This was the meal plan for February Week 1 Meal Plan (2/1 - 2/7):
Brunches: Milkrice with sambols (Saturday and Sunday)✓; eggs, sausages, toast✓; peanut butter sandwiches with bananas, French toast✓; oatmeal; pancakes with sausages fried rice, hamburgers, banana muffins
Dinners: Leftover fried rice (Saturday)✓; beef curry with rice and vegetables; ground beef with potatoes and/or rice and vegetables; beef stir fry with vegetables over rice; pizza and salad, chimichangas, salmon with rice and vegetables, leftovers.
Snacks/Desserts: Fresh fruit✓; smoothies; bread pudding and/or banana muffins✓; cereal and milk✓; peanut butter & banana toast; yogurt; cheetos✓
Here's how it worked out:
Saturday:
Brunch: Milkrice with assorted sambols (seeni sambol, katta sambol, lunu miris
Dinner: Leftover fried rice
Sunday:
Brunch: Leftover milkrice with assorted sambols and/or sugar
Dinner: Salad and chimichangas from the freezer
Monday:
Brunch: French toast and sausages
Dinner: Ground beef with vegetables (red onion, cabbage, bell pepper, snow peas, tomato, etc., shredded in a food processor) added to it along with spices; served over rice (daughter) and baked potato (me)
Tuesday:
Brunch: Scrambled eggs, leftover sausages, toast
Dinner: Leftover ground beef mixture with rice
Wednesday:
Brunch: Fried rice made with leftover rice, leftover ground beef, scrambled egg, green peas, and peanuts
Dinner: Rice, salmon, vegetables (carrots, broccoli, green beans)
Thursday:
Brunch: Hamburgers, fries, milkshake
Dinner: Leftovers/toast and seeni sambol
Friday:
Brunch: Banana muffins, cereal & milk
Dinner: Pizza & salad
Once again, I went off the meal plan quite a bit, this week! For one reason or another, I didn't feel like cooking much. Also, with my sleep schedule being so off, I am often sleeping till late morning or, even noon, then I make us our morning tea or coffee, after which neither of us wants breakfast or brunch. What I am referring to as brunch is often eaten once daughter gets off work for the day, around 5:00 or 5:30 p.m. I have been calling it brunch, but, daughter says it is lunch, and I know that some people might even have their dinner at that time. Then, we will have our cups of evening tea around 6:30 p.m. while I watch news. I usually cook dinner after I finish watching news and we usually eat our dinner around 8:30 p.m. (which is how it has always been). But, lately, I haven't felt like cooking in the evenings, so I've been going off the plan for dinner. I know that I need to be better about meal prep and batch cooking, but, a lot depends on my energy levels.
Anyway, it's a new week, so here's the plan for February Week 2 (2/8/25 - 2/14/25):
Lunches: Leftover pizza with salad (Saturday), pancakes and sausages, scrambled eggs with bacon and fried potatoes or toast, boiled mung beans with sambol, tortillas with egg and sambol
Dinners: Pot roast with rice and vegetables (Saturday), smoked sausage stir-fry with rice, chicken curry with rice and sauteed green beans. sauteed cabbage, and spicy sauteed potatoes; leftovers
Snacks: Fresh fruits, banana muffins, smoothies, tuna salad and crackers, Cheetos, etc.
Maybe I'll keep to the plan, this week. If not, there's always ramen noodles or tuna salad sandwiches!
Are you meal planning? If so, have you been keeping to your meal plan?
Good morning, Bless! I've been enjoying a lovely catch-up with your posts, having been away from blogland this past week.
ReplyDeleteCoincidentally, I've been meal planning myself, this morning, as I'll be going to the supermarket shortly. With a busy week ahead, I realise that I need to be much more organised :) I've already made some soup for my lunches. Xx
Hi Jules! Sorry I'm late replying to your comment, but, it went into my spam folder for some reason. I hope you were away from blogland for some fun and relaxation.
DeleteGood to hear that you've been meal planning, yourself and done some meal prep with making the soups. I've been thinking of making a batch of soup, myself, but, haven't done so, yet (my daughter is not that fond of soup).
They say that no plan survives contact with the enemy, and it's true. It's better to adapt plans to life than the other way around.
ReplyDeleteYou were under incredible stress during the wildfires. Perhaps you are recovering from that. It was a big deal and it's okay to take some time to get back from that.
Thank you, Lyssa. You are very understanding and kind. Yes, I have been feeling stressed about the fires and various other things; plus, I don't have the energy I used to have when I was younger! I am definitely adapting my plans to life! :)
DeleteYour schedule is very different than mine. I'm one of those people who are eating dinner around 5 pm. Does your daughter have certain hours that she has to be online for work?
ReplyDelete5:00 p.m. used to be our evening tea time when I was growing up. There was always some sort of food to go with the tea - sandwiches or pastries or cake. Dinner was always around 8:00 p.m.
DeleteYes, my daughter starts work at 8:00 a.m. and finishes at 5:00 p.m., although, some days, she'll work till 5:30 p.m. or 6:00 p.m., if she needs to finish up a project before the end of the day. She keeps to that schedule. Sometimes, I'll wake up to make her a cup of coffee at the start of her work day, and go back to sleep! I really, really need to work on my sleep schedule!
I find that cooking depends a lot on my energy level. If it is down, cooking is quite a challenge. If it is up, I can enjoy trying a new recipe and making an extra effort. At the lowest level it is "beans on toast", which we love anyway!
ReplyDeleteYes, it does depend on my energy level. When I was by myself, I would have a piece of toast with peanut butter or a scrambled egg and call it dinner. But, I can't do that when my daughter is home and unable to cook for herself, yet. Beans on toast sounds delicious, by the way, and I bought a can of beans, earlier, with the intention of making some for myself, one day. :)
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