Meal Planning

I'm nearly out of bananas and a couple other things, so I have some grocery shopping to do either tomorrow or the next day.  Here is what I plan to make for dinners in the immediate future:

 

Fresh Veggie Tacos 

Probably Friday night because it's such a lovely weekend dinner.

 

Veggie Summer Rolls

Because I finally found and bought a new basil plant and there is a surplus of spring roll wrappers in my pantry.

Hearty Veggie Hoagies  

Because I bought vegan pesto the other day and it uses up some of the same ingredients as summer rolls, so it's convenient to make them back-to-back.  Also we're finally looking at cool, sunny days next week, so we could do a picnic dinner and this works well for that.

Creamy Sun Dried Tomato Pasta with Garlic Soy Curls

To finish off the spinach currently in my fridge.

This should suffice for awhile since Sameer has still been alternate day fasting and Sim and I usually eat leftovers or just quick stuff (e.g., sandwiches, veggie dogs) on the off nights.

Meal Planning

It's Thursday and I still haven't gone grocery shopping yet, but I really need to today.  Sameer has reinstated alternate day fasting for himself, so I haven't been cooking full blown dinners as much, but we're already out of most of things.  Tonight I'm making the pasta primavera with pesto alfredo.  Here's what else I plan to make:

One Pot Peanut Sauce Noodles

Because I have leftover tofu cubed up and in the freezer from making the jalapeno popper melts.

 

Fresh Veggie Tacos

Because it requires no cooking and it's been ridiculously hot outside.

 

Pasta Salad 

Because it requires very little cooking or heating up of the house.

Creole Red Beans & Rice

Because it's easy and healthy, Sim likes it, and it'll use up the leftover red bell pepper from the peanut sauce noodles.

 

French Onion Skillet Lasagna  

Because the veggie tacos will yield leftover mushrooms and the peanut sauce noodles will yield leftover spinach and this will make use of them.

Beyond Burgers

I bought some Beyond Meat burgers from the freezer section, and I just need buns to make them into a dinner.  I had a couple veggie burgers from a drive-thru in Alabama last month and have been missing burgers lately.

Short-Term Meal Planning

Now that I've had my colonoscopy and finished altering my diet in the ways that required (temporary low fiber, etc.) it's time to use up the random stuff taking up space in my fridge and the things that will go bad soon.  Here is what needs to go: some leftover pizza from last night, about a cup of leftover mac 'n cheese, one Beyond Meat veggie dog, several hotdog buns, a loaf of sliced sourdough, 6 eggs, a couple tablespoons of vegan basil pesto, about 4 oz of cream cheese, a package of Tofurky chik'n strips, 1.5 cups sliced red bell pepper, the better part of a head of roasted garlic, and 2 cups sliced cucumbers.

Tonight will be a night of leftovers.  Sim and I will eat leftover pizza and make salads from some of the baby lettuce and cucumber slices in the fridge.  Sameer will probably eat that last veggie dog and one of the hotdog buns.  Maybe that last cup of mac 'n cheese.  Tomorrow night I can turn the chik'n strips, red bell pepper slices, pesto, the roasted garlic, and the cream cheese into a pasta primavera dish.  I'll use some of the Parmesan in the fridge and some farfalle from the pantry.  I'll also throw a bag of frozen broccoli, some frozen peas, and an onion in there.  We may or may not use up some hotdog buns or sourdough bread in the form of homemade garlic bread.  There will probably also be a salad of baby lettuce and cucumber slices and maybe some of my leftover broccoli sprouts.  I've been growing broccoli sprouts every week for awhile now and didn't use up last week's yet on account of how my diet had to change.  Tomorrow should use up my most urgent ingredients.  

Tuesday I could make jalapeno popper melts (I'll have to set aside the right amount of red bell pepper in advance) and use up some bread on that.  That would even finish off my tofu.

After that I'll know when I need to go grocery shopping.  It'll probably be Wednesday.