Meal plan monday - Week of 1/18

Yes, I know I made 2 half hearted attempts at doing this and then forgot about it, Dara's blog is always such an inspiration for meal planning.

While I make lists for all kinds of things, meal planning and cooking to a schedule does, not come naturally to me, but one does have to try. Especially the upcoming few weeks, I shall certainly be well served, if I did not spend all hours in the kitchen, simply dishing out food for the family, OK, I enjoy it but truly there are several other things on my to do list that get side tracked in the process and of course provides me with the perfect excuse not to do my grudging 20 minutes on the treadmill. With a visit from the in-laws, I know have all kinds of odds and ends in the refrigerator. I shall be having my aunt visit, next weekend and also have class on Sunday, so here is what is planned.

Monday - Zucchini Quesadillas (yeah, kids loved this and simple salsa),

Tuesday - Rice Cooker Birayani (this one is a winner, shall pose recipe soon),

Wednesday - Paneer parathas (made with leftover paneer) and cabbage stir fry,

Thurday - Hearty lemon chicken vegetable soup,

Friday - Paneer Matar, lentils and rice

Saturday - (Company again!)

Lunch - Lamb Curry, curried cauliflower and rice

Dinner - Penne marinara and Eggplant Parmesan

Sunday - Leftover lunch

Class food for dinner

The Meal Plan Monday initiative is from Org Junkie and you can find other meal plans on her blog. - I am an organizing junkie.

Meal Plan - Week of 6/30

Last week was very chaotic, just has no time for planning, among other things our dishwasher was out of order should be fixed this week.

Deepta starts camp this week, and I now have to do 8 weeks of lunches, this is traumatic, nothing I put in her lunchbox works. I am not sure how she does with her school lunches, but is not quite so personal. Anyhow so I now plan, our dinners, her lunches and anything else that I can think of.

Monday - Deepta's Lunch - Chicken Salad Sandwich with butter letuce and cucumber spread

Chicken Curry as Prepared over the weekend with Brown Rice

Tuesday - Deepta's Lunch - Assuming the Chicken salad sandwich worked we repeat this.

Remaining Chicken Curry, lentils and Brown Rice

Wednesday - Deepta's Lunch -Fresh Tomato Pasta

Pan Seared Fish

Garlic Scapes and Tomato Parathas

Thurday: Deepta's Lunch - White Bean and Eggplant Spread Sandwiches

White Bean and Eggplant spread

Spiced Garlic Bread

Friday: Deepta's Lunch - Chicken Salad Sandwich

Leftovers

Saturday: South Indian Rice Noodles

Sunday: Rice and Karhi

Week of 6/15/09 Meal Plan

I generally like this idea, the key for me to try to do this week, was to do some of the pre-prepping today as I planned my menu, I generally do my shopping on Saturdays.

Monday - Palak Paneer Pulao, Curried Kidney beans and Mixed green salad

Tuesday - Green Salmon Saute, lentils and brown rice

Wednesday - Chicken koftas, baked eggplant, with bright potato salad

Thursdays - Leftover Potato salad and quick pizza (we have too much cheese at home)!

Friday - Spagetti and Thick tomato sauce

Saturday - There usually is leftovers by now.

Sunday - need to cook for fathers day!

Meal Plan Monday

It took me some thought and general internal resistance to give this organizing idea a try. I like cooking and actually enjoy a little spontaneity after a long days work. This being said, I have to confess I sometime get very carried away and we end up having a great dinner very late.

The next few months promise to be challenging, so I want to see what sticking to a schedule ok, make that trying to stick to a schedule will do for me.

Monday - Rice and Class leftovers ( the saag paneer will be left over from class and I shall invent the white beans recipe)

Tuesday - Homemade chicken samosas and salad ( I know this sounds weird, but we are expecting a late night visitor, who I am sure will be expecting an Indian treat!).

Wednesday - Baked Lemon Pasta - this recipe looks interesting.

Thursday- Moon Dal, Rice, and Five Spice Cauliflower.

Friday - Leftovers and Egg Curry

Saturday- Balsamic Maple Chicken with rice

Sunday - Eat out!

Even as I do this, it looks like grocery shopping tomorrow is going to be very compact. Let me see what maiden week turns out to be. This is my first attempt at trying this with Org Junkie's

Meal plan idea.

I would love to see how this turns out. I have to say, shopping was a little less scattered after I had planned all this out!.