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| 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
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
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
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
Dinner: Rice with smoked sausage/kale/chives stir fry
Snacks/Dessert: Japanese snacks, honey garlic bread sticks, apple slices with peanut butter
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| 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
Dinner: Rice, smoked sausage stir fry, dhal curry
Snacks/Dessert: Banana, strawberries, yogurt, flan
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| 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
Brunch: Fried egg and sauteed cold cuts sandwiches
Dinner: Frozen burrito (daughter and I shared one)
Snacks/Dessert: Banana, strawberries, yogurt, flan, Japanese snacks
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| Sunday Breakfast: Banana and Peanut Butter |
Sunday:
Breakfast: Sliced banana and peanut butter (me); daughter had bananas without peanut butter
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
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!)
- 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?
I see that eggs are figuring heavily in next weeks menu. Your chickens must be laying well.
ReplyDeleteWe are being well supplied with eggs by the chickens! Henny Penny lays more frequently than Niwatori. We are very pleased with our supply of eggs!
DeleteDear friend, I love your photos. Your meals look delicious 😋
ReplyDeleteThank you, Linda. :)
DeleteYour menu sounds good, but I grt how it might or might not happen. My plan doesn't happen more than it actually does. I figure that is just life
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anne. I have good intentions, but, don't always have the energy to carry through with the actual cooking, especially when it is so hot.
DeleteAgain, a lovely variety of foods!
ReplyDeleteI love the look of the Sunday breakfast - yum!
Thank you, Sharon. :)
DeleteOne of the benefits of being a small family is the ability to switch menu ideas at the drop of a hat, as you are able to do. I'm sure that wouldn't work with 5 or 6 people!
ReplyDeleteYes, changing menu plans is easier with a smaller family. I'm trying to recall what my mother did when my father was alive and we were a family of 8 - she did have a set meal plan and I believe we mostly ate what had been prepared. However, if someone wanted something different, then, I think every effort was made to accommodate that request. We had a cook, so it was not like my mother had to cook. :)
DeleteThat's a nice looking pan of sauteed smoked sausage.
ReplyDeleteAt Christmas time we have gone to my ex-boss' house and he serves smoked sausage which he cooks on the grill and I do enjoy it with some nice mustards he offers.
The peanut butter and banana I'd pass on. Although I like both of those food items, I don't like them together. I heard that Elvis Presley liked a good peanut butter and banana sandwich so you too would've had a nice meal together ;)
Thank you, Debra. Grilled smoked sausage is delicious, too; in fact, that's how I was first introduced to this type of sausage, when I was newly arrived in Wisconsin, all of 52 years ago for today! How time flies!
DeleteI grew up eating bananas with bread and butter because we didn't have peanut butter at the time. I had my first taste of peanut butter on bread when I was 11 or 12 when a visiting American friend offered me some. I remember not being too impressed at the time. I was in Hong Kong when I discovered the peanut butter and banana combo. I am a big fan of Elvis Presley's music, so I would have enjoyed having a peanut butter and banana sandwich with him! LOL.