Meal Planners, whats on yours this week?

[jenk1]

This week we are having

Sunday....Tuna Lasagne with salad and garlic bread
Monday....Sausage Casserole with mashed potato and greens
Tuesday....Chicken Curry and Rice
Wednesday....DH Liver and onions and mashed potato, rest of us burgers with salad and chunky chips
Thursday.... Ocean Pie and Veg, kids fishfingers,peas and some sort of potato.

Thats as far as ive got!!!

should add that we are having chinese take-away tonight.

Tonight was home-made olive and mushroom pizza with loads of salad and home-made coleslaw.

Sunday - omelette, steamed potatoes and different salad bits

Monday - baked mackerel, potatoes (not sure what type), home-grown carrots and broad beans

Tuesday - lamb shoulder and veggies

Wednesday - onion soup

Thursday - lentil and oat bake, oven baked potato wedges and veg or salad.

Haven't got any further.

Just done the shopping order for next week. We're having:

Cod portions, peas and sweetcorn & chips
Easy bolognese sauce & pasta
Pork chops, new potatoes, veg, gravy and applesauce
Barbeque Chicken, Baked Potato & California Salad
Roast Beef, yorkshire pudding, cauliflower cheese, tatties, veg & gravy
Cottage pie (with the beef leftovers) with veg
Leek & onion tart with new potatoes and veg

I do a fortnight at a time ....starting on Tues, next fortnight looks like this so far...

#Home made pizza, wedges and coleslaw
#Curried lentil and vege soup with crispy pita
#Slow cooker roast venison, mash, peas, corn
#Oven baked cod, scallop taties, peas, carrots
#Stuffed butternut pumpkin and salad
#Shepherds Pie with roasted vege salad
#Frittata with green salad and home made buns
#Creamy salmon pasta and vege
#Stroganoff on rice
#Couscous with spicy chickpeas and seasonal vege
#Tacos with home made refried beans and green salad
#Meatloaf with savoury vegetable rice
#Beef/Vege Kebabs on thai spicy noodles

Bit stuck for the last one, I am vege so will have variations of what is listed, we don't eat chicken so will keep an eye on thread and see if I can pinch another idea off someone else...

Actually could I have a recipe for lentil and oat bake or for leek and onion tart please, both sound the sort of food that would feature well here

This is the recipe I use for leek and onion tart - although my tin seems smaller than hers so I only use half quantity of the veg and about 3/4 quantity of the eggs/cream/cheese.

oooh thanks for that, all sorted for the next fortnight now

Would be interested in your stroganoff recipe, yawningmonster... is it a mushroom stroganoff?

yes, will post tomorrow for you, have to pop away at the minute

Mushroom Stroganoff
Here is the original recipe which I tend to tamper with a fair bit depending on who is eating it and what we are having it with...smaller quanities will do for 4 if serving with salad and rice/couscous, larger quanities for 6 or when your dh eats as much as mine

Melt 4tbsp good butter and saute 1-2 finely diced onions (can add celery, finely diced capsicum, garlic, and have even added leek), cook over low heat until clear. Add 4-6 cups mushrooms (I use a mixture of whatever I can get, button, portabello, field) slice into even sized slices or chunks and cook until juices run. Add in a pinch of mixed herbs and basil or some finely chopped fresh herbs to taste. Stir in heaped tbsp of flour and cook 1 or so mins to thicken. Add 1-1 1/2c stock (mushroom or vege) or a mixture of stock and wine if for adults, I tend to adjust it as if using couscous more liquid is absorbed than if serving on rice iykwim. Cook gently for about 10mins. Remove from heat and stir through 1/3 c plain yoghurt or sour cream. Heat through very gently without boiling.

this week we're having (in no particular order) -

a lamb and summer vegetable thing
spicy sausage pasta
chicken risotto
thai fish thing in banana leaves
DH out one night so other nigth will probably be fishfinger sandwich !

Sounds lovely, ym - thanks for that!

I really must an effort to menu plan, you guys are so organised and it musty work out so much cheaper!

Tonight we are having ham in coca cola! That's as far as I've got

ermm

tonight: chicken

tue: sausages with carrotts, sweetcorn,peas, and potatoes

wed: bolognese (boys) possbile takeaway (us)

thurs: something easy

Fri: Boys going to grans for evening so just me and dh to sort out....

McDreamy - I just done that just now

whether it works out that way..... def chicken tonight though....

Mon - Chicken Chasseur with pots and sweetcorn.

Tues - Chickpea soup with bread

Wed - Sausage casserole with celeriac mash

Thurs - Tuna Pasta Bake

Fri - Marinated Chicken in Wholegrain mustard with salad

I find it much cheaper and easier to do 2weeks at a time, I also have alist of things to make and bake for lunchboxes as part of the plan and leave a set amount of money as a float to get fresh fruit and vege in the second week.

oooh collision recipe for chickpea soup please, ds looooves chickpeas (possibly more than he loves us)

impressed

right I'm off to give it a go!

McDreamy >>

lol

YM...I will post it tomorrow as it is a bit late now!!

Pasta Ceci is it's real name as it is an Italian soup and soooooooo delicious and easy to make.