Help me with a week's worth of recipes, because I am tired, feel a bit sick, am bored of all my ideas and need to do an online shop

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I can't be fagged thinking what to have, I just want to go to bed and snivel

I wouldn't bloody do it but I shop for my mum as well and she has brought round an extensive list of stuff

so I need to do it now but can't think what to have

oh and they need to be quite low cal too since I am biffer atm

squash & sweet potato soup:

sweat chopped onions, carrots, celery & fresh ginger til soft (don't colour)

add chopped chili peppers (as much as you like as long as they're not hotter than surface of sun)

add chicken stock and coconut milk (half and half)

add roasted squash and sweet potato

whizz for a while until velvety

add handfuls of fresh coriander and whiz just a little bit more.

yum yum.

i love this thread.

could there be a weekly thread where we plan a week's meals? god that would be helpful. and a great way of trying some new things. what would be good is if it worked across the week so wednesday's recipe was using tuesday's leftovers, etc... i can just see sainsbury's with a mumsnet box - everything you need for the week delivered to your door...

Pasta with a jar of artichoke hearts in olive oil, ham/bacon, parmesan and pine nuts. Our standby!

Omelette with ciabatta.

Chicken wrapped in pancetta, with baked potatoes and cabbage

ooh, forgot - add LIME juice at same time as stock.

mmm that pasta with artichokes is another one in the Slater book - his is just the artichokes with a load of parmesan and parsley. really easy and totally delicious!

Pork chops are cheap?

Cauli cheese with a bit of mustard in the sauce, with pitta bread and/or bacon?

teapot - really? I thought I'd made it up! I bet you're right, I've read so much of his stuff!

Now now ladies. I think that the jar-of-artichokes-and-pasta-and-pine-nuts thing might not be entirely low cal.

(Do I have anything constructive to contribute? Nope.)

Nigel probably gets all his recipes from Mumsnet anyway

cous cous with roast pepper, garlic, red onion, aubergine, tomato, courgette. add tinned toms when veg nearly done, plus some harissa if you have. garnish with coriander and or lemon.

serve as side dish to lamb chops, tuna steak or roast chicken. if roast chicken make chicken pie the next night with a bit of ham, white sauce and frozen pastry, and use the bones to make stock for the minestrone soup i posted earlier.

carrot and parsnip mash with chops or sausages or fish, lovely change from potatoes.

But policy - it's nice!

is spag bol not on this thread yet?

I find it reassuring that I can disagree about religion or politics with other posters and then come together with them over a bowl of pasta with artichokes.

Nothing like food to resolve differences.

Have we covered pasta bakes yet?

Haha- thanks so much for this thread!
Saved us ages today, we usually moan about having to plan, but we just picked stuff from here