Meal Planning

Time for meal planning. It's supposed to be 70 degrees outside tomorrow but then get back into highs in the 50s and 60s with rain later in the week. So I'll make something more summery tomorrow and soups/stews and oven baked meals are fine for the rest of the time. Here is what I've got to use up: plain Greek yogurt, two bags of shaved Brussels sprouts, two cooked sweet potatoes, enough chilli-garlic paste for one more round of chilli-garlic noodles, a red bell pepper and some leftover chopped green bell pepper and onion, most of a bag of russet potatoes, and some steamed asparagus. The Brussels sprouts will become Shaved Brussels Sprouts with Whole Grain Mustard Sauce whenever I need a veggie side. For meals I'll be making:

Red Beans & Rice 

To use up the remaining diced bell pepper and onion, and to use up some more of the red beans from my previous Rancho Gordo Bean haul.

Air Fryer Tofu with Rice and Crunchy Asian Slaw

I mostly need a green cabbage and green onion for this. I'll make it tomorrow since it's a nice warm weather dinner.

Vegetarian Chili and Cornbread

This will use some more Rancho Gordo chili beans (maybe the Vaquero beans from the box I just got) and some of the yogurt for making the cornbread.

Chilli-Garlic Noodles

To use up the rest of the chilli-garlic paste and some if not all of the rest of the green cabbage.

Vegan Irish Sausages and Colcannon (The No Meat Athlete Cookbook, pg. 164)

If I have any cabbage leftover from the crunchy Asian slaw and chilli-garlic noodles, I'll finish it off with colcannon. I already have russet potatoes and probably just need a lemon to make this.

Penna alla Vodka with Veg Italian Sausage

To finish off the steamed asparagus and any other random veg that needs to be used up.

Spinach & Feta Pita Bake

A nice, reasonably healthy weekend dinner that I can pass off as pizza.

[Edited 3/5/2024: In case I need a couple more meals to finish out the week, I'd also like to try Instant Pot Garlic Mushrooms maybe with mashed potatoes steamed pot-in-pot style and some homemade rolls and a side veg. I'm trying to make things right now that won't be good options in a few months, either because it'll be too warm to crank up the oven (the rolls) or because they are things my MIL doesn't eat (in this case mushrooms) so I don't make them when she is here. I'd also enjoy Beyond Burgers (or maybe homemade black bean burgers) and cheese fries and green salad Saturday night.]