This was how last week's meal plan worked out:
Monday: Leftover salmon with freshly cooked rice, cucumber salad, and peach chutney; mango and love cake for dessert
Tuesday: Teriyaki chicken drumsticks with rice, snow peas and carrots stir fry; mandarins mango for dessert
Wednesday: Rice with curried chick peas/garbanzo beans, spicy sauteed potatoes, and green beans; cucumber salad; mango mandarins and love cake for dessert
Thursday: Leftovers (if any); boxed mac & cheese with tuna, if not; Leftover roast pork from the freezer made over into a curry, leftover potatoes and green beans (daughter had the leftover chick peas as a snack, earlier), peach chutney; mandarins for dessert (there will probably be cake, too).
Friday: Pot stickers/gyoza (appetizer); maybe ramen noodles; fruit salad for dessert Pizza!
Saturday: Ham or turkey tetrazzini with green peas; home canned peaches for dessert Leftover Pizza!
Sunday: Beef stew or beef pot pies if I feel ambitious enough to make pastry; or maybe top with mashed potatoes, instead. Ice cream for dessert. Ham and noodle casserole with green peas; apple slices, love cake
So, I went off the plan a bit and switched things around a bit, but, on the whole, it worked out well, I think. We didn't stick to the desserts I thought we would have, but, we had assorted fruits, love cake, and there were chocolates, as well!
This weeks tentative meal plan for dinners:
Monday: Chicken curry (from the freezer), rice, leftover spicy potatoes, steamed broccoli, cucumber salad, peach chutney
Tuesday: Leftover chicken curry, sauteed green beans, rice, leftover cucumber salad, if any, peach chutney
Wednesday: Ground turkey(from the freezer) made into a keema curry (with added vegetables) and served with rice
Thursday: Leftovers from Wednesday
Friday: Hamburgers (need to buy buns), salad
Saturday: Mackerel (canned) curry, lentils/dhal, green beans, rice
Sunday: Beef stew (canned) and mashed potatoes, broccoli
Brunches will most probably be leftovers or toast/sandwiches.
Desserts will be fruits, cake, ice cream, etc.
That is the plan and it is subject to change, as always. LOL.
I will need to do another grocery order midweek to pick up half and half, more vegetables, and some bananas (I have apples, mangos, and lots of mandarins in the fridge).
I am grateful that I am blessed with enough food to eat, a varied diet, and the luxury of actually planning and choosing what I want to eat and changing that plan depending on what I feel like eating. I am very mindful of the fact that not everyone is able to do so. That, in many households around the world, the question is not what are we going to eat for dinner tonight, but, rather, will we have any food for dinner tonight.
Did you make a meal plan last week and if you did, did you follow it? Will you be making a meal plan this week?
Yes, we have much to be thankful for. It is really old here, we had snow this afternoon. It is terrible that families in the UK are having to choose between eating and heating.
ReplyDeleteIt really is an awful choice to have to make, isn't it?
Deleteyes, it bit of planning would be good for me, I ran out of vegetables, well almost, i have left 3 carrots, 2 onions and in the freezer still plenty of wild mushroom and rhubarb, thank god for rhubarb. But tricky to make much of meal with. Tomorrow keeping our fingers crossed that the shelves in the grocery store are well stocked, not a given these days.
ReplyDeleteI find it useful to have at least an idea of what I can make, if not an actual plan. I suppose one could always make some soup with carrots, onions, and the mushrooms, or carrot and onion soup and sauteed mushrooms, plus make a dessert with the rhubarb. But, I hope you will be able to stock up on groceries tomorrow. :)
DeleteNice plan! It's always good to be a little flexible moving things around.
ReplyDeleteI did really well on my meal plan last week. I have a meal plan for this week but when I went today to do my food shop there were empty shelves! I got what I could but I'll have to make another trip to the shops in a couple of days to get the rest of the items.
