Could we start a meal plan thread again, so it's not lost in the GC?

K9sandFelines

Meal plan for this week. I think I've missed a week 🤔

Roussie7

Week commencing  11/8 but missed first 3 days!!
Thursday -  Chicken/bacon pasta
Friday      -  Fish & chips
Saturday  - Chicken curry
Sunday.    - pork chop & homegrown veg

K9sandFelines

Roussie7 said:

Week commencing  11/8 but missed first 3 days!!
Thursday -  Chicken/bacon pasta
Friday      -  Fish & chips
Saturday  - Chicken curry
Sunday.    - pork chop & homegrown veg

Welcome @Roussie

K9sandFelines

Only just made the pilaf tonight.Just realised I bought some vegan feta to put in it, and forgot to add it 🙃. I didn't end up making the Cajun pasta, so I've moved that forward. I ended up having Lentil and veg soup, with some part baked bread instead. I have leftovers of that which I will use for dinners this week ( lunch in other parts of the country).

So, meal plan for this week

K9sandFelines

Stuck to the meal plan except two meals. I've changed the Aloo Ghobi and will have it when the new month starts, or next week as I need to get more potatoes. Same for jacket potato. I want to stay out of the shops !!

So this week's meal plan, is as follows:

K9sandFelines

Didn't post last week, as been feeling sick from my meds. Things have settled a bit now hopefully 🤞🏻

C_J

Hi @K9sandFelines and everyone else!  I hope you don’t mind if I use your thread as a place to try and work out what to cook from the goodies I pick up from the Community Fridge(s) during the week. Pretty much all the items below will have been collected for a nominal £1 voluntary donation but they do need to be eaten/processed/frozen quite soon afterwards!

Tonight I had a hoisin duck salad bowl with a few cheeky air-fried chips for dinner. Individual M&S trifle for pud.

Thursday
Lunch will be a Pret tuna salad sandwich. I also have an Alpro red cherry yogurt which needs using up.

I picked up a pack of 6 fancy organic pork sausages. I think I will skin two of them and roast chunks of sausagemeat in the Ninja with tenderstem broccoli, chopped red chilli, crushed garlic, sesame seeds, grated ginger, sliced spring onions, tahini, miso paste and soy sauce, served on egg noodles and drizzled with chilli oil.  Almost all items from the Community Fridge. I have a punnet of strawberries, and some fresh peaches, plums and grapes for desserts over the next few days.

Friday
Lunch will be a toasted cheese sandwich. It’s a ready-to-toast one (Pret, I think), I’ve not tried that before.

I’ll cook the last four sausages, and have two as bangers and mash tonight and two for the freezer for a creamy sausage and spinach pasta sometime next week. I picked up a large bag of baby spinach, and I think there’s room in the freezer for it (I find it cooks brilliantly from frozen just as it is, with no pre-steaming or anything).

Saturday
I’m out for most of the day incl a family lunch get together, so dinner will be a Waitrose chicken Caesar salad bowl.

Sunday
I’ll make carrot, red pepper, red lentil and coriander soup for the next few lunches. I also have a Hovis sliced multigrain loaf, some salad stuff, a pack of thin sliced ham and a pack of roast chicken chunks to use up for sandwiches.

I have avocados and a pot of white crab meat to use up, so will make baked avocado filled with crabmeat in a cheese sauce for dinner.

Monday
Soup for lunch, maybe a sandwich.

The remaining broccoli will be added to some previously-frozen cauliflower and perhaps a small handful of macaroni and baked in a cheese sauce for tonight.

There’s a different Community Fridge open on Mondays so I may pop in there to see what they have on offer for the next few days.

Sorry, this is quite a ramble - I’m kinda thinking out loud 🤣

K9sandFelines

Not at all CJ, you're more than welcome. Nobody is posting here at the moment, so it's nice to see another face beside my own 😂
Ramble away, if it keeps things organised in your mind and helps you plan your meals, then it's fine by me. 
I'll hopefully be back with a meal plan too. I'm a bit stuck this week, so having a look around, for inspo.

I know I have frozen mince, green beans, frozen cauliflower, tofu burgers ( didn't eat last night's meal as I'd ran out or oriental veg and fancied something else), seitan burgers (homemade) and lots of grains, legumes, fridge bits etc. just got to cobble something together.

K9sandFelines

Finally done a meal plan. It's a bit basic, but trying to work with what I have in