This was the meal plan for September Week 2:
Brunches: Pancakes and mackerel curry (Monday), leftover pancakes and mackerel curry, French toast, scrambled egg, peanut butter and toast, salads
Monday:
Brunch: Pancakes and mackerel curry
Dinner: Smoked sausage stir fry and rice
Snacks/Desserts: Yogurt, apple slices, leftover pancakes with syrup (very late night snack)
Tuesday:
Brunch: Scrambled egg by itself (eaten after we got home from the vet clinic, around 4:00 p.m.); chocolate
Dinner: Leftover smoked sausage stir fry and rice
Snacks: Yogurt, apple slices, crackers, cheese and toast (another very late night snack)
Wednesday:
Breakfast - Peanut butter on a slice of toast
Lunch - Fried breaded shrimp
Dinner - Chicken sandwich roll
Snacks: Banana, ice cream
Thursday:
Brunch: Scrambled egg
Dinner: Rice, beef curry, tomato chutney, cucumber salad
Snacks - Banana, yogurt, canned peaches
Friday:
Brunch - Bread and beef curry
Dinner - Fried breaded shrimp with tomato chutney
Snacks -Peanuts, canned peaches
Saturday:
Brunch - Pancakes and mackerel curry
Dinner - Hamburger patty, green beans, corn, potatoes, tomato chutney
Snacks - Blueberry pancake; canned peaches
Sunday:
Brunch - Pancakes and mackerel curry
Dinner - Cheese burek compliments of neighbor S
Snacks - Rice pudding, gata, apple
I think it worked out well, even with several changes. I couldn't find the chicken curry in the freezer, so I thawed a packet of beef curry, instead, and that worked out just as well. I've since located the chicken curry, and have taken out a packet of 2 pieces to thaw for this week. I have one more packet of beef curry and two packets of chicken curry, in the freezer. That's at least 3 more weeks of chicken and beef curry before I need to make more (there's plenty of sauted or baked chicken in the freezer as well).
On to this week's meal plan:
Brunches: Leftover blueberry pancakes (Monday); French toast; scrambled eggs (with or without bacon and fried potatoes or toast); uppuma (Indian style cream of wheat); soup (?; it's supposed to rain on Thursday); leftovers
That is the plan, anyway. While my meal plans are subject to change, I've some leftovers in the fridge that I need to finish up!
I make an evening meal plan every week. I don't eat breakfast and for lunch I just see whatever is leftover and have it. Often my lunch is one bite of this and one bite of that. I save all the small bits and pieces of anything we have and those become my lunches.
ReplyDeleteMy dinners are getting less and less involved. We just don't seem to want much at night during the summer. Plus I tend to go off plan most weeks anyway.
Cooler weather will be here soon and things will change__maybe!
anne in the kitchen
I always enjoy reading your weekly meal plans, Anne, and even when you go off the plan, you still eat some yummy meals. My brunches are usually eaten around 2:30 pm. or so and dinner is usually after 8:00 p.m. I find myself more likely to cook something for brunch and then, warm up something for dinner.
DeleteThank you for commenting, Anne, even though I know you have some difficulty doing so.
I'm glad you treated yourself to some chocolate following your visit to the vet clinic. I'm like you as I need to rummage some more in the freezer and get things used up. Now I have reverted back to my original supermarket and signed up for a whole year I have added more to the freezer which wasn't my plan :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Eileen; the chocolate was much needed on that day! Not that I need an excuse to eat chocolate! LOL.
DeleteI think I need a bigger freezer! What I have is a side-by-side fridge/freezer, which is quite big, but, I've stuffed it full with garden produce and bargains I've got on sale!
It's easy to add to the freezer when we are grocery shopping, isn't it? Hope your switch to the original supermarket is working out well.
It would be so easy to not cook for just one, but you do a great job every week of doing just that.
ReplyDeleteThank you, June. There are days when I like to cook and on the days I don't feel like cooking, I usually have something cooked in the freezer that I can pull out and reheat. Or, I make something very quick and simple like a sandwich or scrambled eggs on toast!
DeleteI tend to keep a lot of items in the large freezer drawer in the fridge and the downstairs freezer is rarely full, in fact for years I have kept a bottom layer of 4 litre ice cream containers filled with ice, to use up some space for efficiency. I used it a lot more during the pandemic as my buying changed both in frequency and amounts (sort of "just in case" thinking?). It is useful when there is a good special on something we use.
ReplyDeleteHaving a second freezer can come in very useful to store those sale items, etc. I have a side-by-side fridge/freezer which should be plenty for one person, but, then, I freeze a lot of the garden produce and that takes up a lot of space! My daughter says I should get a second freezer, but, I'm resisting the temptation to do so!
DeleteYour meals worked out well this week. Filled with lots of variety and delicious sounding food.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found your chicken curry lol
Of course I'm so behind, it's probably been eaten!
They did work out well, didn't they?
DeleteOh, I was so glad that I found my chicken curry! That is a staple for me, as you know! I enjoyed it, this week, and there's only a tiny bit of the curry gravy left (I'll add it to some fried rice to just flavor it, if nothing else).