What's your meal plan dinners this week?

This week is a fridge and freezer emptying week. It is my birthday at the weekend, so we are treating ourselves, and need to create room in fridge for chilling alcohol and meal kits!

Monday: leftover chicken & ham fried rice
Tuesday: Freezer burger and chips
Wednesday: Yuk Sung, or something Asian with pork mince
Thursday: I have ordered a gyoza and bao bun meal kit from Yumo
Friday: Mister S Bossam meal, which from the sounds of it, will do us Saturday and Sunday also.

Relying a lot on the BBC Good Food website for inspiration this week.

Tuesday: Creamy pesto and kale pasta.

Wednesday: Salmon, potato, leek traybake.

Thursday: Chicken noodle soup.

Friday: Prawn, lemon, pea risotto.

Saturday: Sausage ragu.

Sunday: Hake, chorizo, haricot beans. Inspired by this post on the picture thread a while back, because it looks incredible.

In no particular order:

Lasagne
Curry
Baked sweet potatoes &eggs
Gardener’s pie
Broccoli & rice casserole
Enchiladas
Wild Card

Finished work for the year - well, except for three days in a few weeks - so having to plan for lunch also

Dinners:
Beef and stout stew tomorrow, will provide some for the freezer also
Lamb koftas I did last week will be repeated, going to pre-make and freeze the uncooked koftas I think.
Pizza Day x2 in a row - only sensible way to do it with only two of us, use up the toppings and tomato sauce
Semi-genuine carbonara with some added mushrooms
Takeaway is a given on at least one day, and/or a sit down restaurant on Friday if I can get a booking!

Lunches:
Going to do blender tomato soup some day - sautee shallots, cook down with a tin of plum tomatoes, sugar, salt and water for ~45 mins and then blend with some olive oil and a slice of white pan to get a cream of tomato style texture.
Will be doing a leek and potato soup also, loads of frozen leeks to use up
Got parbake rolls, sauages/rashers and relish to do either (or probably both) of breakfast rolls and bacon rolls for various days.
Chipper at the end of the road is a siren call when I'm off...

Dinners for 2 adults

Homemade pizza
Gnocchi lasagne x2
Diana Henry Greek chicken with orzo
Hoisin pork lettuce wraps
Mexican hash

Should be plenty of leftovers for lunches and I’ll make a soup to fill the gaps. Probably Mediterranean vegetable

Our weekly shop is coming this evening, so the dinners for the coming week are:

Thursday: Roast turkey, roast potatoes and brussel sprouts (Got this turkey joint in SuperValu, which we have had before and it is lovely: https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/product/1575607000).
Friday: Homemade spice bag with curry sauce
Saturday: Chicken Tikka Masala
Sunday: Chilli Con Carne
Monday: Steak (probably with mushrooms/onions/spinach and baked potato)
Tuesday: Beef nachos with the leftover chilli
I am in college Tuesday, so need something quick and very easy once that finishes. Next Wednesday will probably be take away of some sort.

Unsure what we are doing today, the cupboards are almost bare, and emptied the freezer last week. There are some sausages, so hoping the delivery comes early (booked to arrive between 6 and 8pm) so will probably be bangers and mash or chips, or some variation.

Tonight is salad with a zingy lemon dressing (leaves, peppers boiled egg, cous cous, roast sweet potato and avocado).

Thursday is veg chilli, rice, tortilla crisps and sour cream.

Friday is salmon fishcakes with stirfried veg and noodles.

I collect the shopping on Saturday so that's as far as I have gotten but am trying to limit our meat consumption so have bought a few wildcard things like tofu, mixed beans and lots of halloumi!

Saturday: Meatballs and fried potato slices
Sunday: Salmon, potatoes and veg
Monday: Tuscan chicken with pasta
Tuesday: Leftover tuscan chicken with pasta
Wednesday: Meat, potatoes and veg
Thursday: Thai green curry
Friday: Leftover thai green curry

Neyite wrote: »

I tried the Tuscan Chicken mentioned earlier in the thread at the weekend and it was lovely.

I think you put the idea in my head, haven't had it for a while :P

leahyl wrote: »

Is there a particular recipe for the Tuscan chicken? I looked back over the thread and couldn't find it.

I don't think there's a particular recipe knocking about, but I put one together from a few I'd read online:

Ingredients:
- 4 chicken breasts, cubed
- 250ml single cream
- Chicken stock (I use 1 cube of kallo in 200ml boiling water)
- ~6 cloves of garlic, minced
- ~50g grated parmesan cheese (or other similar cheese)
- Spinach
- Sundried tomatoes
- ~1-2tsp dried oregano
- Pasta to serve

Method:
- Fry the chicken in a pan
- In a pot, add the cream, stock, garlic, oregano and cheese. Heat and whisk until the cheese melts and the sauce starts to thicken.
- Add the fried chicken and sundried tomatoes to the pot.
- Separately, boil pasta.
- Just before the pasta is done, add the spinach to the pot of sauce.
- Serve and enjoy!

