Budget Menu

Tuesday ~ Egg, Tomato & Spinach Pizzas
Wednesday ~ Mexican Pinto Bean cakes
Thursday ~ Taco Salad
Friday ~ Mee Goreng
Saturday ~ Spicy Pumpkin & Lentil Tagine
Sunday ~ Pumpkin, Barley & Miso Soup with Fried Wakame
Monday ~ Crab & Corn Omelette
Tuesday ~ Zucchini & Corn Pancakes with Roasted Tomatoes & Dill Cream
Wednesday ~ Vegetable Pancakes
Thursday ~ Corn, Bacon & Zucchini Soup
Friday ~ Corn Chowder with Garlic Croutons
Saturday ~ Bacon, Tomato and Rocket Spaghetti
Sunday ~ Tuna & Mixed Bean Salad with Lemon Dressing (heart friendly)
Monday ~ Beef & Vegetable Bolognaise (heart friendly)

I found this quote for one of the recipes: "...When vegetarian food is good, you don’t miss meat. This miso soup fits the bill; here it’s been “beefed up” with some hearty pearl barley and pumpkin."

Successes from last week:

Middle Eastern Chickpea & Vegetable Salad with is also heart friendly which I think was an accident. I loved all of it, the ingredients work well together so nothing seems hard or whatever.

Fragrant Egg Curry has excellent left-over potential as a spread on toast

Four Bean Chilli with Tortilla Crisps this was a swap recipe

I got a free booklet from Santitarium in the mail. I was very happy the meals are online as well. I saw a lovely recipe that contains sumac, spicy pumpkin & lentil tagine.

Cheap Curry Menu

You may be wondering if the budget is coming good yet. Well, next week looks OK for a change, but I'm sure something will come up lol.

Tuesday 13th ~ Fragrant Egg Curry
Wednesday ~ Curried Tomato & Coriander Rice with Egg (from an old magazine, it is a Keen's Curry recipe) recipe here. Swapped with another recipe from last week
Thursday ~ Spicy Indian Potato & Spinach Curry
Friday ~ Coriander & Corn Omelette Rolls
Saturday ~ Chickpea Burgers With Raita
Sunday ~ Corn Quesadillas with Bean Salad
Monday ~ Chihuahua Rice
Tuesday ~ Capsicum & Corn Enchiladas
Wednesday ~ Pumpkin, Lemon & Broccoli Risotto
Thursday ~ Spicy Potato Cakes
Friday ~ Chicken Tabouli Salad
Saturday ~ Spaghetti Bean Bolognaise
Sunday ~ Creamy Tomato & White Wine Gnocchi
Monday ~ Broccoli & Cauliflower Bake

Extra recipes ~ Pasta & Vegie Soup

Added in this one because my second son brought home a Jap pumpkin
Onion Pancakes with Vegetables & Chilli Sauce

I found it in the heart friendly section (see sidebar), and wanted to try it because it fits in with the vegetarian pancakes theme we have going, love them.

Successes from last week:

Spicy Bean Hotpot I was worried about this. But apart from an issue about which chili to use (I would use whatever you usually put in your chili con carne) it was lovely. We particularly liked how the rice was thick so that made up for the watery tomato, one of my pet hates atm. My daughter had seconds and thirds of the rice (on different days).

Mexican Pita Pizzas this was a real occasion.

Baking from last week:

Ham, Pineapple & Cheese Pizza Scrolls my daughter bought her own ham, and my budgeting allowed up to buy extra cheese

Interesting recipes:

Baby Dampers with Herbed Mascarpone
Broad Bean & Silverbeet Soup

Jalapeno Jumping

This is a week early, so hopefully not too premature. I have a large jar of 6/10 heat jalapeno peppers to use up. Also we are getting a large jar of anchovies.

Tuesday 29th ~ Mexican Pita Pizzas
Wednesday ~ Corn Quesadillas with Bean Salad
Thursday ~ Chihuahua Rice
Friday ~ Capsicum & Corn Enchiladas
Saturday ~ Spicy Bean Hotpot
Sunday ~ Puttanesca
Monday ~ Orrecchiette with Creamy Broccoli
Tuesday ~ Spaghetti with Chilli & Sun-dried Tomatoes
Wednesday ~ Pumpkin, Lemon & Broccoli Risotto
Thursday ~ Egg & Vegetable Curry
Friday ~ Mexican Potato & Salsa Salad
Saturday ~ Middle Eastern Chickpea & Vegetable Salad
Sunday ~ Spicy Potato Cakes
Monday ~ Chicken Tabouli Salad
Tuesday ~ Gnocchi with Sugo
Wednesday ~ Japanese Vegetarian Pancakes
Thursday ~ Sausage Bake with Rocket Pesto
Friday ~ Lima Bean Soup (an adaptation of Pea Soup from Cookery The Australia Way about 2003) to use up left over dried lima beans

