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

justkeepswimmimg

Ah, sorry K9s, think I had picked that up from your plan but had forgotten 🙄. I love mushrooms on toast, have recently been cooking them in garlic and rosemary infused oil, nom nom.

Your dinner sounds lovely. It was the planned beans on with toast here (can’t bear soggy toast!), nice but yours sounds way more interesting 😊

K9sandFelines

justkeepswimmimg said:

Ah, sorry K9s, think I had picked that up from your plan but had forgotten 🙄. I love mushrooms on toast, have recently been cooking them in garlic and rosemary infused oil, nom nom.

Your dinner sounds lovely. It was the planned beans on with toast here (can’t bear soggy toast!), nice but yours sounds way more interesting 😊

That's OK about the egg etc, it's fine 😏
Tea was OK; but it was food, and filled me up and that's what matters. I never fancy beans on toast; but yet the rare times I do have it, it's always lovely. Beans are on the menu for a grill up on the next meal plan 😋

JIL

London_1 said:

Some great ideas are on these posts which give me some more ideas. Out of interest how many spring onions would you use for the spring onion mash ?  Tesco's have bunches on offer this week, and a pretty good price and I like to make the most of any special offers and a spring onoin mash would make a nice change from cheese mash and save on the cheese as well  

JackieO x

My Irish mother in law calls this poundies. She also chops the spring onions up and warms them in a little milk and butter before mixing in with the mash. I use at least half a bunch of onions to a pound of potatoes.
For some reason my mil always served this with breaded fish. I love mine with salad.

London_1

Thanks chums for some great ideas
 JIL sounds good to go with fish and I will alter my Friday night fish dish from wedges to spring onion mash I think.

My beef chilli and rice meal is off the menu for Saturday night as my eldest DD has asked me to dinner as its Eurovision night and she has her Ma-in -law coming for the weekend, and Margaret (her ma-in-law) and I get on well, and like a good chin wag.

So my chilli will have to wait for next week I think.  I am making a trifle for DD as my contribution towards Saturday nights meal, and I have all of the ingredients in the cupboard . so no shopping needed  

thriftwizard

And I've been de-railed again by picking up a Lid!s £1.50 box yesterday whilst re-stocking the store-cupboard; amongst the goodies (big bag of lovely ripe tomatoes, potatoes, big punnet of blueberries, 5 x parsnips) was a huge sweet potato which has a small dented patch, just starting to "go over". So Oklahoma potatoes (mix of sauteed diced potato, chopped onion & diced sweet potato, seasoned with cumin, mixed herbs, salt, pepper, & soy sauce) it is for tea tonight, with defrosted sausages from my young farmer friend, & frozen beans. (There wasn't enough chicken left over for a stir-fry, and the remaining kale florets have now been attacked by aphids anyway.) Off now to make cream of parsnip soup for lunch!

Sgillin

This is my Monday-Friday weeks menu this week - including packed lunches for me + 2 kids , and batch cooking on Sunday (coming to this halfway through week!). I need quick meals during the week so I tend to rely on batch-made from the freezer, or something that takes minimal prep. 
 
Sunday - defrosted some venison (I have contacts   ) from the freezer, made the diced into a casserole in the slow cooker, which went back in the freezer. Made falafel, plain scones, cheese scones, chocolate brownies and a pineapple upsidedown cake. Cooked a load of chickpeas in the slow cooker, went in the freezer. 

Monday, lunches, scotch egg (on special offer during my shop), salad, crisps, chocolate brownie. 
Dinner, venison steaks, ratatouille, roast potatoes (cut up small, cook quickly), pineapple upsidedown cake

Tuesday - lunches, Sausage roll (reduced), salad, crisps, chocolate brownie
Dinner - chicken curry - I batch cook and freeze a plain red lentil dal then add to it to change it up as required - this time I added chicken breast and some yellow peppers. Homemade flatbreads (plain flour, salt, oil, water) on the side. 

Wednesday - lunches - homemade falafel and salad wrap, chocolate brownie, fruit. 
Dinner - Broth - ham hough, carrots, leeks and celery into the slow cooker in the morning, with broth mix and lots of water. Homemade cheese scone on the side. 

