August Week 1 Meal Plan Options Review and Week 2 Options

Smoked Sausage Stir Fry with Kale and Chives

These were my meal plan options for August Week 1:

Brunches:  Milkrice with seeni sambol and/or chicken curry (Monday)✔️; Cold cuts sandwiches✔️; Tortillas with eggs and lunu miris;  Pancakes with blueberry compote and/or syrup; Leftover Chinese food✔️Peanut butter toast

Dinners: Hamburgers (for lunch)✔️ with cucumber salad; MilkRice and chicken curry with moringa leaves curry and dhal (daughter)✔️; Fried rice ✔️or frozen burritos✔️; Leftovers✔️Rice and chicken curry (daughter); bread and chicken curry (me)

Snacks/Desserts:  Fruit✔️, protein shakes✔️, garlic bread✔️, lava cake✔️, ice cream✔️French bread with dhal (me), Japanese snacks, dates, aloo puri

Here's how it turned out:

Monday:
Brunch:  Milkrice, chicken curry, seeni sambol (me); protein shake (daughter)
Dinner:  Fried rice and one leftover sausage (me); Leftover Chinese food (daughter) 
Snacks/Dessert: Protein shake; apple slices

Tuesday:

Brunch:  Milkrice with seeni sambol and jaggery (me); protein shake (daughter)
Dinner:  Fried rice (me); milkrice with dhal and sauteed moringa leaves (daughter)  
Snacks/Dessert: French bread with dhal, some Japanese snacks, dates

Wednesday:

Brunch:  Fried rice

Dinner:   Bread and chicken curry (me); rice and chicken curry (daughter)
Snacks/Dessert: Aloo puri, apple slices with peanut butter, dates

Thursday:

Brunch:  Peanut butter toast (me); protein shake (daughter)
Dinner: Rice with smoked sausage/kale/chives stir fry
Snacks/Dessert: Japanese snacks, honey garlic bread sticks, apple slices with peanut butter

Friday Dinner: Rice, Smoked Sausage Stir-fry, 
Dhal Curry

Friday:

Brunch:  Banana, French bread with chicken curry gravy and dhal
Dinner:  Rice, smoked sausage stir fry, dhal curry
Snacks/Dessert:  Banana, strawberries, yogurt, flan

Saturday Brunch: Fried egg and cold cuts sandwich

Saturday:
Brunch: Fried egg and sauteed cold cuts sandwiches
Dinner:  Frozen burrito (daughter and I shared one) 
Snacks/Dessert: Banana, strawberries, yogurt, flan, Japanese snacks

Sunday Breakfast: Banana and Peanut Butter

Sunday:
Breakfast:  Sliced banana and peanut butter (me); daughter had bananas without peanut butter

Lunch: Half a hamburger (daughter had the other half)
Dinner:   Rice, chicken curry, cucumber salad, peach chutney
Snacks/Dessert: Strawberries, yogurt, flan, honey garlic bread sticks

Well, that turned out about the way I expected it to!  We somewhat followed the meal plan options I had listed while adding and subtracting  as we went.  Which is fine, actually.  It was a hot week with temperatures going up to triple digits on some days.  I didn't feel like cooking on some days and I didn't feel like eating what I had listed on other days.  Daughter had her own meal preferences and we ate different things on some days and I didn't always keep track of what she ate (I had a hard enough time keeping track of my own meals!) But, it worked out well enough for us.

Moving on to this week...here are my meal plan options for August Week 2:

Brunches:  Protein Shake (Monday; me - after dental work getting a tooth ready for a crown); hamburger (Monday, daughter); Pancakes with sausages and blueberry compote (Tuesday); Tortillas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris; French toast; fried egg and cold cuts sandwiches; hamburgers; leftovers

Dinners: Scrambled eggs and ramen noodles soup (made with half a packet of ramen; Monday, me); Scrambled eggs and rice with chicken curry and peach chutney (Monday, daughter); Rice, chicken curry, cauliflower mallung, and moringa curry; Stringhoppers (me; daughter prefers rice) with kiri hodi (coconut milk curry) with or without eggs and/or chicken curry and seeni sambol; leftovers

 

Snacks/Desserts:  Fruit, protein shakes, yogurt, flan, ice cream

That's the plan.  We might or might not stick to it!

As always, I am grateful for the blessings of:

- Enough food to eat
- Plenty of variety
- A well stocked pantry and freezer
- Garden produce
- Fresh eggs from the chickens (who've been with us for 3 weeks for today!)

What about you?  Are you doing any meal planning this week?