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| Friday Night Dinner |
Brunches: Milkrice with chicken curry (Tuesday, July 1)✓, leftover milkrice and chicken curry (Wednesday)✓, French toast (there's milk that must be finished); scrambled eggs and fried potatoes, salad with leftover sauteed chicken, tuna salad sandwiches
Dinners: Spicy beef stir fry with rice ✓and broccoli and/or cucumber salad; Hamburger/cheeseburger with sweet potato fries and salad✓; Fried rice; Leftovers✓
Snacks/Desserts: Blueberry yogurt loaf cake (yes, there's still a couple of slices left); yogurt and fruit or treacle; fresh fruit✓
And here's how that turned out (I kept an on-going record all week):
Monday:
Brunch: Leftovers from Saturday's party (Mexican rice, grilled chicken, and grilled beef)
Dinner: Pizza (another party leftover) and salad
Snacks/desserts: Leftover birthday cake (from the party); plums
Tuesday:
Brunch: Milkrice and chicken curry
Dinner: Leftovers from Saturday's party
Snacks/desserts: Crackers with peanut butter; cereal; nectarine
Wednesday:
Brunch: Milkrice and chicken curry (leftovers)
Dinner: Rice and spicy beef stir fry
Snacks/desserts: Crackers, nectarine & plum; piece of the blueberry yogurt cake
Thursday:
Brunch: Milkrice, beef stir fry, lunu miris (sambol); I made what I thought would be two brunches of milkrice, but, it turned out that I had made enough for three meals!
Dinner: Leftovers from Saturday's party
Snacks/desserts: Plums, crackers, chocolate
Friday:
Brunch: Scrambled egg and baked beans, a piece of mango, coconut water:
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| Friday Brunch |
Dinner: Cheeseburger (no bun), toaster oven baked sweet potato "fries", cucumber slices
Snacks/desserts: Plum. cereal
Saturday:
Brunch: Not Quite Kedgeree (Spiced rice, flaked salmon, scrambled egg because I don't much care for hard boiled eggs)
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| Not Quite Kedgeree (Spiced Rice, Flaked Salmon, Scrambled Egg) |
Dinner: Pita bread and beef stir fry
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| Pita and Spicy Beef Stir Fry |
Snacks/desserts: Mango
Sunday:
Brunch: Pita bread and beef (same as Saturday's dinner)
Dinner: Sauteed chicken sandwich
Snacks/desserts: Plums
I didn't quite keep to the meal plan for one reason or another, but, I think it worked out well enough. I needed to use up quite a few leftovers and that's what I tried to do.
Moving on to July Week 2. I am trying to avoid grocery shopping this week, too. I am also not wanting to cook much. So, I am going for fairly easy meals based on what I have on hand:
Brunches: Pita bread and spicy beef stir fry (Monday); French toast or pancakes; peanut butter toast; egg salad or tuna salad sandwiches; leftovers
Dinners: Burrito (Monday); Breakfast for Dinner (scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, baked beans); ramen noodles with shredded chicken and vegetables; sandwiches; leftovers
Snacks/Desserts: Fresh fruit; yogurt and fruit or treacle; crackers and peanut butter; granola bars
Or, of course, something different as the mood strikes! LOL.
Are you making a meal plan this week?
Your meals look delicious 😋
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda. :)
DeleteSweet potato fries look yummy. I should buy SPs and make some. I used my air fryer to roast peeled chunks of a couple of nondescript potatoes, after coating them with a little oil and spices, and they turned out well.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bushlady. I baked them in the toaster oven, like you, coating them in a little oil and adding spices (garlic powder, salt, etc.), but, they didn't crisp up. My daughter said that they get crispier in an air fryer. I don't have one, but, she'll bring hers down when she comes home and then, I can try making them in the air fryer.
DeleteGreat photos and menu as always. You are definitely a motivator to keep me on track with my meal planning!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon. I'm taking the photos in order to remember what I had! :D
DeleteI laugh because I make a meal plan every week and rarely keep it.
ReplyDeleteLike you I say I am not going to the grocery store and just use things from home, but today I went to our local produce stand, then to the grocery store to get BOGO watermelon. Even worse it is 11:30 pm here now and just before reading your post I was looking at the coming week's grocery ads.
We make meal plan options. :)
DeleteI think going to the local produce stand to buy fresh items is a good way to support your local farmers.
I, too, took a quick look at this week's grocery ads, today. There isn't anything I really need, but, it's good to be informed, isn't it? :)
I think you do a good job with variety and using what you have. But I think you would be good with that whether or not you made a meal plan. Do you ever consider not making one?
ReplyDeleteThank you, June. Yes, there are times when I don't meal plan. In fact, I didn't meal plan on a regular basis for several years. Back then, I would cook a chicken curry and a beef curry or stir fry every week and alternate those two for lunches and dinners. And when I'd get tired of having the same thing, I'd get some fast food or get take out once or twice a week.
DeleteHaving a meal plan of sorts helps me with deciding what I want to eat on a given day. I often go off the plan because I might not feel like cooking on a given day or the planned meal does not appeal (or I prepare too much food and I have leftovers for the rest of the week).
A nice variety of meals. I've managed to stick to my plan this week. Today, I was organised enough to make a curry in the slow cooker, which means we can have the leftovers for dinner tomorrow :)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jules. Yay, you don't have to cook, tomorrow! Good planning on your part. :)
DeleteI've written about this week's meal plan. I don't know if I'll keep to it, but it's good to have one! Love FD xx
ReplyDeleteI have just seen your meal plan and the planned meals all sound very delicious! You put more effort into making your meals than I do, I think. I haven't tried any new recipes in a while; but, maybe I need to try changing things up a bit more.
DeleteI don't meal plan but I should. I have a cupboard of stuff to use up!
ReplyDeleteI often veer from my meal plan, but, the meal plan is there should I need it. Maybe challenge yourself to come up with at least three meals based on what you have in your cupboard for this coming week?
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