August Week 1 meal planning worked out quite well! These were my options:
Brunches: Milk rice with fish curry and seeni sambol, etc.✔, cereal, scrambled eggs, waffles, pancakes✔ Egg salad sandwiches, fruit (banana)
Dinners:
- Rice, fish curry, beetroot curry, cabbage thel dala ✔
- Tortilla with leftover fish curry ✔
- Shirataki noodles, stir fried with vegetables and sausage
- Rice with ground turkey mixture from freezer ✔
- Leftovers✔
This is how it worked out:
Monday:
Brunch: Milk rice with fish curry and seeni sambol
Brunch: Milk rice with fish curry and seeni sambol
Dinner: Tortilla with fish curry and seeni sambol
Tuesday:
Brunch: Leftover milk rice, fish curry, and seeni sambol; grapes
Tea: Cheese and crackers
Brunch: Leftover milk rice, fish curry, and seeni sambol; grapes
Tea: Cheese and crackers
Dinner: Rice, omelet curry, leftover zucchini, corn, and cabbage stir fry (thel dala)
Wednesday:
Brunch: Pancakes, bacon, peach sauce
Brunch: Pancakes, bacon, peach sauce
Dinner: Rice, fish curry, cabbage thel dala, beetroot curry
Thursday:
Brunch: Leftover milkrice, fish curry, seeni sambol
Tea: Apple slices and peanut butter; Sri Lankan snack mix
Dinner: Rice, ground turkey mixture, zucchini chutney
Tea: Apple slices and peanut butter; Sri Lankan snack mix
Dinner: Rice, ground turkey mixture, zucchini chutney
Friday:
Brunch: Banana, egg salad sandwich
Dinner: Rice, ground turkey mixture with the last of the fish curry gravy, zucchini chutney
Brunch: Banana, egg salad sandwich
Dinner: Rice, ground turkey mixture with the last of the fish curry gravy, zucchini chutney
Saturday:
Brunch: Banana, egg salad sandwich
Dinner: Rice, the last of the ground turkey mixture, one okra!
Dinner: Rice, the last of the ground turkey mixture, one okra!
Sunday:
Brunch: Tortilla with the last of the seeni sambol
Brunch: Tortilla with the last of the seeni sambol
Tea: Corned beef (from a can) sandwich
Dinner: Rice, chicken curry from the freezer, leftover cabbage thel dala, beetroot curry; mango
Dinner: Rice, chicken curry from the freezer, leftover cabbage thel dala, beetroot curry; mango
I didn't make the shirataki noodles, but substituted chicken curry and rice, instead.
On to Week 2 and it is almost too hot to meal plan! LOL.
Brunches: Salads, sandwiches, and fruit; I might alternate between corned beef sandwiches and tuna salad sandwiches
Dinners:
- Rice with chicken curry, beetroot, chutney, etc.
- Shirataki noodles, stir fried with vegetables and sausage
- Burritos from the freezer
- Spaghetti with pasta sauce (from the freezer)
- Leftovers
- Rice with chicken curry, beetroot, chutney, etc.
- Shirataki noodles, stir fried with vegetables and sausage
- Burritos from the freezer
- Spaghetti with pasta sauce (from the freezer)
- Leftovers
How about you? Did you make a meal plan last week? If so, did you follow it? Are you making a meal plan for this week?
You're right it is too hot to have the oven on. I roasted a chicken and a piece of beef over the weekend and almost wished I hadn't as it is so hot but we had the cold meat with salads so that was OK. No meal plans here I'll go with what you said and say it's too hot to plan ahead :)
ReplyDeleteThat was very good planning on your part, Eileen, to cook ahead and use the meat in salads, later. :)
DeleteI am pleased to see 'corned beef' on your menu. A group of us were discussing it last week - I buy mine in a can, but they also sell slices in the deli. The can is far cheaper - and I can keep it and open it when I need it. Fresh stuff has such a short life. I keep my can in the fridge as it slices better when I come to use it for sandwiches. I'm doing a post about meal planning tomorrow
ReplyDeleteCorned beef brisket ($6.99/lb.) often goes on sale in the grocery stores around St. Patrick's Day but, I usually buy the canned version. Prices vary from $4.49 (12 oz. can) for store brand (available only for shipping, currently), to $7.49 (12 oz. can) for the leading brand. At that price, it is definitely a treat, as far as I am concerned! I usually cook it with onions, tomatoes, and chili powder, although sometimes, I just slice it straight from the can to have in a sandwich! :) Looking forward to seeing your post about meal planning. :)
DeleteOnce again, no specific meal plan here, but a goal of not letting any of the produce we have go to waste.
ReplyDeleteIt's fine to have no specific plan and not letting the produce go to waste is a very good goal. :)
DeleteI have gotten in the habit of writing down what I cooked for dinner (last night was macaroni and beef) and then looking back over the last couple of weeks to see what I haven't cooked lately. This helps me decide :) So not really planning ahead yet.
ReplyDeleteI think writing down what you cooked for dinner for several weeks and then, using that as a reference to decide what to cook next is a good idea! You could even just repeat the list of dinners after 2 or 3 weeks; I've a friend who used to do that!
DeleteOur meals were good but main meals worked out meatless for a few days. This usually meant that lunches included meat of some kind. DS has noticed that I tend to use a lot of cold cuts for sandwiches, which are not healthy. I need to cook large amounts of meat that will slice for sandwiches. I have sometimes shredded a leftover chop and made pulled pork for sandwiches.
ReplyDeleteMeatless main meals can be a good thing! A lot of us probably eat too much meat, as it is. Back when I packed lunches for my daughter and myself, I used to cook an extra piece or two of chicken to slice or shred for sandwiches (chicken curry sandwiches used to be one of her favorites).
DeleteYou had some really good food - pancakes, bacon and peach sauce sounds particularly good ;)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Debra. I buy bacon when it goes on sale (although current sale prices are higher than what used to be the regular price just a couple of years ago!), portion it out (3-4 slices per package), and freeze it! Then, every now and then, I'll pull a package out to thaw and fry up for brunches!
DeleteI made seeni sambol last night, and it was very good! I'm sure it wasn't very authentic, I just loosely followed several online recipes using ingredients I had and doing substitutions. I like your meal plan. I've not had corned beef in years, and now you and Angela have me thinking about it!
ReplyDeleteYay! Well done, Celie! I'm so impressed that you even tried making it! I'm sure it turned out well! It's basically sweet and spicy caramelized onions; what is important is that you liked it.
DeleteI had corned beef with rice for dinner, today. I cooked it with onions, tomatoes, a little chili powder, and some fresh lemon juice. It was good. :)
Also, thank you for explaining who mama cat is. I hope she stays well. I'm sure she misses her friend.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Celie. I've been checking on her, twice a day, and today, she got to enjoy some of Dancer's tuna. Snowball was her niece!
DeleteI have recently made a meal plan for when I am away on holiday. I hope to keep it up again when I return, as it makes things so much easier when I go for the weekly shop. X
ReplyDeleteWell done with the meal planning. What I am finding is that it gets easier to plan the more you do it. I still continue to buy whatever is on offer and then, plan my meals around it rather than plan first and then buy the ingredients. But, it works both ways, I'm sure. :)
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