What's on your menu this week?

[pontipinemum]

I do my shopping most Mondays and I'm stuck for ideas, I do 1 shop per week and usually like to have everything in so I don't do a top up. I am thinking

Spanish style chicken/ sausage/ chorizo rice
Lasagne - batched in freezer
Taco Fries
Chicken curry probably Indian
Chicken stir fry
Roast beef

I don't eat fish or pork (but I do eat bacon/ sausages). I like easy to throw together in the pressure cooker meals. Other usuals would be creamy pasta, curry rice, jambayla, fajitas, savory mince, stew, chicken vol au vont, bacon + cabbage, mac & cheese

What are you cooking?

Tapas, chilli, bibimbap, spaghetti and Dan Dan noodles

Chicken schnitzels with parmenter pots and veg with a fried egg

Bolognaise

Sausage casserole

Jackets with tuna mayo

Chicken kebabs with flatbreads

It's such a chore planning the weeks food!!

Chicken and veg fried rice, pesto salmon with jacket potato and veg, pizza, turkey meatballs and spaghetti, unsure about Friday maybe a takeaway

@crackfoxy it is but I also find it a chore not to. As in trying to decide every day what to have instead of just having it written on a board. I do move around days if I don't fancy what I have written down for Wednesday but I would say I mainly stick to it. I haven't done schnitzels or kebab for a while

@vincettenoir I've googled bibimbap it looks good. Is it a lot of work to get all the different parts?

Swedish meatballs with mash and peas.
Mushroom soup with bread.

Sweet potato, coconut and lentil curry with rice.

Sobrasada pasta (time to use up the random sausage gift!).
Baked orzo with peppers and lamb steaks.

Chicken and bacon Caesar salad
Haddock, leek & parmesan risotto
Spaghetti bolognese + garlic bread
Chicken kyivs with baby potatoes + veg
Chicken korma

Allo Gobi tray bake
Jambalaya
Chilli
Spring chicken casserole
Chicken and pasta in a butter sauce with chilli

I meal plan too and it's a pain but I can't get to the supermarket very easily so needs must.

Today is Chinese prawn and veg curry with special fried rice and prawn crackers.

Tomorrow, it's just me here, so jacket potato/filling and salad.

Wednesday Indian curry and poppadoms/naan bread

Thursday Giant Yorkshire puds with sausages, carrots, broccoli, peas and gravy.

Friday Me and DC2 are out in the city for the day, so DC1 will have to sort their dinner!

We usually have way healthier meals with plenty of veg but various activities and timings this week affected that.

@pontipinemum no mine isn't a pretty instagram one. It's just fried rice and Gochugang with any scrag ends in the fridge 😂

Short rib beef, cheesy mash, broccoli and carrots

Chicken satay

Bolognase or chilli

Quiche, chips and Salad

I did fennel risotto for lunch today, it was so good. Pretty much an asparagus risotto with roasted fennel and mushrooms on top.

Some kind of Italian chicken orzo concoction with lots of chopped veg in it tonigh.
A sesame and ginger minced Turkey meatball and brocolli dish with rice tomorrow.
DH cooking something Wednesday and I've got no further than that with my crap meal planning.

I try and cook dishes that I can chop a wide variety of veg into, as he isn't a big veg fan but will eat anything if it's all mixed in with other things 🙄

Roast duck, roast veg, etc
Macaroni cheese with garlic mushrooms
Omelette, chips and salad
Prawn curry, rice, etc
Spag bol
Roast chicken, veg, etc
Maybe a takeaway

This is for dinner, with any leftovers becoming the following day's brunch, generally used for something else.

Eg, the duck got shredded and rolled up in wraps with lettuce and hoisin sauce and the macaroni cheese has a tin of anchovies smashed over it, with capers and more grilled tomatoes.
If there aren’t any leftovers, we generally have something a BLT, egg mayonnaise and salad or grilled black pudding and ratatouille.

Tonight it's venison burgers (bulk bought 48 of them when they were on special offer), chips and salad
Tomorrow (Tuesday) it's something with chicken breasts and kefir - I want to see if kefir tenderises them like buttermilk does - so probably sweet 'n sour chicken with fried rice.
Wednesday - baked potatoes with homemade Boston baked beans and bacon, topped with cheese
Thursday - Singapore noodles, or paella, or risotto - using chicken and prawns, anyway
Friday - DH has a Tesco lasagne, I have homemade curry (he's gone off curry) with shredded lettuce instead of rice
Saturday - homemade pizza topped with mushrooms, peppers, black olives, anchovies, pepperoni, mozzarella
Sunday - roast something - we may have a guest, in which case it'll be beef. If it's just us it'll be chicken.

Today's dinner is yesterday's leftover chicken in a korma sauce with added leeks, cauliflower and sliced courgettes, with rice.

Rest of the week - no idea yet.

We’re doing mostly keto so
Stroganoff with cauliflower rice
Big Mac burger bowls
Pork meatballs in mushroom broth
Courgette boats

@Malbecmerlot what is a Big Mac burger bowl? How do you make it?

We use this recipe and everyone likes it
https://www.holisticfoodie.com/recipes/healthy-cheeseburger-bowl

Spicy carrot and parsnip soup with crusty baguette
Green Thai chicken curry with rice
Sausages, mash and onion gravy
Steak and chips
Jacket potato with tuna mayonnaise and salad
Marinated chicken, rice, sweetcorn and peas
Whatever is in the fridge!

@Inextremis do you buy the pizza base? I have gestational diabetes right now and I've been have wrap pizza which does hit the spot.

@rainontherooftop I made chicken/ ginger/ garlic meatballs recently. I bought a 5 kg box of chicken and diced most of it and froze into portions. But I took off maybe 1/5th of each fillet where the not nice bits are are blended it. It was unreal tasty but took a bit of effort. Although in fairness I had about 5 dinners from it.

@CosmosQueen for my sins I am back at college 'Marinated chicken, rice, sweetcorn and peas' sounds really good/ easy for tomorrow I've an online lecture from 6.30 - 9.30pm.

Prawn stir fry
Burritos
Chicken curry
Homemade pizza
Pasta bolognaise

We are stuck in such a food rut!
We’re having
Prawn Thai green curry
Filled pasta and garlic bread
Fishcakes and veg
Something from freezer batch cooked- probably campfire stew.
I need to mix it up a bit.

Chicken enchiladas
Burgers
Salmon Soup
Curry and dahl
Tacos
Jerk Chicken with rice and peas

Last night M&S Steak Pie, mash, veg and sticky toffee pudding from too good to go bag

tonight - steak, dauphinoise, courgette and leeks
tuesday - mushroom udon noodles
wednesday - vegetarian cobbler with cheese scone topping
thursday - carbonara
friday - coriander and lime chicken with avocado & red/wild rice
Saturday - spaghetti bolognese