Neil's Food Plan
This is my attempt at making a weekly vegetarian food plan with minimum leftovers. I hope to try it out and revise it according to what I've got left over. If anyone's got any tips please help!
Meal ideas
Love food, hate waste
- Mixed vegetable curry
- Indian sausage parcel
- Vegetable lasagne
- Vegetable rosti cakes
- Vegetable pilaff
- Aubergine and tomato moussaka
- mushroom risotto
- Vegetable thai curry
Vegsoc
- Herby Mushroom Pasta
- Vegetable and Nut Stir Fry
- Cheesy Potato and Lentil Bake
- Spinachy Pancakes
- Black-eyed bean stew
Week 1
Wed 10/2
Quick shop on the way home from work to make Black-eyed bean stew
Need to buy:
- 3x onions
- a green pepper
- 1 thing of garlic
- tinned tomoatoes
I already have bay leaves, black eyed peas and parsley. I won't bother with the oregano. I will eat with some garlic bread which will hopefully keep until tomorrow.
Thu 11/2
Time for a bigger shop.
Vegetable Gratin from the recipe book (number 68)
Need to buy:
- 750g parsnips
- 225g carrots
- 225g courgettes
- 175g cauliflower florets
Will use onions bought Wednesday and cheese that I already have. Serves 4 so I'll try to keep half of it.
Friday 12/2
Left over vegetable gratin from Thursday.
Saturday 13/2
Lunch: let's make a quick sandwich with bread and cheese.
Dinner: more time to cook, let's have Vegetable rosti cakes
Need to buy:
- 450g potatoes, peeled and halved
- 2 medium carrots, halved lengthways
- 250g parsnips or swede cut into chunks
- 250g courgettes, grated
- 4 spring onions
- 1 lightly beaten egg
- 2 level tablespoons of plain flour
I'll just use olive oil instead of sunflower oil
Sunday 14/2
Faux sunday lunch. New potatoes, vegetarian quorn thing. Cauliflower left over from Thursday.
Dinner, ready made soup.
Monday 15/2
Left over rosti cakes
Tuesday 16/2
Need to buy:
5oz / 150g button mushrooms, sliced 1oz fresh basil, finely chopped ½ carton soured cream
will just use the fusili i've already got instead of taglietelle. onion from wednesday.
Wednesday 17/2
Lets use the potatoes and parsnips that I've probably still got and make parsnip and potato mash with some veggie sausages and maybe some baked beans. I will have to incorporate the remaining sausages into next week.
Results
The bean stew worked well enough and I'd give it about a 6 out of 10.
The vegetable gratin was really good and really easy to make. I ate it with some soda bread that I had. It was also fine to the next day so 8 out of 10.
For Saturday lunch I forgot buy any cheese so I ended up with a chutney and hula hoop sandwich :) The rosti cakes turned into a huge disaster because I didn't read the recipe properly and cut the vegetables up too small so it made it really hard to grate. Then I completely failed at frying them and ended up with a burnt mess. Also I accidentally melted a plastic spoon into some of it so I had to throw it away. I salvaged some of it by baking it and it was enough for a meal but it wasn't great.
Sunday, I realised my new potatoes were a bit sprouty so decided not to eat them and had the parsnip + potato mash with a Quorn thing instead. That was quite nice. Soup was nice too.
Monday I went to the Scrabble club so I didn't get back until late but I ate something on the train instead.
Tuesday - herby mushroom. Quick and easy and quite nice 7/10
Week 2
Thursday 18/2
Yummy! And no need to trudge around London trying to find that shop!
Ingredients 400g can chickpeas , rinsed and drained garlic clove , chopped handful of flat-leaf parsley or curly parsley 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp ground coriander 1⁄2 tsp harissa paste or chilli powder 2 tbsp plain flour 2 tbsp sunflower oil toasted pitta bread 200g tub tomato salsa , to serve green salad , to serve 1 small red onion , roughly chopped