2025 Meal Planners!

[Citygirlrurallife]

Here it is - all welcome, long termers and newbies, I imagine this week is leftovers leftovers leftovers and kicking off from Thursday onwards.

ive gone back to Oddbox and our deliveries now come on Friday nights so I’m going to try to force my brain to meal plan Thursday-Thursday and have delivery on Thursdays to make it happen. Won’t happen this week but hopefully from next

Tonight - DP making Delia’s basque chicken, which will also do tomorrow
Tues - stuffed pasta with pesto, garlic bread
Wed - spaghetti Bolognese
Thu - bolognese again
Fri - chicken fajitas
Not sure re Saturday, I might take a chicken satay curry out of the freezer

Today: butternut squash and thyme risotto
Monday: halloumi bake
Tuesday: salmon and greens with ginger, chilli and garlic. Also rice.
Wednesday: as always this is DH's night to cook pizza.
Thursday: fish tacos
Friday: gochujang, cavolo Nero and silken tofu with chickpeas for me and pasta for everyone else.
Saturday: pork bibimbap

Sun - full English brunch

Mon - teriyaki pulled pork bao buns with Asian slaw,pickled red onions and salt and pepper broccoli

Tues-homemade beef burgers with wedges,coleslaw and toppings

Wed- out for dinner

Thurs- Asian lettuce cups with turkey mince and vegetables noodles

Fri- jacket potatoes with choice of toppings

Sat- vegetarian risotto with courgettes and smoked mozzarella

Sun - roast beef and all the trimmings

Just finalised the online shop, so here is next week's plan (subject to rejigging depending on use by dates)

Today: Shepherds pie with cauli cheese, roasted parsnips, and sprouts with bacon left over from Christmas (made 2 pies so one has gone in the freezer for next Sunday)

Monday: Chicken curry
Tuesday: Sea bass
Wednesday: Turkey fajita bake
Thursday: Chinese chicken
Friday: Pork medallions with chestnut mushrooms
Saturday: Kedgeree
Sunday: Shepherds pie

Today - Steak & Ale pie, roast potatoes, veg
Mon - Tomato curry & rice
Tue - Tacos (leftover chllli/ sweet potato & slaw, salsa, guacamole)
Wed - Mushroom stroganoff & pasta
Thu - Hallloumi stuffed peppers
Fri - Lamb kebabs, pitta, feta, etc
Sat - Chicken chilli garlic curry

This is the spanakopita lasagne. foodnetwork.co.uk/recipes/spanakopita-lasagne

Finally got round to making this tonight. Very nice! This is what it looked like prior to going in the oven. I added a few olives that needed using up and they went well with the dish.

Done this week. So boring to account for extra teenagers and that I’m working most evenings:

monday: steak/tofu steak, chips and leeks
tuesday: spag Bol for meat eaters, OTK burnt aubergine and tahini pasta
wednesday: chicken/fish/tofu goujons, mash and peas
thursday: ramen and gyoza
friday: not sure - might take them all out for a treat

Burnt aubergine and tahini pasta also sounds delicious!

Already done mine for next week as I've just been rummaging through the freezer and cupboard.

Friday - Cheats Lahmacun with Ezme or other Turkish salad as I quite fancy trying a new one.
Saturday - Guests coming and I'm doing a big Mexican (ish) style meal (Pork carnitas, chicken tinga,Mexican red rice, Refried beans,
cowboy caviar, all the usual dips/tortillas etc.)
Sunday- Will probably use leftovers to make burritos or enchiladas.
Monday- Buffalo cauliflower & chickpea bowls.
Tuesday - Spiced lentil soup
Wednesday - Beef and spinach madras with rice
Thursday - Chicken piccata & spaghetti probably with some broccoli on the side.

I ended up doing oven chips and battered fish fillet on Thursday night.

We did nice pizza on Friday.

Cheeseboard after a nice lunch out on Saturday.

Roast lamb and cauliflower cheese yesterday.

DH made chorizo potatoes today, which neither of us had for ages so we demolished it all, even the intended leftovers.

