Tuesday, April 28, 2026

End of April Meal Plan Options

 

Some Luncheon Menus

Some luncheon menus from one of my cookbooks:

Ceylon Daily News Cookery Book

Additional luncheon menus from the same book:

Additional Luncheon Menus

If you are looking for dinner ideas, here are some simple dinner menus, also from the above book:

Simple Dinner Menus

Last week's meal plan options worked to a certain extent with some tweaking and substitutions.  I cooked pork chops instead of a pork curry and didn't cook the fish curry I had planned to cook, for example.  But, we enjoyed some delicious meals and that's what matters, isn't it? 

Rice, Breaded Shrimp, Broccoli, Chutney

Moving on, here are this week's meal plan options:

Brunches:  Scrambled eggs, fried ham, homemade bread (on Monday); boiled mung beans with lunu miris (or sugar); cold cuts sandwiches; fried rice; waffles with bacon and syrup; milkrice and seeni sambol and/or jaggery (on May 1); leftovers

Dinners:  Rice with the last pork chop, carrots, broccoli (daughter; on Monday); rice, breaded shrimp, broccoli, tomato chutney (me; on Monday);  Rice with broccoli and ground beef mixture; Pasta with ground beef mixture and pasta sauce (me) or pesto (daughter); Rice, chicken curry, mallung, and chutney; Leftovers.

I did a bit of meal prep on Monday night, cutting up some vegetables:

Carrots, Onions, Celery (Stalks and Leaves), Broccoli Stalks

Then, I browned one pound of ground beef (from the freezer) and added the vegetables to it:

Ground Beef and Vegetable Mixture

This meal plan might change as the week progresses, of course.

I am grateful for being able to plan for a variety of meals.

Are you making any meal plans this week?
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12 comments:

  1. Live and LearnApril 28, 2026 at 4:20 AM

    It was interesting reading the meal suggestions, but most of them are not my cup of tea. :)

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    1. BlessApril 28, 2026 at 5:34 PM

      I'm not sure if they all qualify as "simple" menus, in my opinion, but, maybe I should pick one and try to cook the dishes called for in the menu. :) The last luncheon menu of yellow rice and chicken curry with fried brinjal (eggplant) is very doable. I haven't seen billing here, which is a type of sour fruit also called Bilimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi), though, so, I'd need to substitute some type of chutney for that.

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  2. JulesApril 28, 2026 at 1:14 PM

    I'm working to my plan this week, and I'll make a new one on Saturday. It saves me so much time, sorting my meals in advance. I'll be making your fish curry on Thursday. Xx

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    1. BlessApril 28, 2026 at 5:35 PM

      Sounds like you are very organized, Jules. Yay! Fish curry on Thursday! I'm so happy to see that you are still making it. :)

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  3. AngelaApril 28, 2026 at 3:23 PM

    What intriguing menus. When we were first married I made frikadeller quite often. I have never cooked lobster. And as for lampreys, King Henry 1st of England died from eating too many!!

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    1. BlessApril 28, 2026 at 5:46 PM

      They are interesting menus, aren't they? Frikkadels came to us from the Dutch. The lampries mentioned in the menu are not a type of fish. It is a very specific rice dish, of Dutch Burgher origins, with specific accompaniments, baked in a banana leaf. The name is supposed to have come from Dutch for "lump of rice". :)

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  4. BushladyApril 28, 2026 at 6:17 PM

    I like the menus, but I like your photos even more! I was interested in some of the dessert items, like, "chocolate biscuit pudding", "nougat pudding" and "rum omelette"!

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    1. BlessApril 28, 2026 at 10:02 PM

      Thank you, Bushlady. Chocolate biscuit pudding is made by alternating layers of crushed chocolate biscuits and sweetened whipped cream mixed with whipped egg whites topped with glace cherries. Nougat pudding is a custard mixed with homemade nougat stirred into it. Rum omelette is a sweet omelette, flavored with rum and then, rum is poured over it and lit. :)

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  5. Linda's Relaxing LairApril 29, 2026 at 11:35 AM

    I love your photos of the meals you had!!! I used to have cookbooks but gave them away. I live alone since 1998 (since my divorce) so I don't follow any recipes...but there are recipes that I have made and memorized over the years and I go with those.
    Now thankfully with YouTube and the internet, I can look up any recipe I need!
    Thank you so much for sharing.

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    1. BlessApril 29, 2026 at 2:09 PM

      Thank you, Linda. I used to collect cookbooks at one time. I've downsized my collection over the years, but, I still have about a dozen or so, including a book of recipes my mother had copied in her own handwriting and some of the cookbooks she bought as a young wife. I will not get rid of those. I rarely follow recipes for everyday cooking, these days, but, every now and then, I will try a new recipe. :)

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  6. KezzieApril 29, 2026 at 2:21 PM

    The shrimps look gorgeous!!! The meal plans from the book look really fancy!! Lobster and all that!
    x

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    1. BlessApril 30, 2026 at 1:23 AM

      Thank you, Kezzie. The breaded frozen shrimp were a treat. The menus are rather fancy, aren't they? :)

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