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?

M Pasta in a tomato sauce with mushrooms and pecorino
T Red Thai vegetable curry, jasmine rice, marinated grilled chicken
W Roast chicken with vegetable rice
T freezer surprise
F steak and chips
S Vietnamese style turkey mince
S Roast pork

I shop on a Saturday (at Aldi)

My meal plan for this week is/was…

Saturday - Chicken Fajitas/salad
Sunday - Cottage Pie and veg
Monday - Pork chops, chunky chips, grilled mushrooms/tomatoes and Coleslaw
Tuesday - Halloumi/pepper/prawn kebabs, flatbreads, dips and salad
Wednesday - Poached eggs on toast with beans (we’re out so quick to do when we get home late)
Thursday - Slow cooker cider Gammon joint, mustard mash and veg
Friday - Pan fried 5 spice salmon, rice or noodles and veg.

This week:
Yesterday was chicken Kiev, parmentier potatoes and roasted carrots/green veg
Today: fish and chips, veg
Tomorrow: fish pie
Thursday: steak, new potatoes, veg
Friday: not sure but possibly chilli with rice.
Saturday: stir fry with chicken and veg, rice
Sunday: pasta with salad

Fresh tuna steaks with an Israeli salad, beluga lentils/almonds on a bed of yoghurt.

Wild salmon fishcakes with quinoa and veg

Rocket salad with avocado, halloumi, cherry tomatoes/seeds/parmesan flakes.

My usual pasta bake

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius

It's this good housekeeping recipe but I add some chopped smoked streaky bacon to it when frying the onions.

www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/a534995/creamy-cider-chicken/

• Saag paneer
• Mediterranean Spaghetti
• Honey and garlic salmon
• Butter chicken with potatoes and veg
• Jacket potatoes
• Sausage ragout

Lovely - thank you, @worriedgal!

@TheMainCharacter I often have freezer surprise too 😁although it's usually single portions of left overs, my mam lives alone so if she's been for the weekend she might clear me out 😂I don't mind

@pontipinemum We never have enough leftovers to do another meal for all of us but by putting them all in the freezer I can pull out a random selection after a few weeks. Rubbish at labelling them though so it really is a surprise!

@TheMainCharacter I have a label maker 😂after 1 too many times of having no clue what was coming out of the freezer I got one. I batch cook a lot of curry/ pasta sauces as well so it was annoying

Struggled for inspiration this week but finally got it down to:

• Chilean cottage pie
• Cauliflower & chickpea traybake
• Salmon, veg & rice/quinoa
• Curried broccoli & paneer
• Tuna provençal, roast new potatoes
• Cardamom chicken & roast cauliflower
• Roast veg & halloumi

This week

Roast beef with everything
IKEA Swedish meatballs, sauce, chips, green beans
Chicken fajitas
Pesto pasta and garlic bread
Chicken (gian) curry with rice
Mince and tatties
Takeaway one night

Monday - Chicken stroganoff, wild rice and broccoli.
Tuesday - Jacket potato with chilli con carne, sour cream and guacamole.
Wednesday - Spicy roast pepper and tomato soup with cheese toasties.
Thursday - Huevos rancheros, various salads.
Friday - lasagne and salad
Saturday - Chicken madras, pilau rice and poppadoms.
Sunday - Chicken and leek pie with new potatoes and veg

Fresh stuffed pasta with tomato and courgette sauce with crudites
Chicken and veg curry with rice, homemade flat breads and broccoli
Steak baguettes with salad
Chilli con carne with rice and green beans
Baked orzo (tomato, peppers and mozzarella) with focaccia and green veg
Sausages, mash, cauliflower cheese and sweetcorn
Slow roast pork with garlic and rosemary, roast potatoes, peas and sweetheart cabbage

Another Monday, another weeks shopping to do. I'm going to look through all your suggestions. But I also need try and empty my freezer. I'm due DC 2 in 3 months and plan to batch cook loads in advance and there is a lot of bits and bobs in there!

Low carbing

Tonight: Sausages with cauliflower cheese mash (cauli, cream, cheese)

Tuesday: Chicken kebab with salad and garlic mayo (home made or takeaway, not decided yet

Wednesday: Beef Burger with cheese & coleslaw wrapped in iceberg lettuce, salad

Thursday: Garlic butter salmon and roasted green beans, peppers and cherry toms

Friday: Pasta (low carb for me) with tomato, spinach, chicken sauce, mozzarella

Saturday: Steak and greens, peppercorn sauce

Sunday: TBC but some kind of chicken - maybe chicken wrapped in bacon with creamed spinach

@Madickenxx I have gestational diabetes so low carb is my life right now. What low carb pasta do you use? I've just been using regular pasta but having about half my plate with veg. The cauliflower mash sounds good!

Roast Chicken, crusty bread, cous cous and salad/coleslaw/corn on the cob
Chilli and rice
Chicken pie, cauliflower cheese, carrots, green beans, some form of potato
Burgers and chips
Macaroni cheese

Pasta and meatballs
Lemon chicken orzo
Curried chicken and rice soup
Jacket potatoes with filling
Spaghetti Puttanesca with garlic bread
Lamb burgers with sweet potato wedges
Beef and ale stew with mash
😋

@pontipinemum , I use The Low Carb Food Co pasta but have seen that Ocado do a lower carb pasta so am planning on trying that soon. The LCFC pasta is OK as long as it's mixed in with the sauce. It's not particularly nice on its own and I use it mainly so I don't feel left out on pasta night. It's full of fibre so healthy but the recommended portion size is teeny tiny.

Cassoulet
Haddock, chips and peas/sweetcorn
Chicken fajitas
Seafood risotto
Pizza with salad and garlic bread

Kedgeree
Rolled breast of lamb: (that will not be melt in the mouth, it will need cutting with a knife and chewing) But it will taste well.

Spag bol, pesto salmon with broccoli, peas & penne, chicken jalfrezi with rice/ cauliflower rice & poppadums, chicken nachos, pizza, fish/ chicken goujons, chips, peas & sweetcorn.

I went with:

Spanish rice/ orzo mix up (freezer from last week)
Mac and cheese with ham
Steak and chips
Lasange - freezer
Taco fries
Chicken, mozzarella, tomato thing I saw online like hassle back potatoes
Beef rib

This week, Spag Bol tonight, then salmon and spinach fish cakes, lemon and garlic roast chicken, Angus beef burgers, chicken curry from the leftovers, something cheesy, either cheese and potato pie or cheese omelette.
(I do include veg in all these meals, btw.)