2026 meal planners

[Lastqueenofscotland2]

Looking forward to seeing some old and new planners.
After two beens of cheese and cake I’m looking forward to some normal food!

Friday: lemon asparagus risotto
Saturday: mushroom & goat cheese tart
Sunday: Tofu Rogan Josh
Monday: Pesto beans on sourdough
Tuesday: peanut noodles
Wednesday: harissa tofu
Thursday: pasta e fagioli

Tonight - hash brown fish pie
Tomorrow ‘marry me’ chickpeas
Sunday - masala omelettes
M - cauliflower tinga tacos
T - banh mi rice bowls
W - shakshuka flatbread pizzas
Th - teriyaki tofu traybake

Pub night has been postponed until next Friday so we're now having a roast aubergine and orzo bake tonight. Then the plan is:

Tomorrow: sweet and sour chicken rice bowl
Sunday: Sausage and mash with carrots, peas and onion gravy
Monday: Chicken fajitas
Tuesday: Minestrone
Wednesday: Stir-fried cabbage and noodles
Thurs: Quick spag bol.

Just done next week's:
Mon - Moroccan lamb meatballs
Tues - butter chicken
Wed - jacket potatoes
Thurs - spag bol
Fri - salmon with greens
Sat - herby chicken
Sun - haggis - Burns' night!

DP is doing the Bombay potatoes tonight
Takeaway tomorrow
Then in no particular order and based on what DP wants to cook:
tortellini bake
cauliflower cheese and baked potatoes
Lentil bake and salad
Thai curry with baby corn and courgettes

Tonight - Buffalo Chicken Caesar wraps, fries and possibly corn or coleslaw
Saturday - Chicken Dopiaza with rice
Sunday - Cottage pie but made with shin of beef rather than mince, peas and broccoli.
Monday - Chinese tomato egg stir fry with rice
Tuesday - Hungarian mushroom soup
Wednesday - Slow cooker spicy pork ramen
Thursday - Spicy tuna roll bowls.

Still using up cheapo Xmas veg and need to clear some space in the freezer so plan is:

F Bangers, mash and roasted veg
S Roasted veg soup and homemade bread
S Cottage Pie & green veg
M same
T Jacket Potatoes
W Caramelised Onion Pasta
T same

Remus hope your wrist is healing well and.not too uncomfortable.

This week will be an easy one - busy at work, DD has been ill for weeks on and off, so foid is fuel rather than fun at the moment.

• tofu fried rice
• ramen with other half of the tofu
• paneer curry
• jacket potato, beans and cheese for DD, egg mayo for me
• Porcini pasta bake
• flatbread with roasted ras-el-hanout veg and halloumi.

Tonight: chicken and rice miso ginger soup
Sunday: side of salmon with roast potatoes and roast cauliflower
Monday: tempeh, lentil and walnut chilli with rice
Tuesday: something with the rest of the salmon (maybe a curry?)
Wednesday: fish fingers/pies and chips
Thursday: ramen night
Friday: marry me chickpeas
Saturday: Burns (I know it’s a day early but this way everyone can drink lots of whisky and sleep off the hangover!): Scottish mussels, haggis, rumbledethumps, cranachan

Sat - chicken/tofu fajitas refried beans, guacamole, salsa
sun - roast duck, nut roast; roast potato, parsnips, red cabbage, sprouts, swede carrott mash
mon - salmon en croute, mash, green beans, peas, carrotts
tues - chicken/chickpea and veg biriyani
weds - meatballs/walnutbeanburger balls, roast veg sauce, pasta
thurs - beef stew and dumplings/lentil barley stew; broccoli, braised leeks
fri - scampi/grilled fish and chips, peas

I ended up doing duck confit and potato croquettes last night - just thrown in the oven after a looong hard week.

This week will also be fairly intense so I am again mainly working out of the freezer - I also have a lasagna in there, and pizza bases in the fridge but no mozarella.

Today: Lamb koftas, flatbreads, salads
Tomorrow: chicken gyros, flatbreads, Salads
Mon: mushroom risotto
Tues: sweet’n’sour prawns
Wed: salmon, steamed potatoes, hollandaise, veg
Thurs: chicken vadagam curry
Fri: steak
Sat: HM chicken burger and salad
Sun: HM chicken burger and salad

The plan for next week is:
Monday: miso salmon with greens and potato wedges
Tuesday: marry me chicken with salad
Wednesday: celeriac soup with pork and fennel meatballs
Thursday: sage and onion chicken traybake
Friday: DH makes pizza
Saturday: jacket potatoes
Sunday: haggis and neeps

Starting from today, it's:

Sat: Lasagna and chips with salad
Sun: slow cooked ox cheek stew and mash
Mon: home made soup and toasties
Tuesday we eat big lunches at work as it's the pub quiz so just have crumpets or something.
Weds: tomato and bean stew with halloumi and garlic bread
Thurs: he's not decided yet ... I'm doing the rest.