Thank you, Sharon. :)
DeleteGlad to hear that you did well on your meal plan last week. Too bad about the empty store shelves, but, hope you'll be able to buy the rest of the items later in the week.
That is true. I try not to waste any food. I don't plan my meals the way you do. I eat a lot of leftovers and three salads a day. Today I had chicken and fettuccini. (and too many servings of homemade apple crisp.
ReplyDeleteSame here, Stephenie; I, too, try not to waste any food. You eat a lot more salads than I do! I need to try and incorporate more vegetables into my meals! Yum! Your homemade apple crisp sounds delicious! :)
DeleteIt's dreadful that many people die from hunger and even in our wealthy countries many people now go to bed hungry. We must count our blessings for sure.
ReplyDeleteIt really is, Eileen. There are many reasons for it, of course, but, the end result is people are going hungry, which is tragic.
DeleteYour meals all sound delicious. My plan has veered off course this week, as I decided it would be safer not to drive to the supermarket for the weekly shop. The roads have been rather icy.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I find myself complaining at having to decide what to eat for dinner, I remind myself how lucky I am to have a choice. Xx
Thank you, Jules. I'm glad you were able to make meals from what you had on hand and avoid those icy roads; it's a very good reason for going off the meal plan. Yes, we are blessed to be able to have a choice, aren't we?
DeleteIt's good to be reminded of how blessed we are with our basic necessities. I have wanted for many things in my life, but never for good food or shelter.
ReplyDeleteYes, we are very blessed, aren't we? There have been times when I didn't have a lot of money, but, I've never had to go hungry.
DeleteI say amen to your list of things you are thankful for. I would really like to find someone who is having trouble affording food and le them "shop" in my freezer.
ReplyDeleteI really do feel blessed to be able to have enough and a choice, Anne.
DeleteI have occasionally asked the monks at the temple if they knew of someone who could do with some help and then taken a box of food or school supplies to the temple and the monks would see to it that the person in need would receive it. Perhaps you can ask through your church or a local school, to see if they know of someone who could use a little help and offer to bring a cooler full of items to the church or school, if not for someone specific, then for anyone to help themselves to?
I remember back when I was teaching the number of children who came to school hungry and went all day without food. It was a real shock and an eye opener for me that this could happen in what was by no means a poor area. I hadn't realised before that poverty existed to that extent in the UK. It's heart-breaking to know that people are going hungry. xx
ReplyDeleteIt really is a shame to know that there are people going hungry even in wealthier nations like the UK and the US, especially children. Yes, there are programs to provide free/reduced cost meals through the school to the school children, but, even so, funding for those programs tend to be insufficient for the most part, especially with rising food costs. (One part of my daughter's work involves evaluating the nutritional impacts of school meals programs in the state of California).
DeleteI had planned to make another dessert for the family on Sunday but since there was a nearly a third of the trifle left, I served that with the addition in each dish of a piece of gluten free chocolate brownie that I had made previously. No complaints there! There were veggies left over on Sunday so on Monday I was able to puree them with some light cream and make soup for DH and me for lunch.
ReplyDeleteOh, yum, trifle! I haven't had that in years! Trifle and chocolate brownies sound delicious! Your vegetables in cream soup sounds perfect, too! I'm sure you all enjoyed your family get together, Bushlady. Hope your son, DIL, and GD had a safe journey home, afterwards.
DeleteYour meal plan has some very delicious sounding food.
ReplyDeleteNo meal plan for me but we are eating well and using up our food to avoid waste. Although I failed in that department with 2 different bags of spinach which were iffy from the start.
Concealed damage I call it :(
I think I will stop buying bagged spinach and just buy old fashion large spinach sold in bunches.
Thank you, Debra, and we are more or less following it, so far, this week. Too bad about the bagged spinach! It's hard to tell the condition of the inner leaves when its all bagged up, isn't it? That's why, today, when the grocery store was out of the bunch of kale I wanted and offered to substitute a (smaller) bag of chopped kale, I declined.
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