Interesting recipes: Lentil Tabouli with Crisp Garlic Bread

Swap recipes to use the left-over brussels sprouts:
Brussels Sprout, Carrot & Pasta Soup

Success from last week:

Cheesy Damper
Creamy Fettucine with Brussels Sprouts (not that good reheated)
Pumpkin & Capsicum Fajitas

Menu Thoughts

Photo Source

Last fortnight I had some pumpkin recipes left over. We had just finished Pasta with Pumpkin Sauce and used up our pumpkin. No specials online on pumpkin. The next day, Tuesday, my husband brought home one, then two more Kent/Butternut cross pumpkins, very pretty. They are rounder on the bottom and have green patterned bits on them.

So on with the pumpkin recipes!

Monday ~ Low-GI Lentil Patties with Roast Tomato Sauce
Tuesday ~ Pumpkin & Capsicum Fajitas
Wednesday ~ Spicy Pumpkin & Coriander Fritters
Thursday ~ Curried Green Pea Soup (decided to use a recipe so similar from Cookery The Australia way, about 2003 version)
Friday ~ Vegetarian Japanese Pancakes
Saturday ~ Gnocchi with Sugo again
Sunday ~ Pasta with Pumpkin, Tomato & Butter Beans
Monday ~ Broccoli & Pasta
Tuesday ~ Creamy Roast Pumpkin Pasta
Wednesday ~ Black-eyed Bean, Mushroom & Silverbeet Balti
Thursday ~ Italian Soup with Cheesy Damper
Friday ~ Creamy Fettucine with Brussels Sprouts
Saturday ~ Vegetarian Japanese Pancakes
Sunday ~ Greek Lentil Soup
Monday ~ Pumpkin & Spinach Cannelloni

Swap recipes:

Adzuki Beans, Pumpkin & Ginger Casserole
Tomato & Rosemary Risotto Cake
Creamy Sweet Potato Pasta

Success from last week:

Vegetarian Japanese Pancakes. You know I love the ones from the taste site, well this recipe despite not having lovely fried pork mince embedded in the top, or nice steak pieces, it substantial, which is always an issue for me feeding a family. I like my meal to fill us up! We didn't have the salmon the recipe said it wasn't necessary. We tried our new Kewpie mayonnaise. It comes out like cream from the bottle. It made the pancakes really. We decided for our tastes, we are going to change the flour rations around. My daughter put on too much mayo, doesn't work.

Interesting recipes:

Black-eyed Pea Salad
Black-eyed Bean & Vegetable Curry
Exotic Spicy Black-eyed Black-eyed Bean Curry
Mince with Black-eyed Beans
Mexican black-eyed bean soup
Carribean Butternut Pumpkin & Sweet Corn Stew

My husband said that soon we are getting a large jar of anchovies! I wonder if there will be anchovy recipes on my blog in a month's time? It took 11 days to make this menu and I am about 4 days early!

I recipe for the Chrisco frozen vegetables:

Vegetable Fritters

Soup Kitchen ~ Budget Vegetarian Menu

Last fortnight we had two nights of left-overs and a couple of swaps

~ Spicy Chickpea Casserole with Feta
~ Kransky Soup, we shouted ourselves some sausages for this meal as it is a favourite

so some recipes left over:


Monday ~ Roasted Pumpkin with Bok Choy Lentil Soup
Tuesday ~ Tomato & Borlotti Bean Soup
Wednesday ~ Indian Spiced Red Lentil Soup
Thursday ~ Perfect Potato Gnocchi
Friday ~ Curried Lentil & Pumpkin Soup

and so on to recipes made with this:

Saturday: Polenta & Corn Bake
Sunday: Vegetable Spring Rolls
Monday: Vegetarian Japanese Pancakes
Tuesday: Vegetable & Noodle Stir-fry (uses vermicelli noodles, red capsicum for the list, with snow peas, broccoli)

I may leave it there. I am unable to go shopping myself as my husband has to go out that day to go to the dentist, and I have to be home for the kids, as the dentist is over two hours away. So we may top up the food on the Wednesday, if it fits in with my bills. I will make up a list for the essentials and he will do his usual milk, cheese and washing powder run, and I will order bread to be delivered online which I usually do. Turns out I have ingredients for these recipes, just need a small amount of extras like mayonnaise and gerkins etc. I will be able to have the list ready from this menu for Wednesday.

