Meal Planning

I have a lot of stuff in my fridge and freezer that needs cleaning out.  Here is what I'm making this week.

Chilli-Garlic Noodles
I still have some milder chile garlic paste to use up, so I'll use that here.  I also have chopped green bell pepper in the freezer and, oddly enough, some chopped green onions I probably thought were bell pepper and stashed in the freezer.  Not sure how those will hold up in reheating.  I'll probably just toss them and buy new ones.  I need green cabbage and green onions for this dish.

Vegan Irish Sausages and Colcannon

Tofu & Vegetable Stirfry with Brown Rice
This will use up the tofu in the fridge, some of the chopped bell pepper in the freezer, and I'll see what else I have on hand already.

Garden Pretzel Sandwiches and Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup
I'm not keen to do pretzel sandwiches again so soon, but I need something Sim can eat in the car today between her eye appointment and swim lessons.  Hopefully I can convince her to have some soup or something healthy after swimming.

Veggie Burgers and Cheese Fries and Green Salad
Not the healthiest of meals, but it'll do for a Friday night and I already have fries and burgers in the freezer and a fresh batch of homemade ranch dressing in the fridge.

Meal Planning

Sameer is traveling for work this week, so Simran and I are doing easy meals we like that aren't his favorite, like sandwiches.  Sides of the vegan cream of broccoli soup and/or crudites with hummus every night.  I don't have a plan for one of the nights Sameer is gone.  We'll do chik'n tender or quesadillas or something easy like that.

Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup and Vegetarian Turkey Club 

Easy Vegetarian Reuben Sandwiches

Garden Pretzel Sandwiches

Avocado Grilled Enchiladas with Red Chile Pesto

Meal Planning

Hearts of Palm Cakes on Curried Lentils (Vedge, pg 125)
I'm making this because it sounds good (I like hearts of palm) and because I already have most of the ingredients.  I think I'll make this Monday.

Baked Potato Poutine with Porcini Gravy (Vedge, pg. 162) and Shaved Brussels Sprouts
I've always wanted to try poutine.  Sameer talks about it a lot too.  He might not like this because, like so many other recipes in this cookbook, it features mushrooms, but I love mushrooms and it sounds appealing to me.  It'll take some work since I have to make mushroom stock before I can make the poutine, and I have to make porcini powder before I can make the stock.  He and Sim can eat some frozen chik'n tenders or other leftovers if they don't like this.  We already know the brussels sprouts are exquisite -- I've made them twice in the last week.  This will be a Friday night "junk food dinner" meal.

Chilli-Garlic Noodles
I haven't made this yet from last week's meal plan.  I just need to buy more green onions.  I guess I'll do this Wednesday.

Vegetable Manchow Soup and Burgers
I'm going to make this soup today.  I want to use up as much of the vegetable stock I made last week as possible.  For the burgers, there are a lot of random little patties wrapped in wax paper in my freezer and sealed in ziploc bags that are presumably black bean burgers or soy burgers I made.  There are also Ezekiel 4:9 whole grain buns in there that need to be eaten or thrown away at some point, so I'm using up buns and burgers from the freezer.  There are plenty of other burger fixins in the fridge.

Tuesday and Thursday will be soup and sandwich type days since they are Sameer's fasting days I don't like cooking a full meal for just Simran and me since it yields way too many leftovers and she complains about almost everything I make anyway.  I don't expect her to enjoy the manchow soup tonight, so I'll make a batch of vegan cream of broccoli soup on Tuesday for us to feed off for the rest of the week.  The sandwich portion of the meal could also turn out to be a veggie dog, a quesadilla, or chik'n tenders since I'm planning to get rid of more leftovers and freezer meals this week and don't want to buy ingredients for specific fancy sandwiches.