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

London_1

Yesterday started off with me thinking right its Sunday so I'll do my menus.Just have a cuppa and make some toast .Went to get the bread out of the freezer and Oh crikey where the freezer was so frosted it had started to push the door out so the seal was letting in air .  

Luckily I spotted it in time so quickly filled two bags with stuff still frozen solid Everything else mainly bread and a couple of rolls were binned sadly as they were starting to go soft.
Whizzed round to DDs and played freezer matrix with her chest freezer, and managed to get most of the stuff in there .Was left with about half a dozen or so meals and some fish which I put into her insulated picnic box and brought home and put into my shower room as it is the coldest place in my house.

Then spent the next 5 hours trying to defrost the rest of the iceberg in my freezer. Managed to get it done and reconnected and once frozen replaced the freezer box stuff from the picnic box into the freezer.

Whew what a day, glad I managed to save most of it  at least. But as I am out for the next few days my main food stocks will stay in DDs freezer, so this weeks menus will be a mixture of cottage pies ,curries and chillis  and a few sausages, all from what I have in my freezer at the moment until I can get round to pick the rest up.
I do have two pieces of fish to alternate the other stuff ,but as I'm away on holiday at the end of this month I really don't want to be buying much shopping at all if I can help it.
Good job I like cottage pies  

I knew my freezer needed defrosting and was hoping to make it through to the end of this month, but Oh well at least its done and not too much harm done at least.

So menus are a bit limited this week 

1. Monday  Veggie curry and rice

2. Tuesday Cottage pie

3. Wednesday,  Chilli and rice

4.Thursday    Sausage and mash 

5.Friday  haddock ,mash and veg

6. Saturday Chicken curry and rice 

Sunday will pick up the remainder of my freezer food after dinner at DDs and replace it into my newly defrosted freezer.

Best laid plans etc thank goodness DD has not only an upright freezer but a small box freezer as well

JackieO xx

ruby_eskimo

Well we were supposed to have a beef stew for dinner last night - was happily bubbling away in the slow cooker and then events happened and we ended up in a Beefeater 😏  So potted up the stew, one portion went to the freezer and the rest is sitting in the fridge for dinner tonight:

M - Aforementioned beef stew with mash and broccoli
T - Mushroom Risotto
W - Gammon steak, chips, egg, peas
T - Mushroom bolognese
F - Sweet and sour chicken
S - HM Pizza in DH's BBQ pizza oven

Lunches are a mission to use leftovers up from last week.  Firstly today's lunch is the last of my chicken and broccoli salad which I have mixed with some pasta.  Then Tuesday and Wednesday is Doenjang-jjigae which is a Korean miso stew which will use up the leftover tofu and courgette that's in the fridge.  Thursday I'm in the office and will either take a salad with me or possibly treat myself to lunch out...and Friday I can just make up something from what we have in the house / will probably have some leftovers.

K9sandFelines

Last week of my grocery challenge, so mostly freezer bits to save the pennies.

pamsdish

This week's meal plan. Heavy on the mushrooms  as I have loads. 

Bluegreen143

My Mon-Thu plan this week (I mealplan twice a week):

Yest: lentil & veg soup, wholemeal sourdough; the children had an ice cream each after (a scoop of ice cream in a cheap cone, cheaper than buying in prepackaged ice creams!).

Today: spaghetti & meatballs, salad; kids can have fruit to finish

W: griddled lemon chicken with new potatoes and green veg; will offer banana & custard if wanted 

Th: hummus & falafel salad wraps, may do some chips for everyone else; fruit for afters

Smoosh

Not really in any particular order:

1. Pizza (2x YS pizzas - mine was vegetable, OH's was cheese which he added pepperoni to). Enough leftover for my lunch. Followed by Portuguese custard tarts, watermelon and blackberries (all YS also).
2. Tom kha with mushrooms. Will likely serve with spring rolls and Thai crackers.
3. Vegan chicken wings (YS) with Korean style fried rice. Will probably serve with some tenderstem broccoli (freebie from olio).
4. Spinach and artichoke pasta. OH will have leftover pepperoni in his and I'll have Quorn bacon.
5. Kebabs (YS) for OH, halloumi for me. With olives, hummus, flatbreads (YS) and HM potato wedges (using YS potatoes).
6. Out for date night.
7. Roast (lamb shank for OH, Quorn lattice for me). With roasted baby potatoes (finishing off the YS potatoes), roasted parsnips, tenderstem broccoli and runner beans (all freebies).

For puddings (if wanted) we have plums, grapes, blackberries, chocolate cookies, cherry bakewell cookies, hot cross buns and sticky toffee pudding (all YS). 

SausageDogSandwich

Today turned into pork in the slow cooker, roast dinner. We had mash, carrots, green beans, stuffing (just a packet), Hm Yorkshire and crackling with it. It was delicious! Tomorrow the kids want pork & stuffing & gravy sandwich and I will do some carrot fries to go with it. I’m hoping to have a small amount of pork left to make bbq pork and pineapple pizzas and Hm coleslaw on Thursday. 

Won’t be having jacket potatoes this week, I just had enough out of 2.5kg to make some mash .. was really looking forward to Hm roast potatoes. But the potatoes were terrible and most could not be used, only had them delivered last night  But it has made the meal plan a little more exciting!

MissRikkiC

ruby_eskimo said:

Well we were supposed to have a beef stew for dinner last night - was happily bubbling away in the slow cooker and then events happened and we ended up in a Beefeater 😏  So potted up the stew, one portion went to the freezer and the rest is sitting in the fridge for dinner tonight:

M - Aforementioned beef stew with mash and broccoli
T - Mushroom Risotto
W - Gammon steak, chips, egg, peas
T - Mushroom bolognese
F - Sweet and sour chicken
S - HM Pizza in DH's BBQ pizza oven

Lunches are a mission to use leftovers up from last week.  Firstly today's lunch is the last of my chicken and broccoli salad which I have mixed with some pasta.  Then Tuesday and Wednesday is Doenjang-jjigae which is a Korean miso stew which will use up the leftover tofu and courgette that's in the fridge.  Thursday I'm in the office and will either take a salad with me or possibly treat myself to lunch out...and Friday I can just make up something from what we have in the house / will probably have some leftovers.

I love the sound of this Korean dish, do you use meat or just use the tofu? 

Also I’m sure it’s a really lovely addition but the Korean chilli flakes, do you think you could sub for regular? @ruby_eskimo

katkin

Some lovey meal ideas here. I really need to be more adventurous and break out of my usual meal routine. 

I have visitors staying over this weekend coming meaning a change to the normal meal plan (and a lot more food to be bought and cooked), but there will be lots of leftovers i'm sure will come in handy the following week.

As usual no specific order apart from the weekend. 

Menu Plan – Dinners

Chilli con carne, cheesy wedges, crème fraise, salsa topping

Homemade quiche Lorraine, salad

Pissadella, salad

Chicken curry, mushroom rice

Pasta dish – possibly lasagne from the freezer or pesto, salad on the side

Sat - Meal out or takeaway

Sun - Roast Chickens, feta lemon roast potatoes, salad bowls and picky sides. Planning a chocolate mousse brownies cake for afters.  Lunches will be leftovers, sandwiches, hm soup or egg things.

Greying_Pilgrim

Just posted on the GC thread, so happy to re-post here

M - Smoked tofu buddha bowl
Tu - Tanzanian black-eye bean and coconut soup
W - Lentil bake (F) and mixed vegetables
Th - Mung bean casserole with rice
F - Lentil bolognese and pasta
Sa - Black olive pizza and wedges
Su - Baked potato and vegetarian bobotie.

Greying X