Wednesday ~ Penne with Pumpkin Sauce
Thursday ~ Spaghettini with Smashed Buttery Peas
Friday ~ Country Bean Risotto
Saturday ~ Spicy Beans
Sunday ~ Potato & Egg Salad
Monday ~ Classic Pumpkin Soup


Interesting recipes: Cabbage Vadai Fritters (made with red lentils) I have been paying better attention to the food blogs on Belinda's sidebar. Also Creamy Jerusalem Artichoke Soup a bit like the one we used to make, will have to check mine one day. My husband had the recipe out to show his friend, here it is:

Cream of Artichoke Soup

80g (3oz) butter
2 large onions, sliced
1kg (2lb) Jerusalem artichokes, peeled and sliced
1 1/4 cups water
3 1/2 cups milk
salt, pepper
3 tablespoons flour
5 tablespoons extra milk
1 egg
5 tablespoons cream
paprika

Melt butter and fry onion until soft but not brown. Add artichokes, water, milk, salt & pepper. Bring to the boil and cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until artichokes are tender. Put into blender, blend until smooth and return to pan. Mix flour with extra milk and stir into soup. Bring to the boil while stirring, simmer 2 minutes. Beat egg and add cream. Stir this mixture into soup, and reheat but do not boil. Adjust seasoning if necessary and serve immediately. Garnish with paprika.



An interesting preserve recipe if I ever get a cumquat tree. Pickled Cumquats

Cheap & Vegetarian

What I have really been noticing lately after eating no meat, and with diminishing things in the pantry in the effort to balance the books (hopefully this week things will ease, either that or the books will be in very good shape or we will be outfitted well in clothes for the winter), is that the simple things are more appealing, like bread and butter. I want to get the ingredients to review my new paella pan too! Making things stretch is really not as cut throat with only three kids here most of the time, we had left-overs again recently.

Tuesday ~ Broccoli & Potato Soup
Wednesday ~ Pies, Peas, Chips & Gravy
Thursday ~ Paella
Friday ~ Tuna Casserole
Saturday ~ Middle Eastern-style Lentil & Spinach Soup
Sunday ~ Simple Chickpea & Silverbeet Curry
Monday ~ Italian Vegetable Risotto (needs basil leaves & parmesan cheese)
Tuesday ~ Creamed Brussels Sprout and Chestnut Soup (needs cream)
Wednesday ~ Roasted Pumpkin with Bok Choy Lentil Soup
Thursday ~ Tomato & Borlotti Bean Soup
Friday ~ Indian Spiced Red Lentil Soup
Saturday ~ Perfect Potato Gnocchi
Sunday ~ Curried Lentil & Pumpkin Soup
Monday ~ Indian-style Potato & Pea Curry (needs cauliflower)


Interesting Recipes:

Jerusalem artichoke potato cakes

Wish List:

Vietnamese Chicken Salad

Success from last week:

I had to find something else to make with the pumpkin we had, thankfully (and rarely) only two of us were home, so it worked out well. Also we make the muffins with the ingredients we had left to stretch the bread and the Weetbix. The kids liked them.

Pumpkin Noodles
Parmesan Muffins

Challenge for this week:

Finding a vegetarian silverbeet recipe.

No more beans?

There are still some left, so no, I am being cautious and trying to cut down the food bill just in case I need the money.

Tuesday ~ Smoked Cod & Broccoli Curry (using up the Dutch Curry & Rice packet in the pantry) I'll have to buy the cod in Coles as I am going there yet again (1 1/2 hour drive)
Wednesday ~ Mung Bean & Vegetable Soup using wombuk stalks & extra corn cob
Thursday ~ a meal for the deb night that everyone likes, quiche and chips?
Friday ~ tabouli with pita and chicken after our small pay next Tuesday
Saturday ~ Tuna & Avocado Rice Paper Rolls
Sunday ~ Pumpkin Dahl with Cucumber Salad
Monday ~ Tomato & Borlotti Bean Soup
Tuesday ~ Spicy Beans (pinto bean chilli)
Wednesday ~ Chinese Egg Noodles
Thursday ~ Pasta e Fagioli
Friday ~ Curried Green Pea Soup (uses green split peas)
Saturday ~ Italian Soup with Cheesy Damper (Italian soup mix)
Sunday ~ pumpkin pancakes or pumpkin miso soup
Monday ~ pies, chips & gravy
Tuesday ~ paella (buy chicken and kabana)
Wednesday ~ Red Curry fish
another thought something with vermicelli noodles

Baking: Polenta Cake with Citrus Syrup

Recipe for left-over tuna: Potato, Tuna, Olive & Caper Salad

Swap recipe:

Roast Pumpkin & Black Lentil Soup (haven't had it yet, it was a swap in another menu)
Lebanese Rice & Noodles
Mexican Potato & Salsa Salad
Potato & Egg Salad

Someone gave us chestnuts so possible could make this soup

Chestnut Soup with Rosemary Pesto

Rice paper recipes.

I am ordering the bread, eggs, fruit and vegetables this week, including nibbles for the deb ball. I have the list, a very small one for Coles (2nd major supermarket?). Have an appointment at the regional centre to drive to, hopefully get last minute deb ball stuff while I am there. I don't want to bring eski/cooler but it may be a good idea.

