Monday, October 2, 2023

September Week 4 Meal Plan Review/ October Week 1 Meal Plan

This was the plan for the last week of September:

Brunches: Toast with butter and peach jam (Monday)✔, toast with peanut butter,✔ cheese burek✔, scrambled egg and toast, tuna salad sandwiches✔, soup?

Dinners: Chicken curry sandwich (Monday)✔, stir fried "noodles" (spaghetti) with sausage and vegetables, sauteed chicken curry with rice, or potatoes, and vegetables✔, fried rice, leftovers!

Snacks/Desserts: Gyoza (Monday)✔, apple slices (Monday)✔, bananas✔, yogurt✔, muffins or biscuits (if I bake some), cheese and crackers; pastries and desserts from neighbor S.

Here is how it worked out:

Monday:
Brunch: Toast with butter and peach jam
Dinner: Chicken curry sandwich
Snacks/Desserts: Two leftover gyoza, apple slices 

Tuesday:
Brunch: Cheese burek (half)
Dinner: Rice, chicken curry, eggplant curry, tomato chutney
Snacks/Desserts: Banana; microwaved apple slices with ice cream

Wednesday:
Brunch: Cheese burek (other half)
Dinner:  Rice, chicken curry, spicy sauteed potatoes, sauteed curried green beans, moringa curry, the last of the eggplant curry
Snacks/Desserts: Banana

Thursday:
Brunch: Peanut butter toast
Dinner: Rice and curries (chicken curry, spicy sauteed potatoes, sauteed curried green beans, and moringa curry)
Snacks/Desserts: Popcorn, yogurt, a piece of chocolate

Friday:
Brunch - Tuna salad sandwich
Dinner - Fried breaded shrimp
Snacks/Desserts - Popcorn, chocolate pudding

Saturday:
Brunch - Tuna salad sandwich
Dinner - Rice and curries (chicken curry, spicy sauteed potatoes, sauteed curried green beans, tomato chutney)
Snacks/Desserts - Cheese pastry at tea, sour cream gelatin with cherry pie filling dessert 

Sunday (October 1):
Brunch - Milkrice, chicken curry, seeni sambol
Dinner - Fried breaded shrimp
Snacks/Desserts - Cheese Danish, sour cream gelatin with cherry pie filling

I think that worked out quite well - I didn't make the stir fried noodles, but, I am planning to make it this week, instead.

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Moving on to October, here's the meal plan for October Week 1:

Brunches: Thai beef fried rice* (Monday)✔, leftover milkrice from Sunday with leftover chicken curry, scrambled egg and toast, tuna salad sandwiches, pancakes or waffles

Dinners: Fried rice (Monday)✔, stir fried "noodles" (spaghetti) with sausage and vegetables, gyoza, teriyaki chicken wings and salad, leftovers

Snacks/Desserts: Pears, apples, muffins or pastries, pudding

* I had to go to the library to return my books, today, and on the way back, I went to my favorite Thai restaurant and bought myself an order of their beef fried rice to go.  You have to go through the eating area to the order counter, but, the eating area is an open patio and there was just one person there when I went to order and he had left by the time I paid for my order; in addition, I wore a mask.

What's on your meal plan for the first week of October?

12 comments:

  1. Your meal plans are going well. I'm pleased you are getting out and about going to the library and ordering a takeaway meal which sounds yummy. I must eat from my freezer this week to make way for some Christmas goodies.

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    1. Thank you, Eileen. It was a really quick visit to the library to return the books, but, I did go inside to do so, instead of using the book return set up outside. One of the books was due today and I wanted to make sure they checked it in right away so I wouldn't have an overdue book charge on my account. Then, when I was in the car, driving home, I decided to treat myself to a take out, even though I had food at home.
      I'm sure you'll find plenty of yummy things to have from your freezer. The sausage, gyoza, and chicken wings I've listed on my meal plan are all from my freezer. I need to clear the freezer to make room for the Thanksgiving turkey leftovers! LOL.

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  2. Excellent meal plans as ever. We have been eating a large piece of mutton from the freezer. Bob bought it in the summer, intending it fir a big family meal which didn't happen. So he cooked it in his kettle bbq. We ate it with veg for 2 days, the I made the remainder into a stew, and froze it in portions. We got meals for 6 days, so it worked out to be very economical in the end. I'm using up the last of my veg from the garden. I shall make a curry with those green tomatoes which are failing to ripen!

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    1. Thank you, Angela. Sounds like you got many meals from that piece of mutton! Your green tomato curry sounds great!

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  3. Talk about having a plan and sticking to it. I'm impressed.

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  4. Wow a workable plan, great meals and pastries and desserts from a neighbor. It sounds perfect!

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  5. Thank you, Anne. I don't always follow my plan, but, I've not gone hungry, either! :D

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  6. This week has included plenty of salad and veggies, thanks to a generous donation from our next door neighbours who grow vast quantities!

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    1. Very healthy! You, too, have some lovely neighbors who share their garden produce!

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  7. I'm glad you stopped and got the beef fried rice. I'm sure you enjoyed it.
    What with going to the library and treating yourself to a carryout meal, you had a nice little outing.

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    1. Thank you, Debra. It was a nice little outing and yes, I enjoyed my beef fried rice. The restaurant (it's really a hole in the wall kind of place) is family owned, so I was supporting a local small business. They give very generous portions, too; there was enough rice for four meals for me, so, money well spent, I think.

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