My August Week 3 meal plan was based on what I had on hand in the fridge, freezer, and pantry, although I planned to put in an order of groceries sometime during the week (which I did on Friday).
This is what I had planned:
Brunches: Salads, French toast, boiled mung beans (haven't had that in a long time; need to remember to put the mung beans to soak overnight!), scrambled egg and fried potatoes, leftovers.
Dinners: Coconut roti and chicken curry; leftover tabouleh, boxed rice/wild rice mix and roast chicken; hamburgers; ground turkey keema curry, rice, tomato curry, and broccoli leaf mallung; leftovers!
Snacks: Crackers with cheese or peanut butter; apples, roasted almonds and/or peanuts, cereal, banana nice cream, that last piece of brownie that's still hanging around in the fridge.
This is how it turned out:
Monday:
Brunch - French toast
Dinner - Baked chicken (leftovers), boxed rice/wild rice mix (leftovers), frozen peas and frozen corn
Tuesday:
Brunch - French toast (leftover from Monday)
Dinner - Homemade bread and chicken curry, tabouleh|
Snack - Homemade bread with butter and peach jam!
Wednesday:
Brunch - Homemade bread with chicken curry
Dinner - Pork and vegetable gyoza/potstickers (from the freezer)
Snack - Banana "nice" cream (frozen banana blended with the juice of 1 orange and some peanut butter)
Thursday:
Brunch - Scrambled egg (1 egg), bacon, fried diced potato and cherry tomatoes
Dinner - Cheeseburger with bread ends "bun" - a frozen beef patty that I had cooked and frozen, earlier (thawed and reheated), a slice of American cheese, lettuce, "special sauce" (Miracle Whip, ketchup, and relish), on the end crusts of a loaf of bread! I debated if I wanted to add a piece of leftover bacon from the brunch, but, decided to save it for another meal!
Friday:
Brunch - Grapes
Dinner - Pizza, ice cream, grapes
Saturday:
Breakfast - Cinnamon rolls (compliments of neighbor S's daughter N)
Dinner - Ground turkey keema curry, rice, chutney
Sunday:
Brunch - Leftover ground turkey keema curry, rice, and chutney
Dinner - Coconut roti and turkey keema curry
I didn't have all the things I listed as meal options, but, I had some of them and I had other items that appealed more!
The meal plan for Week 4 is leftovers! I have quite a few cooked dishes in the fridge to be finished: Roti, a little bit of rice, turkey keema curry, French toast, pizza, one hamburger patty, and salad ingredients that must be finished.
In addition, on Monday, neighbor S brought me some frozen chicken, cheese, bacon, ranch dressing sandwich rolls that her husband had bought; I put three of them in the freezer and kept one in the fridge to have for brunch on Tuesday.
Of course I have already started this week:
Monday:
Brunch: Leftover roti and the last portion of chicken curry
Dinner: Toast with butter and peach jam (I was too full after a late brunch)
Snacks: Banana, Asian pears
Tuesday:
Brunch: A chicken sandwich roll (compliments of neighbor S)
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| Chicken, cheese, bacon ranch dressing sandwich roll |
Dinner will be rice and some of the turkey keema curry.
How about you? Did you make a meal plan last week? What's on your meal plan for this week?
Your meals sound very delicious. I topped up my freezer with a delivery from a frozen food store yesterday as I'd let it run down too much. I'm planning on changing supermarket too when my six month delivery pass runs out in two weeks time. Nice to have a change and more variety.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Eileen. Yes, good idea to top up the freezer; I like having plenty of items on hand! Changing supermarkets is good too; you might get better deals at the other store and also, they might have different items and variety is the spice of life, they say! :D
DeleteI'm intrigued by the ranch sandwich roll. Was the dressing on the bread or baked into the bread? Either one sounds delicious.
ReplyDeleteI think the dressing was mixed in with the chicken. It was sort of like a baked chicken salad with a bit of cheese on a bread roll. It was quite filling, but, it needed a salad on the side!
DeleteI didn't make a meal plan. With hubby's health it is hard to plan meals and I am kind of at his beck & call for when he feels like eating. I do have some meals prepared that I freeze and reheat for him. Love your plan(s). Diana
ReplyDelete(((HUGS))) Diana. As long as you have something prepared that you can reheat or have items on hand to make a quick meal, then, that is fine. This is also the time for guilt-free convenience foods if needed.
DeleteThank you; my meal plans are mainly options. To be switched around and mixed and matched as I please! :D
I still have only a vague meal plan going on. I bought some frozen kale the other day, thinking that one day I would make the West African Peanut Stew that we have tried and liked. I took a look at the recipe today and realized that I need to plan for it by buying a sweet potato. We have everything else it needs.
ReplyDeleteVague meal plans are fine, too, I think. Well, the frozen kale will keep until you buy the sweet potato and you can do that when you decide you are ready to make the stew. :) I keep forgetting to put the mung beans to soak, so, I'll have that for brunch one day when I remember to soak it the night before! LOL.
DeleteI've not been reading many blogs recently, but I've popped in today. Your meal plans look good, as always. Mr FD was away for a few days at his uncle's funeral, so I went to Picard, a frozen food shop, and bought myself some tasty treats for my dinners! (Not healthy, just tasty!) I am too lazy to cook properly for just myself; I think it would be different if I lived alone, but for a couple of days, I allow myself some tasty, easy-cook treats! Love FD
ReplyDeleteThank you, FD. I think it's lovely that you treated yourself to some frozen meals! I do, too, from time to time! :)
DeleteYour frig was certainly filled with lots of leftovers. I see a meal plan week 5 still to read so I will find out if those leftovers got consumed :)
ReplyDeleteYes, lots of leftovers! It's a good thing I like leftovers! :D
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