September Meal Plans: Week 2 Review and Week 3 Options

Rice, Salmon, Green Peas, Peach Chutney
(Thursday Dinner)

I'm late with my meal plan reviews and options, this week.  But, better late than never!  This was my September Week 2 meal plan option:

Brunches:  Eggs, sausages, and fried potatoes✔; French toast✔, Raisin buns with bananas✔, Tortillas with scrambled eggs and lunu miris, Fried rice✔, Tuna salad sandwiches✔, Congee✔

Sunday Afternoon Potluck (daughter & friends):  Pasta salad (daughter), whatever daughter's friends might bring!  Meat pies and potato balls (with a meat filling) from a popular Cuban cafe, croissants, homemade mooncakes, some with lotus seed paste and some with red bean paste

Dinners:  Rice with sauteed salmon and cucumber salad✔; Rice with chicken curry✔, sauteed cabbage, beetroot curry, and eggplant curry; Pork chops with mashed potatoes and vegetables; Leftovers, Rice with Chinese sausages

Snacks/Desserts:  Fruit, ice cream, chocolate cake, smoothies, raisin buns

Here's how that turned out:

Monday Brunch

Monday:  Labor Day (put air to the car tires, picked up traps to catch the kittens to be neutered, shopped at the Asian grocery store, ordered regular groceries)
Brunch: Eggs, sausages, fried potatoes
Dinner:  Rice, Chinese sausages, corn on the cob, cucumber salad

Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, rambutan, congee, watermelon, chocolate cake (me), taro cake (daughter)

Congee (Chinese Rice Porridge with Beans and Seeds)

Tuesday: (Grocery delivery)

Brunch: Raisin buns and bananas (me); Congee (daughter)
Dinner:  Rice, Salmon sauteed with onions and canned Italian style tomatoes, cucumber salad

Snacks/Dessert: Rambutan, watermelon, raisin buns (yes, I snacked on them at tea time, too, in addition to having them for brunch!)

Wednesday: (Post office to mail a package)

Brunch: Fried rice
Dinner:  Leftover rice, salmon, and cucumber salad

Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, banana, rambutan, watermelon,  ice cream, 

Thursday: (Dr's appointment)

Brunch: Tuna salad sandwiches
Dinner:  Leftover rice and salmon with green peas and peach chutney

Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, bananas, rambutan, ice cream, congee

Vegetable Rice & Chinese Sausages
(Friday Dinner)

Friday: (9/11 - 25th Anniversary)
Brunch: French toast
Dinner:  Vegetable rice (rice cooked with green peas and grated carrots) and Chinese sausages

Snacks/Dessert: Raisin buns, banana, crackers with peanut butter

Pasta Dinner

Saturday:
Brunch: Bagel with butter and pineapple jam (me); not sure what daughter had
Dinner:  Pasta with pesto sauce, roasted red bell peppers, and canned chicken breast (daughter made the dinner)

Snacks/Dessert: Tuna salad on crackers, wafer cookies, tangerines

Sunday: (Daughter & Friends Afternoon Tea/Potluck) 
Brunch: Tuna salad on toast (me)
Afternoon Tea: Pasta salad, meat pies and potato balls (with meat filling), croissants, homemade mooncakes, some with lotus seed paste and some with red bean paste (each with a salted preserved duck egg yolk in the middle representing the full moon)
Dinner:  Leftovers from afternoon tea

Snacks/Dessert: Leftovers from afternoon tea!

Well, I didn't cook all the dishes I had listed as dinner options; for one thing, with temperatures of 105F on a couple of days during the week, I didn't feel like cooking much, but, we didn't go hungry!  

This week is much cooler and I am planning to do some cooking, eventually, once we finish up the leftovers!  Here are this week's meal plan options (9/14 - 9/20)

Brunches:  Leftovers from Sunday's Afternoon Tea (Monday and Tuesday); pancakes or waffles;  Eggs, bacon, and toast or fried potatoes; leftovers

Dinners:  Leftover Pasta (on Monday); Breakfast for Dinner (Eggs, Bacon, Toast - Tuesday); Pork chops made over with rice and vegetables; Chicken Kottu Roti made with tortillas instead of roti; Rice and curries (chicken, beets, cabbage thel dala, etc.); leftovers

Snacks/Desserts: Bananas, peanut butter and crackers, mooncakes, tangerines, watermelon, cantaloupe, muffins or bread pudding

As always, I am grateful for the blessing of having plenty of food to eat, variety, and choice and for friends who bless us with gifts of food.

How about you?  Did you make a meal plan for the second week in September?  If so, did you follow the plan?  Did/are you making a meal plan for this week in September?