June Meal Planning - Week 3 Review and Week 4 Options

Wednesday Dinner: Baked Chicken, Pasta-Roni,
 Sauteed Green Beans

First a review of my meal plan options for June Week 3:

 June Week 3 Meal Plan Options:

Brunches:  Tuna salad sandwiches; Scrambled eggs with tortillas and lunu miris✔; Cold cuts sandwiches✔; Peanut butter toast✔; Salad; leftovers✔Pancakes

Dinners: Baked chicken drumsticks✔ with rice pasta and mixed vegetables (green beans); Chicken curry with rice and vegetables✔  (broccoli, green beans, kale mallung, etc.); Chicken pot pies✔; Ham fried rice, Leftovers✔

Snacks/Desserts: Fresh fruit; Cookies; Crackers; Yogurt; Ice cream; maybe Flan, cheesecake!

Here's how that worked out:

Monday:

Brunch:  Toast with peanut butter (me); daughter had some leftovers

Dinner:  Assorted leftovers
Dessert:  Yogurt with jaggery (me); last piece of peach pie (daughter)

Tuesday:

Brunch:  Banana and cold cuts sandwiches (after the grocery delivery)

Dinner:  Chicken pot pies
Dessert:  Ice cream bars, grapes

Tortillas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris
(while cooking)

After cooking on both sides

Wednesday:

Brunch:  Tortillas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris (the egg mixture is poured on the top of the tortilla, cooked for a bit, flipped over and cooked on the other side until the egg mixture is set)

Dinner:  Baked chicken, pasta-roni parmesan pasta, garlic sauteed green beans

Dessert:  Ice cream bars; bananas

Thursday:

Brunch:  Cold cuts sandwiches (me); egg salad and cold cuts sandwiches (daughter)

Dinner:  Chicken curry and rice with the last of the sauteed green beans and peach chutney
Dessert:  Sliced apples with peanut butter; bananas

Friday:

Brunch:  Egg salad/cold cuts sandwiches

Dinner:  Chicken curry and rice with peach chutney

Dessert:  Cheesecake (me); daughter had a graham cracker crumb crust baked separately for her as she doesn't like cheesecake

Cheesecake: Just before taking out of the oven
(Forgot to take a pic of it after it had cooled)

Saturday:

Lunch:  Sri Lankan rice and curries at a friend's house (mutton biriyani with boiled eggs, chicken curry, spicy sauteed potatoes, mint sambol, gotu kola (Centella asiatica; sometimes known as Indian or Asiatic pennywort) sambol with grated coconut and minced red onions, and peach chutney)

Dinner:  .Leftovers from lunch (which we brought home)

Dessert:  Tiramisu (which my friend had made), another type of cake from a bakery; oranges

Sunday:

Brunch:  Pancakes

Daughter's with Peach Compote

Mine with Fish Curry Gravy

Dinner:  Assorted leftover rice and curries

Dessert/Snacks: Cheesecake (me); graham cracker crust (daughter, who doesn't like cheesecake); oranges; bananas with peanut butter; crackers with peanut butter

Moving on to June Week 4, here are my meal plan options:

Brunches:  Tuna salad sandwiches; Pancakes; French toast; Boiled Mung beans with lunu miris;  Leftovers

Dinners: Chicken curry with rice and vegetables;Stringhoppers with chicken curry; Ground beef keema curry with rice; maybe patties (savory turnovers) and salad; Ham fried rice

Snacks/Desserts: Patties if I make some; Cheesecake; Crackers with peanut butter; oranges

Or, I could go off the plan and have something quite different!  That would be fine, too.  LOL.

As always, I am grateful for:

- Having enough (more than enough, actually) to eat
- The luxury of variety

- Leftovers and planned overs
- Daughter is not fussy about leftovers
- Being able to go off the plan if I so please!

Are you making a meal plan for this week?