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.

Tomorrow we'll have chicken fried rice with leftovers from yesterday and today.

Then pasta with red pepper and walnut pesto the next day. Garlic bread and green salad in the mix m

I've got a little gammon joint in the freezer, so probably that with creamy leek mash on Wednesday

Here's mine for the week, 2 adults and 2 kids. Everyone's home for lunch so I usually cook something hot for that too, especially in winter.
I've only really cracked menu planning this year, but it's given us so much more variety than we were eating before. I love cooking though, so that helps as I quite enjoy hunting for recipes to try.

@Takethewinefromtheswine
Ah, I see! You're clearly not alone in meal planning judging by this thread!

M. Bubble & squeak, cold meats
T. Prawn & noodle stir fry
W. Smoked haddock, new pots, poached egg & ww hollandaise sauce
T. Moroccan lentil pie (ww recipe)
F. Moules
S. Seafood lasagne
S. Roast pork followed by mince pie and clotted cream

Thai red prawn curry tonight
Spag Bol tomorrow
Eating out on Tuesday
Joe Wicks veg chilli Wed and Thursday
DH cooking something on Friday probably pasta
Eat out Saturday
Salmon fillets with beurre blanc on Sunday

We have on regular rotation (no kids though just me and DH)
Teriyaki chicken & stir fry veg
Pad Thai
Toad in hole & veg
Gnocchi & roasted veg / roast tomato sauce
Halloumi salad / hummous
Veggi lasagne
Veggi chilli
Dahl and quick home made flat breads
Thai curry
Black bean enchiladas
Pizza
Home made burgers with corn on cobs

Mon- stir fry with leftover roast chicken
Tues- veg Kiev’s and fries with coleslaw
Wed- meatballs and pasta
Thurs- fish, couscous and roasted veg
Fri- pizza
I haven’t got as far as the weekend,

Tomorrow, pan fried chicken thighs (from the butcher so they are mahoooosive) with red and yellow peppers, olive oil and lots of white wine and a head (yes head not clove ) of garlic, served with green veg and new potatoes.

After that in no particular order lamb chops with olive and garlic mash.

Spag Bol, or maybe Nigella's Greeky spag bol.

Oven roasted tomatoes with double cream and black pepper in a sauce and some veg with linguine.

Pan fried salmon with warm teriyaki and pan dried white and black sesame seeds, with either noodles or new potatoes and veg.

Friday night is takeaway night, but we are going out to get the tree so may have lunch out instead, such is lockdown that the 19 year old is interested in coming to the farm to look at trees.

@arethereanyleftatall

Flabbergasted by this thread. I've got absolutely no idea what I'll be eating this week. Will see what I fancy on that night.

That was us pre covid but I’m doing all the shopping online so forced to be more organised and I do think we eat more healthily for it .

Lobby is short for lobscouse-love the idea we all might be eating lobster. It used to be a real midweek meal made from shin beef, carrots, potatoes in a broth when I was growing up. Now given the price of shin beef in the supermarkets it's something of a luxury!

These are typical meals that I'm likely to do this week but it may change.

Meatballs, spicy couscous with veg.
Fish pie or seafood pie with sweetcorn and peppers.
Tuna pasta bake
Sausages with mash, onion gravy and peas
Chicken curry with cauliflower rice
Chicken stir fry with mushrooms, peas and carrot
Spag bol with garlic bread

Monday - turkey chilli and brown rice
Tuesday - wholemeal pasta with homemade tomato and roast vegetable sauce
Wednesday - Canarian chorizo and chickpea stew
Thursday - homemade tomato soup and crusty bread
Friday - chicken fajitas.

mbosnz good idea with the food preferences calendar.
I've got a separate kitchen calendar where I log the use-by dates of perishables before putting the shopping away.
No more finding new life forms at the back of the fridge.

