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

Sgillin

My plan as it stands from Saturday to Friday, starting today. It always adapts and changes as the week goes by.
Situation - me and two teenagers, lunches and evening meals all week. I work full time so I want something quick most evenings, so include lots of batch cooking and quick meals in the plan. Joined for dinner by my ex husband 2 or 3 times a week for family meals (oh yes, very grown up ) Shops on Fridays and Tuesdays. Budget, £70 max per week, including all meals, toiletries, cleaning supplies, catfood and sanitary products. Not vegan/veggie but enjoy meatless meals. Shop in Aldi mostly. Bulk/special offer buy where possible. Cook from scratch - mostly! But the ocasional 

weekend batch cooking  -  choc and peanut butter brownies, aubergine stew (aubergines on special in Aldi this week ) make double of Veggie curry and Shepherds pie to freeze. Bolognese sauce.

Saturday -
lunch - tinned mackerel salad
dinner - veggie curry with roast spicy cauliflower and home made flatbread 

Sunday - 
lunch - beans on toast
dinner - shepherds pie, green beans 

Monday
packed lunch - peanut butter sandwiches, fruit, crisps, salad
dinner -  pasta with homemade pesto and something - maybe italian sausage, maybe roast veg... 

Tuesday - 
packed lunch - veggie curry wraps, fruit, crisps, choc brownie
dinner - chicken stir fry

Wednesday - 
packed lunch - pasta salad, yoghurt, choc brownie, crisps
dinner - pasta bolognese

Thursday - 
packed lunch - falafel and salad wraps (falafel made in last week's batch cooking), choc brownie, yoghurt, crisps.
dinner - Veggie bamia - a persian stew (was trawling cookbooks for inspiration this week!) with rice

Friday - 
lunch - soup (we're all home for lunch on a friday)
Dinner - fish and chips, peas/sweetcorn (frozen, not takeaway!)

And ... done!
lets see how it all pans out! "pans" - haha, no pun intended ) 
If anyone would like costings or recipes, please ask - happy to share

leftatthetrafficlights

Next week's meal plan - I'm trying to get through the fridge and freezer plus use up the veg I already have in: 

Sunday - vegan duck with pancakes

Monday - spicy baked cauliflower with sweet potatoes; blood orange & red grapefruit salad; leaves

Tuesday- braised cabbage with buckwheat; Mexican Black beans; beetroot and apple salad;

Wednesday- bubble & squeak; vegan sausages/fish fingers; baked beans

Thursday- enchilada pie (butternut squash, tomatoes, kidney beans) with salad

Friday- cabbage, beans & rice

Saturday  - miso fridge soup

joedenise

Can't believe it's a week since this thread was started and it's time to post another week's menu plan:

Sat - beef bourguignon, mash, cabbage
Sun - out for dinner at friend's house
Mon - LO beef bourguignon, jacket potato, green beans & petit pois
Tues - Chicken breast skewers on a bed of peppers and onions, corn on the cob, salad
Wed - Spaghetti bolognaise with added extra veg
Thurs - Toad in the hole, roast potatoes, roasted veg, cabbage
Fri - goat curry and rice, HM samosas (from freezer)
Sat - steak, chips, onions, mushrooms, corn on the cob

Another week's meals planned with most coming from the freezer or at least ingredients to make them from the freezer.  Gradually clearing a bit of space.

K9sandFelines

Sgillin said:

My plan as it stands from Saturday to Friday, starting today. It always adapts and changes as the week goes by.
Situation - me and two teenagers, lunches and evening meals all week. I work full time so I want something quick most evenings, so include lots of batch cooking and quick meals in the plan. Joined for dinner by my ex husband 2 or 3 times a week for family meals (oh yes, very grown up ) Shops on Fridays and Tuesdays. Budget, £70 max per week, including all meals, toiletries, cleaning supplies, catfood and sanitary products. Not vegan/veggie but enjoy meatless meals. Shop in Aldi mostly. Bulk/special offer buy where possible. Cook from scratch - mostly! But the ocasional 

weekend batch cooking  -  choc and peanut butter brownies, aubergine stew (aubergines on special in Aldi this week ) make double of Veggie curry and Shepherds pie to freeze. Bolognese sauce.

