November Meal Plans - Week 3 and Week 4

Sunday Afternoon Tea

Here we are on the last day of November and I haven't kept up with my meal planning!  I did make some meal plan options for Week 3, but, Week 4 sort of planned itself based of leftovers from daughter's afternoon tea, the week's grocery shopping, and the Thanksgiving dinner.

These were my meal plan options for Week 3 (November 17 - 23): 

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

Here's how it worked out:

Monday:

Brunch:  Onion bagels with butter or cream cheese

Dinner:   Instant tonkatsu ramen noodles and parathas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris 

Snacks/Dessert:  Persimmons, grapes, chips

Tuesday:

Brunch:   Tangerine and crackers (me; I was feeling a bit off); onion bagel and butter (daughter)

Dinner:  Rice, chicken curry, dhal, broccoli, and mango chutney (daughter preferred my homemade tomato chutney instead)

Snacks/Dessert:  Pink dragonfruit; granola bar (daughter), dates (me), chips

Pink Dragonfruit Chunks

Wednesday:

Brunch:  We both skipped brunch! 

Late Lunch:  A piece of curried chicken (daughter); instant stringhoppers with dhal, potato curry, and seeni sambol (me)

Stringhoppers, dhal, seeni sambol, potato curry

Dinner: Instant stringhoppers, chicken curry, dhal, broccoli, and potato curry (daughter); I didn't want dinner

Snacks/Dessert:  Pineapple guava (feijoa), apple juice, crackers, pomegranate

Thursday:

Brunch:  Scones

Dinner:  Leftover stringhoppers with chicken curry, dhal, and potato curry (me); leftover rice, chicken curry, dhal, potato curry, and sauteed curried okra (daughter)

Snacks/Dessert:  Tangerines, apple juice, olive oil chocolate chip cookie (delicious)

Friday:

Brunch:   Frozen burrito

Dinner:   Macaroni & cheese with canned chicken and green peas

Snacks/Dessert:  Chai muffins, crackers, ice cream

Saturday:

Brunch:  Burrito

Dinner:  Boxed pasta mix (Fettuccini Alfredo), green peas, ham slices from the freezer

Snacks/Dessert:  Chips, ice cream, tangerines and Fuyu persimmons

Sunday:

Brunch:  Ham sandwiches
Afternoon Tea:  All the goodies that daughter made for her afternoon tea party

Dinner:  Leftover mac & cheese, sandwiches, and fruit

Snacks/Dessert:  Leftovers from the tea party!

Which brings us to November Week 4 (November 24-30), which went by without a meal plan other than Thanksgiving Dinner!  But, it all worked out well.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Monday:  On Monday, I had my second dental deep cleaning.
Brunch: Egg salad sandwiches
Dinner: Canned chicken noodle soup and a cold cuts sandwich (me);  Pasta with ground turkey mixture (ground turkey, onions, celery, grated carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes) with pesto sauce (daughter)

Snacks/desserts: Various bits and pieces leftover from Sunday afternoon tea; fresh fruit (blackberries, raspberries, grapes, etc.)

Tuesday:  On Tuesday, we took Dancer to the vet's for his injection

Brunch:  Bread rolls sandwiched with cold cuts
Dinner: Fried rice: leftover rice, some of the ground turkey mixture I cooked on Monday, frozen green peas, and a scrambled egg)

Snacks/desserts:  Fruit, chips, various bits and pieces leftover from Sunday's tea

Wednesday:

Brunch: Leftovers (daughter), half a bread roll with dhal (me)
Dinner: Rice, shrimp curry, sauteed curried green beans, tomato chutney

Snacks/desserts:  Sliced pears poached in a sugar syrup with tangerines; maybe a pre-Thanksgiving slice of pumpkin pie and a mini pecan pie!  

Thursday: Thanksgiving Day

Brunch: Skipped brunch
Dinner:  Thanksgiving Dinner - Roast chicken, garlicky sauteed green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, baked beans.  The baked beans came from a can, but, everything else was homemade.  I had planned to make cornbread, but, I ran out of energy and we had plenty of food anyway.

Snacks/desserts: Mini pecan pie (daughter); pumpkin pie (me); the pies were purchased.

Friday:

Brunch:  French toast
Dinner:  Ham and potato soup (daughter had boiled potatoes for the fish cutlets filling and there was leftover water from boiling the potatoes; I boiled three more cut up potatoes in the same water, added some diced onions, cut up leftover ham, a couple of table spoons of chicken bouillon powder, salt and pepper, some half & half and a little bit of the leftover gravy from Thanksgiving dinner to thicken it up)

Snacks/desserts:  Fruit (persimmons, grapes, dates), leftover pumpkin pie

Saturday:

Brunch:  Fish cutlets

Dinner: Vietnamese egg rolls (daughter's friend had made)

Snacks/desserts:  Toast with butter and strawberry jam (me); cream puffs

Sunday:

Brunch:  Vietnamese bahn bao (steamed buns)
Dinner: Leftovers - plenty to pick and choose from

Snacks/desserts:  Assorted leftovers

Going forward into December, I will be making milkrice on the 1st as that is a given.  However, I am not going to make a meal plan for at least the first week in December because the fridge is full with an assortment of leftovers!  I will, however, try to keep track of what we have for our meals, each day.  

I am grateful for the abundance and variety of food with which we've been blessed and the generosity of those who have shared their food with us.

How did your November meal planning work out?  Will you be making meal plans for December?