Tuesday, November 17, 2020

November Meal Plans - Week 2 Review and Week 3

I am late with my weekly meal plans!  Better late than never?

I started out Week 2 with a few leftovers that had to be eaten - a piece of baked chicken, a small amount of canned corned beef, potato curry, fish curry, and stringhoppers.

These were my November Week 2 Meal Plan Options:

Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch:  Fruit, French toast, salad, toast✓, sandwiches (tuna or egg salad), milk rice with fish curry✓

Dinner:  Baked chicken with salad, string hoppers with fish curry and potato curry✓, fried rice, "breakfast for dinner" (pancakes waffles or scrambled eggs on toast✓), spaghetti with meat sauce, leftovers✓

Snacks/Desserts: Fruit✓, nuts. cereal, etc.  Maybe cornbread or a pie, if I feel like baking!

And this is how it all worked out:

Sunday:
Brunch:  Toast, butter, homemade strawberry jam
Dinner:  Scrambled egg on toast 
Snacks/Dessert: Grapes, pineapple guava (feijoa), a piece of chocolate

Monday
Brunch:  Toast and seeni sambol
Dinner: Chicken noodle soup
Snacks/Dessert: Grapes; grilled cheese sandwich
 
Tuesday:
Brunch:  Stringhoppers with potato curry and seeni sambol
Dinner:  Macaroni and cheese
Snacks/Dessert: Apple, toast and seeni sambol, a piece of chocolate

Wednesday:
Brunch: Milk rice and mackerel curry  
Dinner: Baked potato
Snacks/Dessert: Grapes, apple slices with peanut butter

Thursday:
Brunch: Leftover milk rice and seeni sambol
Dinner: Chicken noodle soup
Snacks/Dessert: apple slices, cereal

Friday: 
Brunch: Stringhoppers, seeni sambol
Dinner:  Waffles, fish curry
Snacks/Dessert: Creme brulee

Saturday:
Brunch:  Leftover waffles and seeni sambol
Dinner:  Curry puffs filled with a mixture of leftovers (baked chicken, corned beef, potato curry)
Snacks/Dessert: Tres leches cake

Leftovers Curry Puffs



Well, that was a bit "hit or miss", wasn't it?  And, did I mention that I was on a seeni sambol (sweet and spicy onion relish) kick?  It seems I had it at practically every meal!  


November Week 3 Meal Plan Options:

I started Week 3 with several leftover curry puffs, a little bit of mackerel curry, and some of the gravy from the potato curry.

Breakfast/Brunch/Lunch:  Fruit, curry puffs, French toast, pancakes, sandwiches (cheese, tuna or egg salad), soup

Dinner:  Curry puffs, coconut roti with fish curry, spaghetti with meat sauce, pork chops, oven fried chicken.

Snacks/Desserts: Fruit, nuts. cereal, etc. 

Of course, November Week 3 has already started.  

Sunday: I had curry puffs for both brunch and dinner!  Snacks included a pomegranate from the tree and cashews.

Monday: Again, curry puffs for brunch and dinner!  Snacks included a banana, another pomegranate, and a cheese sandwich.

Tuesday: I had a banana for brunch and some vada (a fried snack made with lentils and spices) with my afternoon tea.  Haven't decided what I'll have for dinner, yet (it's a little after 6:00 p.m. as I type this).  Maybe I'll make the coconut roti to have with the fish curry, tonight.  

How are your weekly meal plans coming along? 


8 comments:

  1. I planned for the entire month and then bulk cooked most of the options. I'm not following the plan too strictly as I know I have enough portions for at least six weeks worth of meals so now I can just take whatever I fancy out of the freezer. I seem to be favouring the chilli and the soups so I think I will run out of those before the end of the month but will have plenty of other choices so am not worried.

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    1. I like the fact that you do a monthly meal plan and bulk cook. I am not that organized. However, every now and then, I freeze a portion of something I cook so I can have it another day. Sounds like you might need to make more chilli and soups to replenish your stock!

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  2. We don't really have a plan except to use the chicken in the fridge and some tomatoes on the counter before they go to waste. I like the way that you list options for the week instead of each day. That method works better for us.

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    1. The meal plan options seem to work better for me, right now. Back when my daughter was at home and I was working, I'd prepare two main dishes and alternate them. My daughter still does a version of that, but, she makes two full meals from two different cultures - a Sri Lankan meal of curries and several Japanese dishes, or Korean dishes. :)

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  3. All sounds good and I definitely like the idea of your curry puffs :)

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    1. Thank you, Martha. My curry puffs are a bit like your meatloaf puffs, aren't they? :)

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  4. Looks delicious. However, I was just thinking of the late Honor Min and how she used to admonish you to eat more green veggies!
    We seem to have fallen into a pattern of salmon on Wednesdays. I cook a couple of frozen pieces in the oven. Yesterday's supper was far from elegant. I made a frittata containing potato, mushrooms and red pepper (with green beans on the side), but my pan was sticking and it turned out more like a scramble!😊 It went down well, though.

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    1. Sigh...every time I do my meal plans, I admonish myself about vegetables. I miss Honor Min; it's been a couple of years hasn't it?

      Salmon on Wednesdays sounds good. I read somewhere that some people meal plan so that Mondays are always pasta, Tuesdays are always chicken, and so forth. I think that would be a good way to simplify meal planning.

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