What dinners are you eating this week?

[SmokedHaddockChowder]

It's me and DH:

• M - 'breakfast for dinner' (scrambled eggs and mushrooms on toast)
• T - chilli con carne with rice and soured cream
• W - chilli con carne with rice and soured cream
• T - mushroom risotto
• F - chickpea and spinach curry with yoghurt, nan bread and mango chutney
• S - chickpea and spinach curry with yoghurt, nan bread and mango chutney
• S - cheese and potato pie

M- chicken pies, veg, mash
T-carbonara with some salad and garlic bread
W-fishcakes, chips, peas and sweetcorn
Th- leek and potato soup
F- take-out pizza for Dh and I, veggie pasta bake for kids
S-Roast chicken dinner
Su- Sausage casserole

Tonight - cheese and potato pie with baked beans
T - scampi, chips and peas
W - vegetarian meatballs and pasta
T - Paneer curry, rice and nan
F - Quiche traybake and salad
S - Chipotle baked eggs

S - Slow cooker roast beef, roast potatoes & sprouts, carrots, broccoli & red wine gravy
M - creamy baked orzo with cauliflower, onion & mustard
T - Beef stroganoff (with leftovers), mash, green beans
W - Chickpeas, kale & ginger, flatbreads
T - Gnocchi with peppers & ricotta
F - Veg fried rice & curry sauce
S - Not sure yet but maybe squash stuffed with veg chilli

M: toad in the hole, veg, mashed potatoes and gravy
T: pizza and salad
W: leftover toad in the hole
T: halloumi and roasted vegetable tray bake
F: seabass and smashed new potatoes with salad

Monday- chilli with rice and homemade guacamole

Tuesday- leftover chilli and rice, or might put the chilli in wraps for burritos

Wednesday- chicken curry and rice

Thursday- leftover chicken curry and rice

Friday- salmon, broccoli, mashed potatoes with lemon and creme fraiche

Saturday- spicy chicken wraps

Sunday- spicy chicken wraps

I like to cook double in the slow cooker and then not have to cook the next day. I love thinking "what's for dinner" then realising it's already sorted 🙌🏻

M: lentil vegetable soup and salad
T: Roast chicken, potatoes, peas, brussels sprouts
W: Chilli lime fish with boiled potatoes and mange tout
T: out for dinner for friend's birthday
F: Fish pie and peas
S: beef in black bean sauce with rice and some sort of vegetable stir fry
S: pasta and mushroom sauce

Monday: fish fingers, chips, peas and buttered bread

Tuesday: sausage and Mash potato and gravy

Wednesday: pizza and salad

Thursday: veggie burger and salad and fries

Friday: vegetarian doner kebabs in pitta bread with salad

Saturday: nandos

Sunday: pukka pies with mash, carrots and peas

Today: paneer and mushroom curry with rice
Tuesday: Moroccan style chicken and roasted veg traybake thingy
Wednesday: spicy lentil stew with homemade flatbreads
Thursday: egg, chips and beans
Friday: M&S vegan chicken kievs with air fryer chips and peas
Saturday: going to a party so nothing / something quick
Sunday: dunno. Might do a roast if not too hungover

Bbq chick'n fajitas
Tomato and herb pasta bake with garlic bread
Vg Toad in the hole with mash & peas
Chick'n bhuna with rice & naan
Fishless fillets with chips, peas & tartare sauce
Frozen pizza (Friday night treat)

Mon - Garlic Prawn Warm Potato Salad
Tue - Steak Panini and salad
Wed - Beef Keema and Rice
Thu - Hoisin Pork and Mushroom Rice
Fri - Lemon and Coriander Chicken and Couscous
Sat - Probably a Takeaway or Frozen leftovers
Sun - Bacon Cheese and Tomato Flatbreads and salad.
I'll put lots of extra veg in to stretch them out for a freezer leftover portion. Some great ideas what a good thread

M - chickpea and spinach curry with some left over meat from the roast chicken in.

