Here's how the Week 3 Meal Plan worked out:
Monday:
Brunch - Leftovers from Easter dinner - rice pilaf, fried fish, cabbage slaw✔
Dinner - Leftover chicken curry with lavash bread (a bit of Sri Lankan/Armenian fusion cuisine!)✔
Tuesday:
Brunch - Egg salad sandwiches (using the Easter eggs)✔ Plus fruit salad
Dinner - Leftover fried fish, corn, cabbage slaw✔
Wednesday:
Brunch - Egg salad sandwich✔
Dinner - Chicken fried rice (leftover sauteed chicken, leftover rice)✔
Thursday:
Brunch - Leftover fried rice✔
Dinner - Leftover shrimp curry with rice and sauteed vegetables✔
Friday:
Brunch - Pancakes Pepperoni pizza!
Dinner - Soup? According to the weather forecast, it is supposed to be cold and rainy! ✔ Ham and split pea soup, even though the rain took place on Thursday night!
Saturday:
Brunch - Leftover pancakes pizza
Dinner - Leftover soup shrimp curry, rice, sauteed vegetables (leftovers from Thursday's dinner)
Sunday:
Brunch - Parathas with seeni sambol✔
Tea - Egg salad sandwich
Dinner - Spaghetti with meat sauce (using ground turkey). Soup
Well, I followed the meal plan for the most part! That's probably the best I've ever followed a meal plan! LOL!
On to Week 4!
Monday:
Brunch - 3 crackers while I waited for the car to be serviced!
Tea - Cheese, crackers, half an apple
Dinner - Leftover soup and a piece of buttered toast
Tuesday:
Brunch: Tortilla with scrambled egg and katta sambol
Dinner: Sausages with vegetables and leftover rice
Wednesday:
Brunch: Banana muffins (have to bake)
Dinner: Spaghetti and sauce (with ground turkey); salad
Thursday:
Brunch: Banana muffins
Dinner: Leftover sausages with mashed potatoes and vegetables
Friday:
Brunch: Pancakes
Dinner: Leftover spaghetti and sauce; salad
Saturday:
Brunch: Leftover pancakes
Dinner: Baked battered fish fillets with green peas and fries
Sunday (May 1):
Brunch: Milkrice and fish curry
Dinner: Soup, maybe
Once again, this week's meal plan has been put together using what I have on hand in the fridge, freezer, and pantry. I haven't done a grocery shopping trip and still have some fruits (oranges, apples, bananas, frozen berries) and vegetables (a cucumber, half a head of lettuce, a head of broccoli plus florets from the garden, peapods, a few carrots, plus broccoli leaves, chard, and Japanese spinach, and beets, although they are mostly leaves in the garden). Enough for this week.
I put out a package of sausages (5 sausages) and a package (1 lb.) of ground turkey to thaw. I am planning to freeze some of the cooked sausages and spaghetti sauce in single serving portions for later.
At least, that is the plan and plans are always subject to change!
How is your meal planning coming along?
Look at all of those checks. I'm impressed!
ReplyDeleteHa, ha, I'm impressed, too, June! :D I cooked the sausages, tonight, ate one, kept one and the rest of the vegetables in the fridge for Thursday night's dinner, and froze the other three for later! :)
DeleteSounds like a great meal plan. I haven't been doing too badly this week so far. I think I have everything planned out - if it goes to plan lol
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon; hope your meal plan goes according to plan, too! :D
DeleteI'm often invited to dinner or lunch at one of my daughter's. So, hehe, that's definitely in my food plan. I go to a friend's organic cafe where she does meals that are really cheap, so I get a meal-to-go, and it does me two meals, and I do this about 2x a week, at least. Fish and salad/vegies/homemade chips, a couple of times a week. And dhal. I make and eat a lot of it. I really do not enjoy cooking any more. But, mysteriously, I love to read what other people are making,
ReplyDeleteBetween having meals with your daughters and getting meals to go from your friend's cafe, it sounds like you've got your meal planning down pat! :D I will probably cook dhal, next week, to have with the fish curry that I'm planning to cook on Sunday. I don't always enjoy cooking, but, I, too, enjoy reading about what others are making and having. :D
DeleteYour meal plans are working well, those ticks are proof indeed.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Eileen; I was very happy with how the meal planning worked out, last week. :)
DeleteA meal plan is just that. It is merely a plan and not set in concrete.!
ReplyDeleteI love reading what you are having and almost always do a google search to see how to make some of your very exotic meals.
It's good to have a plan, though, isn't it? Nothing very exotic planned for this week, though. :)
DeleteGreat meal plans, Bless, and nothing wasted it seems. I don't really enjoy cooking any more but love reading about it :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Pensive. I try not to waste anything, although, occasionally, something does go bad. I always enjoy reading about cooking and what others are making! :D
DeleteOh I like the checks :)
ReplyDeleteYou stuck to your plan very well I would say.
You are very good at stretching your resources and keeping an eye on what you have and designing your meals around what's on hand.
Glad you liked the checks! :D Positive reinforcement! :D
DeleteI did well with sticking to the plan, didn't I? Only the pizza derailed it, a bit, but, that's OK. We are only a couple of days into this week, but, so far, I am sticking to the plan!
You make great meals. And if you have a plan then at least you have a starting point when life happens!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lyssa. Having a plan makes me want to prepare the planned meals - otherwise, I tend to get lazy and eat the same dish or want take out!
DeleteYou are so good about doing this. I should try harder to follow a plan for more than just a day or two! Hugs- Diana
ReplyDeleteI try, Diana. I don't always follow the plan (some days I can't be bothered with cooking), but, I'm trying! :D
DeleteI love the fact that you can just pick vegetables, fruit and herbs from your garden.
ReplyDeleteWe woke up to find a thin layer of snow outside this morning! The birds are busy at the feeders and we have a "teenage" girl squirrel who has found a way to get onto the sunflower seed feeder. She actually took a peanut from me before jumping down.
I love being able to pick things from the garden, Bushlady, even though the water bill is high! Today, I picked a bunch of broccoli leaves and cooked them to take to friend A, tomorrow. :)
DeleteMore snow! Oh, no! Oh, those squirrels are going to be so tame!
I might copy your meal plan this week. It looks yummy ☺️
ReplyDeleteFeel free to do so, Eileen; but, I changed things around just a bit, for tonight's dinner! Spaghetti with leftover sausage and vegetables!
DeleteThat's excellent. I don't eat as much of a variety as you do. I am amazed at your menus. My diet is more repetitious. Lots of fruit, salad, meat or fish, and quesadillas.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Stephenie. Your meals sound good, too, and healthy! :)
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