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

Been so busy recently, everything has gone to pot but I've just sat down and planned and did a grocery shop online so...

Saturday: Lamb shawarma & halloumi flatbreads with chips
Sunday: Sausage casserole
Monday: Roasted broccoli salad with bacon and feta
Tuesday: Puttanesca baked gnocchi
Wednesday: Lebanese moussaka with five garlic clove sauce
Thursday: Lentil tuna salad
Friday: Smoky chicken fajitas
Saturday: Chilli con carne
Sunday: Jacket spuds (variety of toppings but mine will be tuna, cheese, jalapeno, hot sauce...

I'm out of ideas this week, and the weather isn't helping as I'm not sure whether to cook cold-weather stodge or lighter spring food.

Monday: I like the look of those coconutty noodles with tofu, so I'm going to give that a go.
Tuesday: sea bass with some sort of salty lemony greens.
Wednesday: DH to cook pizza
Thursday: tbc,DD to cook
Friday: "recanted potatoes" which is our household name for those jacket potatoes where you take the insides out and mash t to em up with stuff and put them back in the oven. Served with a big salad.
Saturday: I'll be working all day till late, so lentil soup that people can heat up when they want it.
Sunday: chicken with clementines and fennel.

Last night - red lentil moussaka
Tonight - mushroom and leek pie
M - Aloo gobi traybake
T - hot dogs
W - Tuscan bean stew, jacket potatoes
Th - spring green orzotto
F - cheat’s Turkish pide

Lacking inspiration again this week...
Chicken leek & mushroom pie
Jacket potatoes, cheese & coleslaw
Fajitas
Creamy mushroom & bacon pasta
Fish, new potatoes, green veg & parsley sauce
Sausages & roast veg
Spinach & chickpea curry

A bit meat-heavy but still using up what's in the freezer.

This week:

Monday: Jerk chicken
Tuesday: Smoky fish stew
Wednesday: Lamb curry
Thursday: Turkey breast stuffed with garlic cheese
Friday: Lamb keema
Saturday: Sourdough with various meats, cheeses and pates.
Sunday: Cottage pie

Still haven't sorted the recipe books out yet, don't think that will get done until after our weekend away now.

I am SO annoyed. I just realised that the mince I bought for the massaman bowls... was dated 15 March. I am pretty relaxed about sell by dates, nbut that feels a step too far seeing as we weren't planning to have it until tomorrow. I am about to complain to Amazon. Serves me right - I usually don't buy meat from them but was a bit desperate and it was Morrisons so thought it would be okay.

Does mean I have to bring my next shop forward which means I'm back to bloody meal planning. When does it stop!? Admittedly, doing a shop now for deliery tomorrow but meals only start from Thursday.

So:
mince massaman noodle thing.
Tomato, aubergine, chilli pasta.
Sausage, fennel and spinach cream sauce with gnocchi.
Chicken taco bowls - working on making them less complicated!
Miso grilled salmon and veg

I’m new to the thread but have already got lots of inspiration from others’ posts. I’m trying the hasselback halloumi this week on the strength of this thread.

I’ve just done my plan for next week (shopping delivered on Friday).

Friday: kedgeree (with added spinach)
Saturday: burnt aubergine chilli
Sunday: homemade cheese and onion pie; baby potatoes; green vegetable
Monday: sausage casserole; crispy bread; greens
Tuesday: marry me chicken; rice; vegetable
Wednesday: grilled salmon and chorizo; tomato salad; some kind of carb tbc
Thursday: broccoli pasta

@SpaceOP I hear you on the constant meal planning. My DS at uni is coming back for at the weekend for a week so anything I did have planned will go out the window.

Here's my current - I'm part way through:
Sun: Roast Beef
Mon: Chipotle Crunch Wraps (with the leftover roast beef)
Tue: Duck in Plum Sauce
Wed: Eating out
Thu: Mushroom Stroganoff
Fri: Fish, Chips & Peas (freezer not takeaway, although I would love a takeaway)

M-red lentil and roasted vegetable soup with sourdough bread
T- toast as neither of us was very hungry
W- tomato and mozzarella tagliatelle
T- chilli con carne ,rice and tex dip toppings
F-turkey burgers,sweet potato wedges and salad
S-sausages,cauliflower cheese and veggies
S-out for a pub lunch
I’m late posting but this is/has been this week as using stuff up before dd3 is home from uni for Easter

Bit boring here too

Monday: salmon, rice and peas
Tuesday: Xia Yung aubergine and mushroom noodles
Wednesday: sheperdless pie
Thursday: vegan chilli
Friday: fish fingers and chips
Saturday: BBQ
Sunday: roast

I'm sick, baby DC is sick (inc a brief trip to hospital for observation and stronger drugs!) but he hs here rolling on the floor happy out now. I've put in very little planning this week but the shopping comes tomorrow so I better do something!

Pasta bake - chicken, spinach, broccoli, mushrooms. Sauce of philly/ stock/ herbs/ garlic
Cottage Pie
Chicken, ginger and garlic stir fry
Roast Beef
Some sort of chicken/ peppers wraps
Satay rice
Bacon and potatoes

This week's menu is done. We're busy decorating so the slow cooker is working overtime some days and others are super quick or from the freezer. A bit beefier than I'd like but I have so much in the freezer I'm trying to shift.

