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 ......

This week:

Roast beef
Jacket spuds with various fillings
Pancakes
Sticky Ginger chicken
Something with pasta
Fruits of the freezer

This week gone:

Monday - Beef Bourguignon with rice and veg
Tuesday - Tuna pasta bake
Wed - Roast turkey with the trimmings
Thurs - Chicken Thai green curry and noodles
Fri - Lasagne, garlic bread and salad
Sat - Takeaway for us, chicken, potato waffles and veg for kids
Sun - Somerset pork casserole with jackets and veg

Monday-Lamb Keema (Nigella recipe from Feast - Yummy)
Tuesday-Pancakes (It's Pancake Day after all!)
Wednesday- Morrocan Chicken
Thursday-Toad in the Hole
Friday-Balti
Satuday-Eat Out
Sunday-Chicken and Leek Pie

This is the first time I've done a meal plan, shopping is getting so expensive at the moment I'm attempting to save money by buying only what I need or using what's in the freezer!

In no particular order, Vegetable curry with rice,garlic naan and butternut squash pakora.

Pork tenderloin with stuffing,roast onions,leeks,carrots,new potatoes and apple sauce.

Omelette with king prawns,peas and pepper,and salad.

Sticky salmon with wild rice and vegetables,or noodles with stir fried vegetables.

Smoked mackerel with baked potato and salad

Bean and sweet potato enchiladas.Some sort of green vegetable on the side.Perhaps asparagus.

Grilled Greek lamb chops,green salad or couscous salad, and fresh bread. Then stewed rhubarb with vanilla creme fraiche.This is for Sunday.

Guacamole- could you point me in the direction of your Moroccan chicken? It sounds good!

This week:
Pasta with tomato and balsamic sauce and garlic bread
Salmon and cous cous salas
Lamb chops with sweet potato and salad
Lasagne with salad
Pork with a honey mustard glaze and mash with purple sprouting broccoli and carrots

This is the Moroccan chicken I do...
Moroccan chicken
However, I don't use preserved lemons, I use lemon juice. And I don't make the dipping sauce.
I serve it with Cous Cous (Aynsley Harriet Moroccan one), toasted pitta bread, roasted red peppers and Caramelised Onion Houmous.

Thank you, will be trying that one. Will be serving it with your suggestions :)

8y DD chose our meals this week:

• Fishcakes with a cheese sauce and green veg (from Hairy Bikers)
• Cottage pie with cheese mash (Hairy Bikers recipe)
• Spagetti carbonara (another Hairy Bikers recipe)
• Mushroom curry - using a Hares Moor korma kit
• Pancakes for dessert on Tuesday

Friends coming on Friday evening and I am still deciding on what to cook.
I never menu plan weekends.

Today: Roast Chicken & trimmings
Monday: Chicken, leek and mushroom risotto
Tuesday: Meatballs and spaghetti
Wednesday: Chilli and rice
Thursday: Jacket potatoes & filling (probably cheese and coleslaw)
Friday: Shepherds pie

hula, which hairy bikers book do you recommend?

I'd like to let my DDs choose the menu for the week, but fear it'd be:
Pizza
Burgers
Fish fingers ... etc.

Do you give her any parameters? I might hand my DDs a favourite cookbook to choose out of, that might work if they can get any further than the puds chapter.

I have the Mums Know Best one

Franch - DD grabs one of the cookbooks and choses from there. She loves cooking and loves her food, and I have been suprised, pleasantly, of what she actually chooses.

Haddock goujons and pot weges
PANCAKES
Potato and onion welsh cake
Pasta and tom sauce
Spinach and chickpea curry and dhal
Bolegnese
Beef pie

Sunday: we had steak with fried mushrooms and courgette, and grilled asparagus
Monday: roasted vegetables tart thingy (roast vegetables, roll out ready-made puff pastry, shove vegetables on top, shove in oven for abou 10 minutes. Serve. You can make it more quichey by mixing 1 egg to every 125 mls of cream - I use soya cream in a vague nod to low fat - mix together, and pour in)
For the rest of the week, (apart from Friday - going to someone's for dinner, and saturday we usually just have snacks and mojitoes ) we have butternut, courgettes and chicken to use. We're trying to be low-carby and healthy at the moment.

I love reading these threads for inspiration - anyway here's mine's for the next week

Today - gammon steaks, mashed pots and mixed veg
Tuesday - mushroom and spinach pasta (try to have one veggie meal a week)
Weds - corned beef hash, beans and courgette
Thursday - Pregnant Jules Pasta from 30 min meals
Friday - Mince and tatties with peas and carrots
Sat - don't tend to plan but will probably end up being chilli/spag bol/curry using whatever meat we have in the freezer
Sunday - friends coming round so making a big macaroni cheese with roast chorizo and roast veg

Just to clarify - friends with kids coming for lunch on Sunday - I remember a thread when someone had been given mac and cheese for dinner at someone's house which generated much discussion so just wanted to be clear!

Monday Chicken casserole
Tuesday Cottage pie & veg
Wednesday curry & rice
Thursday Fish & chips
Friday quorn meatballs, pasta, sauce & garlic bread
Saturday chilli wraps
Sunday Roast chicken dinner

I really fancy bacon & leek risotto now after reading this thread.

Sunday - roast chicken
Monday - chicken risotto
Tuesday - Hungarian beef ghoulash
Wednesday - Fish pie
Thursday - Jacket potato with salad
Friday - Sausages with sweet potato mash and veg

Tonight - Leftover roast beef, colcannon and carrots
Tomorrow - Possibly pork dinner as have loads of veg i can roast
Wednesday - home late so possibly a slow cooker meal - cornbeef hash or some sort of chicken casserole (i'm crap with the slow cooker, any ideas?)
Thursday - Gammon, Egg and Chips
Friday - Takeaway and wine with my friend
Saturday - DP's Birthday so we are going for a curry
Sunday - Mighnt go off somewhere for the day, so lunch out and possibly pizza for supper

Yawn really !

Monday - Random leftover sauasge/bacon/tomato/veg pot thing
Tuesday - pancakes
Wednesday - leek and potato soup and crusty bread
Thursday - pork stir fry
Friday - mussels (cooking nice meal for just dh and I after kids are in bed )
Saturday - fish pie and veg
Sunday - roast chicken or beef and veg

Oooh storm, I've not had gammon, egg and chips in AGES !

funtime tis good isn't it? we have deliveries from a butcher and he brings me a huge pack of gammon steaks that do me and DP 2 greedy meals for £2, which i think is a bargain!

Gammon might have to go on the plan for next week !

Hmmm. Gammon steaks. Yummy!

I do a lamb hotpot in the slow cooker which is delicious, just bang it under the grill for 15 minutes or so to crisp the top layer of potatoes before eating, while cooking the veg.

Also lamb shanks are great in the slow cooker.

I got a great slow-cooker curry recipe book out from the library a few weeks ago but didn't manage to cook any of them

I'm terribly disorganised so never plan more than a couple of days in advance really.

So far plan this week is:

Tonight
Chicken and Jerusalem artichoke risotto

Tuesday
Pancakes with savoury mince filling and sweet pancakes for pud

Wednesday
Lamb shanks in slow-cooker/Slow roast pork belly

i'm trying to find a slow cooker sausage casserole recipe that uses baked beans, my mum used to do one when i was a kid, but she says she can remember how....

This week:

M: Cauli cheese "deluxe" (ie. with bacon and onion) plus jacket
T: Omelette plus sautes/salad
W: Jacket (just me)
T: Pork steaks jerk style with rice and peas
F: OUT!!!!!