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 is jacket spuds and salad.

I'm out for lunch tomorrow, so tea will be whatever anybody can scrabble together.

Next week in no particular order:

tofu stir fry with tender stem broccoli and noodles

quesadillas with black beans, pico de gallo, avocado - because we enjoyed it so much last week

veggie breakfast for tea - Irish potato cakes, veggie bacon, mushrooms, eggs, tomatoes, avocado, sautéed spinach

dhal, samosas, paratha and cucumber salad

I'm out again on Friday night

Lunches for me are Spanish omelette or cous cous - will do a big batch of one for three days and then a 2 day batch of the other

I won’t post my plan for next week as it only really changes with the seasons. Looking forward to seeing everyone else’s, though!

Trying the 'Marry Me' sauce , will have with mushrooms and probably rice.
Then a boring week of:
Buddha bowl
Cauliflower curry
Jacket potatoes
Tofu stir fry
Salmon with couscous

We're on a Gousto week this week as they sent me a big discount code to try and lure me back. I'll only have this box and then cancel until I get another discount!

We're out for a roast with family today
Then Mondays are always random as we're busy with activities so I'll probably have something easy like an omelette

and then

Spanish-style haddock stew with garlic flatbreads
Teriyaki basa with sesame greens
Beef bourguignon with mash
Cheesy chicken with french onion sauce, greens and mash

Tonight - marry me chicken
tomorrow I’m at my moms so looking forward to that
tuesday - lamb stir fry
wednesday - pork burritos
Thursday - chicken thighs in a leek sauce with mash
Friday - wings and fries (we have family over so might change)
Saturday - curry and rice
Sunday - pizzas

Tomorrow - curry
Tuesday - frittata with wedges
Wednesday - curry leftovers
Thursday - tuna croquettes with veg
Friday - prawn pasta
Saturday - haggis for Burns’ night
Sunday - fish pie

Sun - lemon chicken and rice
M - chicken and veg stir fry
T - M&S chicken pie (I wish I had time to make a pie, but nope), broccoli, chunky chips
W - sausages and mash with peas and broccoli
Th - macaroni cheese and peas
F - burgers (veggie for me) in brioche buns with chips and salad
Sat - chorizo and chicken tray bake

I’d forgotten it was burns this week!!! 🙌

for several years we hosted bigger and bigger burns celebrations but haven’t done it since the pandemic and I miss it, just can’t afford to do it this year and I’m gutted it’s finally on a bloody Saturday!

Can you do a sharing kind of thing, where everyone brings something?

My menu for the next week

Yesterday - greens and white bean pasta, great addition to our 30 plants a week target!
Sunday - Creamy kale and chicken (and sweet potato and parsnip) traybake with peas
Monday - spiced bulgur wheat with roast vegetables and lamb chops
Tuesday - green pasta with blue cheese (two Nigella recipes in a row!)
Wednesday - Butterbean and rosemary hotpot with peas and broccoli
Thursday - Pancetta, parsnip and parmesan tagliatelle
Friday - shop bought cod and chorizo fishcakes with bravas sauce, green beans and something green and leafy, hopefully.

I don't have a solid plan for the week - but the bones of it are:
Sunday: salmon and pea pasta
Monday: chicken vadagam (curry)
Tuesday: prawn stir fry with noodles
Wednesday: beef chilli
Thursday: pasta bake or lasagna
Fri: possibly a steak?
Saturday: probably a roast chicken
Sun: use up chicken leftovers somehow (if dd doesn't eat it all)...or pick up something when food shopping on Saturday

Almost everything this week is from the freezer, except the steak (which I brought with me from "home" yesterday), as I can't get food shopping until Saturday. Which will be my first proper food shop this month (I bought a lot of bits this past weekend to bring back with me but I have no bread, no potatoes or tomatoes, 4 carrots, a parsnip, I got mushrooms and lettuce last night but I had to open my emergency bottle of UHT milk as couldn't get any fresh...my fridge has been almost emptied and my freezer has some big holes too).

Shopping has just been delivered so now I have the use-by dates here's this week's plan:

Monday turkey steaks stuffed with garlic cheese wrapped in prosciutto
Tuesday pork medallions in mushroom and mustard sauce
Wednesday fish curry
Thursday cottage pie
Friday turkey fajita
Saturday gammon and red cabbage
Sunday scallops in sun-dried tomato sauce

Breakfasts are usually eggs of some kind, pancakes, or fruit and yoghurt.

