This was the August Week 1 meal plan:
Brunches: Toast and peanut butter✔ (Monday), Milkrice and chicken curry✔ (Tuesday), Leftover milkrice and chicken curry✔, sandwiches with Armenian bread and salami✔ (compliments of neighbor S!), salads✔, cheese toast✔, cheese pastries (compliments of neighbor S)
Dinners: Pizza with kale and goat cheese✔ (Monday; compliments of neighbor S!), leftover pizza✔, leftover mac and cheese with chicken curry✔, gyoza/potstickers/dumplings✔, rice and chicken curry with cucumber salad and chutney, pasta (compliments of neighbor S)
Snacks: Fresh fruits/fruit salad, frozen apple juice "popsicles", cheese and crackers or peanut butter and crackers,
This is how it turned out:
Monday:
Brunch - Toast and peanut butter
Dinner - Pizza that neighbor S had given me
Tuesday:
Brunch - Milkrice with chicken curry
Dinner - Leftover pizza
Wednesday:
Brunch - Milkrice, with chicken curry and seeni sambol (from a jar)
Tea - Bread and cheese
Dinner - Salad (lettuce, cucumber, grated carrot, mandarin segments, bottled dressing), followed by a slice of pizza, much later
Thursday:
Brunch - Leftover milkrice and chicken curry
Dinner - Pork and vegetables gyoza/potstickers/dumplings
Friday:
Brunch - Leftover mac and cheese with chicken curry
Dinner - Spaghetti compliments of neighbor S
Saturday:
Breakfast - Cheese pastries
Dinner - Leftover mac and cheese with chicken curry
Sunday:
Brunch - Leftover milk with chicken curry
Dinner - Gyoza
Which brings me to this week, although it is already midweek by the time I post this! I took out a package of chicken curry and a package of baked chicken thighs from the freezer. I am planning my meals around these two items, plus various other things in the fridge and freezer.
Brunches: Salad (Monday), Toast and peanut butter (Tuesday), cream cheese and toast, scrambled eggs and toast or fried potatoes
Dinners: The last of the macaroni and cheese with chicken curry (Monday); baked chicken with boxed rice/wild rice mix and snowpeas (Tuesday); coconut roti and chicken curry; rice, chicken curry and spicy sauteed potatoes; leftovers.
Snacks: Fresh fruits. cheese and crackers or peanut butter and crackers, cereal, banana nice cream, the last of the brownies
That is the plan; we'll see how it all turns out!
Did you do a meal plan for last week? If so, how did it work out? Are you making a meal plan this week?
Once again, no plan here, but we don't go hungry. Have you been tempted to venture out and get pick-up from a restaurant as you are slowly going back out into the world?
ReplyDeleteAt times, I feel lazy to bother with meal planning, especially since I often go off the meal plan! But, it helps to have at least a vague idea of what I might eat that week. I have some thawed grated coconut in the fridge that needs to be used up, thus roti, this week. Potatoes that need to be used up, too, so, spicy sauteed potatoes.
DeleteAs for getting something from restaurants, I did pick up some Thai food back in June. I've thought of ordering something from the Sri Lankan restaurant, but, I haven't done so, yet! It's a bit of a drive to go there, for one thing, and, for another, I no longer have a budget for eating out/take out! I used to budget $25/month for eating out/take out/entertainment, but, I rolled that into my $75 budget for groceries to make it my current $100/month grocery budget. So, eating out/takeout is a special treat that comes from savings elsewhere and even then, I usually tell my daughter to treat herself to a meal out on my account. If I get a bag of frozen gyoza/potstickers from the grocery store, then, that becomes my "take out" treat! :D
My meal plan is just a list of possibilities with no assigned day. And mostly I ignore them! I do way too much take out, especially this summer as I've had little motivation to cook. It's definitely not good for my budget! I sometimes make pot stickers using a very old weight watchers recipe. These are with chicken in bought gyoza wrappers. I like your meal combo of Mac and cheese and chicken curry!
ReplyDeleteI don't assign a day to a particular meal unless it's milkrice on the 1st of the month, but, when I post midweek, I will list what I ate earlier in the week. :)
DeleteI remember you mentioning making your own gyoza! I've thought of making my own and freezing them, but, I haven't done so, yet.
You are usually very good with packing your lunches, etc., when you have to go to work, so, a few take outs during summer should not be too much of a problem. But, take out is not cheap, is it?
Bit of a panic for supper today as I didn't feel like cooking anything I could find in the freezer, and didn't have any frozen salmon which I would have cooked. Then I decided to try a recipe for a spicy dhal, since I had recently bought some red lentils. It was delicious with rice and I made a salad to go with it. Tomorrow I might just use up the two frozen (uncooked) pork chops that I didn't want today.
ReplyDeleteYou did well to come up with a delicious meal, after all! I love dhal and rice! Enjoy the pork chops tomorrow. :)
DeleteYou had some good food. I've never put kale on a pizza but I bet it was good.
ReplyDeleteHow was the jarred seeni sambol? I'm sure not as good as your homemade but was it ok?
Is that the last of your macaroni & cheese from your cupboard? haha
Just between you and me, kale is not my topping of choice when it comes to pizza, but, my daughter assures me that she would have liked it. Of course she would have. This is the girl who once asked if she could have more of the cucumber slices we had with dinner instead of the ice cream I offered her for dessert!
DeleteThe jarred seeni sambol is good. Not quite as good as my homemade (according to M, who has tried both), but, it makes a good alternative (I had some last night, too...or, rather, very early this morning, before I went to bed!)
No, I still have another box of mac & cheese! LOL. I bought a pack of 5 or 6 boxes when it was on sale, when my daughter was staying down here, and I guess we didn't eat it quite as often as I thought we would!