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 ......

Tonight is pasta with bacon, leeks, mushrooms and Verne fraiche

I don't decide what night will be what but meals will be

Lamb chops, rice, flag beans (2 nights - chops on special this week lol!)
Mackerel kedgeree (rice, curry powder, smoked or tinned mackerel, frozen peas)
Sausages
Fish and chips (fish in freezer, breaded something or other!)

Creme fraiche not Verne fraiche!

Forgot veg - have frozen mixed veg this week plus a cabbage, baby corn and carrots so some variation on those most nights

Slow roasted duck with mushrooms and polenta

Tomato pasta with parmesan and garlic bread

Jacket potatoes and beans

Breaded chicken and salad

Chicken and chickpea curry with rice and bhajis

Prawn noodle soup

Not too exciting but DH is not eating with us for most of the week and the boys will eat this!

fri fajitas
sat homemade lasange salad chips
sun roast chicken new pots mix veg
mon pork loin chops mash beans
tue homemade chicken balmoral chips veg
wed quiche salad baked potato
thu st pie mash turnip and mash pots

Onceamai, not 20 pounds but my shopping for 6 cost me £44 this week. I often have a v tight budget to work with.

Right have now planned this weeks menu - with some ideas from here!!

Mon: Lasagne and garlic bread
Tues: Lamb hotpot with veg
Wed: Roast chicken and the trimmings
Thurs: Pasta with bacon, leeks and mushrooms
Fri: Pizza and salad or takeaway
Sat: Sausage casserole with baked pots
Sun: Baked salmon with new pots and veg

Sun: meat, roast potatoes and veg
Mon: pizza, garlic bread and salad
Tues: fish, baby potatoes and veg
Wed: spaghetti bolognese
Thurs: slow cooker chilli / curry and rice with veg
Fri: soup and rolls
Sat: steak, potato wedges and veg / take away

Extremely simple like me.

Always plan a fortnight's menues in advance, taking into account what kids had for school dinners, whether DH is home, and various after-school activities. Next week:

Mon - tinned salmon and broccoli pasta bake
Tue - sausages, potato waffles, veg
Wed - casseroled lamb in gravy with rice and veg
Thur - pork and apple hotpot
Fri - pizza
Sat - (probably) fish fingers
Sun - some kind of fresh fish fillet, new pots, veg

Thanks Lou

For this week

Today, Roast beef, yorkshires, roasties and veg
Tuesday, leftover beef, probably with new potatoes and veg
Wednesday - chicken fajittas
Thursday - St Patricks Day, beef in guinness with champ and veg
Friday - Homemade Chilli from the freezer and Rice
Saturday - Homemade curry again from the freezer and rice
Sunday - Chicken, stuffing roasties and veg

Desserts will be the choc cake i'm making today and possibly a baileys cheesecake made thursday!

Today is Moroccan chicken with couscous
Tomorrow is mushroom and bacon spaghetti
Thurs is homemade burgers and chips

today - left over thai green curry as i'm at work tonight.
tomorrow - left over something from the freezer as i'm at work tomorrow night.
Thursday -left over something from the freezer as i'm at work Thursday night.
Friday - left over something from the freezer as i'm at work Friday night.

Saturday, something home made YAY !!! MAYBE LAMB TAGINE

Yum moroccan chicken. . . .
Today risotto
Tomorrow spag bol
Friday pizza HM and garlic bread
Sat Fajhitas
Sun Chicken dinner or might change and do moroccan chicken
Mon fish pie
Tues gammon and chips

This is for the past week as we plan and shop on Fridays:

Friday - tofu and veg stir fry
Saturday - pizza (ready made by Sainsburys as I was at work til 9pm
Sunday - had dinner at work
Monday - courgette, bean and feta bake
Tuesday - pasta with sauce from a jar as working late again
Wednesday - homemade bean burgers and salad
Thursday - pasta with lemon and parmesan and cream sauce

My week includes:

Turkey stir Fry
Cottage pie
Spag Bol
Pizza & Salad
Cajun chicken breasts with new pots and salad
Fish, rice and veg

Mon - Tagliatelle with courgettes and pancetta
Tue - Paella
Wed - Beef braised in red wine with jacket pots, green beans, cabbage and brocolli
Thur - Beef and veg. as yesterday microwaved.
Fri - Frittata with potatoes, onion, roasted peppers and manchego cheese.
Sat - Quiche and salad?
Sun - dunno yet

Mon - Left over roast beef, gravy and veg
Tue - homemade chicken kievs, chips, cauliflower/brocolli
Wed - Omlette
Thur - Beef stew and rice
Fri - Fish, mash and veg
Sat - Roast veg/chorizo, pasta and rocket
Sun - Risotto

Sunday - goan red curry, chilli rice,
Monday - goan curry as above (made enough for two days as I usually do on Sunday)
Tuesday - linguine puttanesca
Wednesday - planned boeuf bourgignon (it's still cooking, started cooking it too late to eat tonight so we had smoked salmon with horseradish with salad and bread
Thursday - tonight's Boeuf Bourgignon
Friday - eat out
Saturday - eat out
Sunday - some sort of curry

This week:
M - Sausages and Jackets
T - Pollack and Mash and peas
W - Glam Mac Cheese and tomato salad
T - Nigella's mexican eggs (oh yes please!)
F - Curry (not sure which one yet - need to see what I've got)
S - ????
Su - OUT.

I'm spectacularly pround of myself as I have just planned the next month's menus! I know that we eat better and I enjoy cooking far more when the meals are planned but I had totally got out of the habit and it was really bugging me to think "what shall we have for dinner tonight" every bloody day!
I won't bore you with a months worth but this week is:
Mon: Rissoles, mash, veg
Tues: Seafood pasta
Weds: Roast chicken, potatoes boulangere and veg
Thurs: Spicy chicken noodle soup with yesterdays leg meat
Fri: Roast veg and goats cheese stacks with jacket pots
Sat: Curry (out)
Sun: Roast Beef etc etc

tonight is chicken pea and leek pie, with green beans and carrots

sat is turkey, mushroom and garlic bake with veg

sunday is barley beef stew and mash

monday is mexican meatball wraps

tuesday is chicken tomato and mozzarella baked in the oven with rice on the side

Tonight was cottage pie, carrots, green beans/sweetcorn.

Mon - Sausage, mash, broccoli

Tues - Omelette,homemade wedges and beans

Wed - Spag bol and garlic bread

Thurs - Homemade burgers and jackets

Fri - Pasta and sauce with garlic bread

Child free week this week so

Take out
Spag bol
Homemade chicken and mushroom pie
Homemade fish cakes
Homemade squash , kale and bacon hot pot
Veggie chilli
Qourn joint roast

This week

Today - Leftover roast chicken, flatbreads, salad and couscous (maybe)

Tuesday, Toad in the hole and veg

Wednesday, Bolognaise pizza and salad

Thursday, Risotto and Pan-Fried Trout

Friday, Taco's

Saturday, Curry Night!

Sunday, Roast Beef if we dont go to the seaside for the day

Coconut chicken and rice.

Sausage and bean hotpot.

Pork and red pepper chilli

Spaghetti bolognese

Harissa chicken with couscous

Monday - salmon, courgette and lemon farfalle with creme fraiche
Tuesday - moussaka
Wednesday - sausages and ratatouille
Thursday - baked potatoes stuffed with broccoli and cheese with salad
Friday - junk from freezer night (DH cooks) - veggie pizza, oven chips and beans
Saturday - Thai chicken curry
Sunday - slow cooker casserole (cooks while me and DD go for a walk and DH plays football) with roast potatoes and veg