T - spicy chicken pasta

W - sausages with Mac and cheese and veg

T - chicken wedges and veg.

F - out with work for tea. The rest of them can fend for themselves.

Make proper chips from proper potatoes, warm a tin of scotch broth soup, put chips in a dish, pour the soup over and get stuck in.
Blummin gorgeous 😋

Pesto parmesan crusted cod, garlic wedges and carrots

General tao chicken and rice

Steak and veg pie

Shepherd's pie

Pesto pasta

@SmokedHaddockChowder

I'm not sure I make it like the french but I fry cubed pork shoulder and diced bacon, with chopped onion, celery, carrot. Then add garlic, some chopped tomatoes, cannellini beans, a teaspoon of mixed herbs, seasoning and two tablespoons of water.

Put it in the slow cooker on low (at lunchtime) and ignore it until supper.

I don’t get the meals planned for a week thing. I don’t know what I fancy until the day and then cook accordingly. So those chicken breasts may get eaten on any day and may end up as anything from a cornflake chicken burger to chicken supreme 🤷‍♀️.

The meal plan is to shop once a week, and know you have all the ingredients. Two trips to Tesco in a week is wasted time.

M - veggie chilli & rice
T - jacket potato & beans
W - tofu "fillet" with couscous & salad
T - mushroom bourgignon & mash
F - butternut & sage pearl barley risotto
S - vg pesto pasta with mushrooms, olives & asparagus
S - nut roast

It sounds lovely @MintJulia and a bit lighter than some.

Yesterday - chicken, bacon, leek and potato bake
Today - chicken fried rice
Tomorrow - salmon pasta
Thursday - lentil and tomato curry and flatbreads
Friday - homemade pizza

I get that.

I only go once.

Saturday - Oxtail and butter bean
Sunday - chicken fricassé (Caribbean style), roasties and veg
Monday - leftovers
Tuesday - Salmon and veg
wednesday - chick pea curry
thursday - bolognese or shepherds pie depending on how many tators are left
friday - chicken Kievs/goujons and chips

Personally I’m too busy to cook spontaneously. I meal plan, meal prep and it usually works. I was sick a couple of weeks ago and my DH had Covid it definitely fell down

Sun: friends came for lunch, Cashew nut roast, mushroom sauce, new potatoes, broccoli, carrots followed by lemon tart & raspberries.
Mon: enough left for leftovers with extra broccoli , yay!
Tues: Lentil & spinach Dahl, naan bread, chickpea samosas,
Wed. Omelette & salad (massive!)
Thurs. Tomato & basil soup, wholemeal toast, Apple pancakes.
Fri. Spinach& ricotta canneloni in tomato & red pepper sauce, salad (not massive))
Sat Chicken, spinach & chickpea curry, rice & poppadoms.
I make enough curry for 3- 4 weeks so most weeks I only have to defrost & reheat. I do the same with dahl, tagines, pasta sauces, veg stews, try to make enough so there's one or two meals each week ready in the freezer.

Some great ideas here, everyone, Thanks!

*Sestriere · Today 04:40

I don’t get the meals planned for a week thing.*

I meal plan to optimise our use of ingredients.
If I know that one meal is going to use 1/2 an aubergine, I'll make sure I plan another meal that uses up the other 1/2.
It prevents food waste and keeps our shopping bill low (we only spent £45 this week for two of us). It also stops us having a random takeaway because we don't quite have the ingredients in for a decent meal.
I appreciate different approaches work for different people though.

This used to be me too. But when I had my son, and had much less time even for thinking about dinner (no family around, DH working full time and me trying to finish a master with a baby at home), a friend recommended a weekly planner on the fridge including planning meals for the week. So I gave it a shot and noticed it was saving me time, stress and money by writing out the meals in advance. Might not work for everyone, but it did for us and it's a habit that's stuck.