Weekly Menu (2025)

SandwichShortOfAPicnic

SandwichShortOfAPicnic

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Is there a ‘Weekly menu’ thread for this year? I can’t find it and I’m thinking that maybe this ⬇️ doesn’t fit too well here.
Perhaps there’s somewhere else it should go, I dunno 🤷‍♀️

If anyone has any suggestions for improvement on this (to make it easier and faster - not better) I’m all ears -

Spatchcock and roast three chickens at the same time, make a vat of bolognese in the slow cooker and make some pizza dough to be fridged. That should give me the base of five easy meals in one short kitchen session starting tomoz.

-Lemon Brined Spatchcocked Roast chicken, roast potatoes, a mountain of roast Brussels sprouts, gravy.
-Lasagne
-Red pepper, mushroom, chicken and pesto pizza’s
-Spaghetti bolognese
-Chicken and root veg stew with herb dumplings

Some of the shortcuts will involve buying pre chopped sofritto, pre sliced mushrooms, prepared fresh potatoes in duck fat, prepared brussel sprouts and some gravy from my freezer stocks.
Pretty bog standard sort of fare on a Brit menu even if the origins are all over the shop 😂
 
Windigo said:
I'm in the same boat, I think I will keep it in mind when getting my shopping order ready tomorrow.
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SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Is there a ‘Weekly menu’ thread for this year? I can’t find it and I’m thinking that maybe this ⬇️ doesn’t fit too well here.
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I'm not a fan of planning for a whole week. No surprises on the menu.
Yet, over the past month or so, I've had to make food for an entire week, since I've been insanely busy, the wife has had cataract surgery, and my son needs to take lunch to the gym every day.
My method, if you could call it that, is to first look in the fridge/freezer, and see what's available. A week or so ago, I found 3 packets of minced beef and some chicken. Half the minced beef went into oriental meatballs, the other half into a minced beef "stew" which could be used for spag bol, stuffing things, or making tacos. The chicken was turned into a similar chicken with veg & sauce thing, with the leftovers used for some fried rice.
The other method is to do an alcoholic version of Winnie the Pooh; "sometimes I sits and thinks (with a cold beer), and other times, I just sits"
( The latter involves more beer)
I might think "what can I do with potatoes that's not just boiling them? If I do them Peruvian style? Mexican? French? German? " and then the thought process begins to develop. I might also think "right, I've got loads of chicken in the fridge, what can I do with it? Internationally?" and a few ideas develop.
 
I find when I’m very busy I don’t have the time or the inclination to think about anything other than the long list of things that needs to be done so meal planning always ensures something decent to eat is on the table and previous me has given present me a bit of thought.
It’s a bit of kindness to yourself. Someone else (me from earlier on) having thought about the food ahead of time and done some of the prep is a weight off, especially if they’re dishes you can make with your eyes shut and they’re traditionally comforting foods.

I used to do a whole week plan but now I tend to do just three days because it allows for more flexibility, which is useful with the boys appearing whenever they fancy it.
If the food mood changes there’s always something on the menu that can be frozen and even that’s a bonus because later when the inspiration has gone and you want an easy day it’s there waiting for you 😊
 
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