Menu planning - 22 - 28 September

Well we are back to 3, as the eldest has now returned to uni, so hopefully our grocery bills will go down, and we will get into a better routine.

Monday - Salmon

Tuesday - Not stuffed mushrooms

Wednesday - Coconut curry chicken

Thursday - Pineapple chilli

Friday - Thai curry tilapia

Saturday - Meatza

Sunday - Honey ginger apple pork

I will be sharing as usual with Mrs M - a good place to see what other people are doing!

Historic Menu planning 1 -21 September

I realised that I hadn't updated my blog recently.

I have gone back to doing a month menu planning in one go, but I then need to remember to put it up here each week.

The advantage to doing historical menus, is that it smooths over the weeks when you have had to shuffle eveything because of a school event or buying a cheap chicken!

Monday 1 - Tuna
Tueday 2 - Caramel apple pork chops
Wednesday 3 - Chicken not pie
Thursday 4 - Bacon wrapped meatloaf
Friday 5  - Cheesy fish
Saturday 6 - Coconut curry pork
Sunday 7 - Asian meatballs

Monday 8 - Poached salmon
Tuesday 9 - Pork burgers
Wednesday 10 - Honey mustard chicken
Thursday 11 -  Roast chicken (from Asda reduced shelf!)
Friday 12 - Curried fish chowder
Saturday  13 - Shepherd's pie
Sunday 14 - Balsamic pork

Monday 15 - Tuna
Tuesday 16 - Beef & prune bake
Wednesday 17 - Citrus pork chops
Thursday 18 -Hungarian meatloaf
Friday 19 - Ribs
Saturday 20 - Salmon fish cakes
Sunday 21 - Beef stew

Menu planning 18-31 August

This menu planning is up to the end of the month, as my husband and children are away from Saturday. I will spend that week using up various meals from the freezer - I can then start restocking it for Christmas.

Monday 18 - Poached salmon

Tuesday 19 - Not stuffed mushrooms

Wednesday 20 - Honey mustard chicken

Thursday 21 - GCSE results so a meal out, grumpy teen can choose where!

Friday 22 - Big one is going off for a weekend's volunteering at GirlGuiding 'Wellies and Wristbands' with a lift at 6pm, so not sure what is happening foodwise!

They are then away 23- 31 August

Sunday 31 - Beef stew

Menu planning - August part 1

I use to plan a whole month's menus in one go, so we didn't get any repeats, so for August I have tried this again.

I use a menu planning sheet from Organized home which also have some good ideas of building a shopping list to help menu planning. She has weekly and monthly sheets which can help.

Friday 1 - Cheesy fish

Saturday 2 - Asian meatballs from nomnompaleo

Sunday 3 - Balsamic pork

Monday 4 - Poached salmon

Tuesday 5 -  fresh beef burgers with corn on the cob

Wednesday 6 - Coconut chicken curry

Thursday 7 - Pork burgers with mushrooms

Friday 8 - Coconut curried pollack

Saturday 9 - Stuffed marrow (or giant courgette!)

Sunday 10 - Pulled pork from civilised caveman

Monday 11 - Baked tuna

Tuesday 12 - Citrus pork chops

Wednesday 13 - Coconut turkey stew

Thursday 14 - Shepherd's pie

Friday 15 - Salmon fishcakes from Satisfyingeats

Saturday 16 - Beef & prune bake

Sunday 17 - Honey apple ginger pork from PaleOMG

Menu planning 23 June - 6 July

This is a historic post as I had intended to change the day I updated my menu based on my shopping day, but life has been too busy. I still have a menu plan and a shopping list, but blogging about it has slipped away!

Monday 23 - Baked tuna

Tuesday 24 - Pork burgers

Wednesday 25 - Coconut turkey stew

Thursday 26 - Coconut curry pollack

Friday 27 - Asian meatballs

Saturday 28 - Pork?

Sunday 29 - Hungarian meatloaf

Monday 30 - Poached salmon

Tuesday 1 - Caramel apple chops

Wednesday 2 - Coconut curry chicken

Thursday 3 - Fish pie

Friday 4 - Shepherd's pie

Saturday 5 - Pulled pork

Sunday 6 - Beef & prune bake

Baked eggs

These are good to make in advance and reheated when needed over a couple of days

However, I have learnt that you need to use silicon liners in the muffin trays, as they stick and you waste the egg mixture!

I did a mixture here, in some I just baked the egg whole, so it looks like a poached egg, others were a beaten egg mixture, some neat and others into a ham liner.
Any recesses that are empty should have water put in them to stop them burning.

Bake at 180 for 20-30 minutes until the eggs have set.

These egg and ham cups can be eaten as a meal, especially if you add onions and mushrooms to the mixture.

The 'poached' egg can be served with mushrooms, bacon, sausage and other breakfast choices!

Menu planning 16 - 22 June

Well, we are back to 4 again, once we get to the end of the week, exams are all over and unpacking sorted, we are going to draw up a plan of work/domestic/volunteering for the summer.

But for now, I'm in charge of the menu planning and cooking - who knows what will happen over the next few weeks!

Monday - Poached salmon

Tuesday - Meatza (from the weekend's plan when my sister-in-law came and we went out instead)

Wednesday - Citrus pork chops

Thursday - Honey mustard chicken

Friday - Salmon fish cakes from Satisfying Eats

Saturday - Beef stew, I'm out until about 9pm, so they can cook this and there will be some for me to come home to

Sunday - Chicken?

I will be sharing on Mrs M's Meal Planning Monday as usual, a way of finding lots of other menus!