Saturday -
lunch - tinned mackerel salad
dinner - veggie curry with roast spicy cauliflower and home made flatbread 

Sunday - 
lunch - beans on toast
dinner - shepherds pie, green beans 

Monday
packed lunch - peanut butter sandwiches, fruit, crisps, salad
dinner -  pasta with homemade pesto and something - maybe italian sausage, maybe roast veg... 

Tuesday - 
packed lunch - veggie curry wraps, fruit, crisps, choc brownie
dinner - chicken stir fry

Wednesday - 
packed lunch - pasta salad, yoghurt, choc brownie, crisps
dinner - pasta bolognese

Thursday - 
packed lunch - falafel and salad wraps (falafel made in last week's batch cooking), choc brownie, yoghurt, crisps.
dinner - Veggie bamia - a persian stew (was trawling cookbooks for inspiration this week!) with rice

Friday - 
lunch - soup (we're all home for lunch on a friday)
Dinner - fish and chips, peas/sweetcorn (frozen, not takeaway!)

And ... done!
lets see how it all pans out! "pans" - haha, no pun intended ) 
If anyone would like costings or recipes, please ask - happy to share

Yes please to the aubergine stew. I got three, and have two left. Can cook and freeze it if not eating straight away. 
Off to Google the Persian recipe. I'm on a vegan persian page on the book of face, but not tried anything yet a part from the crispy rice which I burnt 😳😁 

bouicca21

+1 for thé aubergine stew
and while I’m at it, the veggie bamia

pamsdish

bouicca21 said:

+1 for thé aubergine stew
and while I’m at it, the veggie bamia

+ 2 for all the above. 

Joining in as I like to plan too, only got as far as Sunday, Monday as life is busy, which is why I need a plan.
Sun: Roast Pork, celriac dauphinoise, from freezer sage and onion stuffing, also freezer, cauli and broccoli.
Mon: Ditto Sunday

justkeepswimmimg

Gosh, Sunday already, as joedenise says, where do the weeks go?

So, think I need to start from yesterday (which doesn’t really count, see below):

Sat - smoked salmon sandwich because was out for lunch (fish and chips sat in a pub garden 🌞)
Sun - roasted butternut squash and feta risotto
Mon - chorizo and chickpea stew
Tues - salmon pesto pasta 
Wed - jacket spud with tuna mayo and salad 
Thurs - prawn Thai green curry and noodles 
Fri - scampi, chips and peas

What’s everyone else having?

Sgillin

K9sandFelines said:

If anyone would like costings or recipes, please ask - happy to share

Yes please to the aubergine stew. I got three, and have two left. Can cook and freeze it if not eating straight away. 
Off to Google the Persian recipe. I'm on a vegan persian page on the book of face, but not tried anything yet a part from the crispy rice which I burnt 😳😁 

bouicca21 said:

+1 for thé aubergine stew
and while I’m at it, the veggie bamia

bouicca21 said:

+1 for thé aubergine stew
and while I’m at it, the veggie bamia

+ 2 for all the above. 

Joining in as I like to plan too, only got as far as Sunday, Monday as life is busy, which is why I need a plan.
Sun: Roast Pork, celriac dauphinoise, from freezer sage and onion stuffing, also freezer, cauli and broccoli.
Mon: Ditto Sunday

OK here's the recipes - 
Smoked aubergines with garlic mirza ghasemi

this is for 6 aubergines, adjust to suit your number of aubergines It is a bit of a faff "smoking" the aubergine but its lovely, you could do them in the oven while cooking other stuff and make up the rest of the dish later.