That's enough for 2 of us for 2 days. If you are having it over 2 days though, I divide the sauce in half before adding the spinach to one half. Then I add the spinach fresh to the second half the next day.

You can use as much or as little Spinach or sundried tomato as you like. A 90g bag of spinach will do us for 4 meals, but I've used bigger bags sometimes too (cause sure it all just wilts into nothing anyway!). I get a small jar of sundried tomatoes in Tesco and wouldn't use it all, maybe half or two thirds, but it just depends on your own tastes. I also chop the sundried tomatoes into smaller pieces before using them.

I got the idea off someone here and they had it with mashed potatoes. So I tried it with mashed potatoes a couple of times - while it was delicious, it was just too rich for my tummy! I find pasta works much better.

I think some people have mentioned a slow cooker recipe for it too, so they might be able to help you out there

We have decided we would like to do more meat free dinners here, at least 1 a week, preferably 2, but all our usual dinners have typically revolved around meat.
Grateful for any veggie recipes in your regular meal plan. The ravioli on your plan this week is meat free, will try the halloumi and mushroom kebabs from The Cooking Club soon also. We do normally do gnocchi with mozzarella and basil regularly too.

cee_jay wrote: »

We have decided we would like to do more meat free dinners here, at least 1 a week, preferably 2, but all our usual dinners have typically revolved around meat.
Grateful for any veggie recipes in your regular meal plan. The ravioli on your plan this week is meat free, will try the halloumi and mushroom kebabs from The Cooking Club soon also. We do normally do gnocchi with mozzarella and basil regularly too.

I'm not a vegetarian, but have Jamie Oliver's chilli con veggie in my regular rotation and is worth a go:
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/kerryann-s-chilli-con-veggie/

I also do a butternut squash dahl fairly regularly. I actually add a little chicken to convince himself to eat it, but I originally learned it as a meat-free recipe!

Thanks for the ideas, I'll give them a shot!
We had tomato and mozzarella ravioli today, I did a really tasty sauce with passata, onion, garlic, peppers and mushrooms with it.

A friend shared a recipe for rice and beans today:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/279361/the-best-baked-rice-and-beans/
Plan on doing this over the coming week, and have added the ingredients to my online shopping order. I am also planning on the halloumi and mushroom kebabs from the cooking club as there is a pack of halloumi I'm the fridge needing using up.

I pulled out my Roasting Tray cooking books yesterday evening, there are some nice looking veggie and vegan recipes in those!

Saturday: Homemade chicken fajitas
Sunday: Meat, potato, veg
Monday: Fish pie (first time trying this!)
Tuesday: Leftover fish pie (hopefully there'll be enough from the first day or I can raid the freezer if stuck)
Wednesday: Chilli con veggie (leftovers from the freezer) with rice
Thursday: Butterflied chicken topped with pesto, tomato and cheese. Served with potatoes and veg.
Friday: Meat, potato, veg

Pizza tonight which means the exact same ones tomorrow too as I can't be bothered freezing opened toppings etc.

Going to do some significant batch cooking tomorrow, freezer and storage boxes are all empty:

Gumbo (chicken/sausage) - 4 or 6 servings
Beef stew - 4 servings
Cottage pie - 2x 2 serving ones in separate dishes

Might be a bit wintery focused, but after having my water mains freeze last week it still feels like winter here!

I have frozen some rice dishes like chicken biryani before, also red lentil dahl. I also seem to make too much dahl, and it freezes and reheats well.

I find curries freeze pretty well!

I also do a chicken and butternut squash dahl dish that freezes fine too.

Got my sh1t together last week and put this week's meal plan in a shared Google Calendar.

Today: Buttermilk chicken burgers with homemade buns and sweet potato fries (and peas which I couldn't be arsed microwaving so I left them out)
Sunday: Gnocchi with peas and prosciutto
Monday: Cajun spiced chicken drumsticks with corn on the cob and crispy potato cubes
Tuesday: Steak, charred broccoli, mash and creamy mushroom sauce
Wednesday: Takeaway
Thursday: Parsnip and chorizo pizza in the oven or the Ooni depending on the weather

We had a red lamb curry on the list but Tesco subbed in Blue Dragon curry paste which tastes like a jar of salt so I handed it back.