Thursday - lunches - ham (from the hough yeaterday) on a cheese scone, salad, fruit, crisps. 
Dinner - pasta and "sad salad" pesto (  A Jack Monroe piece of genius - google her salad pesto - no more salad waste!)

Friday - lunches - boiled egg and chickpea salad with turmeric and paprika mayo,bar of chocolate, crisps. 
Dinner - Tinned mackerel salad - Friday is my big shop day so I can rely on nice fresh salad. 

K9sandFelines

K9sandFelines said:

Just thought this would be quicker reference than what's for dinner or searching through lots of posts?

There used to be one a while back, Meal Plan Monday or obviously whatever day you start yours on 🙂

I did post mine in the Grocery challenge, but will post again for anybody that doesn't join in with that thread.

Vegan
Everything's changed around from originally posting
Sunday 1st: Grill up
Monday 2nd: Hoisin pork and rice
Tuesday 3rd: Fishless fillet, chips and peas
Wednesday 4th: Meat free hotdog and hm soup and rolls
Thursday 5th : Hawaaian style fried tofu and coconut rice
Friday 6th : was Hoppin John but ended up being Cajun tofu with cashew cheese pasta and broccoli 
Today: Savoury lentils, cauli, red cabbage and mash
Sunday 8th : Burger, chips and corn
Monday 9th: Freezer meal (doubara baskra, African stew, curry and rice or Goulash) 
Tuesday 10th: Jacket potato with coronation or pulled (bbq) jackfruit
Wednesday 11th: Spicy dhal (from freezer) and naan
Thursday 12th: Dan Dan noodles

 

Meal plan in bold has changed. Has everyone else stuck to theirs?
Also almost on a new week, wow that flew by!

Instead the meal plan went:
Monday 9th: leftover savoury lentils, cauli and new potatoes
Tuesday 10th: Moroccan aubergine (29p ones from A1di) with pasta (olives, toms, capers) and some houmous. 
Today (the 11th) actually going to make the Hoppin John in a mo
Tomorrow (the 12th) : Jacket potato with coronation or bbq jackfruit) 

New month starts on the 13th and I have done a meal plan but its subject to change, as may have both DDs and GD here, just depends on what their plans are. 

So, it should be as follows (stc) :

Friday 13th : Dan Dan noodles for me and DD2. Hotdog, noodles and peas for DD1 and GD (they don't do spicy foods and GD is suspected ASD and has this meal every Friday ☺️) 
Saturday 14th: Bolognese pasta with garlic bread. 
Sunday 15th: Grill up for dinner/early tea. Dhal (from freezer) and naan for me later if still hungry, as everyone will have gone home by then
Monday 16th: Freezer meal incl dhal if not eaten last night
Tues 17th: Baked Sesame Tofu (if I have any by then), Peanut Sauce and crispy kale (dependant on if still ok) 
Wed 18th: Tamarind Aubergine curry
Thurs 19th: Louisana Linguine (although I may use tagliatelle) 

candygirl

JIL said:

I sometimes fancy stuffed peppers but cba with the phaff.
I buy aldi pack peppers, aldi mexican rice sachet and a pack of aldi sliced cheese.
Cut the peppers in half, spoon in rice, top with cheese and bake.
Easy peasy.

Ooh I'll try this, but with mexicana cheese 🧀 😋 

joedenise

Change of plan for tonight which also has a knock on effect!

Today should have been cottage pie but when I went to the freezer I had no mince so no cottage pie.  Can't be believe I've run out!

Pulled out a goat curry instead which we had with turmeric rice.

Should have been chana masala and rice tomorrow so that has now moved to Friday and we'll have the stuffed chicken breast tomorrow which should have been Friday's dinner!

K9sandFelines

Hoppin John finally made! So many variations of this online; but I went with a base of soffrito and added kale. It's lovely, but I would add half the cayenne pepper next time. I'm OK with spice, but it was slight overkill  I also added some peas that didn't get eaten and a umami stock cube, as I didn't have any meat free chicken oxo 

Sorry photo is in the middle, I was editing as it uploaded.