Meal Planning Thread

[Lovemythermo]

Quirkycooking how do you do your baked potatoes in the crockpot? sounds like a great idea!

[brazen20au]

LMT you wrap them in foil and sit them in the slow cooker (no liquid or anything). i think they take around 4-6 hours? they are pretty yum

[quirkycooking]

I don't even wrap them in foil - just chuck them in!  Works fine.  Best with the skins on, and sweet potatoes turn out really yummy too (just scrub, don't peel). 

[Thermomixer]

now that someone found this thread i am giving it a HUGE bump as i am starting 30 hours o work a week next week and will need to be more organised!

Good luck with the job & even GOODER luck with the getting organised !!!!  Although we seem to be more organised when we are working rather than having too much spare time ? tell me why!

[brazen20au]

thanks thermomixer and yes you are right!

[KerrynN]

I thought I would bump this one again as I do my meal planning on a weekly basis and it is always a tricky thing to figure out what we will have each week, without having the same things over and over. Maybe this can give some inspiration to others facing the same weekly dilemma.

This week for dinner, when we are at home, we will be having:
* Roo Spag bol
* Baked potatoes
* African quinoa stew with lamb - http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=7986.0
* KFC Chicken - http://www.forumthermomix.com/index.php?topic=4364.0

I will also make some cheese and bacon rolls to take to the museum tomorrow, and I want to try out some cashew butter some time this week too (to go in the quinoa stew).

[cookie1]

I enjoy my planning for the week. I sit with my 'plan' and lots of cookbooks. With a coffee too of course. I use a A4 sheet that has columns. The columns are:
Date
Anything that is on that day.
The meal
Where the recipe is
What I need to buy to make it.

If anyone wants a copy I am happy to email it to them. It is only made by me but suits me well.

[Halex]

After our holiday i will be menu planning asap.

1. To save money
2. Eat healthy foods to reduce our expanded bodies.

H

Just about to hop on a plane, might start on board.
Soups, salads & stirfrys for us. no more deserts for a long time

[courton]

I think you mentioned a good point cookie...where the recipe came comes from. I have that stuck on the fridge for the week to save me looking for the recipe for which I have bought all the ingredients!

[KerrynN]

I write mine on a scrap paper pad that I have stuck a magnet on the back to stick to the fridge. Unless it is something I don't need the recipe for I usually write underneath the name either the topic number from here, or the book I chose it from. Is much quicker than trying to search for it again - plus then I don't get side tracked with the other new yummy things everyone has posted.

[cookie1]

Very true. I find that by planning I don't end up with too many things in the pantry that I havew bought for a special recipe and not made.

[obbie]

Thanks for the reminder, i need to plan too.

Robyn

[mcmich]

I enjoy my planning for the week. I sit with my 'plan' and lots of cookbooks. With a coffee too of course. I use a A4 sheet that has columns. The columns are:
Date
Anything that is on that day.
The meal
Where the recipe is
What I need to buy to make it.

If anyone wants a copy I am happy to email it to them. It is only made by me but suits me well.

I have become a little lax in my meal planning lately. I would love a copy of your plan Cookie.

[KerrynN]

Hmm have come a little undone this week. Have just had to divert DH on his way home from work to get some ingredients for tonight's dinner that I used on the spur of the moment with last nights dinner - not realising they were essential to tonight's meal. D'oh! Lucky I was getting organised early enough to fix it...

[goldfish]

I enjoy my planning for the week. I sit with my 'plan' and lots of cookbooks. With a coffee too of course. I use a A4 sheet that has columns. The columns are:
Date
Anything that is on that day.
The meal
Where the recipe is
What I need to buy to make it.

If anyone wants a copy I am happy to email it to them. It is only made by me but suits me well.

Cookie - I'd love a copy of your planner if possible . . .