Meal planning - wk 26th Feb

ariarnia

Haven't seen one of these for a while... anyone fancy joining me?

OH is away for work next week and the MIL has claimed the sprogglets for a couple of days to give me time to get over the plague.

Aiming for a simple, wholesome and, above all, easy meal plan ideally based around the contents of the freezer (I can't drive and struggle to carry shopping) for Monday to Thursday for one:

Breakfast:
Porridge with dried fruit and a yogurt

Lunches:
- White fish (Frozen), broccoli (Frozen) and rice
- 2 x HM soup (Frozen)
- Mixed bean salad (tinned) with tuna (tinned), diced onion and a vinegar dressing

Dinners:
- Cheese and spinach (Frozen) omelette with beans (tinned)
- Twice baked potato with the other half of the beans
- Potato, chickpea (tinned) and spinach (Frozen) curry
- Salmon (frozen) green beans (frozen), pasta and some kind of sauce (tbc)

- Friday probably make a pasta bake to reheat with OH gets in.

Snacks:

Well, I've got a load of yogurt, frozen fruit, dried fruit... and a stash of chocolate bars... I should be fine

metherer

Hi ariarnia

Just made up a big flapjack which I'm going to portion up for DH and Me to take to work for breakfasts. He starts at sparrow's fart so tends to eat whilst walking in. I start at 9 but if I eat any earlier than that I need 2nd breakfast, so tend to wait til I am at my desk.

Soup is on the hob for lunch Monday and Tuesday - red split lentils with carrot, onion, and herb.

Wednesday lunch needs thinking about. Possibly cornish pasties.

Lunch Thursday and Friday will be leftovers from the night before.

Lunch Saturday and Sunday will depend on if we go out for the day or anything. If not, fridge pickings.

Dinners this week:
Oven baked cod (from the freezer) w veg
Jerk Chicken Salad
Bean Chilli (from formerly dried beans which have previously been cooked and then frozen into portions)
Sausage (from our local butcher, now in freezer) Pasta
Salmon (probably steamed) w veg
Chickpea (using dried chickpeas soaked overnight) curry
Ham shank and bean soup w homemade bread, recipe from http://www.beetleeyes.com/2007/12/11/hearty-bean-soup/. The leftovers will then be lunch for Monday and possibly Tuesday the week after.


Snacks will be scones I made yesterday and fruit.

VintageHistorian

Breakfast is toast, lunch is ham sandwiches/rolls, with salad, packet of crisps, and DH has cake, I have cocktail sausages.

Tonight - Toad in the hole with spuds and greens.
Monday - Leftover toad in the hole with different spuds and more greens.
Tuesday - Chicken and chorizo pasta
Wednesday - Dinner out.
Thursday - Chicken goujons with baguettes and salad.
Friday - Ready meal night, spaghetti carbonara for me, curry and rice for DH.

hatful-of-hollow

DS is home from uni for a week, so we'll be having some of his favourites. Also I've ordered the Takeaway Secret book, so hope it turns up in time to try a couple of the recipes this week.

Sun: Roast chicken dinner
Mon: LO Chicken used to make a chicken, bacon and leek pie with jacket spud and broccoli
Rest of the week in no particular order:
Pasta with hm pesto, broc and peas, topped with crispy bacon bits and served with garlic bread
Southern Fried Chicken from the book (well it'll be baked not fried) with hm spicy wedges and hm coleslaw
HM cod fish fingers, chips and beans
HM Soup with hm bread and some cheese followed by crumble and custard
HM Sausage and egg McMuffin from the book, with chips

Lunches soup/sandwiches/toastie/tortilla pizza/egg on toast/beans on toast

muddywhitechicken

Breakfast:

Porridge with banana + cinnamon or overnight oats with banana, frozen berries + skyr or bircher muesli with apple + banana

Lunch:

Soup of the day in staff restaurant + lidl high protein or low GI roll

Dinner:

Today - bavette steak with chimichurri sauce, HM potato wedges, asparagus + mushrooms
Monday - Budapest bowl: mushroom barley pilaf + paprika-braised chicken + dilled white beans + sweet pepper slaw + sour cream + dill
Tuesday - Addis Ababa Lane bowl: kasha-style buckwheat + brown onion split peas + turmeric vegetables + shredded romaine salad + farmer/cottage cheese
Wednesday - Tuna on Toasted Quinoa bowl: toasted quinoa pilaf + tuna + steamed beets with their greens + cannellini beans + hard-boiled egg + mustard vinaigrette + olives + radishes
Thursday - ? probably LOs from Tuesday as I'll be late home
Friday - huevos rancheros + avocado (if it ripens)

The bowl recipes/combinations are from my current favourite book - bowls! by Molly Watson

Snacks:

Fruitcake, apples, black grapes

mrs_motivated

I used to love this thread so thank you ariarnia for starting it.

So after seeing the shopping bill creep up and up, it's back to some meal planning and trying to knock some pounds off of the food bill.

Breakfasts will be either weetabix and banana, muller light yogurt and berries or porridge.

Lunch
Monday - today's leftover beef stew
Tuesday - salad and hm quiche
Wednesday - tuna sandwich , fruit
Thursday - left over cottage pie and veg
Friday - hm spicy parsnip soup
Saturday - poached egg on toast

Dinners
Monday - prawn chorizo and chilli linguine
Tuesday - chicken curry , rice
Wednesday - cottage pie and veg
Thursday - sausage casserole and mash
Friday - chicken , chips and hm coleslaw