Where are you meal planners?

[IJumpedAboardAPirateShip]

Have bulk cooked this last week for the first time in ages!

Sat: out for dinner
Sun: behind sausages and bean stew with jacket tatties
Mon: build your own salad bar
Tues: Middle Eastern bake
Weds: gonna choose something out of the HFW Much More Veg Book
Thurs: pesto pasta
Fri: veg curry

[Stargirl90]

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie that traybake with new potatoes halloumi etc sounds amazing! How do you make it?

[AliceRR]

I’ve only recently got into meal planning and I find it helps us stay on track and not waste as much food

This week (work in progress, not 100% sure of it!)

Here’s mine:

Monday - pasta with a garlic and tomato sauce
Tuesday - lasagne (and made enough to freeze some for next week)
Wednesday - beef / steak pie (need to find a good recipe)
Thursday- home made pizza
Friday - red Thai curry or massamum curry
Saturday - spaghetti colognes (not fully decided)
Sunday - roast beef

[foodiemama26]

Monday: pork and vegetable meat loaf, potato croquettes and green veg
Tuesday: halloumi pittas and salad
Wednesday: spaghetti bolognaise with garlic bread slices
Thursday: chicken and vegetable tikka masala, rice and naan
Friday: freezer tapas
Saturday: out
Sunday: sausage, mash and green veg

[lastqueenofscotland]

Trying to haul my arse into routine. Start a real job again this week and need to stop living off £1 chips from the chipper near the pub I’ve been working in. My skin is a mess

Today: vegan pesto pasta with brocolli and peas

Tomorrow: rocket and tomato bruschetta

Wednesday: gnocchi bake

Thursday: falafel, hummous and pitta

Friday: jackfruit burrito

[lastqueenofscotland]

Getting my arse back in gear!!

Tomorrow: jackfruit burrito

Saturday: fuck knows- working a pub shift

Sunday: vegan shepherds pie and veg

Monday: lentil and bean chilli

Tuesday: lentil spag Bol

Wednesday: tomato paella

Thursday: some salad or other.

[Peanut91]

Tonight - pasta bake
Tomorrow - fish pie and broccoli
Sunday - with Family
Monday - pumpkin and lentil dal
Tuesday - sticky mango prawns and rice
Wednesday - indonesian fried rice
Thursday - spaghetti bolognaise
Friday - mexican pork rice

[happyhillock]

Tonight take away
Saturday mixed cold meat, baked potato and salad, crusty bread
Sunday gigot chops, creamy mashed poratoes, brocolli and peas
Monday homemade chicken curry
Tuesday cheese burger and potato wedges
Wednesday potatoes, mince, peas and cabbage
Thursday shopping day

[goawaywillya]

It's a tough one this week because we are on a tight budget. I haven't done an entire meal plan but this is the start

.cowgirl stew ( sausages cooked in oven though)
.baked pots with leftovers of above
. Pasta with🍅 sauce and 🧀
. Butternut squash risotto
. A raid of the fridge/ freezer
Vietnamese chicken curry

That's all so far though

[IJumpedAboardAPirateShip]

Vague stab for this week:

Saturday: out for delayed birthday dinner
Sunday: vegan lasagne
Monday: pasta pesto for D.C., I’m on set
Tuesday: red lentil pasta for DC, I’m on set again
Wednesday: masala dosa and Bombay potatoes
Thursday: risotto I think, not sure yet what kind
Friday: kids have pizza and fish fingers, will choose something fancy out of the new HFW book for DH and I

[IJumpedAboardAPirateShip]

Ok planned properly now:

Saturday: out
Sunday: roast dinner with all the trimmings (chicken for everyone else, going to attempt vegan Yorkshire puds) and a crumble
Monday: DH is sorting Japanese fried rice and potstickers
Tuesday: pasta pesto
Wednesday: pea and hazelnut speltotto from the HFW newest book
Thursday: tomato and lemongrass soup and salad
Friday: masala dosas

[Fantail]

Sat night - braised Spanish chicken
Sun - quesadilla with left over chicken
Monday - beef stew
Tuesday - out at a meeting so my Mum will feed my daughter
Wednesday - Out
Thursday- Out
Friday - ?

I also need to do some baking for lunchboxes, make some bread and muesli for breakfasts and some mini quiches for lunch.

I also have three evening enhancements this week so need to be organised for lunches.

[Fantail]

Engagements even

[AlphaJura]

I've dabbled in meal planning before as find it saves time and money but it used to consist of jotting down a weeks meals on a Monday ad hoc. I started saving the bits of paper and got 4 different ones. I then decided I wanted to include each week; a roast, a pasta meal, meal with salad, meal using mince and a slow cooker meal. (Some meals may count as either/or). I then wrote down roughly 4 different meals for above categories. My older 2 dcs are at their dad's mon and fri eves and every other weekend overnight. So that affects what we eat, but we do have lo (1 yr) who's always with us.

