What is your meal plan for the week?

[MooseBreath]

I'm trying to plan a shop for this week and I feel like I eat the same stuff all the time. A typical week for my family is big standard toast/cereal for breakfast, sandwich/salad/leftovers for lunch, and then planned dinners. It's a bugger trying to get my family to eat their 5 a day, so things like fish and chips, jacket potato, and pizza (delicious as they may be) are needing to be more infrequent. I would love to see other people's plans for a week to get some different ideas!

S: Chicken and lentil curry (tomato, spinach, red pepper) with rice
M: Potato leek soup (leeks, onions, celery) with crusty bread
T: Tacos (onions, lettuce, tomatoes, avocado)
W: Grilled chicken with cous cous (onion, broccoli, carrots)
T: Salmon with springtime risotto (celery, onion, green beans, spinach, peas)
F: Spaghetti and meatballs with side salad (onions, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, olives)
S: Stir fry (peppers, onions, mangetout, carrots, bean sprouts)

Have a look in the Food section, there's an ongoing thread about meal planning in there.

Steak fajitas,
Roast shoulder of Pork,
Chicken and asparagus pie,
Mushroom and spinach curry with beet bhajis, tomato and coriander salad.
French onion soup with cheese crouton,
Asparagus and pea risotto and salad,
Something with sausages (undecided)

@MyBloodyMaryneedsmoreTabasco Thank you! I will check!

@ODFOx Ooh, asparagus sounds good.

Ours isn't very exciting I always need inspiration
Spaghetti carbonara
Roast chicken
Fish and couscous
Soup
Jacket potato
Fajitas
Lasagne

Cooking for me and teen ds.

Tonight - red peppers stuffed with parslied sausage meat, and garlic bread

Sunday, chicken tray bake with broccoli, potatoes, lemon slices and black olives

Monday - wholemeal spaghetti with meatballs and tomato sauce

Tuesday - (ds) breaded haddock, oven chips and peas (me) baked rainbow trout stuffed with chopped herbs, mash & peas.

Wednesday - Chicken fajitas

Thursday - pork steaks with rhubarb, spring onions and couscous.

Friday - (just me) liver & bacon, mash.

Slow cooker beef curry
Nigella one pot sausage meatball pasta
Broccoli and orzo bake
Spinach and ricotta lasagna
Burgers with French fries
a ‘freezer tea’ which this week is an Aldi steak pie

then it’ll either be takeaway the night before the weekly shop or a ‘raid the cupboards and freezer and have something weird’ tea.

Tonight - Butter chicken curry, rice, salad and Naan bread . Coconut sorbet.

Sun - Chicken, bacon and cheese parcels, mixed veg and roast potatoes. Fruit Salad

Mon - Veggie enchiladas using up all left over veg . Tropical pineapple pudding and natural yoghurt.

Tue- Beef stew slow cooked, cheddar dumplings and veg. Frozen fruit and yoghurt pudding.

Wed - Mac and cheese with broccolini, garlic bread and salad. Stewed apple

Thur -Veggie and mixed bean chilli with rice. Baked bananas .

Fri -Mediterranean fish, veg and cous cous. Fruit ice lollies .

Sun. Pork belly with roast potatoes and veg
Mon. Hoisin slow cooker chicken with noodles
Tue. Cajun salmon and rice
Wen. Chicken fajitas and sweet potato wedges
Thur. Nann bread pizza and dips
Fri. Orzo and halloumi traybake

S: burgers, chips and salad
Su: Roast Lamb dinner
M: Shepherd's Pie, obvs
T: Black Bean Nachos
W: Veggie Pizza and Salad
Th: Spaghetti Genovese

Not sure about Friday yet, because it's PAYDAY!

Chorizo with rice and veg
Pasta with sausages that needed using up and tomatoes.
Veg curry with eggs

Haven’t decided for the rest of the week.

Sat - jacket potatoes, belly pork and salad
Sun - roast chicken dinner
Mon - lamb shanks, roast potatoes and veg
Tue - chicken legs, rice and salad
Wed - spaghetti bolognese
Thur - omelettes
Fri - pizza

If you do gousto you get their cookbook which is great I love their fish recipes

We are eating up some of what we have in the freezer this week so it's not that exciting --

Tonight-
Burgers in brioche buns with salad,sweet potato wedges and corn on the cob

Sun-
Garlic/herb chicken breasts with broad bean , pea ,herb and potato salad and tenderstem broccoli

