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| Salad, Pork Chop, Savory Rice and Green Peas |
These were 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✔, Baguettes with chicken curry; String-hoppers (indiappa) with chicken curry, dhal, and seeni sambol, Mac & Cheese with tuna pulled pork and salad, Soup (?); Leftovers✔
Snacks/Desserts: Fruit (pomegranate from the garden, tangerines, a couple of apples)✔, Sri Lankan sweets and snacks✔, Japanese snacks; cake, maybe an apple or peach pie?
On Tuesday, I picked up an order of groceries; on Wednesday, we stopped at the French bakery and picked up a baguette and some snacks from the Japanese store, as well; on Saturday, neighbor S brought us leftovers from her daughter's birthday dinner - a container of pulled pork, several slices of beef tri tip, and a piece of birthday cake!
So, here is how the week's meals worked out:
Monday:
Brunch: Scrambled egg and toast; orange juice
Dinner: Leftovers from previous dinners (daughter); cold cuts sandwich (me)
Snacks/Desserts: Tangerines, Sri Lankan sweets, Cuban pastries
Tuesday:
Brunch: I skipped brunch as I wasn't hungry; daughter had leftovers
Dinner: Chive drop biscuits with butter and/or cold cuts (me); chive biscuits and rice and curries (daughter)
Snacks/Desserts: Chive biscuits, almonds, banana
Wednesday:
Brunch: Chive biscuits with beef cold cuts (me) or with chicken curry (daughter)
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| Chive Drop Biscuits with Cold Cuts |
Dinner: Baguette sandwiched with chicken curry
Snacks/Desserts: Japanese snacks; strawberry matcha ice tea (daughter), bananas
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| Japanese Snacks |
Thursday:
Brunch: Cold cuts sandwiches
Dinner: Pork chops with boxed wild rice mix cooked with green peas; side salad
(half way through cooking the rice mix in the rice cooker, I added a handful of frozen green peas and two of the already cooked pork chops into the rice)
Snacks/Desserts: Bananas, peanut butter and peach jam on crackers (me), Japanese snacks; Sri Lankan sesame candy
Friday:
Brunch: Chive biscuits (me); the last guava pastry (daughter); orange juice
Dinner: Indiappa or string-hoppers, chicken curry, dhal, seeni sambol (from a jar)
I didn't take a picture of the dinner, but, it was the first time I've tried dehydrated "instant" string-hoppers from a box and I was quite impressed. You immerse the dehydrated string-hoppers in boiling water, leave for 3 minutes, leave to drain for 15 minutes (which was a little too long in my opinion as they were cold by then) and they are ready to eat! Much easier than making from scratch!
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| Dehydrated Stringhoppers |
Snacks/Desserts: Cheese crackers, sesame candy, tangerines
Saturday:
Brunch: Cuban pastries (potato balls and meat pies - daughter, at her friend's place); the last chive biscuit with beef cold cuts (me)
Dinner: Leftovers from Thursday's dinner; samples of the tri-tip roast beef (delicious) and pulled pork (a bit too sweet for me), both compliments of neighbor S
Snacks/Desserts: Cake (compliments of neighbor S)
Sunday:
Brunch: Leftovers from Thursday's dinner
Dinner: Boxed mac and cheese with pulled pork (daughter) or without (me)
Snacks/Desserts: Leftover cake
Well, I went off the plan a few times, especially where the dinners were concerned, but, I am okay with that.
Moving on to October Week 4 (10/20 - 10/26), here are my meal plan options:
Brunches: Scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice (Monday - this seems to be a regular Monday brunch, lately); Cold cuts sandwiches; Boiled mung beans; Pancakes/waffles/French toast; Cereal and milk; leftovers from dinners
Dinners: Rice, chicken curry, sauteed green beans, okra, and tomato chutney, Pulled pork with rice or potatoes or pasta; Salad; Stringhoppers with fish curry and seeni sambol; Ramen soup noodles; Leftovers/Planned-overs
Snacks/Desserts: Fruit (need to buy more fresh fruit); sauteed apples (apple slices cooked in a bit of butter with sugar and cinnamon); smoothies made with frozen fruit; crackers; granola bars; cereal and milk; maybe bread pudding?
Of course, there's a possibility that I might go off the plan, too.
Once again, I am grateful I am able to have a variety of food available from which to meal plan and for generous neighbors who share food with me.
Are you making a meal plan this week?
It's good to remember to be grateful for the variety of food we have available to us. Most of the time I take that for granted.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's something we often take for granted, especially in this country, isn't it? But, I know that not everyone is as fortunate and I try to be grateful for what is available to me.
DeleteI'm fascinated by the script on the String hoppers package. I can relate to other languages written in the alphabet we use in English, but I struggle to believe that anyone can learn and understand the many lovely and amazing scripts I come across, from Cyrillic to Chinese and all the others even going back into history!
ReplyDeleteIt is fascinating to see the different scripts, isn't it? On this box, we have English, Tamil, and Sinhala (often called Sinhalese), the three official languages of Sri Lanka.
DeleteWell done with the meal planning. A lovely variety of food!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sharon. I noticed a lack of vegetables with some of the meals and I need to change that, going forwards. My daughter often comments on that, as she loves vegetables.
DeleteYou are so good at meal plans.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda. I'm not always as good at following my meal plan, but, I try! :D
DeleteI have always wanted to try stringhoppers, but making them is way above my pay grade.. I am going to look for those!
ReplyDeleteI was very pleased with the dehydrated stringhoppers and how they turned out when rehydrated. I hope you can find the dehydrated stringhoppers and give them a try.
DeleteYou did well incorporating your gifts of food into your plan.
ReplyDeleteI, like others, enjoyed seeing the different packaging.
Thank you, Debra, Gifts of food will not go to waste. I've plans to make over the too sweet pulled pork; not sure how it will work out, but, I'm going to try.
DeleteGlad you enjoyed seeing the different packaging. :)
I've never had cold cuts on a biscuit before. I'll have to try that. I love your meal planning posts. I can't wait to get back in the kitchen more, so this is tiding me over until then. Your foods are so varied and interesting!
ReplyDeleteI guess I just treat biscuits as a bread roll. :)
DeleteThank you, Hannah Jane. I am glad you are enjoying my meal planning posts and I hope that you will be able to get back in the kitchen more. :)
Some great meal ideas, Bless. Whenever I feel frustrated at planning meals or going to do the weekly shop, I remind myself how fortunate I am that I have access to fresh, healthy food, and I get to decide what I want to eat. X
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jules. It's a blessing to have access to fresh food and to be able to decide what we want to eat, isn't it?
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