 6 aubergines, blistered until black on the outside/soft in the middle. On an open flame on the gas hob, or dry roast whole at 200degrees for 45 mins. 
2 garlic bulbs (yes bulbs!) peeled and thinly sliced. 
1 heaped tspn turmeric
6 large ripe quartered tomatoes
4 tablespns tomato puree
1 tspn caster sugar
3 heaped teaspn crushed sea salt
3 beaten eggs

Very slowly cook garlic in olive oil until soft but not brown. Add turmeric and tomatoes, cook until tomatoes are soft and breaking down. Meanwhile scoop out aubergine flesh and addto the cooked tomatoes, with the tom puree, sugar and sea salt. |Cook for 6 to 8 minutes, mixing and mashing together a bit. Make holes in the mixture, and add the beaten eggs. Leave without stirring until they are cooking and solidifying. (about 6 mins) give a final stir through. take off the heat to let egg finish cooking and serve warm.

Bamia - serves 4. This is a recipe with Okra but I think other veg would also work 

500g tomatoes halved and cored, 1 tin chopped tomatoes 
(I just used 2 tins chopped tomatoes)
a whole garlic bulb, peeled and thinly sliced
3 tspn ground cumin
1 teaspn groud cinammon
2 teaspn crushed sea salt
1 tspn caster sugar
350g whole okra.

cook the garlic in olive oil until soft but not brown. Stir in the spices, salt and sugar. Add the tomatoes and cook down slowly witht the lid on until the sauce is rich. Add the okra, cook with the lid off for 30 more mins. 

London_1

Menu done for the coming week 

Monday :         Sweet potato and cauliflower and chickpea curry with rice. semolins pudding.  Meat -free Monday  

Tuesday :         Pork fillet coated in sage and onion stuffing,  wedges and garden peas, some apple crumble

Wednesday :   Shepherds pie with baked beans. rest of apple crumble

Thursday :       Sausages and mash with carrots and onions, banana and custard

Friday:             Salmon fillet, new potatoes and green beans, some diced grapes with greek yogurt

Saturday:         Chilli and rice, plain greek yogurt with some honey mixed in  

Not a great breakfast eater I prefer to have a coffee and a couple of ginger nuts then an early lunch around 12.00 noon of soup and cheese and crackers and apple or orange, or a beetroot and shredded carrot salad .I have a good few tins of tuna in the cupboard so they may get used at some point this week.

Mid morning cuppa and two rich tea biscuits, afternoon coffee and a slice of fruit cake.  

No shopping required this week as I have all the ingrediants in my ccupboards or freezer  

potatoes prepped and in water in the fridge along with some carrots also in water 

JackieO xx

SausageDogSandwich

Hi again everyone, I’ve made my shopping list for later in the week and my meal plan. Not sure if these will happen on the days stated will see how far we get. 

Today was an horrific vegetarian lentil cottage pie, I tried to mash some carrots into the mash as they needed using, but didn’t have the strength   as I only use a fork to make mash. The kids were very nice about it though and cleared their plates so it couldn’t of been to bad, not sure how my husband will feel about his triple portion of it when he gets home later though, oh well at least I get to have instant noodles! 

Monday- Paneer curry, rice, flatbreads
Tuesday- Jackets with cheese and beans
Wednesday- hot dogs & chips
Thursday- Bean stew, my middle son especially loves this and keeps asking me to make it. 

Friday- Spaghetti & quorn meatballs
Saturday - Cream cheese & spinach pasta .. stolen from this thread, can’t wait to try it!

Sunday- Mr brains, chips and mushy peas .. don’t have this very often at all but absolutely love it 
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Breakfast is cereal Monday to Friday for the kids, Saturday is pastries and Sunday I may make pancakes.
Packed lunches for the kids are pizza baguettes, egg sandwiches, tuna Mayo baguette and cheese sandwich, with fruit and whichever snacks they would like. Husband will have the above or leftovers. I don’t eat breakfast or lunch except if I am especially hungry. 

I have made a jam and coconut tray cake, chocolate brownie, coconut energy balls and my little girl made her box of duggee cakes today, ready for the week.