What's your family meal plan for this week?

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Just a bit stuck in a rut, especially this year. Looking for ideas.

Herby Chicken breast, crispy garlic kale and mashed potato

Pizza , salad and coleslaw

Meatballs and spaghetti with garlic bread

Sausages, potatoes dauphinois and green veg

Veggie chilli, rice, salsa, cheese and avocado

We are clearing the freezer before Christmas so hence the rather meat heavy dinners this week

I don't really meal plan as such but I tend to buy the same things and have them on rotation :

Tonight kids are having mac and cheese with bacon, DH and I are having omelettes
This week will probably be:
Chicken pie and veg with a baked potato
Spag bol
Pork chop with veg and gravy
Sausages and mash or toad in the hole
Stir fry
Pizza on weekend

Other standards include meatballs with spag
Gammon ham steaks with a fried egg and chips, maybe with peas
Shepherds pie
Beans on toast
Scrambled eggs with a salad
Baked potatoes with chosen filling
Salmon fillets with green veg and a baked potato
Chicken Kiev with green beans or peas and mash
Fishcakes

We don’t have a plan, there’s sausages, bacon, chicken Kiev, mince, and fish cakes in the fridge snd loads in the freezer. We will just eat what we fancy on any given night,

Chicken fajitas also very popular here, usually buy a kit in weekly shop

DH often makes a curry or a big fish pie at the weekend which we have as leftovers during the week

I did have punctuation in my post honest guv

I hate meal planning, cooking dinner and shopping for ingredients so I completely feel your pain OP! I did try hello fresh for a bit when they did an offer, it as good but lots of packaging and expensive for what it was when not on offer. I kept the recipe cards though and use them, might be worth doing for a few weeks, shake things up a bit?

Monday is burgers, corn on the cob and salad
Tuesday is sausage, mashand veg
Wednesday is lobby
Thursday is fish and chips
Friday is food shopping day do it's get what you want night
Saturday takeaway
Next Sunday will be a roast pork dinner

Thanks, this helps. I ended up with spag Bol and chilli every week for the past months or so.

Tomorrow - DS is making Thai pork balls in food tech so we'll have those with noodles.

Tues - minute steak & onion gravy barms with fries

Weds - Homity pie (I try to do no meat meals at least once a week)

Thurs - salmon & risotto verdi

Fri - chicken tikka rogan josh with naan breads

Sat - might have a Chinese starters kind of night - crispy duck, prawn toast, won tons, spring onion parcels etc.

Sun - something in the slow cooker. Maybe peanut butter chicken.

We've got ds here, which makes it more difficult than fending for just the two of us.

Today - veggie sausages, sweet potato mash, sprouts, carrots, balsamic & red wine glazed onions

Tomorrow - veggie carbonara

Tuesday - some sort of vegetable soup

Weds - either some sort of curry, or a veggie chilli, or veggie bolognaise

Thurs - Thai green curry with tofu, pak choi, asparagus, baby corn

No idea beyond that

@SandysMam

I hate meal planning, cooking dinner and shopping for ingredients so I completely feel your pain OP! I did try hello fresh for a bit when they did an offer, it as good but lots of packaging and expensive for what it was when not on offer. I kept the recipe cards though and use them, might be worth doing for a few weeks, shake things up a bit?

We do Gousto, we stopped after they messed up a delivery but we do like it, but children won't eat it so it's a pain as I have to cook twice right severely limit what we can eat.

