I really need to menu plan - I'm hating cooking at the moment and taking far too long over it.
We don't really have a repertoire of meals, as our various dietary requirements have been changing lately. I am very bored with the things we do eat regularly - and in the stage of pg, which doesn't help. My 2 y.o. is also fairly fussy.
I need things that are:
- economical
- reasonably quick to prepare (I'm a very slow cook, and am often 'assisted' by DS)
- don't need much attention at the last stage of cooking
- high protein (not low-carb though)
- no nuts
- not involving a lot of dairy other than milk, cream cheese, cream & yoghurt
- no tomatoes (or a non-tomato version easy to make & freeze in portions for DS)
- no chillies or strong spicies (or a non-spicy version easy to make & freeze in portions for DS)
- don't involve mash of any sort
Our current list of meals is:
Salmon cooked in foil (fishfingers for DS)
Tuna & white sauce with pasta (fishfingers for DS)
Leftover roast chicken & white sauce pasta
Mince & jacket potatoes / rice
Roast meat
White fish in white sauce with pasta / potatoes
Casseroles made with stock or alcohol (1 per week or fortnight)
Any suggestions?