Mon- pesto topped salmon fillets with couscous and roasted vegetables

Tues-orzo pasta with basil,feta and broccoli /courgette

Wed- sausages,Yorkshire pudding and cauliflower cheese with whatever veggies are in the fridge

Thus- jacket potatoes with tuna and sweetcorn and salad

Fri-Asian chicken and rice with stir fried vegetables

Saturday- out in town

I've really enjoyed Cardiff Mums recipes on the Aldi website so I'm thinking we'll have:

Lasagne soup and garlic bread
Sloppy joes with dirty rice
Burgers with bacon and blue cheese and wedges
Lemon crispy chicken with crispy feta

The other days will probably try and use up what we already have so:
Meat and potato pie
Soup
Prawn pasta maybe

Meals planned for the following week -

chicken dinner

Teriyaki salmon, noodles and stir fry

All day breakfast-bacon,waffles, eggs, hash browns, beans etc

Homemade Cauliflower and Broccoli cheese with garlic bread and salad

Mine is NOTinspirational

Burgers in brioche buns with salad and wedges
Tomato pasta bake
Pizza with mozzarella sticks
Vegetable fajitas
Macaroni cheese
Baked potato with variety of fillings
Chicken / veg pie with roast pots, Yorkshires, veg, cauli cheese and gravy

Fish finger ciabattas with red onion
Pizzas
Bolognese bake
Fish chips peas and curry sauce
Chicken curry and rice
Pie mash and red cabbage

Things we're having this week are:
*Malai chicken plus a lentil dal
*Sausages and garlic mash and roasted vegetables
*Cauliflower cheese
*salmon and scalloped potatoes
*cajun chicken tray bake

@Tisfortired I just googled that Nigella sausage meatball recipe. Looks delicious - I've got all the ingredients so you've just transformed our boring sausage and mash for tonight 😃

These threads make me feel so inadequate.

Tonight Ploughmans platter [no cooking!]
Sunday Traditional roast beef dinner with all the trimmings
Monday Pan fried chicken mini fillets with white wine sauce, new potatoes, broccoli and runner beans
Tuesday Sausages, mash, peas, carrots, fried onions.
Wednesday Homemade chicken chow mein with stir fried veg
Thursday Lasagne and salad
Friday Baked salmon, jacket potatoes and green veg.

I have lean children who seem to be able to eat anything and stay thinnish. Genetics.

Sunday - Toad in the hole with broccoli and cauliflower. Mary Berry's bread and butter pudding
Monday - Garlic creamy chicken/apricot chicken with rice. More bread and butter pudding.
Tuesday - lasagne/shepherd's pie/chicken pasta bake with garlic bread. Strawberries with Greek yogurt.
Wednesday - shamelessly still lasagne or whatever. Possibly angel delight afterwards or a cake if I'm feeling generous.
Thursday - salmon with red peppers and new potatoes. Cheese for those who care about the overfished waters.
Friday - tacos/pizza/burgers/meatball sliders
Saturday - Philadelphia herb and cheese mixed with pasta and broccoli or peas.

Every evening meal comes with at least six little portions of sugar snap peas, raw carrots, celery, strawberries, pineapple, grapes, sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, olives and a pesto dip in addition to anything already in the meal. They start munching through that at around 5.

I'd like to do better.

Sunday, roast beef Sunday dinner
Monday, home made salmon fish cakes and veg
Tuesday, Chicken in creamy mushroom sauce (bbc good food recipe) with rice
Wednesday, beef chow mien (using left over beef from Sunday)
Thursday, Lasagne and salad
Friday, Mac and cheese
Saturday, whatever you like out of the freezer

We've had the M&S pizza meal deal tonight rather than a takeaway, but the next two weeks looks like this:
Sausage and radicchio lasagna
Jamie Oliver BBQ chicken
Lentil dhal and chapattis
This chicken recipe
Miso crusted pork
Chicken satay
Thai chicken noodle soup
Cajun chicken rice
Mexican fiesta beef
Feta and orzo bake
Turkey stuffed pittas
Soy ribs
Garlic and lime Balti

If you want any recipes let me know.

Cook a big batch of bolognaise sauce overnight in slow cooker then:
Lasagne, garlic bread and salad
Pork chops, mash, green veg (could make big one and freeze half)
Spag Bog, salad
Salmon in tamari marinade, egg fried rice
Jacket potatoes, tuna, cheese etc
Stir fry with chicken, bean sprouts, mange tout, peppers, carrot batons, sweet and sour sauce
Curry - beans, onions, pepper, anything else that needs using, pilau rice, poppadoms, raita, mango pickles etc