What are your meals for the week?

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Good evening. Hoping for some inspiration, my meals seem to be pretty much the same every few weeks. What are your meal plans for the week?

Steak and veg
chicken casserole
jambalaya

Stir fry chicken with red pepper,mange tout,and noodles in a packet stir-fry sauce

Salmon ,peas in a cream cheese sauce with pasta

Baked potatoes with (supermarket) coronation chicken

Lasagne (asda) with garlic bread

Stew with carrots, potatoes done in slow cooker.

Sausages, fried onions and cheesy mash

Pork chops in a mustard and cranberry sauce,with broccoli and jacket potatoes done in slow cooker.

To add- I bath made lads of vegetable soup yesterday which I will take for lunch all week and there's also cottage pie leftovers!

Batch made loads! 🙄

Stir fry with egg fried rice and kung pao chicken
Chicken and ginger stew
Bought ravioli with pesto and either salad or garlic bread
Jacket potatoes, cheese, beans and salad
3 bean chili with pitta and sour cream
Maybe a dal and naan bread

Yesterday-shepherds pie.
Today- chicken and pasta bake.
Tues-
weds- chicken curry
thurs-
fri- Chinese take away
sat- no idea as we’ll be away for the night at a show.

• Rump steak, new potatoes, fine green beans
• Tom kha gai with noodles and prawns
• Cheesy beans on toast
• Lemony chicken flatbread wraps with greek salad
• Pasta puttanesca, maybe plus garlic bread if I remember
• Malaysian chicken curry with (frozen readymade) roti canai
• not a clue for the last one!

This is not a normal week, usually macaroni cheese features. Also these are the evening meals, it’s mostly just me for lunch so either ‘bits and pieces’, leftovers, or something whipped up last minute according to what needs to be used.

Haven’t decided on Tues and Thurs 🤣🤣

No particular meal plan but here’s some recent meals

https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/sticky-chinese-pork-belly/ and noodle soup made with the leftover broth

https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/leek-pea-and-pearl-barley-soup.html

https://www.recipetineats.com/quesadilla/

Thinking of doing these this week

https://www.recipetineats.com/thai-coconut-pumpkin-soup/

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/shallot-tatin

Ottolenghi confit chickpeas

Grilled marinated lamb, butterbean mash, green veg

and something with smoked mackerel, maybe a risotto

Hairy bikers sausage and bean casserole
Chicken and veg lasagne with salad
Beef massaman curry
Sesame chicken and veg stir fry
Roast chicken dinner
Veggie enchiladas
Chicken paprikash with mashed potatoes and veg (Tesco recipe)

This week for us is:
slow roasted brisket beef with Yorkshire puddings, homemade chips and veg
ooni pizzas made with leftover brisket
Cajun prawn orzo
Chilli red pepper chicken traybake with salad
Hunters chicken
Swedish meatballs and mash
Tuscan fish with rice

Meal planning day is tomorrow so need more inspiration before then! 🤣

Pasta bake.
Lamb kofta kebabs with pita and salad.
Shepherds pie.
Italian chicken stew.
Sunday roast.
A takeaway at some point.

I do a stir fry with a packet of veg every week. Change up the (usually tofu) protein and spices/sauces for variety.

This week have just done Indo-Chinese chilli prawns with Noodles. Also planning chana masala and palak paneer - both with rice which I'll batch cook and fry up with some spices to order.

Other common meals include lamb dhansak, smoky 5 bean chilli, air fryer chips with a protein and veg (usually fish), beef bourguignon (or other nice stew/casserole), chicken tikka masala, various types of risotto/paella, assassin's Spaghetti, salads, pizza, chicken cordon bleu, steak, Jambalaya, jerk chicken.

I'd say 90%+ made from scratch although will use some ingredients that may be ultra processed like chorizo etc. Both of us enjoy cooking and have a fairly good repertoire.

Red lentil curry
Vegan sausage casserole
Jackets, salad, breaded vegan chicken
Pesto pasta with spinach, peas, cherry tomatoes, etc
Baked sweet potatoes with salad and roasted chickpeas
Stuffed peppers
Vegan burger, baby potatoes, veggies
Budda bowl with rice, lots of veggies, serving of nuts, and baked tofu
Veganised spag bol
Pasta salad, so pasta with mixed beans, pepper, and cucumber, with a dressing

I'm trying to eat more whole foods and add in more pulses/lentils.

Can I live with you? All the sort of food I adore, I'll aim for similar this week, thanks for the inspo! Do you have a recipe for the seafood pho by any chance?

Monday Spag bol
tuesday chicken thigh and orzo
Wednesday leftover from last night
Thursday chicken leek pie
Friday Dahl with maybe chickpea or something or pie if there’s leftover
sat steak sandwich
sunday and next week Gusto

Tonight we had rice, chickpea curry with some left over roast salmon from yesterday.

Tomorrow is lamb chops with herby potatoes and veg.

Not thought as far as the rest of the week yet!

Always room for one more at our table! 😁 And of course! This is a loose recipe, we've kind of played with it over the years but this is the most similar!

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/556129/recipe/vietnamese-prawn-pho

For the broth, we use veg stock from any veg we boil throughout the week. Then fry onion, garlic, ginger, diced carrots and some tomatoes. Let it all get really really soft, add the stock and let it bubble away and reduce for ages. DH adds a bit of balsamic vinegar sometimes too, maybe a dash of soy sauce. It's a flat base we make for all sorts but it's really easy to jazz it up for pho bowls by adding some chilli or a squeeze of lime!

Tonight had: pigs in blankets and mash in giant Yorkshire pudding with veg and gravy
Tomorrow: spaghetti bolognase
Wednesday: jacket potatoes with cheese and beans
Thursday: bbq chicken stir fry
Friday: gamon chips and peas with egg and pineapple
saturday: pizza
Sunday: chicken roast dinner

Lamb chops with chickpea mash is AMAZING. Simmer a can of chickpeas with a stock cube until softer, add lemon juice and seasoning, then mash. Sooooo good!

Oooo that does sound fab I’ll try that thank you

Last night we had roast chicken with the assorted roast trimmings.
Tonight was mac and cheese using up a variety of Christmas cheeses and some green veg.
No idea about tomorrow, we’ll work out what we want when we get there! We don’t meal plan 😂

@Lancasterel with the aquafaber ? Sounds lovely, but I don't want to do it wrong!

We had roast chicken yesterday
Today I mixed soy sauce and oil with the remains in a peanut butter jar and we had chicken stir-fry with remains of chicken from yest.
Tomorrow is meatballs.
Weds we are going to a friends.
Thurs frozen batch cook - moussaka, cottage pie or chilli are on offer
Fri I may make a chicken casserole
Sat is shopping day.

NB: I'm coeliac/milk protein allergy and nightshade intolerant (fun right?!) so that limits meals to mainly meat n veg combos. Dh has a "beige food" drawer in freezer he keeps stocked from Iceland to make up for his lack of carbs!

You have inspired me to do better with you lovely menu