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

Just done mine

• Mackerel and tomatoes with rice
• Koftas, yoghurt flatbread, hummus and salad
• Veggie sausages, baked potato and ratatouille
• Pasta and tempeh bolognaise from the freezer
• Tuna steak with oven chips, rest of the ratatouille
• Marry Me Chickpeas with crusty bread

We have:

Friday: roasted vegetables with grilled seabass
Saturday: onion and Gruyère tart; jersey royals; salad
Sunday: out (though I’m taking a chocolate cake to contribute)
Monday: lasagne; salad
Tuesday: chicken stroganoff
Wednesday: pasta of some kind tbc

Tonight - halloumi gyros
Tomorrow - courgette frittata
M - jerk sweet potato and black bean curry
T - cheat’s Turkish pide
W - egg fried rice
Th - crispy gnocchi, broccoli and cheese bake
F - tofu banh mi

Some lovely sounding meals this week!

Pork curry wit hnoodles in the slow cooker (when I'm in the office)
Tuna pasta salad
Jacket potatoes with creamy cannelini beans
Halloumi and chargrilled greens with hot honey on flatbreads
Aubergine, chorizo, tomato and chilli pasta
Pork mince stir fry with rice

There might be a few changes as it's half term and things can be a bit up in the air and I still don't know if DS wants to go out for his birthday/get a takeaway/pretend he doesn't know us at all. I'll probably add some chicken to the shopping list fo rhis favourite chinese chicken stir fry in case he decides to go that route!

Sunday: roast pork with fennel
Monday: tofu stir-fry
Tuesday: courgette and mint fritatta
Wednesday: salmon with new potatoes and greens
Thursday: pizza
Friday: DS cooks
Saturday: courgette soup

Ooh, I love fennel, especially with roast pork.

This week we are having

Tonight - Tapas: shop bought tortilla, olives, broad beans with Serrano ham, Felicity Cloake's perfect patatas bravas (but with garlic mayo instead of aioli), chorizo with mushrooms

Tomorrow - Delia's roast Mediterranean vegetable salad, with couscous (but will do with bulgur instead)

Monday - bhaji burgers (kohl rabi and carrot)/lamb burgers

Tuesday - I'm out, rest of the family will have tuna pasta bake

Wednesday - Roast vegetable and cashew jalfrezi, Meera Sodha's workers curry

Thursday - out for our anniversary, kids will have takeaway or something

Friday - spicy bacon and beans

Sunday: Roast pork
Monday: Beef & Guinness stew, mash, purple sprouting
Tuesday: Gochujang butter chicken noodles
Wednesday: Brazilian fish stew
Thursday: Out

Going away for a few days, one of which will involve a Southern Indian restaurant (my favourite) and the other of which will hopefully be a nice pub lunch or tea.

Then easy stuff for the rest of the week - veggie hotdogs looking a possibility, if I can decide on a side that interests me (bored of corn on the cob).

I'm working this week away during the days and not back until 8pm so have pre-planned for the others, most of the next month will be pretty boring to make it easy on teens cooking for us

Last night though we had a dinner party and I did all recipes from Georgina Hayden's Nistisima:

• charred watermelon with pistachio pesto
• roast sumac cauliflower with tahini lemon dressing
• braised green beans in tomatoes and kalamata olives
• kidney beans with walnuts and coriander
• green tabbouleh
• smoked harissa lamb
• rose water rice pudding with roast strawberries

tonight: african peanut stew
tomorrow: spaghetti bolognese
thursday: roast chicken legs for the meat eaters, fishcakes for the pescatarian and tempeh for me!
friday: going to some outdoor theatre so twill be a picnic

not sure about the weekend, we have friends staying so nice excuse to plan something nice, will do a big brunch Sunday am probably tofu scramble, roast tomatoes, get DH to make bread, field mushrooms and sausages for meat eaters

@Citygirlrurallife Wow, that sounds amazing!

