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

[franch]

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 ......

Thanks lou33 :)

Am about to do my food order for the week so will be back with my plan + more recipe requests, so far I've got:

Mon: salmon fishcakes (from the freezer - home made)
Tue: Jamie's lamb rogan josh (slow cooker)

KurriKurri: how do you make your veg pasties?

DH away this week so its just me and DD (9 months)

Tonight: cold roast beef, new pots, salad
Tues: Potato and pea curry, yoghurt and cucumber dip
Weds: leftover curry
Thurs: cauliflower and broccoli cheese with lardons
Fri: Something with salmon, poss stir fry with noodles

Potato and pea curry sounds nice, do you have a recipe Buongiorno?

Tonight: shepherds pie and veg
Tues: salmon and salad
Weds: Tuna pasta and salad
Thurs: Fish pie and veg
Fri: Takeaway curry
Saturday: Roast of some sort (dependant on what looks nice at the butchers)
Sunday: Steak and chips

OK got mine sorted:

Salmon fishcakes
Jamie's lamb rogan josh
Marinated chicken drumsticks
Egg fried rice with veggies
Rack of lamb

Franch, it's from Waitrose app so I don't know if it's any good yet, will post tomorrow if a success!

recipe here

Ok, this week is, maybe in this order, maybe not:

Goan curry and Naan
Goose breast, sauted potatoes and greens
Mexican scrambled eggs and tomato salad
Goulash meatballs and pasta or rice
Fish Pie and veg
Beef Pie and veg
Roast - yet to be decided

Mon - Spinach and bacon pasta
Tues - Spinach and chickpea curry
Wed - Chicken liver and onions and mash
Thurs - Pizza
Friday - Dinner "party" at ours, with Boeuf Bourguinon (sp?)and mash
Sat - Kedgeree
Sun - Lemony chicken bits and mash

(we have a lot of pots to use up!)

Meatballs, onion gravy, potatoes, peas
bean and ham soup, bread, swiss roll and custard (x2)
Creamy mushroom beef casserole
chicken and veg pie
chick pea and potato curry, chapattis
pasta, tomato and veg sauce

Lunches will be left overs, nut roast sandwiches and chick pea, garlic and pasta soup.

Monday Spaghetti bolgnaise
Tuesday Chicken and leek pie (MN recipe)
Wednesday kedgeree
Thursday Sausage ragout
Friday Tuna steaks & couscous
Saturday Steak and chips

Monday - Nigella's minestrone with parmesan shavings and rosemary focaccia.

Tuesday - Nigella's spanish omlette with potato, onion, roasted peppers and manchego cheese plus salad

Wednesday - Mary Berry's Five spice mango chicken plus salad

Thursday - Mary Berry's Burlington beef casserole plus mash, carrots, aspargus and spring cabbage

Friday - leftovers

Saturday - '4 ingredients' tuna and tomato risotto

Sunday - Bought Waitrose chicken Kievs with peas and mash.

Monday - stir-fried leftover veg (from Sunday's roast) with onion and bacon

Tuesday - chilli, tacos, rice and salad leaves

Wednesday - lasagne, crusty bread and salad

Thursday - toad in the hole, mash and veg

Friday - chicken curry

Saturday - jacket potatoes with leftover chilli / curry or cheese and beans

Sunday - roast lamb and mash and greens

That's the plan for the week but things do get swapped round - and it also reminds me to get frozen things out to defrost the night before. Also I always make a big batch of freezable meals as they're good backups for those days I can't be bothered to cook from scratch!

I am trying to spend as little as possible this week so using up stuff in the freezer.

Yesterday was chicken pasta bake
Today is pork steaks baked in the oven with a tomato sauce topped with cheese, and rice
Tomorrow is toad in the hole with mash
Thurs is burgers
Fri will be fish fingers (buy one get 2 free in sainsburys)

This menu means i have only had to spend £30 for 5 or 6 of us, depending on if my bf is here, for a week

Mon - Chicken korma, rice, spinach and peppers
Tues - Beefburgers, jackets, carrots and peas.
Wed - Tuna pasta bake
Thurs - Lemon and chicken breast, home made wedges and broccoli
Frid - Toad in the hole, mash and greens.
Sat - Fritta thing for lunch, chilli for dinner
Sun - Probably roast chicken.

Fritata thing....cat on laptop.

"cat on laptop!" - can you post a link to the recipe for that

Mon - Nigella's Crab Linguine using a pot of half & half crab from 'Seafood & Eat It' (many thanks to them as no fishmongers near us)
Tues - chicken risotto with creme fraiche & thyme (using Sun's leftover roast chicken). Steamed Golden Syrup Sponge.
Weds - Fry Up (incl black pudding & fried bread).
Thurs - Turkey & Lemon Stir Fry with Special Fried Rice.
Fri - Pork Normandie (from Delia's Complete Cookery Course)
Sat - Steak, chips, tomatoes & onion rings. Choc & raspberry cake.
Sun - Rack of lamb with potato croquettes & baked aubergine.

Potato and pea curry a success, very quick recipe for a curry, although I think I cooked the potatoes slightly too long as it was a bit mushier than the picture.

Thanks BuongiornoPrincipessa! Realised when you posted the recipe that I'd printed it out a while ago and never done it! Glad to know it's good. Will try it soon.

Mon - Jamies jerk chicken 30 min meal
Tues - cottage pie with sweet potato topping
Weds - BBQ meatballs and mash
Thurs - southern style chicken - Bill Granger
Fri - can't remember but have planned it!

Ahh thats it's James Martin's spicy sausage and bean stew, mmm!

A lot of you are into Jamie's 30 min meals I see! Am almost persuaded ... The recipes looked really oddly laid-out when I looked before, which put me off - I wouldn't necessarily always want to cook a whole meal from a book, whereas it looks like you can't pick and choose accompaniments etc. But I'm going to have another look now ...

How long do you find they actually take? (not 30 mins, I'm guessing)

Anyway this week:
meatballs and spaghetti
chicken tikka masala
salad platter (including goat's cheese, stilton, grapes, apple, sunflower seeds, pecans, ham, anchovies, little gems etc)
tuna pasta
baked potatoes
spicy salmon

franch, i bought the 30 min meal book recently, though i havent tried any recipes yet.

the way it is laid out is to show you what to do and when, so you can supposedly have it all done in the 30 mins

i can see how this might work if you are doing the whole menu, but if you are just picking and choosing then you have to work it out for yourself, which is where you might come undone

i was watching a bunch of the 30 min programmes back to back on the tv today, and he does make it look incredibly simple

did you make the chicken katsu in the end?

my food menu so far is

yesterday - japanese creamy chicken with mushrooms and soy sauce, topped with spring onions, and rice

today - pasta and red pesto

tomorrow - burgers ( i didnt do them last week in the end so put them in the freezer)

tuesday - beef casserole

wednesday - something with minced beef

and after that i havent thought about