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| Pastries and Cakes from the Cuban Bakery/Cafe |
These were my October Week 2 Options:
Brunches: Scrambled eggs (with lunu miris), bacon, toast, orange juice✔; Uppuma (Indian style cream of wheat/semolina, cooked with curry leaves, dried red chilies, roasted peanuts, etc.)✔; Toast with peanut butter and bananas✔; Cold cuts sandwiches✔, Pancakes or Waffles with bacon and syrup/blueberry compote; Pastries from the Cuban bakery; leftovers from dinners
Dinners: Rice, chicken curry, dhal curry, ala thel dala (spicy sauteed potatoes), okra, cucumber salad, tomato chutney (Monday's dinner)✔. Pork chops with rice or potatoes, and vegetables✔, Mac & Cheese with tuna and salad, Leftovers✔
Snacks/Desserts: Fruit✔, Sri Lankan sweets and snacks✔, Pastries maybe another bread pudding?
Monday:
Brunch: Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast
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| Monday Brunch |
Dinner: Rice, chicken curry, dhal, spicy sauteed potatoes, cucumber salad, tomato chutney
Snacks/Desserts: Sri Lankan sweets and snacks; bananas
Tuesday:
Brunch: Uppuma (Indian style cream of wheat/semolina)
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| Uppuma |
Dinner: Leftovers - rice, chicken curry, dhal, spicy sauteed potatoes, okra, cucumber salad, chutney
Snacks/Desserts: Sri Lankan sweets and snack mix; bananas
Wednesday:
Brunch: Toast, peanut butter, bananas
Dinner: Beef pot pie (frozen meal) with extra green peas and carrots (me); leftover porkchop and rice, with green peas and carrots (daughter)
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| Wednesday Dinner |
Snacks/Desserts: Sri Lankan sweets and snacks
Thursday:
Brunch: Cold cuts sandwiches
Dinner: Rice, chicken curry, dhal, etc. (leftovers from Monday's dinner)
Snacks/Desserts: Assorted Sri Lankan sweets and snacks; bananas
Friday:
Brunch: Assorted pastries from the Cuban bakery/cafe
Dinner: Mor of the assorted pastries from the Cuban bakery/cafe
Snacks/Desserts: Cakes from the Cuban bakery
Saturday:
Brunch: Leftover pastries from the Cuban bakery
Dinner: Freshly cooked rice, sauteed okra, made-over carrots (I sauteed the leftover boiled carrots from Wednesday with seeni sambol mix and sesame seeds), with leftover chicken curry, dhal, and sauteed potatoes, plus tomato chutney
Snacks/Desserts: Cake from the Cuban bakery; toast
Sunday:
Breakfast: Pastries from the Cuban bakery
Lunch: Cold cuts sandwiches
Dinner: Pork chops with green peas and onions, spicy baked potato wedges
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| Sunday Dinner |
Snacks/Desserts: Strawberries, cake, lemon puff biscuits, etc.
Well, all in all, I stayed mostly on the plan, just going off the plan a bit with the pastries and cakes daughter bought from the Cuban bakery/cafe. I am quite pleased with how that turned out.
On to Week 3, which has already started.
I cooked a big pot of chicken curry on Monday night and there are some cooked pork chops as well, for a change from the chicken curry. I am planning to make another big batch of moringa curry, as well, and there might be another picking of okra before the week ends, so there will be more sauteed okra.
It's not exactly batch cooking, but, I'm going back to cooking two main entrees for the week and a couple of vegetable curries that can be kept in the fridge and warmed up as needed. My daughter is fine with leftovers and often, it is I who gets tired of having the same thing and when that happens, I will cook something else or make a sandwich or have something on toast.
I am making this week's meal plan based on what I have on hand, BUT, I do need to buy milk, half and half, bread, and some additional fresh fruits and vegetables (just placed the order and will pick up this evening).
