What;s for dinner this week?

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I really love meal planning, but this week am only doing very simple and easy (not too ambitious) things. Plus using up alot of the stuff I have in my freezer as it's been a tight month post-Christmas and I need to put money aside for our summer holiday.

Today - cajun creamy prawn pasta with salad and garlic bread
Tuesday- chicken korma (from freezer) with peas and courgettes
Wednesday- loaded potato skins with bacon and sour cream and chives with sweet corn and broccoli
Thursday - always a soup on thursdays- pea and ham for me (freezer) and chicken noodle for the Dcs (freezer)
Friday - sausages and mash with baked beans and broccoli
Saturday - slow cooked lamb roast with all the trimmings
Sunday- I usually make a pilaf with whatever meat is leftover- this week will be lamb.

We don't always have a pudding but this week I have hunted out all the tinned fruit that needs eating and we will have that with ice cream.

Nothing fancy this week. I need quick easy meals i can make in my sleep and that will hopefully be eaten by everyone (except DH who is vegetarian and on a diet and is eating mostly salads right now. )

Would love to know what others are planning!

We've planned a week of using up freezer meals as well.
Tues: Korean rice using leftover beef from Sunday
Wed: chickpea and cauliflower curry (freezer)
Thurs: Spag Bol (freezer)
Fri: homemade pizzas and coleslaw
Sat: Singapore noodles
Sun: steak and mushroom pie (beef from freezer)

Thanks so much for the replies and the great meal ideas!

Tonight's pasta went down a storm- even with my usually very plain eating and fussy DS1. It was just sautéed diced onion, half a pack of peri peri powder (I could not find my cajun one so this stood in it's place) cream (lots) and prawns. With linguine. DS1 had a hefty plate of it AND seconds! I was quite thrilled. He is a very light eater generally but must have been hungry because he ate all his garlic bread, all his salad as well.

I've never tried it before so was just thrilled he ate it all.

I am going to try some of the meals posted here as I am in a bit of a rut. Fish and parsley sauce brings back warn nostalgic feelings for me so that is a must-try soon!

Last night (Monday) - home made beef burgers, DH had chips too
Tuesday- Seared tuna salad
Wednesday - roasted veggies with pasta and mozzarella
Thursday- cranberry chicken with grains and feta
Friday- baked potatoes, cheese, beans, salad, maybe tuna and mayo
Saturday- Macaroni cheese and a big salad

We’ve had Gusto on a 65% off code this week.

On Friday DH goes away for a week, so DS and I are having:
Sat- eating out.
Sunday- roast chicken. Leftovers will be for packed lunches.
Monday- friends over. Burgers for the DC, venison curry and a veg curry for me and the adult.
Tuesday- pan fried salmon, new pots and sprouts.
Wednesday and Thursday- DS eats at MIL’s. I’ll probably do a big stir fry.
Friday- home made pizza.
Saturday- sausages and lentils.

Mon- shakshuka inspired dish (onion, peppers, courgettes, mushrooms, butter beans in a spiced tomato sauce with eggs poached in it and feta and hummus on top so not authentic shakshuka but don’t know what else to call it!) with sourdough.

Tue-pasta bolognese

Wed- chicken fajitas

Thurs - Beef stew

Fri - I think both do and ds1 are out so something quick and easy or leftovers

Sat - Thai red curry (probably chicken) with jasmine rice and veg

Sun- diy pizza

Ooh @DreamSpaceships , you've just reminded me that I bought the stuff for Shakshuka a couple of weeks ago but didn't do it! Will add that to next weeks list

I’m always surprised on these threads how people eat meat almost every night. Your food bills must be massive!

I posted a particularly fish heavy menu this week, but generally we have one fish or prawn dish, 2 or 3 veggie dishes and 3 or 4 meat dishes each week. We spend approx. £80-100 per week all in, including household items for a family of 4 adults, all meals. I'm led to believe that's on the cheaper end, based on posts on here.

I think the key to keep shopping down isn't necessarily avoiding meat, it's intelligent meal planning and good systems that avoid food waste. Keeping an eye on £/Kg and bulk buying where it works out cheaper plus minimising unnecessary spends on expensive pre-made snacks and treats/convenience foods. But I'd imagine most people on a meal planning thread are probably quite good at that!

FWIW, I'm currently constantly muttering about he cost of aubergines, nearly a quid each in Sainsbury's and they're always tiny, so I need 3 for my aubergine parmigiana, so about £3. That's the same price give or take as the 500g chicken I'd use in a chicken parmigiana. And peppers! Don't get me started on the price of individual peppers!

Sat:-Tandoori chicken kebabs, flat bread, mixed salad and coleslaw.
Sun:-Roast beef, roast potatoes, carrots and parsnips, spring greens, sprouts and Yorkshire puddings.
Mon:- Honey roast gammon, seasoned roast new potatoes, corn of the cob, stringless green beans and broccoli.
Tues:- Beef casserole with carrots, onions and dumplings served in a giant Yorkshire pudding, with savoy cabbage and cauliflower.
Wed:- Carbonara
Thurs:- Jackets wrapped in smoked bacon, baked beans and cheese.

Monday/Tuesday -delayed roast dinner from Sunday, treacle gammon basted in coke (from one of our own pigs), roast pots, cauliflower cheese, buttered leeks, french beans (plus whatever extra green veg I chuck in tonight).

Wednesday - dd is making couscous salad in bloody food tech, so I’ve built a meal around that since I had to spend £9 on all the ingredients, Middle Eastern spiced chicken thighs with salad, hummus, yogurt, olives in wraps, with couscous salad.

Thursday - Burns night (bit delayed) - haggis with neeps and tatties, sautéed leeks, peas and a faux whisky cream sauce (without the whisky).

Friday - Noodles in miso broth with tofu and spring rolls

Not really. I usually buy skin on and bone in chicken thighs as I prefer that cut and they are much cheaper than breast. I do spend a bit more buying salmon fillets but like to have oily fish once a week. A box of 8 chicken thighs is about £4 and I have one each meal (DS will usually use the rest or I freeze them).

We do eat meat most nights, mainly because dp is a meat with every dinner person but also because I find it easier to get the younger kids to eat enough if they have meat/fish. I’ve just worked it out and our meat/fish for the week cost £23 which is under £4 per person for the week which doesn’t seem ridiculous.

@GingerReader I can't find the recipe I used last time but it's something like this

www.servingdumplings.com/recipe/thai-coconut-curry-chicken-meatballs/

This evening- canned fish, spinach, peas. Pasta for me and rice and quinoa for DH.

I ended up doing sausage and mash last night instead of later this week as planned. I had been out for lunch so did not need any dinner so with the leftover sausages I plan to make a sausage meatball pasta dish tonight. So a variation to the plan but suits the RL situation! I do have garlic bread in the freezer as well so am now halfway through the batch cooking freezer drawer!