Courgette, carrot and feta fritters with poached eggs
Chicken paprika
Mushroom and spinach risotto
Stuffed jacket potatoes with leeks and mushrooms & salad
Veggie chilli soup

Today: Birds eye chicken things with chips
Tues; Sausages & mash
Wed: Pizza & wedges
Thurs: Cottage pie
Fri: Tuna pasta bake (kids) sea bass on chorizo & lentils (me & DH)
Sat: Steak
Sun: Pasta & sauce

@GlumyGloomer

Here's mine for the week, 2 adults and 2 kids. Everyone's home for lunch so I usually cook something hot for that too, especially in winter. I've only really cracked menu planning this year, but it's given us so much more variety than we were eating before. I love cooking though, so that helps as I quite enjoy hunting for recipes to try.

Can I ask how you cracked menu planning to give you more variety - every time I try to menu plan, I just think of the same old dishes! Do you just go through cookbooks once a week - how do you narrow things down?

@CeibaTree my moment of inspiration came when Dm bought me a new cook book, and it prompted me to unpack all my other cook books (boxed for years). I realised that I'd only made one or two things from each book, so I set myself to properly work through them. I still use online recipes, and have a few bog standard meals each week to give myself a break too. Once I got going I realised how much nicer it was to sit down at the weekend and make a plan, than to hit 5.00 and be trying to think what to make with the kids going on at me. Under those circumstances the answer was pasta 90% of the time. Some weeks we still eat a lot of pasta, lol. But at least it isn't every night.
I have a thread for recipe ideas too, which has given me even more things to try.

Here's my recipe sharing thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/4028036-Recipe-review-club

@GlumyGloomer Thank you, that is super useful. We have tons of cookbooks that I feel I never have time to go through, but it sounds like it would save a lot of time in the long run. I'll check out your recipe thread too :)

@FinallyFluid

Tomorrow, pan fried chicken thighs (from the butcher so they are mahoooosive) with red and yellow peppers, olive oil and lots of white wine and a head (yes head not clove ) of garlic, served with green veg and new potatoes.

After that in no particular order lamb chops with olive and garlic mash.

Spag Bol, or maybe Nigella's Greeky spag bol.

Oven roasted tomatoes with double cream and black pepper in a sauce and some veg with linguine.

Pan fried salmon with warm teriyaki and pan dried white and black sesame seeds, with either noodles or new potatoes and veg.

Friday night is takeaway night, but we are going out to get the tree so may have lunch out instead, such is lockdown that the 19 year old is interested in coming to the farm to look at trees.

The pan fried chicken thighs with two, yes two (don't tell Dh ) full heads of oven roasted garlic, with loads of oven roasted tomatoes on the vine, with red and yellow peppers, lots of Maldon sea salt, and ground pepper, half a bottle of white wine (if not not more ) with green veg and new potatoes was utterly lush.

Tonight was lamb chops (quality of lamb was not at all bad, but not enough meat) but with buttery new potatoes, and green beans and carrots.

We don't do puddings, we watched Christmas TV instead ,post dinner and enjoyed it immensely.

Tomorrow night is take away night.

DH and I are buying the Christmas tree, tomorrow turns out DS (who was supposed to come with us, is working, so he will have to be at work an hour before his shift, in order to facilitate us going to the farm, he is most dischuffed in an entitled Surrey/Hampshire way.

He did say, oh well never mind we can choose takeaway together, I did stir the pot by saying we are having a long lunch (can't be long DH is driving) we may not be hungry...

If anything it has burst his bubble, lovely though he, is that BOMAD are a bottomless pit, and despite the markers that we were going to the the farm at the same time it took days for him to do joined up thinking. I offered to pay for a coffee if we get him there early, he was thinking breakfast, I said let me know how much the coffee element was, I will refund it. I know he has the cash to pay for a breakfast, he would rather hold on to it.

It went down like a fart in a spaceman's suit.

@ikltownofboothlehem

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.

Please can we have the recipe for Peanut Butter Chicken, pretty please.