Help me plan some meals

[Annie456]

It's Monday night and I'm off to the chippy after tiring myself out with baby and toddler all day. I'm a sahm with a 2.9 and 7mo...they both eat really nice home cooked meals and by the time DH comes home we look at one another and reach for the takeaway menus. We both want to start eating better but I can't get the headspace to plan a weeks worth of things we can all eat!! DH is wheat free so things like lasagnes / pasta bakes won't work. Toddler generally eats everything and baby will need to eat a puréed portion of whatever i make.
Help! Suggestions please...

At the risk of sounding like I work here....mumsnet cookery book. I bought it and the meals are so straightforward. For the first time ever I have managed 4 weeks of planning (weekly not one month). I have tried before but have never completed a week before AND I am saving money. The soups are delicious. The spicy rice dish is a favourite. Really recommend it.

Here's a few of my dinners from my year-long food diary - no wheat involved :)

Prawn and avocado salad
Poached salmon salad with home made Hollandaise or mayo
Shepherd's pie and peas
Fish pie with a cheesy potato topping, baked beans
Home made burgers, portobello mushrooms instead of bread buns
Chicken and mushroom risotto
Chicken, prawn, and chorizo paella
Pork stir fry with beansprouts
Pork and paprika meatballs, sour cream and chive dressing, lettuce
Aubergine Parmigiana
Crustless (smoked) salmon and broccoli quiche
Chicken curry and rice
Minced beef, mushroom, and pea curry with rice
Cod (or other white fish) veronique, new potatoes, watercress
Moussaka made with a cream, egg and Parmesan topping (no flour)
Baked potato, tuna, and salad
Chicken tikka pieces with a cucumber raita and salad
Sheekh kebabs ditto

Risottos are very family friendly, and don't entail too much washing up. Our favourites are butternut squash, fennel, or spinach. Dh and I love beetroot & goats cheese risotto too, the dc not so much.
Carrot and lentil soup is one of my favourite easy family dinners, I cook a huge potful and it does several dinners, very freezeable.

I now want to buy the mumsnet cookbook, I never the mastered meal planning thing.

Can't you serve what the children are having?

This is our week for 2 adults and a 3.5yr old

Tonight - nectarine, pancetta and mozzarella salad with sourdough
Tomorrow - marinated chicken thigh with new pots and runner beans
Wednesday- BBQ ribs with salad
Thursday- sausages with spicy rice
Friday- I will roast a chicken to have with veg that night and
Saturday- leftover chicken with salad and new potato

Oh and this is my long list of other meals we rotate

Ideas for meals.

Meat-
Toad in the hole
Roast chicken
Sweet and sour chicken
Chicken and apricot casserole
Cottage pie
Mexican lasagna
Chilli
Lasagna
Spaghetti Bol
Lamb tagine
Sausage and lentil casserole
Beef goulash
Beef stew
Lamb and mint casserole
Chicken and ham pie
Meatballs
Chicken Faijitas
Chicken curry
Thai chicken curry
Chicken and chorizo jambalaya
Chicken thighs, roasted veg and new potato bake
Sausage and apple bake
Pork and cider casserole
Pork stroganoff
Chicken stir fry
Roasted gammon
Chicken risotto
HM burgers
Pesto, pasta, chicken, veg bake
Spanish chicken
Butter chicken
Beef tortilla
Coated chicken
Steak baguettes
Tacos
Chorizo pasta with red pepper and tomato sauce

Fish -
Sticky salmon and noodles
Fish pie
Fish cakes
Fish fingers
Prawn risotto
Prawn stir fry
Creamy prawn curry
Tuna pasta bake
Salmon cubes
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, lemon pasta
Prawn couscous
Med fish stew
Baked salmon fillets
Cold pasta, sweetcorn and salad cream

Veggie-
Omelette and salad
Roasted veg and goats cheese pasta
Pesto pasta
Lentil wedges and beans
BNS risotto
Lentil Dahl
Macaroni and cauliflower cheese
Cauliflower and broccoli cheese
Feta tiganito
Bean burgers
Jacket potato and beans/cheese
Roasted veg and halloumi bake
Quiche
Cheese and onion tart
Vegetable frittata
Pizza
Sweetcorn fritters
Mushroom stroganoff
Mushroom risotto
Veg stir fry and oyster sauce

Lunches-
Soup
Wraps
Toasties
Savoury muffins
Chickpea patties
Things on toast
Mini naan pizzas
Picnic lunch
Cold pasta salad

Breakfasts-
Blueberry or Banana pancakes
Ham/egg cups
Cereal
Toast
Porridge
Yoghurt/oats/fruit
Mushroom and tomatoes on toast.
Breakfast muffins
Egg and bacon crossaint
Scrambled egg on brioche

If planning a weeks worth of meals is daunting, try planning for the next 2 or 3 days. Something like Korma, Cottage pie and roasted squash risotto

Marking my place...tx

Gosh thanks so much everyone, this really Is food for thought!! I think I'll pick 10 of these ideas and tape a list onto my cupboard and change it after a couple of weeks...now which to try first???!?

Great ideas!