What’s on your meal planning this week?

[Smokeahontas]

Trying to do my own shopping list & need some meal inspiration!

Oh I love these threads for ideas.

We batch cook twice per week. We currently have chicken meatballs with broccoli and a lemon chicken soup in the freezer which we will have at some point next week.

I cook for the first part of the week on Monday and I am planning on making:
Split pea soup
Lentil Soup
healthy raspberry muffins
Egg bake
A giant salad

On Thursday I will do:
Slow cooker pot roast and veggies
Quinoa salad (adding in olives, diced peppers, kale, parsley and tomato and feta).
A giant salad with carrots, radish, etc.
Maybe a flank steak and or chicken to get through the weekend.
Some type of muffin or bread.

This will cover all dinners and lunches and some breakfast.

@Smokeahontas

This has been great! I might resurrect next Saturday for more ideas. I really need to get out of my current menu rotation.

I love these threads. I pick up ideas and some ideas from MN have become firm favourites.

Am going to google a recipe for the salmon, ginger and chili fish cakes mentioned up thread. My fish cakes are too like dollops of fish pie for my liking. Those sound much nicer.

Oh I also like to do a kale and basil pesto and just keep a large mason jar of it in the fridge to use on pasta, fish, prawns.

Absolutely brassic this week so using up freezer and pantry:
Sunday: homemade pizza
Monday: Fried gnocchi with bacon and broccoli
Tuesday: leek and potato soup
Wednesday: Prawn and veg egg fried rice
Thursday: pasta bake
Friday - payday so probably have fish and chips

Remus, basically, you boil some potatoes and cut into bite sized pieces. Then you chop a couple large onions and saute them in garlic oil until soft, add sliced hotdogs, either veggie or meat ones, and add them to the pan. Fry until they start to brown around the edges. Add the potatoes and keep cooking for a few minutes and then add about half a jar of salsa and heat through. Check the seasoning and serve hot with bread and butter. It's much loved in this house.

Cottage Pie
Chicken Alfredo Pasta
Toad in the Hole
Fajitas

Not sure what else yet - might do a stir fry though!

Thanks @Lessstressedhemum My DP would love that. I'd like it minus the salsa.

Caribbean chicken wraps

Shepherds pie , cavelo nero and broccoli

Chorizo and tomato pasta

Sweet potato Dhal , rice and naan/
Sweet chilli aubergine

Tuna salad nicoise

Halloumi, cous cous and roast vegetables

Chilli filled jacket potatoes with toppings

Thai style salmon with noodles/pak choi
Schnitzel and potato salad
Chicken souvlaki and Greek salad
Lasagne
Something with jacket potato
Will be eating out at the weekend

Vegan sausage tray bake
Stir fry
Vegan burgers
Home made pizza
Vegan meatballs
Vegan curry
And probably go out one night to eat

s - lasagne, green salad
s- bacon and mushroom risotto
m -Veggie burritos
t - thai chicken noodle soup
w- fish tacos - wasn't concentrating when I did the plan as tacos/burritos too similar, but the shopping is here now
t - burritos again (always do one double-cook)
f - bolognese (did a four-dinner batch a couple of weeks ago and froze)

This is on my magnetic meal planner on the fridge - it starts on a Saturday (as I do my Aldi shop first thing having planned my meals on Friday night).
Sat (last night) - Toad in the hole, mash, carrots and peas (onion gravy)
Sun - today - roast (chicken and all the trimmings).
Mon - Monday Pie (this is leftover chicken, veg, stuffing, roast potatoes) mixed with left over gravy and covered in puff pastry. Served with broccoli.
Tues - slow cooker meatballs (slow cooked in passata, onions, garlic, herbs and diced celery/carrot) served penne pasta
Wed - meat free day - Spanish frittata and salad
Thursday - slow cooker chinese sweet/sour belly pork slices with rice
Friday - Salmon, buttered new potatoes and veg

Tuna pasta bake
Spaghetti bolognese
Veggie goulash
Pizza
Fish & Chips
Cottage Pie

Liking the sound of your Monday pie @maddiemookins16mum, trouble is I never have enough leftovers!