Here are my meal plan options for October Week 3:
Brunches: Scrambled eggs, toast, orange juice; Cold cuts sandwiches, Pancakes or Waffles with leftover chicken curry gravy and/or bacon and syrup/blueberry compote; Drop biscuits with butter and chives; leftovers from dinners
Dinners: Rice, chicken curry, sauteed moringa leaves, okra, and tomato chutney. Pork chops with rice or pasta and vegetables, Mac & Cheese with tuna and salad, Soup (?); Leftovers
Snacks/Desserts: Fruit (pomegranate from the garden, tangerines, a couple of apples), Sri Lankan sweets and snacks, maybe an apple or peach pie?
As always, I am grateful that I am able to enjoy a variety of food.
Will you be meal planning this week? If so, what is on your meal plan?
Your brunch, bacon, eggs and toast, looks delicious, wholesome and perfect to provide energy for the day!
ReplyDeleteYour meals really look delicious! Eggs and toast are a perfect start to the day...and the bacon, well, it smells and tastes great! :)
I live alone, so I don't do meal planning. But I go by what is on special at the grocery store as well as what I feel in the mood for. It works out well for me, though, because I do my best to eat healthy, but I am not a big eater. Still, I make sure that what I eat provides the energy I need to do the things I need to do.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you, Linda. Meal planning for one seems hardly worth it, doesn't it? But, I did a little meal planning when I lived alone, too, because it reminded me to take something out of the freezer to thaw or to make sure I had bread for sandwiches or milk for cereal, etc. :)
DeleteScrambled eggs for breakfast is lovely. I shall be having porridge oats most mornings now the weather is cold
ReplyDeleteI like scrambled eggs for breakfast or for dinner. :) My daughter likes porridge oats, or oatmeal as it is called here, but it is something I don't much enjoy. I make it for her and have something else.
DeleteThe pastries look really lovely!
ReplyDeleteI'm not doing good on the meal planning. I need to do better. Sigh
The pastries were delicious! Not so good for the waistline, but, delicious. :D
DeleteMeal planning can be a bit of a struggle from time to time, can't it? Especially when cooking for a family and dietary needs and preferences must be taken into account. The high prices of groceries don't help, either. But, I'm sure you'll get back to it once things settle down a bit.
Wow, what a spread!! About 90% of the time my husband makes me breakfast though he doesn't eat breakfast himself. Sometimes he asks what I want, and other times he has a plan. Eggs are one of the best ways to go. We struggle the rest of the day to make meals right now, but I'm hoping to get back to some meal planning after I finish grad school this semester. One of my brothers does something very similar to what you do, and how I wish he would take pictures like you do. I love any kind of writing about food, recipes, and food prep.
ReplyDeleteHi Hannah Jane. Welcome to my blog. Eggs are good for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, aren't they? I mostly take the pictures because they help me remember what I ate! Too often, I forget unless I write it down somewhere or take a picture. :) Wish you all the best as you finish grad school.
DeleteYou seem to have planned things out well for this period with lots of interesting food choices.
ReplyDeleteI think making a few things ahead makes sense and will make things easier on you too.
Thank you, Debra. I did stay close to the plan, this time, didn't I? Having a few dishes cooked in quantity and kept in the fridge or freezer seems to work best for me as I don't like to cook every day, and it allows us to warm up something and eat whenever of us is hungry but the other isn't. :)
DeleteNow, why didn't I know better than to go right back to THIS post, when I signed off today's post on the mere mention of SAMBAL. Oh, I have to show this to Caro---she can mix and create and stir up spices and curries and great woks of such fabulous Asian food, and you're just a storehouse of lovely ideas.
ReplyDeleteWondering now how I can tinker with leftovers to get them into a semblance of hot/sweet or unctuously smooth with the coconut milk. . .
Racheld, too funny! I don't know who Caro is, but, if you do a search on my blog for "curry", you will get a few posts with my directions for chicken curry, dhal (lentil) curry, etc. (plus several old meal plans, which you can ignore!)
DeleteAs for your leftovers, depending on the leftovers, you can add some coconut milk and spices such as curry powder, chili powder, ground cumin, ground coriander, etc., to turn them into a sort of a curry.