I started out the week with good intentions! These were my menu options for the week -
September Week 2 Meal Plan Options:
Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch: Cereal with milk, French toast✓, scrambled egg and fried potatoes✓, boiled cassava with spicy onion sambol✓, pancakes✓.
Dinners: Pasta with meat sauce✓; coconut flat bread with onion sambol✓; rice with
Snacks/desserts: Fresh fruits (oranges✓, apples), canned fruits, muffins✓, crackers✓, cereal✓, cookies✓, etc.
This is how those good intentions worked out:
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| Coconut Flat Bread |
Monday:
Brunch: Spaghetti and sauce
Dinner: Savory coconut flat bread
Snacks/Dessert: Crackers
Tuesday:
Brunch: Coconut flat bread
Dinner: Spaghetti and sauce
Snacks/Dessert: More coconut flat bread!
Wednesday:
Breakfast: Crackers with peanut butter
Lunch: Rice, cashew curry, cabbage, hot dogs with red onions and tomato chutney
Dinner: Coconut flat bread
Snacks/Dessert: cookie, orange
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| Lunch:Rice, cashew curry, cabbage, hot dogs |
Thursday:
Brunch: French toast
Dinner: Leftovers from Wednesday's lunch
Snacks/Dessert: cookie, orange, cereal with milk
Friday:
Brunch: Scrambled egg, fried potato
Dinner: Spaghetti and sauce
Snacks/Dessert: Orange, muffin
Saturday:
Brunch: Spaghetti and sauce
Dinner: Rice, cabbage, cashew curry, hot dog cooked with onions and chutney
Snacks/Dessert: Orange
Sunday:
Brunch: Boiled cassava with spicy onion sambol (katta sambol)
Dinner: Pancakes with spicy/sweet onion sambol (seeni sambol)
Snacks: Peanuts, orange
I did well enough, I guess. I didn't stray too much from my meal options and I didn't go hungry!
On to Week 3! I still haven't done any grocery shopping, so, I am cooking from the freezer and pantry, this week, too.
September Week 3 Meal Plan Options:
Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch: Cereal with milk, scrambled egg and fried potatoes, pancakes, tuna salad on crackers.
Dinners: Stringhoppers (rice noodles) with fish curry, leftover cashew curry, and potato curry; Rice with leftover fish curry, cabbage; Rice or noodles with smoked sausage stir fry; leftovers
Snacks/desserts: Fruits (fresh/canned), nuts, crackers, cookies, etc.
How about you? What are your meal plans for the week?
I'm cooking up some more batches for the freezer this week - chilli, savoury mince, chicken casserole, veggie soups, and something creative with chickpeas but I don't know what yet!
ReplyDeleteAll of those sound good! Especially for the upcoming cooler weather. If you like, you could try how I usually cook chickpeas (garbanzo beans):
Deletehttps://bless2cents.blogspot.com/2016/04/spiced-garbanzo-beans.html
Ooh stringhoppers with fish curry! Yum!
ReplyDeleteYour meal plan made me hungry, and I have a class in 10 minutes. LOL
Oops! Sorry, Nil! :D
DeleteThis is the last packet of frozen stringhoppers I bought from the Sri Lankan store. But, last night, I pulled out my mother's stringhopper mold and the wicker trays. I haven't make my own stringhoppers, yet, but, I want to try. :)
DeleteYears ago I made stringhoppers once. I didn’t have enough strength to press the mold, so finally I had to call a friend. LOL
That's what I'm afraid of - that I won't be able to press the mold! Or, my hands will cramp. How did my mother make stringhoppers without any trouble well into her 70s?
DeleteSounds like you are doing great! I only shopped once this month and shouldn't need to go again between what I still have on hand. Maybe a few fresh veggies toward the end of the month but that's about it. Have a yummy week :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Martha. I will need to go grocery shopping, pretty soon, to get some fresh vegetables, bread, and a few other things.
DeleteThe flat bread looked good and sounds great. Blessings, xoxo, Susie
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susie. Hope all is well with you and Ted. :)
DeleteI had to google string hoppers and the molds. Do you make your own noodles?
ReplyDeleteThis is what I mean about your exotic meals!
My mother used to make her own stringhoppers, although I haven't made any yet, myself. I have been buying them from people who make them or the frozen ones from the Sri Lankan store. But, yes, you basically make your own noodles - mix up a dough of rice flour (or steamed wheat flour) and water, press the dough through the mold so it falls in thin strands onto woven wicker trays so that it forms a small, round mound, and then, steam the trays; once steamed, the stringhoppers are removed from the trays and eaten with curries, etc. :)
DeleteYou had me at coconut flat bread!
ReplyDeleteYou should try making some. They are delicious!
DeleteYesterday was takeout for DH's birthday! Today I had to use up half a jar of pasta sauce, so we had spaghetti. Not sure what tomorrow will be. I went grocery shopping this morning so we have 3 kinds of meat in the freezer plus more sausages, and a big bunch of fresh kale which works cooked or raw in a salad, plus frozen veggies and other fresh salad ingredients.
ReplyDeleteI've decided to start to stock up on various non-perishables and paper goods so I won't have so much to haul home in the winter. I'm going to use marker on my canned goods so the year and month are easy to see, and the newer ones will go in a closet in the spare room I think. I hate trying to read that small "best before" printing.
Happy birthday to your DH!
DeleteSounds like you have several options for tomorrow's dinner. I think it is a good idea to stock up on non-perishables before the winter, Bushlady. The less you have to carry back and forth to and from the car in the winter, the better.