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie Cole slaw?

Good Lord, that dinner party menu sounds amazing! Very jealous. My chicken stroganoff this evening was quite pleasant, but feels very dull indeed after reading this menu.

haha don't worry - the rest of the week is boring as shit, it was nice to have the time and headspace to make a big effort for a change

Thanks. I like coleslaw and I like hotdogs, but not together, for some reason.

Tomorrow: Gnocchi and roast veg gratin
Sunday: Roast ham, jersey royals, broccoli cheese and peas
Monday: Ham, eggs and chips
Tuesday: Chorizo broccoli pasta
Wednesday: Cheese and onion quiche, jersey royals and salad
Thursday: Stuffed peppers and salad.
Friday: Lamb saag

As expected, due to birthday celebrations things didn't quite go to plan. So some of the things from last week need to make an appearance this week.

Pork curry and noodles
Tuna pasta salad
I think there was a plan for jacket potatoes with beans that I hope is doable still.
Gnocchi with pesto, greens and burrata

I'm also toying with defrosting the lamb taking up space in my freezer. No one wants a full roast dinner so maybe cook it and serve on flatbreads with salads? Shwarma style? Then freeze the rest for a lamb curry another time? Or come up with a second meal for this week.

This week

tonight; gnocchi with blue cheese and walnuts
tomorrow: picky bits in the garden
Sunday: veggie Reuben sandwich
Monday: pad se ew
Tuesday: mushroom stroganoff
Wednesday: lentil sloppy joes
thursday: Japanese veggie curry

What do you put in a veggie reuben @Lastqueenofscotland2 ?

Tomorrow - Greek style roast potatoes with lemon; Greek salad

Sunday - Quorn and leek pie (a recipe from online that I'm trying for the first time) with buttered new potatoes, carrots, green beans

Monday - veggie bacon, egg and mushroom cobs

Tuesday - quiche and salad

Weds - fish curry for the fishy folk and paneer curry for me

Thurs - veggie sausage casserole or veggie hotdogs if I can decide what to have with hot dogs

Fri - just me at home, so probably tzatziki and pitta bread, or an omelette

Tonight - eating out
Tomorrow - sticky sausage traybake
M - sweet potato satay curry
T - aubergine parmigiana
W - falafel burgers
Th - aloo gobi traybake
F - tofu laksa

I used to be really good with meal planning and I’m hoping to get organised again! Here’s this week:
Thurs: fish parcels, bang bang salad and sticky rice
Fri: Chicken/mushroom fajitas with salad and guacamole
Sat: chicken and pepper pasta
Sun: cottage pie and peas
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@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupieits not super authentic at all but roasted beetroot, pickled red cabbage, enough sauerkraut to sink a ship and cheese on a really good rye

That sounds great. Is there a particular brand of sauerkraut you'd recommend? I've never bought it.

I did slow roasted lamb with flatbreads and salads a couple of weeks ago and I was very pleased with how it turned out. I followed a Jamie Oliver recipe for the lamb and served it scattered with pomegranate seeds and then hummus, tzatziki, and a big Greek salad alongside. I often use leftover lamb for shepherd’s pie but there wasn’t enough left last time.

Sunday: lasagne with apple strudel and Swiss chocolate (vaguely themed around DD's exam on Monday).
Monday: fishcakes and big salad
Tuesday: salmon with new potatoes and nice green veg
Wednesday: halloumi bake
Thursday: cheesy courgette soup with garlic bread
Friday: pizza & salad
Saturday: creamy tofu and broccoli pasta

• Trout, jersey royals & salad
• Rice bowl with greens, sweet potato and sweetcorn
• Pasta with tofu pieces, mushroom and broccoli
• Haddock, chips and green beans
• Turkey strips stir fry with noodles

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupiei just buy whichever is cheaper from our very tiny rubbish international section at our local supermarket… one day I will make my own