I have no idea if my boss from home wants to have dinner tomorrow and/or Wednesday (quite likely) when he's here for meetings, so I defrosted a lemon chicken breast that can wait another day if needed. And I have one more pizza base to use this week.

If I need a decent dinner Thursday, I'll think about it then. And I have dd coming Friday so dinner on the road again.

Friday: lemon ricotta pasta with asparagus and tenderstem
Saturday: Mexican rice bake
Sunday: west African peanut stew
Monday: Tuscan white bean stew
Tuesday: bruschetta
Wednesday: out to see a friend
Thursday; Thai noodle soup

No meal plan for me yet as we’re away, but here’s a couple of pics of last night’s dinner.

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie that looks amazing!

I've had a slightly odd week so still seem to have one or two things from last time, and now sort of set up for the first part of this week.

Fishcakes
Some sort of chicken thai curry with butternut - might put in slow cooker
Gnocchi - I've had lots of tips from my thread on this! Sausage and spinach in a creamy sauce and pan fried gnocchi.
Something with mince. I'm so bored of bolognaise so something else.

Plans are just written in sand at low tide these days...the rate they get washed away.

I did end up going out for pasta with colleagues on Tuesday so had lemon chicken and roasted veggies last night.

I've a chilli for tonight with rice.

I might think about doing fajitas tomorrow night - so it might be worth making a guacamole for both nights.

Dd not coming until Saturday now - so I might do a roast chicken then.

But I'm not planning further ahead than that.

Temped to just copy and paste this!

Loving the bean stew theme!

Today’s lunch was a huge dhosa, before we head home and I have to think about planning food again. It’s just two of us next week, which will be a bit easier and will probably involve mushrooms.

Going on holiday next week. Yay!

Only tomorrow's dinner to be planned. I need to use up celery, garlic, tomatoes and mushrooms and parmesan. I have mince in the freezer, chopped tomatoes, red wine and spaghetti. It's a no-brainer!

Rough plan for this week:

• Lamb kebabs, houmous, salads, etc. (had roast veg pasta instead last night to use up last bits of veg before food delivery)
• Swede fritters & salad
• Roast cauliflower, chickpeas & halloumi
• Jacket potatoes & bean chilli
• Veg & lentil dhal, flatbreads
• Sausage & broccoli lasagne

Will make some sort of soup (carrot & coriander maybe?) & a grain / feta salad for lunches. Maybe some falafel if I can be bothered!!

Have remembered I haven't done bobotie for a while... so mince dilemma sorted! Quite excited actually.

I got home to a mess in my fridge last night, where the defrosting fajita mix leaked. I couldn't face that after cleaning up so had a tuna melt for dinner.

Sunday: lasagne
Monday: tofu stir-fry
Tuesday: chilli and maple salmon
Wednesday: DH cooks pizza
Thursday: DS cooks tbc
Friday: chicken tinga
Saturday: kedgeree

Tonight - lentil ragu
Tomorrow - butter bean and root veg crumble
Monday - Thai green tofu curry
Tuesday - naan pizzas
Wed - black bean tacos
Thursday - vegeree
Friday - aloo gobi traybake

I may have got excited by a bit of sunshine today.

We're out tonight, probably for a curry.
Tomorrow - mushroom linguine
Next week:
Greek salad, gigantes beans and tzatziki
Higgidy feta quiche with beetroot salad
Paneer and chickpea curry with cucumber, mint and ginger salad
Jamaican pasties with mango, pomegranate and mint salsa

Feels like another boring week here as again I have late night work most night and get given dinner on Weds and Thurs by work

tonight: veggie chorizo hash
tomorrow: out for Sunday lunch, butternut squash and celeriac soup for tea
monday: courgette and halloumi quiche with leeks on the side (so DD can have leeks and chicken drumsticks)
tuesday: tofu and aubergine tagine and couscous
wednesday: salmon, rice and broccoli
thursday: spaghetti Bol for DD and DH, pumped up pasta pesto for DS
friday: ramen with seaweed, spring onions pork for DD and DH, tofu for DS and I