This was the meal plan for July Week 4:
Brunches: Bread and cheese (Monday)✔, blueberry muffins✔(eaten as snacks), scrambled eggs and fried potatoes✔, pancakes
Dinners: Chicken curry and bread (Monday)✔, chicken curry with rice and vegetables✔, macaroni and cheese with tuna or ham chicken curry✔, the last of the pot roast and fried potatoes, teriyaki chicken drumsticks with rice and vegetables, leftovers✔
Here's how it worked out:
Monday:
Brunch - Homemade bread and cheese
Dinner - Chicken curry and homemade bread
Snacks - Grapes, blueberry muffins
Tuesday:
Brunch - Homemade bread and cheese again
Dinner - Chicken curry and rice
Snacks - Grapes, cashews, blueberry muffins
Wednesday:
Brunch - Scrambled egg, sauteed tomato, fried potatoes
Dinner - Homemade bread and tuna salad
Snacks - Grapes, yogurt, roasted cashews
Thursday:
Brunch - Homemade bread with the rest of the tuna salad
Dinner - Leftover rice, chicken curry, peach chutney
Snacks - Grapes, yogurt, banana "nice cream"
Friday:
Brunch - Banana, cheese and crackers
Dinner - Pork and vegetables gyoza/potstickers/dumplings
Snacks - Roasted almonds, ice cream
Saturday:
Breakfast - Peanut butter and bread
Lunch - Salad (lettuce, carrot, cucumber, mandarin segments, bottled dressing)
Dinner - Fried rice made with the leftover rice, the last bit of chicken curry, some frozen green peas, a scrambled egg, and tomatoes
Snacks - Ice cream
Sunday:
Brunch - Toast and cream cheese
Dinner - Mac & cheese (finally!) with chicken curry (a new batch, cooked on Sunday evening)
Which brings me to this week, which I am going to consider as August Week 1.
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
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
Snacks: Fresh fruits/fruit salad, frozen apple juice "popsicles", cheese and crackers or peanut butter and crackers,
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?
You have some tasty sounding dishes here. Do you have "Indian" curries, or more coconut-ty "South Asian" curries?
ReplyDeleteThank you! That's an interesting question you ask! I'm originally from Sri Lanka, so my curries are Sri Lankan curries - they are similar in some ways to south Indian curries, but, we also use coconut milk for the sauce or "gravy" as we call it. In my opinion, the flavor profile is more south Indian than Thai, for example. :)
DeleteI note that you have cheese, cream cheese and goat's cheese. My whole life I have found cheese hard to digest - "hard" cheeses make me very nauseous. Which is frustrating when the rest of the family wants pizza & I need an alternative. But gradually I've been introducing "soft" cheeses into my diet, to see if the ones with less rennet are more palatable. I can now manage cottage cheese, feta, ricotta and paneer , low fat cream cheese and small portions of mascarpone and goat's cheese. My daughter got a pizza topped with vegan "cheese" which I enjoyed. Which cheeses do you eat, Bless?
DeleteThe funny thing is, I go through phases - often, I'll go for weeks, even months, without eating cheese and then, I find myself eating cheese all the time! I like cheddar cheese and gouda for the most part, usually with crackers and bread; cream cheese when I am having bagels (the cream cheese I had on my toast the other day was leftover from when I had bagels a few weeks back), parmesan, and a processed cheese called "American" cheese, used to make grilled cheese sandwiches and to top hamburgers to make cheeseburgers. I'm not a fan of cottage cheese or blue cheese and I generally don't like to eat a piece of cheese by itself, which is weird, I know!
DeleteNeighbour S has treated you with more goodies and she is so kind to you. You do have delicious sounding meals. I do keep planning on eating what's in the freezer but then being tempted with what's on offer when doing my online grocery order :)
ReplyDeleteNeighbor S is more than kind, isn't she? She brought me a frozen pizza, some Armenian bread, Russian salami, and madeleine cookies, yesterday! I baked the pizza for dinner!
DeleteThank you, Eileen; I often think my meals are rather repetitious (there's chicken curry almost every week!), but, it's what I feel like making and what I enjoy eating. :)
I think it's perfectly fine to select your meals from what's on offer; you can keep the items in your freezer for when you aren't tempted by what's on offer or the store doesn't have what you ordered. :)
Now I want peanut butter and crackers after reading about them. Maybe for breakfast.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the fact that I didn't even know about peanut butter until I was about 12 (an American neighbor gave me some to try when I was in Sri Lanka and I was not that impressed by it), I eat quite a lot of it, these days! It makes a quick breakfast or snack and I tell myself it's slightly more nutritious than some of the other things I might eat!
DeleteYou make amazing food.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lyssa. I think you make some tasty food, yourself and you've inspired me from time to time - remember the sausages and mash? You made it, then, I made my version of it, and a couple of other blog readers said they were going to make some, too. :)
DeleteGood to see the macaroni and cheese got used up. And your bread baking was appreciated :)
ReplyDeleteYour brunch of scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and sautéed tomatoes makes me hungry as I sit here early in the morning with my tea:)
Ha, ha, I thought you'd notice that! Guess what? I still have another box of it left! Maybe I'll make it, next month!
DeleteScrambled eggs and fried potatoes with tomatoes made a nice breakfast. Hope you had a good breakfast, too. :)