Meal Planning

Time for this week's meal planning.  This week I have to use up one bunch of kale, a Roma tomato, a couple of sweet potatoes, a handful of fresh basil, and I'd like to clear out some more items from the freezer, particularly the frozen vegetables of which I have duplicates and triplicates.  Here is what I'm making:

Arugula/Tomato/Chive Sandwiches and Gazpacho
The weather is supposed to be heating up this week into the 80s, so sandwiches and cold soup sounded appropriate.  The sandwich actually calls for green onions, but I'm replacing green onions with chives in all my recipes now that I've got two chive plants growing abundantly on my deck.  The sandwiches will also use up some more of that flax bread in my freezer.

Thai Green Curry
I'm making this dish again this week because it will use up the basil in my fridge and provide some leftover brown rice to add to the black bean burger mix.

Black Bean Burgers and Kale with Walnut Sauce and Butternut Squash/Corn
I made these black bean burgers for the first time last week, and they were fantastic.  I have a couple left in the freezer, but I want more than two stashed in there since Simran eats half a burger too, and they're a good meal to have on hand.  This meal will also use up the last three Ezekiel 4:9 buns in the freezer.  I'm not sure how good the butternut squash and corn combo is going to be, but I'm always looking for new ways to eat (and feed Simran) more varied vegetables, and this will use up some of the butternut squash and corn currently in my freezer.  I have like three bags of corn in there, and they aren't even all the same kind.  Did you know there are multiple varieties of corn in the freezer section?  Because there are.

Barbecued Portobello Mushrooms and Dill Potato Salad and Basic Sauteed Kale
I might make some fresh bread to go with this dinner too.  And maybe we can finally eat that last can of vegetarian baked beans!

Pita Pizzas
This will use up the arugula I'm buying for the arugula sandwiches.  It will also use up the leftover feta in the fridge and the leftover Roma tomato.  I need to make something else to go with this to make sure Simran eats enough (though she'd gorge herself on pizza alone if given the opportunity), so we'll probably end up having sides of kale and leftover orange whipped vegetables of some kind, like sweet potatoes or squash.

Tofu Scramble and Chard with Walnut Sauce and Whipped Sweet Potatoes

Spinach Lasagna
Simran really liked last week's Spinach Lasagna, and I still have entire packages of spinach in the freezer, so I think I'll make it again this week.  I even found whole wheat lasagna noodles at the Whole Foods, and Sameer couldn't tell they were whole wheat OR no-boil, so that was gratifying.  This will require I make a fresh batch of seitans though.