what meals have you planned for htis week? (dull but helpful)

[DimpledThighs]

These threads are really good for ideas:

M- sausages and new potatoes
T- smoked mackeral and salad
W- meatballs in tomato sauce with rice
T- Dhal and rice
F- Carrot soup, pitta, houmus etc.

S- bbq burgers, hotdogs, new potatoes and whatever vegtables are lurking in the bottom of the fridge.
M- thai coconut chicken and rice (I take ds portion out before adding too much spice)
T- beef chili and rice
W- chili as burritos with refried beans and nachos
T- homemade pizza and garlic bread w/ salad
F- lemon chicken and pasta
S- fish, oven chips and peas

all subject to change without notice depending on whats on offer at the shops!

OMG people actually pan meals ahead.

I live on a different planet.

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the more disorganised you are the more it becomes necessary IME - came as a revelation after to many trips to the co-op at five to five!

tonight - spag blog
tomorrow - swedish meatballs

homemade pizza with homegrown spinach
Moroccan Chicken with couscous
Meatballs and spag
Hot Salad
Sausages with Borlotti Beans and polenta

How do you make lemon chicken/

I've not even planned what we are having today

I must say it would be so much easier to do a plan but would it work as my kids dont all eat the same stuff. How do "planners" cope with fussy kids ? All tips welcome please I am seriously thinking of going down the if you dont eat it you get nothing route but how long before I give in??

Only thing planned, other than a huge Sunday lunch today, is a pancetta & chorizo tomato (homemade sauce) pasta (DeCecco Penne)

WelshMum, thankfully my 3 aren't fussy !

Tonight i had turkey supreme and have soup left.
Monday - Soup and some pasta and veg
Tuesday - spag bol with pasta
Wednesday - chilli and rice
Thursday - Maybe Dhal if anyone want to give me a recipe.
Friday - Carrot and Red lentil soup.
Saturday - Not sure yet as i might be out.

Have rice pudding, banana cake and fruit for afters.

Tonight - roast potatoes and vege. Beanburger for fussy dd. Cornish pasties from the Farmers' Market for the carnivores. Nutroast for me.

Monday - vege curry and rice

Tuesday - dp at work so he'll sort himself out. For the other 3 of us it will be omelettes and salad, probably followed by cinammon toast when we get sugar-munchies.

Weds - sausages (veggie or Porkinsons), mash, vege, gravy

Thursday - dp cooks, so don't know what yet.

Friday - eat out.

diamondsparkle-

Lemon Chicken

Ingredients:

onion
pepper
mushrooms
chicken (cut into bitesize pieces)
1 lemon ( the juice and zest)
garlic
cream or cream fraiche
basil and organo
parmesan (or chedder optional)

saute the onion and pepper in a little olive oil (i sometimes add a pinch of sugar to carmelize the onion a bit more for dh)add the chicken
and mushrooms when the chicken is cooked add the lemon juice and zest and then the cream or cream fraiche and any herbs you wish. when the cream has warmed through its ready to serve over pasta or rice. salt and pepper to taste.

For ds I normally mix his with some cream cheese to make it extra cheesey and give him his own little dish of grated cheese to sprinkle on top. Its quite a simple dish and a house favorite I think dh would have it everyday if he could.

in no partic order

chicken curry
bolognaise concoction thing
fish & chips
burgers

soup and crusty bread

in no particular order
cottage pie (or spag bol if I cant be bothered fafing)
homemade fishcakes, mash and veg
salmon (with either tomtao or giner couscous crust) with new pots and veg
veggie chilli
salad with chicken bacon and avocado

Does the lemon not curdle the cream in the lemon chicken?

jellyjelly, not had that problem as long as you keep the heat up and keep stiring it till the cream or cream fraiche is througly heated and bubbling. normall I put in the lemon juice and stir it into the veg and chicken before adding the cream.

mmm that lemon chickensouns yummy I'm going to have to try that! This week...

Sun - Roast chicken with all the trimmings
Mon - Prawn stirfry with veg and noodles
Tues - Chicken, oven chips and sweetcorn
Wed - Steak pie, mash, peas and gravy
Thu - Homemade burgers and wedges
Fri - Pasta with veg
Sat -probably takeaway

I'm so sad I plan my teas for the month!

Stops me spending too much at the shops and having food go to waste. Plus I don't then have several kids saying in various weedling tones 'can we xyz for tea today ?' I try veg, salad, rice, pasta, chicken, beef etc, in good measures throughout the month too. Am quite anal about planning and lists, do you think I need help????

Mon - Chicken curry (Jamican stylee) with rice
Tues - Leftover homemade chicken & mushroom pie with mash potato and veg

Wed - Baked salmon on a bed of spinach with couscous

Thurs- Bacon, potato and leek gratin with lots of veg

Fri - Cod and chips

Sat - Lasagne with salad

Macaroni cheese
chilli and rice
toad in the hole
Mince 'n' totties
risotto

Payday on friday so on short rations this week.

Dh has decided to become a househusband. He wants to organise a card index with recipes and ingredients on it to simplify shopping and cooking.

I thoroughly approve of this approach.

It is slowly being borne in on me that he is waiting for ME to organise this index.

I've finally given up protesting about 'not being effing Nigella' to my OH and we are sitting down and planning our meals and shopping this week.

Mon - King prawn stirfry & rice
Tue - Roast chicken, roasties & veg
Wed - Lemon sole, new pots & green veg
Thu - Stuffed peppers
Fri - Curried chicken, rice n peas, plantain, salad
Sat - Pasta bake
Sun - Steak, baked potatoes & salad

loveangel, can i come for dinner this week

Ok in no particular order

Chicken Curry (Nigel Slater recipe - v nice!) with naan bread
Lasagne
Paella
Home made Pizza
Chicken Caesar Salad
Sausages, chips and beans
Penne Cabonara

M - home-made chicken and mushroom pie, new potatoes

T - lamb curry, rice

W - meatballs, tomato sauce, pasta

T - Thai chicken thing, noodles

F - duck legs, asparagus, new potatoes

M- pork chops and roasted vegetables

T- Spag Bol

W- haddock with red peper persto and parnesan cheese/ salad

TH- meatballs and red pepper cous cous

Fri- fish and chilps