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Wednesday Dinner: Baked Chicken, Pasta-Roni,
Sauteed Green Beans |
First a review of my meal plan options for June Week 3:
June Week 3 Meal Plan Options:
Brunches: Tuna salad sandwiches; Scrambled eggs with tortillas and lunu miris✔; Cold cuts sandwiches✔; Peanut butter toast✔; Salad; leftovers✔Pancakes
Dinners: Baked chicken drumsticks✔ with rice pasta and mixed vegetables (green beans); Chicken curry with rice and vegetables✔ (broccoli, green beans, kale mallung, etc.); Chicken pot pies✔; Ham fried rice, Leftovers✔
Snacks/Desserts: Fresh fruit; Cookies; Crackers; Yogurt; Ice cream; maybe Flan, cheesecake!
Here's how that worked out:
Monday:
Brunch: Toast with peanut butter (me); daughter had some leftovers
Dinner: Assorted leftovers
Dessert: Yogurt with jaggery (me); last piece of peach pie (daughter)
Tuesday:
Brunch: Banana and cold cuts sandwiches (after the grocery delivery)
Dinner: Chicken pot pies
Dessert: Ice cream bars, grapes
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Tortillas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris
(while cooking)
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| After cooking on both sides |
Wednesday:
Brunch: Tortillas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris (the egg mixture is poured on the top of the tortilla, cooked for a bit, flipped over and cooked on the other side until the egg mixture is set)
Dinner: Baked chicken, pasta-roni parmesan pasta, garlic sauteed green beans
Dessert: Ice cream bars; bananas
Thursday:
Brunch: Cold cuts sandwiches (me); egg salad and cold cuts sandwiches (daughter)
Dinner: Chicken curry and rice with the last of the sauteed green beans and peach chutney
Dessert: Sliced apples with peanut butter; bananas
Friday:
Brunch: Egg salad/cold cuts sandwiches
Dinner: Chicken curry and rice with peach chutney
Dessert: Cheesecake (me); daughter had a graham cracker crumb crust baked separately for her as she doesn't like cheesecake
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Cheesecake: Just before taking out of the oven
(Forgot to take a pic of it after it had cooled) |
Saturday:
Lunch: Sri Lankan rice and curries at a friend's house (mutton biriyani with boiled eggs, chicken curry, spicy sauteed potatoes, mint sambol, gotu kola (Centella asiatica; sometimes known as Indian or Asiatic pennywort) sambol with grated coconut and minced red onions, and peach chutney)
Dinner: .Leftovers from lunch (which we brought home)
Dessert: Tiramisu (which my friend had made), another type of cake from a bakery; oranges
Sunday:
Brunch: Pancakes
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| Daughter's with Peach Compote |
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| Mine with Fish Curry Gravy |
Dinner: Assorted leftover rice and curries
Dessert/Snacks: Cheesecake (me); graham cracker crust (daughter, who doesn't like cheesecake); oranges; bananas with peanut butter; crackers with peanut butter
Moving on to June Week 4, here are my meal plan options:
Brunches: Tuna salad sandwiches; Pancakes; French toast; Boiled Mung beans with lunu miris; Leftovers
Dinners: Chicken curry with rice and vegetables;Stringhoppers with chicken curry; Ground beef keema curry with rice; maybe patties (savory turnovers) and salad; Ham fried rice
Snacks/Desserts: Patties if I make some; Cheesecake; Crackers with peanut butter; oranges
Or, I could go off the plan and have something quite different! That would be fine, too. LOL.
As always, I am grateful for:
- Having enough (more than enough, actually) to eat
- The luxury of variety
- Leftovers and planned overs
- Daughter is not fussy about leftovers
- Being able to go off the plan if I so please!
Are you making a meal plan for this week?
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