November Meal Plans: Week 2 Review and Week 3 Options

Birthday Lunch: Pad Thai, Beef Fried Rice, Seafood Drunken Noodles

These were my meal plan options for November Week 2 (11/10 to 11/16:

Brunches:  Egg salad sandwiches; cereal and milk; the last bagel; leftover pizza; leftovers from dinners

Dinners:  Smoked sausage, spicy oven baked potato wedges, broccoli; Chicken curry, dhal, rice, cucumber salad; Thai food (birthday meal); Leftovers/Planned-overs 

Snacks/Desserts:  Fruit; crackers; chips; granola bars;  banana/zucchini bread; blueberry-cranberry muffins; maybe cheesecake?

And here's how that worked out:

Monday:

Brunch:  Early birthday celebration lunch: Thai food

Dinner:  Leftover Thai food

Snacks/Dessert:  Feijoa (pineapple guava) from the garden; crackers; chips

Tuesday:

Brunch:  Egg salad sandwiches

Dinner:  Leftover Thai food

Snacks/Dessert: Chicken nuggets and ice cream cones

Wednesday:

Brunch:  Egg salad sandwiches

Dinner:  Leftover Thai food

Snacks/Dessert:  Grapes, granola bars, crackers, cereal and milk

Thursday:

Brunch:  Leftover Thai food/leftover pizza

Dinner:  "Breakfast for Dinner": Pancakes and sausages with syrup

Snacks/Dessert:  Grapes, granola bars or crackers, chips; cereal and milk

Friday:

Brunch:  Various leftovers (daughter had leftover pancakes and sausages; I had the leftover bagel with cream cheese); persimmons

Dinner:  Smoked sausage tray bake with seasoned baked potato wedges; cucumber salad

Snacks/Dessert:  Blueberry-dried cranberry muffins

Saturday:

Brunch:  Milkrice!  Yes!  Mid-month!  LOL. It was a rainy day and I wanted something warm and creamy.  With fish curry, lunu miris/seeni sambol, and jaggery

Dinner:  Various leftovers - Thai food, smoked sausage, cucumber salad, etc.

Snacks/Dessert:  Leftover muffins

Sunday:

Brunch: Leftover milk rice and fish curry, the last of the pad Thai 

Dinner:  Leftover smoked sausage and potato wedges, last of the cucumber salad

Snacks/Dessert:  Feijoa (pineapple guava); Olive oil scones which daughter baked (she was trying out a dairy-free scone recipe), spread with butter (daughter as she doesn't like cream cheese) or cream cheese (me) and homemade peach jam.  The scones were delicious.  

The birthday Thai food lasted us practically the whole week!  This time, my favorite was the seafood drunken noodles.  

Moving on to Week 3 (November 17 - 23), here are my meal plan options:

Brunches:  Onion bagels with butter or cream cheese;  boiled mung beans with lunu miris; instant stringhoppers with chicken curry and seeni sambol; cold cuts sandwiches; leftovers

Dinners:   Instant tonkatsu ramen noodles and parathas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris (Monday) Chicken curry, dhal, broccoli and rice;  macaroni and cheese with canned chicken or tuna; scrambled eggs and toast or fried potatoes; beef pot pies; leftovers

Snacks/Desserts:  Fruit; crackers; chips; granola bars; leftover scones and maybe cookies and cakes, too*

* Sunday Afternoon Tea Party: Daughter is hosting an afternoon tea party for a couple of her friends to celebrate one friend's birthday.  She is planning to have 4 varieties of sandwiches (cucumber with chives, egg salad, roast beef cold cuts, and roasted peppers with pesto), dairy-free scones with homemade peach jam,  chai cupcakes/muffins, Earl Grey Tea cake, olive oil chocolate chip cookies; and fresh fruits, served with a variety of teas and lactose-free milk to accommodate the dietary restrictions of at least one friend.

Once again, the meal plan options might, or might not, change as the week progresses!

As always, I am grateful I am able to have access to a variety of food and plenty of it, and for daughter treating me to birthday meals.

Are you meal planning this week?