Saturday - Singapore fried rice
Sunday - lemon & thyme roast chicken with roast potatoes, parsnips & steamed greens
Monday - bacon, onion & potato bake with baked beans
Tuesday - bolognese bake
Wednesday - creamy garlic chicken with rice and veg
Thursday - cheesy topped chicken with savoury rice and veg
Friday - beef & broccoli noodle bowls

cooking now: fish pie

Meals we have the ingredients to cook this week:

Toad in the hole
Pizza
Filled pasta
Veggie Chilli
Vegetable Tagine
Pasta bake
Spag bol
Festive Stacks - from Sainsbury freezer dept, haven't had them before

The spag bol is also veggie - either with quorn mince or Jamie Oliver's recipe for veggie Bolognese (with lentils and mushrooms)

Risotto is another current fave in this house

Also curry

Saturday: home-made hamburgers
Sunday: home-made chicken jalfrezi
Monday: Spag Bos
Tuesday: Fish sambal
Wednesday: Bangers, mash and a hella load of veges
Thursday: Steak with a red wine jus and an equally hella lod of veges.
Friday: Takeout - Youngest DD's turn to choose.

Tonight: lasagne and salad
Monday: chicken wraps, potato wedges and salad
Tuesday: campfire stew and jacket potatoes and broccoli
Wednesday: chilli and rice
Thursday: spaghetti bolognese
Friday: beef stew from the freezer turned into a pie with a puff pastry top, mash, veg and extra gravy
Saturday: usually our takeaway night!

Loads of ideas in the Food section, may give you some inspiration.

This week is:
Roast dinner (with no meat)
Crispy tofu buddha bowl
Pumpkin tortellini
Vegetable risotto
Mushroom pappardelle
Freezer something

Actually, a hint from me, for meal planning is to get a family calendar if you can, with one column more than you need. Use that to put in what you're having for meals. It makes it a lot easier to see what you've had recently, what you've not had in a while, and to recall what everyone liked and what some of them were utter snits about. . .

I don't really meal plan but meals that regularly appear on the menu are...

Pesto pork schnitzel. I usually serve with spaghetti in some pasta sauce, usually roast red pepper and roast vegetables or with dauphinoise potatoes/cauliflower cheese and green veg,

Chinese chicken curry.(Mayflower brand mix from Home Bargains) with rice and prawn crackers.

Spicy beans and sausages or bbq beans and sausages.

Lasagna with salad

Soup and pudding.

Meatballs and pasta with garlic bread

Chicken, chorizo and feta salad

Fish and chips with green veg.

Macaroni cheese

Fajitas

Enchiladas

M&S sweet chilli Chinese chicken with stir fried veg and noodles

Creamy pesto chicken pasta

Chicken salad wraps

Creamy cajun chicken pasta

Roast chicken
Butternut squash & sage risotto
Homemade lamb doner kebabs
Pork loin, Apple sauce, mash & green veg
Halloumi & mixed bean stew
Omelettes & salad

I have no idea yet except for the minute steak and gravy barms that @ikltownofboothlehem has just suggested 😋

Me and DH are vegetarian. Our meal plan is:

Mon: Sweet potato katsu curry = never made this before so interested to see how it turns out
Tues: Lentil bolognaise
Wed: Home made pizza and salad
Thur: Either sausage mash and onions or toad in the hole
Fri: Black bean burgers, salad and jacket potato
Sat: Egg and lentil curry
Sun: Goats cheese and caramelized onion tarts, roast potatoes, yorkshire puddings, roast parsnips, roast carrots, mashed parsnips, peas, broad beans and cauliflower

Today tex mex platter
Monday curry - microwave ones from Iceland they are my fave
Tuesday - roast chicken with broccoli AMA
Baby roast potatoes with veg
Wednesday- something with the left over chicken maybe a paella as I have prawns in the freezer and chorizo
Thursday- date night maybe a take out
Friday - wraps probably. I bought hoisin flavoured chicken strips and salt and pepper flavour strips so maybe those

We are not usually this unhealthy

Dd1 has decided to be veggie this week so we are supportive and having....

Tonight - veggie burgers, sweet potato fries and salad
Monday - veggie stir fry (an old hello fresh recipe)
Tuesday - home made pitta bread wraps with falafel and salad.

Wednesday - sweet potato, chilli and coconut soup
Thursday - home made pizza
Friday - free for all freezer beige dinner (I have 3 children and they all choose what they want from the freezer)
Sat - Veggie curry.