God I’m sick of meal planning, I want someone else to worry about it for a while.

Anyway after the moaning:

Caesar salad with a hot M&S chicken
Chicken pie with leftovers
Pizza/pasta something quick
Steak & white risotto
Mapo tofu
Takeout
Roast lamb

S - venison shepherds pie with cabbage
M - fish pie
T - BNS and sweet potato soup
W - eggs florentine
T - chilli
F - fajitas
S - haddock with crushed potatoes and peas

I’m absolutely fed up of meal planning and cooking at the moment - which tends to happen as the seasons change, so this thread is going to be useful next week!

I'm fed up of thinking up things for tea at the mo. No excuse either as it is just me and DH.
I've got Nadija's chicken schwarma on the menu this week, with a cassoulet, some salad/ham/pork pie type effort, steak and mushrooms and then a tea out somewhere. Roast dinner. Everything makes leftovers for work lunches.

We've taken some inspo from a J Wicks "lean in 15" book and will be having

• lemon chicken and cauliflower rice
• cod burgers and a side salad
• chicken pesto pasta
• salmon ceasar salad

:)

Roast chicken today.
Pho tomorrow with leftover chicken.
Chicken fricassee on Tues with leftover chicken.
Spaghetti carbonara on Weds.
Mushroom risotto on Thurs.
We have a guest on Friday so may do a curry (DH makes a massive batch of base sauce that we freeze in individual portions).

Roast Chicken dinner today
Pork Loin, Mediterranean veg
Shashuka with chorizo and halloumi
Salmon, Rice & Broccoli
Sausage & Pepper Pasta
Chicken Curry & Rice
Burgers & Sweet Potato Wedges.

Yesterday was chicken fajitas
Roast chicken today
Creamy spinach and chicken (either with rice or pasta)
Veggie sausage, veg and orzo casserole
Spinach and ricotta cannelloni
Chicken curry / tuna Mayo pasta (DP has curry, I have pasta)
Pesto cod, garlic potatoes and broccoli
Tacos

...that's as far as I've got

Chicken pie, new potatoes and veggie’s
Fish pie and veggies
Mongolian beef, recipe from Two Chubby Cubs blog
Battered fish and chips

I’m in a real can’t be bothered to cook phase at the moment, so not liking the odds of cooking all these meals when I live on my own.

We don’t meal plan really, dh buys whatever meat looks good at the butchers on a Friday for the coming week which is also the day the regular food shop comes. I order the staples, potatoes, veg, cheese etc and then we just shop according to what we want to eat that day. Well, he does. I don’t!
This week we had steak on Friday, made pizzas last night, bbq today.
Tomorrow we will either have something to do with a chicken, homemade burgers or tuna steaks. Probably pulled pork one day as he bought a shoulder.
Food shopping bores me. I don’t cook, dh does so I never know what to get because he doesn’t like to plan too much in advance.
I do like the eating part though

Roast stuffed chicken breast tonight with leftovers and re- air fried roasts and veg tomorrow.
Healthy salmon en croute ( made with filo and a paste made with low fat philly with chives and curly kale) new potatoes and veg
Frozen breaded haddock with air fried chips and peas
Spag bog
Healthy home made pizza (lots of veg, home made pizza sauce and low fat mozzarella) with salad.
Chicken stew (usually make this with any veg I have in the fridge and a splash of red wine )
Thai green chicken with home made filo spring rolls cooked in the air fryer.

Can you tell I like my air fryer?

We have to be very careful with DH s diet as , although he is as skinny as a rake and low cholesterol in blood tests, he has a congenital heart issue meaning that he is prone to hardening of the arteries so we have to have a very low saturated fat and salt diet.

Frittata and salad
Salmon stir fry
Veggie pasta bake
Smoked salmon and pea pasta
Wagamamas