesday: Me ~ Jollof rice
DDs ~ Tuna and pasta
[STRIKE]This ended up being burger and chips[/STRIKE]
Thursday: Veggie Sausages, mash/onion rings and veg
Friday: Split shift at work, so quick meal ...
Me: Roasted veg, pesto and pasta
DDs ~ TBC as they won't eat this
Saturday: Sweet Chilli prawn linguine
DD2 ~ TBC
Sunday: Work from 2-10 so quick meal ...
Me ~ TBC
DDs ~ Beans on toastGC Jan £101.91/£150 Feb £70.96/150 Mar £100.43/150 Apr £108.45 app/150 May £149.70/150 Jun £155.15/150 Jul £134.25/£150 Aug £119.37/£150 SEP £25.77/£150 (includes food, toiletries and cleaning from 13th to 12th of each month. One person vegan household with occasional visitors)Forever learning the art of frugality0 -
It is pay day on Friday and until then there is very little in but here is what we will be patching together.
Monday- Bangers and mash with onion gravy and cabbage
Tuesday- HM fish cakes with hm chip and beans
Wednesday- HM pizza with baguettes made in to garlic bread
Thursday- HM lentil burgers with HM Bombay potatoes
Friday, Saturday and Sunday- To be decided after going shopping
Breakfasts will be cereal or scones.
Lunches will be porridge or soups.
Snacks will be dried fruits or hm flapjacks£36/£240
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A few changes to the plan last week, including a sneaky macky-Ds on Tuesday, so hopefully back on track this week. Almost everything from the fridge, freezer and cupboard, just need to buy rolls and milk. I'm still 5:2-ing, OH has decided that while she really likes veggies, she misses chicken and fish too much to go entirely vegetarian at the moment, so we will slowly use up the HM veggie meals in the freezer, wouldn't hurt either of us to have a few more non-meat days. So -
Monday - 500Calorie day for me - Lunch Lentil soup, with oatcakes for OH, Tea - chicken, chickpea and cauliflower curry, with rice for OH, and cauliflower rice for me.
Tuesday - Lunch - Hot dog rolls with onions, Tea - Spinch and ricotta Tortelloni with tomato sauce and garlic
bread
Wednesday - Out for Lunch, Tea - Hot dog rolls
Thursday - 500 Calorie day for me - Lunch - Corn Chowder with Oatcakes for OH, Tea - stir-fried sweet chilli prawns and veggies with noodles
Friday - Lunch - Tuna on Toast, Tea - Sausages. Mashed tatties neep and carrot and gravy for other half, actifry chips and redcabbage for me.
Saturday - Lunch - Pizza, Tea - Pork Satay, or maybe sweet and sour
Sunday - Lunch - French toast with cheese, Tea - HM Chicken Kievs
Breakfasts we have rice crispies, muesli, sugar puffs, porridge, rice cakes and ryvitas. 2 bagels in the freezer.
Have a good week everyone0
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