2024 meal planning

[Lastqueenofscotland2]

Anyone else starting to think about getting their arses back in gear?!
Mine for the next week
Tomorrow: baked Camembert with nice bread (not quite over Christmas yet!)
Saturday: Thai green veggie curry
Sunday: NYE - will be sitting in with a dog terrified of fire works, might just order a pizza
Monday: Tuscan bean stew and sourdough
Tuesday: west African peanut stew
Wednesday: some sort of pie with all the leftover veg
Thursday: gochujang tofu

Tonight - baked potatoes, variety of fillings, salad.
Sunday - minestrone soup with bread (both home made as have the time). Apple crumble and custard.
Monday - prawn curry and naan bread
Tuesday - chicken stew and dumplings with broccoli on the side.
Wednesday - omelettes and salad
Thursday - mushroom risotto and salad.
Friday - steak and onion pie and mash with broccoli, cabbage and carrots.

Tonight - we were out for lunch so probably just cheese and crackers, if anything

Tomorrow - the black bean soup we failed to make earlier in the week

Monday = veggie haggis, tatties and neeps, peas, carrots

Then I'm thinking:
penne alla vodka
jacket spuds, salad and coleslaw
mushroom and stilton pie
pizzas and salad
in no particular order.

I haven’t decided an order either yet but got DS and DH to go through One Pot, Pan, Planet to choose a meal each and DD wants to try out the new pizza van so at least I haven’t had to make many decisions:

Sunday - crab sautéed with cabbage, spinach and parsley (on top of spaghetti for the others)
rest of the week tbc:

• fish finger sandwiches for DD and DH, veggie burgers for DS and I
• flash fried sticky tofu and rice
• smoky seeded carbonara
• pizza from the van
• Salmon and broccoli for D.C., fake duck at the bottom of the freezer for DH and I

M: halloumi fajitas
T: chorizo, aubergine, tomato and feta pasta
W: chicken green curry
th: tuna with fried rice
f: pizza
sat: chicken tray bake
sun: steak - details tbd

Tomorrow: jacket potato
Saturday: creamy mushroom and leek gnocchi
Sunday: cauliflower and broccoli cheese with roasties
Monday: black bean chipotle tacos
Tuesday: dahl and naan
Wednesday: veggie sausage stew
Thursday: teriyaki tofu and stirfried veg

Only planned the next few nights which is:

Thursday: Spicy Harissa Aubergine Pie
Friday: Nasi Goreng with Fried Egg
Saturday: Seafood pasta gratin

Could you share the aubergine pie recipe please :)

It's this one https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spicy-harissa-aubergine-pie @Lastqueenofscotland2

I've not made it before but good reviews - I am tweaking it a bit as per comments and going to do half sweet potato/half normal mash and add in a few other its like cumin etc.

Today: Takeaway
Fri: Bacon Egg Fried Rice
Sat: Fajitas
Sun: Toad in the Hole
Mon: Jools Easy Chicken Curry
Tues: Cottage pie
Wed: Chicken Jollof-style

Looks divine! Thank you

Same! Def doing that one

Looks good doesn't it. We love aubergines, we're not veggie but if I do a decent aubergine dinner my DH doesn't miss the meat and we like to have a few meat free meals.

@DocOck We also love aubergine. Sometimes I add them to recipes so that DS doesn't turn his nose up - especially curries. Chickpea and pepper curry? Add some aubergines and DS will eat it.

I made this Gousto recipe last week and it was so good! I will definitely make again. Not veggie though.

https://www.gousto.co.uk/cookbook/recipes/spicy-nduja-aubergine-gnocchi-bake

We haven't cracked gnocchi. But we do a spicy tomato/chorizo/aubergine pasta a lot and it's a big favourite over here - seems similar.

I love gnocchi, it's became a staple in our house but I prefer it crispy.

Didn't post last week - unfortunately we lost FiL so lives have been a bit upside down for the last 10 days. Hopefully will make a plan this weekend and get back to normal from Monday but I'm popping in to say that the bbc aubergine pie recipe is a staple in our house - it's really good and highly recommended!

@HalloumiFries I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you and your family are okay. Lots of easy, forgiving, whatever-goes meals I think!

@SpaceOP Thank you. Tbh, we've had nearly two weeks of that and I'm now craving normality, routine and proper cooking (inc vegetables). Two more nights of anything goes and then I'll make a plan and do a big shop on Sunday to get us back on track.

I’m going to do that aubergine pie!!

Saturday: aubergine harissa pie
Sunday: out for pub lunch
Monday: garlic, chilli and mushroom pasta
Tuesday: clam linguine for the others, lemon risotto for me
Wednesday: vegan hotpot

Picked up a chicken and leek pie at the farmers market this morning - with mash and veg that will do us for tomorrow and Monday.

After that, the plan is:

Tuesday: chicken noodle soup and veg gyoza
Wednesday: roast courgette, goats cheese and pesto flatbreads with broccoli and quinoa salad
Thursday: butternut squash, mushroom and spinach curry
Friday: baked gnocchi with roast squash and goats cheese.
Saturday: Baked ham with broccoli cheese

Monday - spag bol
Tuesday - posh chicken Kiev from M&S with mash and veg
Wednesday - Moroccan spiced meatballs, roasted veg and cous cous
Thursday - the meatballs again
Friday - pizza, salad, garlic bread
Saturday - the M&S Chinese box if I remember to pick it up on Wednesday
Sunday - chicken satay curry and naan and rice

Last week didn’t go quite to plan so I have the paella still to make, so that will need to be tomorrow.

So this coming week it will be:

• Sunday - Paella and salad.
• Monday - burritos - just my chilli con carne - which seems to go down well -with some salad and avocado in the parcel.
• Tuesday - Butternut squash and chickpea curry and rice probably with broccoli.
• Wednesday - pasta and meatballs with green veg on the side.
• Thursday - roast chicken with the trimmings.
• Friday - salmon, greens of some description and I can’t decide what to do with it - don’t fancy rice this time, kids don’t eat mashed potato, so maybe sautéed potatoes, or a different grain like millet or quinoa.
• Saturday - it will be Chinese New Year- maybe we’ll go to a Chinese restaurant.

Sun: roast chicken, bean and leek gratin, roast sweet potatoes, carrots and tenderstem broccoli

Mon: chicken and lentil curry

Tues: pasta with leftover pesto, creme fraiche, bits from the fridge and chicken

Weds: cod (but using haddock) and chickpea curry

Trying to avoid doing an order, so using things up and/or trying to choose stuff we can buy in the local crappy Co-Op:

today is a lazy Sunday lunch - ready made nut roast / prepared sprouts / carrots in the microwave with some honey / prepared new potatoes in butter / M&S cauliflower cheese / gravy

Tomorrow - yellow sticker pizza with rocket and coleslaw

Tuesday - fish fingers / home-made wedges / homemade 'mushy' peas with mint / tartare sauce (jar but then I like to add chopped gherkins, capers and silver skin onions to jazz it up a bit)

Weds - probably pasta of some sort

Thursday - no idea

Friday - probably out