When I'd done that, I numbered weeks 1-4 and then saved in my phone meal for each day, repeating every 4 wks if that makes sense. Means I've always got it with me when shopping. Obviously if something comes up I do change things around. So far it's going ok. Some things may need tweaking/swapping as they're repeated the next wk instead of the wk after which might be better. This week's menu is:

Mon; corn beef hash (we had bits leftover in the freezer though because I'm ill at the mo)

Tues; chicken casserole, slow cooker (made with leftover chicken from last Sunday)

Weds; spag Bol, slow cooker (beef mince but some weeks use vege mince)

Thurs; jacket spuds and salad. Usually have beans/cheese, tuna sweet corn and mayo or chilli as toppings.

Fri: fish and chips.

Sat: Lasagna chips/salad.

Sun: roast chicken dinner

Weekend meals may change though because it's dps birthday so we may have a bbq and/or go out. But that's the general idea.

[BusyMumHere]

Shamelessly placing myself here for inspiration.

[foodiemama26]

Monday: pork and root vegetable meat loaf, mash and runnerbeans/sweetcorn
Tuesday: sausage and broccoli pasta bake with salad and garlic bread
Wednesday: beans/cheese/eggs on toast
Thursday: chicken and vegetable tikka masala, rice and naan
Friday: Chinese takeaway
Saturday: freezer tea
Sunday: garlic and herb roast chicken, greek salad, pitta, tzatziki

[lastqueenofscotland]

Tonight: saag aloo and Bombay potato with rice
Tomorrow: unsure I’m working in my friends pub so I’ll just do my best to not dive into some chips at the end of the shift
Monday: Thai curry spiced fried rice
Tuesday: mushroom and chickpea fajitas
Wednesday: sweet potato burgers
Thursday: pasta primavera

[YahBasic]

Tonight: spinach and ricotta cannelloni
Tomorrow: either leftover cannelloni or bacon sandwiches (out for Sunday lunch)
Mon: prawn satay stir fry
Tues: Smokey bbq beef enchiladas
Weds: sweet potato, goats cheese and tomato chilli chutney tart with salad
Thurs: leftover enchiladas
Fri: chicken tenders with sweet potato fries, corn on the cob and salad

[Clutterbugsmum]

As it school holiday I don't necessarily menu plan, but this week we have

Saturday - Takeaway
Sunday - 'Surprise' Birthday lunch for my mum
Monday - In laws
Tuesday - Leftovers
Wednesday - Burgers
Thursday - Slow roast Pork
Friday - Pizza

[TheSmallAssassin]

Can I join in? My menus are normally based around what we get in our veg box.

Tonight: spaghetti with tomato, fennel & salami sauce.
Sunday: Chicken and chorizo pie, roast butternut squash, greens, sweetcorn. Boiled potatoes.
Monday: Grilled courgettes, halloumi, giant couscous salad, picky tea and bread.
Tuesday: Jersey Royal and bacon gratin, spinach
Wednesday: cheesy broccoli pasta
Thursday: Teryaki steak, pak choi, veggie noodles
Friday: Chilli and rice

[IJumpedAboardAPirateShip]

Planned slightly ahead of my usual
Monday morning:

Tonight: veggie shepherds pie and salad
Tomorrow: roasted veggies and tahini lemon sauce
Monday: potluck BBQ at a friends, we’re bringing home made hummus and chips and a lentil bruschetta salad
Tuesday: fennel, lentil and seaweed soup
Wednesday: out at a new vegan Italian restaurant
Thursday: potstickers and miso seaweed soup
Friday: family fun night at school with food trucks
Saturday: picnicking at outdoor cinema, I might be lazy and bring a load of samosas from the local curry house

[graziemille567]

Oooh I love these type of threads, a lot of cooking inspiration!
Today: Peri peri chicken, baked potatoes, corn cob
Sun: out for pizza
Mon: Carbonara
Tue: some broccoli cous cous halloumi recipe I found on BBC Good Food -no idea what it will be like!
Wed: Lamb meatballs, pitta, herb yoghurt, salad
Thu: Freezer dinner

[foodiemama26]

Monday: Roast chicken wraps with greek salad
Tuesday: Roast pork, mash and broccoli/peas
Wednesday: pork fried rice
Thursday: pasta bake
Friday: chinese style salmon, rice, green beans and baby corn

[AndWhatNext]

T - grilled chicken and salad
W - lasagne and green salad
T - burgers and salad
F - going to friend's for take away
S - paella


I bought a lot it salad stuff. Luckily DD really likes salad, when it's covered in vinegar.

[IJumpedAboardAPirateShip]

Tonight: everyone picks something out of the ready meals chiller when we go food shopping
Monday: celeriac and miso soup with some kind of toasted bread I guess
Tuesday: roast fennel and tomato soup (DC apparently want soup all week!) with a side salad
Wednesday: veggie and lentil lasagne
Thursday: pasta pesto
Friday: last day of school so we’ll probably go out with a gang of others for pizza

[inthekitchensink]

Aargh we got pissed at the weekend and used up all the meat (rarely purchased) on the bbq so now it’s a less interesting week...
Monday - buckwheat with charred baby aubergines, broccoli, goats cheese & red peppers
Tuesday - Tuna steak salad nicoise
Wednesday - pasta with courgette, basil, pinenuts & feta
Thursday - gnocchi & spring vegetable creamy soup
Friday - spinach, courgette, pea & spring onion frittata with peashoot & avocado salad & sourdough loaf