What’s on your meal plan this week?

[StressfulBedtimes]

Just sat down to do ours and I’m drawing a total blank
I’m absolutely exhausted and my brain just isn’t braining this morning so looking for ideas to steal 😁
TIA

Prawn Thai green curry and rice with prawn crackers

Creamy Mushroom pasta with garlic bread

Homemade salmon bites with salad

Fajitas

Monday - Roast Chicken Dinner
Tuesday - Chilli
Wednesday - Shepherd's Pie
Thursday - Fishcakes
Friday - Burgers
Saturday - Homemade Pizzas
Sunday - Takeaway

Looking back at my menu, I stayed on budget but made a few changes. For the better I think.

I made the chickpeas into a full meal with a curry sauce with spinach, lemon and mushrooms. Very well received, even by DD who isn’t a chickpea lover.
Apple and blackberry oaty crumble with good pistachio ice cream for dessert on Wednesday.
Home made soft hobnob style biscuits. Easy and delicious but with 200g sugar for 18 biscuits.
The soda bread gave DDog digestion problems, so no more of that for him!

I managed to save €80 on the weekly budget, but that was probably because I didn’t fill up the car…
Spent some of that on a dog toy and a new doormat.

Ooh Placemarking for ideas

Sweet potato and peanut curry
Veggie enchiladas
Veggie yaki udon noodles
Roast lamb dinner
Aubergine and harrissa halloumi bake
Easy teriyaki chicken
Veg lasagne
Mostly bbc good food recipes

The feta cheese gnocchi thing was a success.

I'm going to try to make a vegetarian chicken chasseur type thing tomorrow, using Richmond chargrilled chicken pieces (not tried these before, but I like their veggie sausages, so hopefully worth a shot). We'll have it with mash, I think.

Need to do a grocery order, but am thinking, in no particular order:

• Veggie chilli because DP says he wants to make one and because we seem to have a freezer full of Quorn mince - this will probably do for two meals
• mushroom stroganoff with rice and salad, or mushroom crepes with salad
• pasta arabiatta because we've not had it for ages
• qasadillas or tacos, with some sort of burnt corn salsa maybe
• cheese and crackers with figs, celery etc for a lazy night

Mon Sweet and sour chicken
Tues olivey pasta- not its technical name obviously., but its a blended kalmata olives, garlic, lemon juice and olive oil paste mixed into pasta - a massive salad on the side
Tues chicken, veg and rice dressed in oyster sauce and sesame seed oil, fried egg on top.
Wed fritata, another massive salad, crusty bread
Thurs vegetable pad thai
Friday pizza, chips and beans

Just realised I have 2 Tuesdays.

Today - Chicken roast with all the usual trimmings
Mon - cold chicken, salad and jacket potatoes
Tuesday - slow cooker 5 spice belly pork, noodles and veg
Wed - gammon, egg, chips and peas
Thursday - something with minced beef (possibly a chilli with rice)
Friday - Fish cakes, veg and new potatoes
Saturday - DON’T CARE - will be on a plane for my first holiday since 2019.

Where are you going maddiemookins ?
I'd love a holiday will have to wait for next year now.

I’m also uninspired, so will be taking lots of notes from this thread! Trying to get DD6 involved in cooking so making soup, bread and pizza

Tonight - sausages, jacket potato & packets of frozen veg (was a freezer dive day)

Tuesday - beef, broccoli, sugar snap peas and spinach in oyster sauce with rice

Wednesday- chicken thighs and drumsticks with mashed potato, carrots & peas

Thursday - homemade butternut squash & cream soup with some bread mix rolls

Friday - tuna pasta bake with sweet corn

Saturday - homemade pizza

• Meatballs and tagliatelle
• bean chilli
• fish cakes, new potatoes and broccoli
• Spanish style beef and chickpea stew with crusty bread

White fish in parsley sauce with baby potatoes and veg.

Lasagne.

Pork chops with sweet potato mash, mangetout and corn on the cob.

Beef and barley stew with swede and carrots.

Spaghetti and homemade meatballs with broccoli.

A mini chicken roast.

We're doing baby led weaning and my 7 month old is absolutely loving his food. We're trying to get a good variety of meals!

Yesterday was roast chicken and tonight was left over chicken Alfredo. Rest of week in no particular order - fish parcels, squash baked rice (olive website), beef stew (Cuban national dish apparently - ds pinged it over), sausage and beans (recipe tesco) and egg and bacon pie. I’m feeling cold so plenty of stodge 🤣

Meatballs/veggie balls and spaghetti with homemade tomato sauce

Asian/Satay tofu with rice

Nando fakeaway

Roasted vegetable lasagne

Bolagnaise

Pizza

Parmigiana, parmentier potatoes and vegetables

Gammon egg home made chips
Curry
Pie mash and veg
Toad in the hole mash and veg
A cheese chicken and bacon pasta bake
Chicken and chorizo Ragu and pasta

For lunch
Home made scotch egg
Crusty bread
Stuffed mushrooms and " chicken doughnuts" which were just ring shaped nuggets
Home made pasty with cheese potato onion

• Chicken Katsu curry
• fajitas
• ham, quiche, jackets, coleslaw and beetroot
• bland pasta - which is DPs joke name for my own invention. He really likes it now but previously decided he didn’t want it with 2 out of the 4 ingredients so obviously was bland 🤣
• kiev and potato skins

Havent decided the rest yet. Probably a fish dish. Next weekend I want to go to the local Italian.

Roast veg lasagne.
Fajitas.
Lentil bolognese.
Veggie burgers.
Chilli.

We’re having pasta with tomato and basil sauce, ricotta and aubergines tomorrow.
Wednesday:Greek lamb with orzo.
Thursday: Curry, Dhal and Naan.

we have a tomato, potatoes and squash glut from the garden at the moment so I'm making lots of things with those ingredients.

tuesday - home made lasagne (we had the original ragu tonight with penne) - leftovers will be lunch for either DH or I on Wednesday

wednesday - gammon I've roasted in honey and pineapple juice with something potato based, most likely homemade chips - leftovers will be sandwiches/salad for both DH and I for lunch on Thursday

thursday- tagliatelle/carbonara with any shredded leftover gammon

Friday - steak with tomato salad and garlic roasted squash (I go to the butchers on Fri lunchtime at work, and pick up something for my lunch at the same time)

Saturday - pizza

Sunday - will depend on what's on special at the butchers but highly likely to be some kind of lamb as it's in British season at the moment with ALLLL the veg sides.

Lamb bhuna
Sea bass, mash and broccoli
Sweet and sour chicken.
That's as far as I've got.

Tues - homemade lasagne, French bread and green veg medley
Wed - chicken tikka and rice
Thursday - Chicken this, spicy rice and corn on the cob
Friday - Baked cod with ratatouille
Saturday - homemade pizza and salad
Sunday - Sausages, mash and onion gravy.

Today we had our last bbq of the year.
tues- lasagne
weds - shit from the freezer day
Thursday- stir fry
Friday - unplanned right now
Saturday - McDonald’s

Whatever they have in the staff canteen at 3 am. I'm on nights for the rest of the week.

Meatballs with mash in a mushroom sauce
Stuffed peppers (twice)
Chicken and leek risotto (twice)
Chicken poutine (twice)

From memory the plan is
Monday - meatballs
Tuesday - poutine
Wednesday - risotto
Thursday - poutine
Friday - peppers
Saturday - risotto (or arancini if I can be bothered)
Sunday - peppers