Last week went to plan apart from Saturday when there was enough left over curry for dinner boosted with some samosas and bhajis from the freezer, so the sausages remain in the freezer to fight another day.

I tend to pick up a fair bit in the Ocado 'flash sales' at the end of the checkout process; it's a good way of stocking up the freezer.

Tonight - jerk black bean burgers
Tomorrow - Hasselback halloumi traybake
Wed - sesame tofu stir fry
Thursday - cheat’s golzeme (basically spinach and feta quesadillas)
Friday - naan pizzas
Sat - butternut parmigiana
Sunday - sticky sausage traybake

Tonight - spaghetti and meatballs
Tomorrow: Pork Satay noodles in slow cooker (boredoflunch)
Wednesday: Fish cakes with wedges (we didn't get to them last week somehow)
Thursday: Aubergine, mushroom and goats cheese burgers with salad

But I just cannot think beyond thursday so doing short term, amazon fresh order, and will have to do again on friday.

Feeling a bit uninspired so only doing 3 days at a time

Tonight - steak and chips for DD and DH, Tofu and garlicky greens for DS and I

Tomorrow - lentil and sausage hotpot and mash

Wednesday - tuna steaks and cous cous with harissa roasted parnsips

That pasta recipe looks good. Might try it next week as fussy ds loves broccoli and I could add broad beans to my portion. Maybe a splash of cream too.

It’s felt hard work this week…but I think I’m sorted now!

Monday: leftover biryani
Tues: butternut squash and chickpea curry with veggie rice
Wed: Turkey larb noodles
Thurs: garlic mushroom pasta
Fri: chicken wraps
Sat: spaghetti bolognaise
Sun: Jacket potatoes toppings tbc!

Had chicken Kiev with crispy potato slices and corn tonight. Tomorrow is shopping day so for the rest of the week (until Saturday shop)

Nando’s chicken thighs, tenderstem broccoli, tomato rice and halloumi
Sausage casserole with jackets and green beans
Chicken biryani
Burgers

Finishing off this week:
Tonight: what’s at the bottom of the fridge surprise
Friday: build your own ramen bowls
Saturday: haggis, rumbledethumps, green beans
Sunday: haggis-cakes from leftovers, leeks and chips

Was going to do burns night (obviously) but I live in the sticks and can't find veggie haggis 😤
So unless I can locate it... this week is looking like

Tomorrow: mushroom stroganoff
Saturday; lentil sloppy joes
Sunday: bruschetta
Monday: Thai fried rice
Tuesday; pasta with roasted balsamic veggies
Wednesday: pie
Thursday: chipotle tofu burrito bowl

Late to post my plan this week! Dad had a fall so has been in hospital, put a couple of sticks in the spokes as it were!

mon- five guys 🤦🏼‍♀️ needs must!
tues- jacket potato and cheese/beans/coleslaw
weds- Korean chicken thighs, broccoli and mash
thurs- slow cooked beef stroganoff with wild rice and salad
fri- roast chicken, new potatoes, and mixed veg
sat- saag paneer jalfrezi with poppadoms and basmati rice
sun- halloumi traybake with peppers, courgettes and oregano potatoes!

Friday - Peri Peri chicken and halloumi kebab, jacket potato, corn on the cob salad and coleslaw.
Saturday - Chicken balmoral, neeps and tatties
Sunday- Beef massaman curry and rice
Monday- Spicy vegetable noodles with crispy kale
Tuesday - Kofta flatbreads, tzatziki and salad
Wednesday - Cottage pie and veg
Thursday- Pastina

Chicken Balmoral looks nice!

I also forgot about Burns so have had to rejig the weekend plans around this.

Tomorrow: Traditional Haggis, Neeps and Tatties Burns Supper
Sunday: Pienirli with mushrooms and bacon, plus salad
Monday: Tomato and broccoli quiche, with salad
Tuesday: Shaksuka
Wednesday: Veggie chilli
Thursday: Pasta with chorizo and spinach sauce
Friday: Turkey enchiladas

Doing my order for tomorrow and have:

Tomorrow - pizza for the gang as I'm out for fancy dinner with a friend!

Sunday - sweet and sour chicken with rice
Monday - sausage and fennel pasta
Tuesday - taco bowls
Wednesday - Tuna jacket potatoes with salad
Thursday - Grilled miso salmon and veg with noodles