Friday- Chicken fajita bowls
Saturday- Chinese beef curry with rice if I'm being good or salt and pepper chips if I'm not. Will probably do crispy kale with this too (like seaweed from the Chinese)
Sunday- Swedish meatballs with mash and greens.
Monday - Harira with part baked baguette
Tuesday- Chicken chasseur with roast potatoes and veg.
Wednesday- Arayes with fattoush
Thursday- Chilli with rice

Managed to get back into my old account!
this weeks isn’t the most inspiring

Friday: veggie sausage and mash
Saturday: creamy mushroom pasta
Monday: soup and sourdough
Tuesday: lentil sloppy joes and spicy chips
Wednesday: leftovers
Tuesday: honey siracha tofu and stirfried veg

Done my first Gousto order in ages. Ended up to be a lot of chicken but it was what I fancied!

Beef and mushroom pie with garlicky greens
Chicken and gnoccji cacio e pepe
Chicken schnitzel burger with apple slaw
Chicken kiev pasta bake with lemon courgettes
Honey chicken and tomato rice

Tonight - sesame tofu and broccoli rice bowl
Tomorrow - pesto, butter bean and greens stew with ciabatta
M - harissa halloumi pasta
T - eating out for DD’s birthday
W - fish finger tacos
Th - katsu stir fry
F - DIY naan pizzas x6 for DD’s sleepover. Ditto for rest of family!

I've given up. Sick of the mental load of it all and DP just keeps saying he'll make a chilli or we'll 'improvise'. So sick of it. He can eat toast for a week at this rate.

I hear you. Most of the time I really don't mind but sometimes it would be nice if someone else actually CARED. Dh really will happily eat toast or forage to find basics, but I value good food, cooked well, with nutritional benefits but that means I have to cook it. And think about it. And shop for it. Sigh.

This.

To be fair to DP, he will cook - if I decide what he’s cooking, order it and tell him how to cook it. Also to be fair to him, it would be less stressful if we had a toast night and a jacket spuds night every week.

We’ve settled on:

vegetable and chickpea tagine with couscous cous

mushroom stroganoff with rice and steamed vege

qaesadillas with avocado and fresh tomato salsa

tortellini with browned butter and sage, plus sautéed spinach

vegetable fucking chilli

Just doing my grocery shop:

Monday: Flatbread with falafel and houmous and greek style salad
Tuesday: Chicken fajitas
Wednesday: Pork noodle stir-fry
Thursday: General Tso’s Chicken with rice
Honey & chilli halloumi salad
Saturday: ??? Out for the day so no plans
Sunday: Out for a roast for Mothers Day

I'm getting to a point where I am contemplating doing a monthly meal plan. I love cooking, eating, thinking about food, talking about food but I am stumped lately with what to cook.

DS who is 2 and will inhale something one day then the next say 'I no like it pasta' is making it more difficult!! I started him 'correctly' with all the 1st taste veggies, then fruits etc He would eat anything until he turned two

A 'using things up' week as we are away for the latter half.

This week:
Monday: Cottage pie (carried forward from yesterday as we still had lots of sourdough etc to eat; I made two, one is sitting in the fridge so an easy day today and the second one will be an easy dinner when we get home on Sunday!)
Tuesday: Chicken curry
Wednesday: Fajita turkey casserole (from freezer)
Thursday: Away
Friday: Away
Saturday: Away
Sunday: Cottage pie

I’m away Friday/saturday
Sunday: mezze
Monday: fajita salad
Tuesday: Thai fried rice
Wednesday: freezer special
Thursday: tofu tikka masala

Crunchy peanut slaw (Emily English - loving her book) topped with prawns for me and DS, and tofu for DH.
Spaghetti and meatballs
Baked chicken with mash (lots of dodgy potatoes to use up)
Pork mince stir fry
Miso glazed aubergine on rice with smashed cucumbers.
We're out on mothers day so this takes me to middle of next week.

Friday - Creamy Cajun chicken pasta with garlic bread
Saturday - Chicken shawarma and tabbouleh bowl
Sunday- Cottage pie with buttery cabbage
Monday - Coconut curried cauliflower soup
Tuesday - Crispy sesame beef noodles
Wednesday - Greek turkey meatball bowl
Thursday - Cobb salad

I am truly sorry to announce that we didn't get to eat the chilli this week. It's been a terrible shame, but I've just about managed to bear it.

We've got a couple of days away which involve Thai food (bring on the sour papaya salad), a Middle Eastern feast and hopefully at least two pieces of cake, one of which will be Basque cheesecake in an amazing bakery if I'm very lucky.

Beyond that, all I've got so far is:

dp will probably still want the vegetable chilli

we've got some kimchi to try, which I think might be turned into some sort of kimchi and tofu Japanese/Korean hybrid stew thing (I do have actual recipes[es for this, so it hopefully wouldn't be as frightful as I'm making it sound)

we bought some amazing chilli sauces from a local company and I want to do something which gives them a chance to shine, so maybe some sort of Mexican-esque eggs thing - tortillas, eggs, avocado, sauces, other delicious things which I haven't quite worked out yet. Any ideas?

depending on the weather forecast, a lazy meal of pie and mash or sausages and mash or salad, quiche and nice bread