I love reading other people's meal plans: please post yours for this week ...

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I don't plan a specific meal for each day unless there's a particular reason to (guests, busy evening, etc); I just write a list of meals for the week and decide which one I'm doing on the day/day before.

This week will involve:
home made pizzas
Cajun salmon
jacket potatoes
rack of lamb
tuna bake
Quorn meatballs & spaghetti

• all with veg, and rice/couscous/potatoes etc if needed

Please share your plan ......

Mon- Taco ring with cucumber & cherry tomatoes
Tue - Cheese on toast (crap food day)
Wed - Sausages, roast potatoes, cauliflower cheese, carrots and asparagus
Thur - Pork casserole and rice & veg
Fri - Freezer surprise (probably some kind of casserole or chilli)
Sat - Something to line my stomach before going out with the girls
Sun - Depends on the hangover

Usually have more veggie meals than that.

This week:

sat - roast chicken, mash, veg
Sun - Asian style salmon, stir fried veg and noodles
Mon - chicken curry, rice
Tues - chicken pie, home made wedges, veg
Weds - trying out the Jamie Oliver 30 mins cassoulet made easy
Thursday - meatballs (prob made with minced beef) and pasta
Fri - lamb curry

SPinach and potato pie, mixed veg, wedges
birthday dinner (DS4)
meatball subs
bean and pasta soup, crusty bread
pasta bake made with spag bol sauce and cheese
crispy topped spag bol pie (using rest of sauce)
split pea curry, rice

Monday - Fajitas for us, chicken/tomato/rice for dds

Tuesday - fish and home made chips

Weds - Spag bol

Thurs - I'm out, dd1 having school dinners, dd2/dh chicken goujons and potatoes and salad. DD1 will have a sandwich

Fri - Curry for us, pesto pasta for dds

Saturday - steak and baked pots for us, baked pots for girls with a topping

sunday - chilli

We have had

Sun: Roast chicken, yorkshires, potatoes, green beans, carrots.

Mon: Stir fry with egg fried rice.

Tues: Harissa prawns with couscous and green beans.

For the rest of the week we have planned:

Wed: Spag bol

Thurs: Chicken pie or stew, depends if dcs stop fighting long enough to throw things into a pot or if they let me make pastry too. Will involve chicken thighs and leeks and that will empty the veg drawer.

Fri: Curry. Variety undecided, will depend on what dh brings home from Lidl.

Sat: Pizza night!

This week is "lazy" week (PMT and can't be arsed to cook much from scratch). Meals include

Chicken Mulligatawny Soup (Slow cooker)
Leek & Bacon Risotto
Cheese & Potato pie with bacon
Chunky chilli
Fish & oven chips
Salmon Creme Fraiche pasta
Sausage & Mash

Monday - chickpea curry, pilau rice and bindi bhaji.
Tuesday - Northumbrian leeky pudding and jacket potatoes.
Wednesday - sprout and mushroom soup, home made bread.
Thursday - migas.
Friday - tadka dal and chapatis.
Saturday - vegetable quesadillas.
Sunday - root veg and bean stew.

Monday was leftovers as I was out for work in the evening.
Tuesday spaghetti carbonara
Wednesday risotto with egg & lemon, salad & veg
Tonight it'll be spinach & feta pie (spanakopita)
Tomorrow grilled salmon with veg & lemon sauce
Saturday African chicken with couscous (Nigella)
Sunday chicken pie & veg

Monday was roast chicken dinner
Tuesday was chicken pie( leftover chicken from Mon)
Weds ( activities so late night) - beans on toast for dc, thai curry readymeal for adults
Tonight - haddock fishcakes, wedges and veg ( veg bakes for me)
Fri - sandwiches dc ( activities again), chicken curry us
Sat - Sweet and sour chicken
Sun - roast lamb

I'm making more effort to plan my meals at the moment. Used to plan whole month in advance, but for now I'm happy with weekly lists written on my phone! :)

Monday- egg/veg/ham fried rice
Tuesday - pasta with pesto, lardons & peas
Wednesday - tacos
Thursday - pearl barley risotto
Friday - DP at work, not sure what I'll cook for me & DCs yet
Saturday - cottage pie
Sunday - quesadillas as out to carvery for lunch

Monday roast chicken and veg
Tuesday spaghetti bolognese
Wednesday Pasta and tuna bake
Thursday home made chicken tikka masala
Not decided on Friday, Saturday or Sunday yet.

Sunday - roast beef in mustard glaze with all the trimmings
Monday - ate out for lunch (dh off) so just snacked in evening
Tuesday - beef stir fry (left overs from roast)
Wednesday - thai red chicken curry and rice
Tonight - carrot, red lentil and roasted pepper soup with rolls (made yesterday)
Friday - jacket potatoes with chilli and salad
Saturday - cottage pie (family coming and have to do basic)
Sunday - roast chicken & trimmings with crumble or strudel for pud
Monday - Jamie's 30 min chicken pie (to use left overs)

I am starting to think about next week to book an online shop for Mon or Tues.

AuntieMaggie that pork dish looks great. I'll be borrowing that one

This week we have had:

Pastabake
chicken casserole
jamie's moroccan lamb
Jackets with cottage cheese and spring onion

Tonight its Nigel Slater's Toad

Duck pancakes & egg fried rice

cauliflower, feta & walnut pasta bake

chicken & chickpea tagine with couscous

gnocchi, red pepper & cheese bake

chicken caccaitore & baby new potatoes

meatlof & mash

fruity chicken curry & rice

Tonight = takeaway pizza
Tomorrow = Thai steak salad
Sunday = sausages with veg

Not sure after that.

Today is burritos
Tomorrow is fish pie
Sunday is lasagne
Monday is chicken al forno

Mon - Salmon with stir fried veg
Tue - Crumbed chicken and veg
Wed - Spicy pork & aubergine
Thur - Spagetti with a tomato/olive/caper/anchovy sauce
Fri- Tuna rice

recycling old threads

tomorrow will be pasta of some sort
tuesday - roast rib of beef
wednesday - spag bol
thursday - jacket potato
friday - hopefully takeaway if funds allow and i don't spend ANY money this week
saturday - friend will prob come round for dinner with her kids so it will be pizza

Monday - i work, dh normally scrabbles around with leftovers but dd has a friend over so it is burgers and wedges i hear.
yum.

Tues - roast pork (joint i found in freezer) with roast sweet potatoes and veg

Weds - shepherds pie

Thurs - black bean curry with rice and naan (trying one of the sainsbos recipes on their meal plan)

Jacket potatoes - beans, cheese, tuna mayo, coleslaw

Pasta with smoked salmon and courgette (another sainsbo recipe - a variation on one my mum does too)

Sunday - takeaway for dh and myself. Kids will get what i drudge up!

I don't often plan all that far ahead - I quite enjoy deciding what to make from the random ingredients I have that day, so just

Mon - chicken korma and naan
Tues - macaroni cheese

erm erm fanny about each day nearly at tea time trying to work out what we can al ctually eat from the cupboards and then realise I have to go out and get something or other

I am so jealous of all the things your kids will eat

I am doing the shopping at the moment and I have decided to go for the Sainsburys 5 family meals for £20 thingy. It's not very varied but I could do with a cheapish week and I have no imagination today!

Children's choices for the week.

Monday - spag bol
Tuesday - pasta, pesto and parmesan
Wednesday - cottage pie
Thursday - pasta, pesto and parmesan
Friday - fish fingers