What's on your meal plan this week?

[KatnissNeverdone]

We're completely stuck in a rut mealwise and I'm hoping for inspiration. Ours is usually a variety of mince based dishes (chilli, spag bol, cottage pie etc), curry, chicken, oven food one night and possibly a takeaway. I'm so bored of it all.

Fajitas
-Lambs liver, red wine and sage
-Baked camembert and salad
-Sweet potato, spinach and chickpea curry with coconut
-mushroom stroganoff

Spinach and ricotta lasagne
Sausage, mash, cauliflower / broccoli cheese, peas
Chickpea and spinach curry
Chilli and rice
Sausage pasta bake
Something with butternut squash
Maybe eating out at the weekend

-tacos (taco beans, mexican rice and taco seasoning in a wrap with cheese and salad)
-curry
-stir fry beef and broccoli with rice
-pork belly with rice, baby corn and broccoli
-Sausage casserole with yorkshire puddings
-pasta bake

We don't usually have that much rice in one week!

Baked potatoes, prawns and salad
Curried mango chicken wraps
Baked tomato and fennel risotto with cod
Lemon and walnut spaghetti
Cauliflower cheese tart
Steak and vegetable casserole with dumplings.

Spinach and ricotta pasta, salad
Pork and fennel ragu, broccoli
Chicken enchiladas
Beef pho
Meatballs
Kiev and chips
Chicken pie

Pasta heavy - trying to use up what we've got in, January is going to be a looooooong month.

Frittata with left overs
Mushroom risotto
Cauliflower cheese with left over Stilton

@CherryPavlova how do you make the walnut and lemon pasta please?

Chicken, chorizo, potato traybake with onions, tomatoes, peppers.

Chicken and spinach cannelloni

Turkey mince bolognese and gnocchi bake

Fish casserole

Sunday roast.

Pasta bake with quorn pieces.

Chicken and mushroom pie, jacket pots and veg

Tonight we are having keema 'pizza' flatbreads and salad.

Tommorow DD has beavers so is on beans on toast and me and DH are having a Maggi chicken thing with veg.

Saturday cod and prawn tagine with cous cous

Sunday is big shop day so will meal plan again then

Lemon and walnut pasta isn’t really a recipe it’s so easy. You can add sautéed courgette, prawns, salami to ring the changes a bit.

Cook a packet of spaghetti ( depending on numbers you are feeding)

Gently toast about 200g roughly chopped walnuts in a frying pan. Set aside.
Melt some butter ( about 3/4 a packet) until it starts to caramelise and milk separates out. Throw in a few of sage leaves if you have them. If you want heat, a little chilli purée goes well too. Or a teaspoon of honey.
Add in the zest and juice of a lemon. Then the walnuts back in.
Mix the sauce back with the pasta. Sprinkle with some fresh parsley if you have it and fresh Parmesan.

M- Chicken pesto gnocchi
T- Beans on toast (busy school clubs)
W- Smoked haddock with mash and greens
T- Spag bol
F- Turkey burgers
S- Prawn risotto
S- Toad in the hole

Tomorrow - hoisin tofu with bol Choi and rice
Saturday - vegan meatball subs
Sunday - at a friends
Monday - Dahl and chappati
Tuesday - fajitas
Wednesday- our for a work meal
Thursday: gnocchi, pesto, peas, broad beans

We shop on Fridays so the meal plan goes Friday - Friday. This week for me, vegan DH, 2 DC:
Friday pizza (DH ate something else later)
Saturday veg stew
Sunday mushroom and chickpea curry
Monday pies (not homemade), veg and mash
Tuesday stir fry veg and tofu, rice
Wednesday fishcakes, peas, potato waffles (DH apparently got a burger delivered later)
Thursday pasta with a tomato and olive sauce

Not a very inspiring week, I did too many night shifts so didn't have the time or the inclination to make anything exciting

Beans on toast (what husband cooks when he’s in charge of dinner!)
Mushroom risotto (done in instant pot so no faff!)
Lemon chicken rice one pot
Stuffed chicken and potato tray bake
Veggie curry
Something with mince...can’t remember what it was!

Lasagne
Enchiladas - Chicken
Jackets - ham/tuna salad
Tacos - mince based
Fish and Chips
Pizza Salad
Roast beef

Honey chilli chicken and stir fried veg

Hunters chicken and chips

Seekh kebab and roasted veg

Chipotle pork burgers fries and salad

Pasta sauce, garlic bread and salad

Pizza

Mon - Braised lamb chops with mash and veg
Tue - Spaghetti with meatballs and bolognaise sauce
Weds - Sea bass with sautee potatoes and a mushrooms cooked with
tomatoes, garlic and spinach
Thur - Turkey schnitzel and cauliflower cheese
Fri - Fritata and salad
Sat - Ribs, potato skins and corn onthe cob
Sun - Roast beef etc

Spaghetti and Meatballs
Roast Salmon, veg and potatoes
Corned Beef Hash
Chicken Curry and Rice
Cottage Pie
Salt and pepper roast duck with egg fried rice with veg
Lamb Roast Dinner

This week, we have mostly been eating...

-Salad of Chinese leaf, sugarsnaps, cherry toms, celery, cucumber, orange pepper and a few Sable grapes (weirdly lovely in a salad), with chicken marinated for a few mins in soy sauce and cornflour then cooked in a pan.
-Pork shoulder steaks slow cooked in stock with carrots, with broccoli.
-Frozen pizza
-Roast chicken
-Wholewheat Spaghetti Bolognese
-Steak and salad
-Chicken burgers with a popped rice coating (Birdseye frozen ones) with brioche roll and chips for Mr Twiglets and bunless with salad for me.

Black bean soup with crusty bread
Thai spiced cod and noodles
Bacon, potato and onion bake with salad
Shakshuka & ‘kickin’ broccoli
Chicken curry and rice/salad/maybe poppasdoms
Oven baked risotto

Pasta with chorizo, feta & sundried tomatoe paste
Burgers (beef) & sweet potatoe fries
Roast chicken with mash, veg & gravy
Spag Bol & garlic bread
Battered cod & salad

Weekend:
Steak & chips with pepper sauce
Fajitas - using one of the old el passo kits

Root veg and lentil cottage pie
Tomato and Mediterranean veg risotto
Veg curry with rice
Sticky sesame cauliflower with rice
Lemon and garlic orzo with roast veg
Firecracker chilli tofu with noodles
Tomato tart with mustard and lemon potatoes

We aren’t vegan, but do eat a lot of plant based meals and this week have decided to eat fully vegan.
I enjoy it because it gets me trying recipes and eating food I wouldn’t normally. I found it has been useful to get out of a rut.

Suggestion for @SlowSigh: roasted butternut squash risotto?

S- pizza for kids, Caesar salad for adults
S- scotch broth, followed by apple crumble
M- macaroni cheese and brocolli
T- chicken fajitas
W- sausage casserole and garlic bread
T- paprika chicken and rice
F- unknown yet, possibly fish & chips

F: Takeaway pizza
S: Bacon and butternut squash risotto
S: Roast beef
M: Lemony chicken linguine
T: Sticky sausages and mash
W: Asian-spiced pork noodles
T: Vegetable tostadas