Tonight; smash burgers, skin-on fries, corn on the cob (again! It's ds's fave!)
Sunday: Lamb jalfrezi and cumin rice (did not have last week- forget to order lamb)
Monday: Chicken casserole, roasties, veg
Tuesday: smoky bacon spaghetti, garlic bread, rocket
Wednesday: freezer hoover-up of sausages, Yorkshire pudding, mash, veg, onion gravy
Thursday: pork stroganoff, rice, veg
Friday: Chipotle hake with grains (did not have last week)

M. Pan fried hake, spinach leek & pea orzotto
T. Veggie sausage tray bake
W. Chipotle beans baked eggs, toasted sourdough
T. Salmon with celeriac, leek & potato bake
F. Leftover chipotle bean stuffed peppers for me, nachos for the rest of the family.
S. Just me as DH and DC away from Saturday am til Sunday afternoon. I’m going to make this healthy soup for lunch and then have wine and a cheeseboard for dinner in front of the tv
S. Mushroom bourguignon, colcannon mash

Ok this week is finalised!
Monday - broccoli and bacon orichiette
Tuesday - chicken pad Thai
Wednesday - halloumi flatbreads and sweet potato fries
Thursday - pasta bake with veggie sausages
Friday - chicken skewers, egg fried rice and sugar snap peas
Saturday - black bean enchiladas with tortillas and pico de gallo
Sunday - sausages, mash and yorkshires

Tonight: steaks, roast potatoes in goose fat left over from Christmas, greens from farmers' market
Monday: Mediterranean trout recipe-couldn't eat the fish in time last week so slung in freezer
Tuesday: chicken tacos with padrons and cabbage slaw
Wednesday: pasta with purple sprouting broccoli and pancetta
Thursday: red lentil and sweet potato dahl and okra
Friday: soup made from whatever veggies didn't get used up this week
Saturday: out (hoping oysters feature)

Does anyone have any recommendations for amazing salsa? I vary between buying the Luchito ones, but they are a bit samey, and making mango salsa or RecipeTinEats restaurant-style salsa - which is easy but sometimes I just want to open a jar!

Pico de gallo (sp?) is delicious and very easy to make. I tend to do that or a mango one - or you can use pineapple instead of mango.

I appear to be back to 4-5 day meal planning and shopping. I just can't get my head around the longer term. Also, the gluttons in this house mean if I buy more of stuff to last a week.... it all just gets eaten in 4-5 days anyway. A source of endless frustration for me. So.... shopping came yesterday and we had sausage pasta last night

Cod fillets with new potatoes and random veggies in the fridge
Creamy beans on gnocchi (bit worried it will be a bit heavy - hoping for the best....)
Chicken burrito bowls
"home made" (using a ciabatta mix) no-tomato pizza with taleggio, ricotta, garlicy greens and salami [for the veggies - this recipe doesn't actually call fort he salami originally and is delicious without it - but we're a "pizza isn't pizza without some kind of UPF pork product added" family! ]

Tonight: southern fried chicken portions, beer battered chips and steamed mixed veg
Tomorrow: air fried lemon and dill salmon, butter and parsley steamed baby new potatoes and tenderstem broccoli
Wednesday: Haggis, mashed potatoes, mashed carrot and swede and gravy
Thursday: Chicken and vegetable soup and crusty bread
Friday: not sure yet. Have chicken breasts, bacon and sausages so something with one of those!
Saturday: cottage pie with veg
Sunday: Roast dinner

Note this is very meat heavy so going to try and incorporate more veggie things next week!

@SquirrelFan I LOVE Mrs Renfros salsa's. They're American but I buy them online, expensive but I like to treat myself now and again.

@SpiceGhoul thanks for the rec. Will try!

Mine for next week
friday: ratatouille pasta
Saturday: chilli
Sunday: Thai green curry
Monday: homemade beans on toast
Tuesday: Dahl & Naan
Wednesday: tofu and veg stirfry
Thursday: Cheesy Mexican rice bake

So far, I had my sat/sun/mon plans on different weekend days, had wed on Tues, and made a massive mac’n’cheese with bacon and veg last night (so put 3 pasta bakes in freezer as well).

Tonight, I have Greek lemon and herb chicken with med veggies (and maybe just crusty french stick instead of potatoes).

Tomorrow I am going to a concert an hour away so will eat on the road.
But I may still do the steak, only on Saturday night.

Everything done on schedule by me so far, DP's choice for tonight is rabbit tagliatelle, as we had two boxes of pre cooked rabbit in the freezer from when we bought it and cooked the whole thing so it won't take long to knock up a creamy mustard sauce and put some tag on. Possibly buttered leeks with it.

Friday - Greek chicken bowls
Saturday - Overnight at friends for a pizza party, I'm taking along a variety of wings, dips and crudites.
Sunday- The plan is chicken Balmoral with peppercorn sauce, potatoes and veg but I highly suspect a hungover Chinese will be ordered 😅.
Monday - Roasted pepper and tomato soup (I may add some lentils too for extra protein/fiber) with a cheesey garlic toastie.
Tuesday- Recipe tin eats Firecracker beef (with noodles rather than the recommended rice)
Wednesday - Avgolemono
Thursday - Gammon steak, egg/pineapple, chips and peas.

Not as much veg as I'd like so lunches will be a couple of different vegetable soups which I've yet to decide.