This week's meal plans!

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Tonight: Cauliflower cheese, sausages, part baked bread (for non-dieters), salad (for me).
Tomorrow: just me on my lonesome - DP and DC out at the football. Will have something involving spicy chickpeas as I am alone in my love of chillified pulses in this house.
Wednesday: Postponed Valentine's dinner, DC to my mum's and DP is cooking me fillet steak. I'll make something chocolatey for pudding.
Thursday: Ragu, possibly made into lasagne if I can be bothered.
Friday: some combination of fish and pasta. Possibly smoked salmon and prawn linguine. Maybe spaghetti with clams.
Saturday: picky tea - baguette, pâté, cheeses, olives, hummus, taramasalata, loads of salady bits, pickles, crisps, etc.
Sunday: pot roast brisket.

This week we are having as follows

Mon - Spag bol and Garlic bread (for the non dieters)
Tue - (Diet day off) Fillet steak, mushrooms, onions rings and home made chunky chips followed by double choc cheese cake (made by me),kids requested baked pots and cheese for there valentine dinner
Wed - not yet decided
Thur - Fahjits and salad and either wedges or chips (for the non dieters)
Fri - Pasta bake and salad
Sat - not sure
Sunday - Roast chicken and all other sunday dinner trimmings

Love the idea of a picky dinner, may pinch that for one of my days.

Sunday - toad in the hole, cauli, broc and carrots, gravy

Monday - sandwiches, kiwi fruit, yoghurt
rice and barley vegetable bake, bread and butter

Tuesday - carrot bake
dill scented bean and potato soup, crusty bread

Wednesday - cabbage pasta
leek and potato bake, carrots

Thursday - lentil soup, bread
tomato mince pasta bake

Friday - leftover soup/pasta
sweet potato quesadillas (held over from last week)

Saturday - scalloped sweetcorn, bread and butter
crab, lemon and garlic pasta, rocket and spinach salad.

Monday - Quorn sausages, mash, cabbage, onion gravy
Tuesday - Ginger quorn casserole, rice, dumplings, veg
Weds - Homemade veggie burgers in rolls, veg soup
Thurs - Quorn and veg curry and rice
Fri - Tofu and veg stirfry, stir fried rice
Sat - Quorn, broccoli and cheese escalopes (shop-made ), garlicky broccoli pasta
Sun - something always goes wrong during the week, meaning we don't eat exactly what we should each night, so we'll have whichever meal we never got round to having!

Stressed - how do you make your carrot bake and leek and potato bake? I feel we are quite quorn-heavy this week, would be good to try something else:)

Zen, carrot bake is really easy and plain, but tastes good.

Grate a load of carrots, maybe 6, so that you have around a litre of grated carrot, Put them in a pan with 1 cup of rice, 2 cups of water and some salt and pepper. Bring to the boil, cover tightly, reduce heat to low and cook gently until rice is done. Stir in about 4 -6oz of grated cheese, a chopped onion, 1 cup milk, 2 beaten eggs and some nutmeg. Pour it into a casserole dish and bake at 180 for about an hour until it is set. Sprinkle some more cheese on top and return to oven for long enough to melt it. As I say, very plain but lovely, it's quite nice with veggie sausages or whatever, but at lunchtime, bread and butter suffices.

I've never made the leek and potato bake before. Whimsicalname posted it on the Meals under a Fiver thread. It's basically boiled potatoes, fried leeks and onions, put in a baking dish with a tin of leek and potato soup mixed with a little milk or cream poured over the top. Scatter it with cheesy breadcrumbs and bake until crispy and bubbly. It sounds like just the kind of cooking I like at the moment. Quick, easy, cheap and not a lot of effort.

I'm really struggling with my ME just now, so we are having a lot of bakes/soups/ one pot meals for easiness sake.

Thanks stressed, sorry to hear you're not well atm, hope you're feeling better soon :)

Thanks, Zen. I'll be fine, sometimes it's just worse than others and I have to wait for it to settle down again. Am a bit fed up because this low has been going on for a couple of months, but you get used to it.

It just means that things have to be simplified to accommodate it. Hence the rubbish food we have been eating lately.

Monday - asparagus and leek and other green vege risotto

Today - going out for a late luch, so it will be something eggy or soup or toasty for dinner. And I have made a spiced apricot cake, so will eat that!

Weds - dd1 out, so we will probably have something that she doesn't like: maybe macaroni cheese or veggie lasagne

Thurs - possibly veggie sausage baguettes with balsamic and mustard red onions and a rocket salad; possibly spiced paprkia wedges too, if I can persuade dp to wash the potatoes!

Friday - probably a curry: maybe a mixed vege one with a sauce made with coconut milk, fresh tomatoes and lots of spices with naan bread, fresh mango salad, mint and cucumber salad, mint raita and coconut chutney (I love all the trimmings!), and poppadoms.

Saturday - no idea: possibly egg and chips

Sunday - maybe veggie Toad in the hole or veggie Shepherd's pie - or out for lunch somewhere.

As usual we will & do eat in any order!

Pumpkin Curry
Caramelised Garlic tart with new pots & Broc
Sweet Potato cakes with chickpea and carrot salad
Minestrone - or other hearty soup salvaged from bottom of fridge!
Pizza - New pot, rosemary & roquefort
Egg Curry
Spinach & ricotta Enchildas with green salad