"Trying to Unconfuse Me" Menu

Last week I was going to do a menu until Wednesday and I ended up doing the whole thing to Monday past Wednesday. However, I only shopped for until Wednesday until I had some more money. I also had to change my expectations on what I could buy so put in some swap recipes. So this post is to sort out where I am up to. How? I'll start off removing what we have already eaten and go from there. However I think this is going to be very tricky. One of the ingredients was accidently used up as well. Coles had eftpos go down when I was in there and I couldn't buy all that I wanted to the first time. Luckily tonight we are starting with left-overs.

I am going to make this into a $21 challenge it will make things easier.


Tuesday ~ Left-overs
Wednesday ~ Tomato & Borlotti Bean Soup
Thursday ~ Pea Fritters & perhaps Chickpea Salad with Yoghurt Dressing
Friday ~ Aduki Beans
Saturday ~ Mung Bean & Vegetable Soup using wombuk stalks & corn cob
Sunday ~ Chinese Egg Noodles
Monday ~ Spicy Beans using pintos

Ingredients to work with: canned potatoes & champignons

I may still use some of the recipes I planned depending on the fine details of the budget that I will go over with my husband tonight.
Pasta e Fagioli
Red & Black Lentil Soup by Tobie Puttock using French Style Lentils
Italian Soup with Cheesy Damper (uses Kraft Cheddar)
Black eyed Beans/Peas & Vegetable Soup
Pumpkin & Split Pea Soup
Wombuk & Mushroom Chow Mein I'm using egg noodles

Swap recipes that I found last night that may work:
Spicy Cannellini Beans with Creamy Polenta
Lemon & Pesto Spaghetti
Rice Pilaf
Herbed Vegetable Noodle Soup with crab
Tomato & Olive Linguini

Interesting recipes:
Rice Vermicelli Spring Rolls (uses chicken mince)
Fragrant Thai-style Green Curry (uses chicken fillets 700g)
polenta recipes
Pumpkin & Walnut Pasta (uses canned champignons)
Weight Watchers Aduki Bean Salad

Menu Musings

In 1968 I could have been eating this soup. I love black bean soup, but sadly it was never sold here.

I was going to post a picture of Old Mother Hubbard, but that was very depressing, a dusty looking wooden cupboard.

So here is my pic, of black turtle beans, for those Australians who haven't seen them. They make everything black, but I love them!

Still using the things we have on hand for the base for each recipe. Hopefully next fortnight will be easier. However, the recipes have been lovely so far.

Tuesday ~ Pea & Ham Soup with Kranskys
Wednesday ~ Black eyed Beans/Peas & Vegetable Soup
Thursday ~ Pea Fritters & perhaps Chickpea Salad with Yoghurt Dressing
Friday ~ Chinese Egg Noodles
Saturday ~ Mixed Bean Chilli Soup Aduki Bean Chilli recipe on this blog soon
Sunday ~ Nachos with pinto beans or Pinto Beans with Chorizo & wraps
Monday ~ Fish with red or green curry from a can
Tuesday ~ Red & Black Lentil Soup by Tobie Puttock using French Style Lentils
Wednesday ~ Seafood Chowder I'm using canned prawns this particular time
Thursday ~ Mexican Macaroni Cheese
Friday ~ Wombuk & Mushroom Chow Mein I'm using egg noodles
Saturday ~ Italian Soup with Cheesy Damper (uses Kraft Cheddar)
Sunday ~ Pasta e Fagioli
Monday ~ Pumpkin & Split Pea Soup

Swap recipes:
Chilli Bean Casserole with Herby Dumplings
Roast Pumpkin & Black Lentil Soup

Possible Baking:
Polenta Cake with Citrus Syrup (I need eggs)

Successful recipes from last week:
Lucy's Adzuki Croquettes & Spicy Sesame Sauce

Interesting recipes:
Gula Melaka with Lychees
Hot Pot Soup with Basil Dumplings (uses kranskys)
Hearty Chicken Soup

The big question is, is aduki bean chilli a legitimate use for aduki beans? It seems so, going on this recipe called Mixed Bean Chilli Soup. We tried it last night, and yes, yummy.

A little more strange until I have tried it, aduki bean feijoada, Adzuki Bean & Cabbage Stew, I like feijoada, so I am curious. Going on what happened with the Mixed Bean Chilli Soup, yes it is like feijoada. Sour cream would have gone with it very nicely.

Anyway, I liked the cans of mixed pulses in the first recipe. They include soya, pinto, black-eye, red kidney and aduki beans, and chickpeas. They are available in the UK. It is used in this minestrone soup. It went well as a minestrone too. Aduki beans seem very versatile, for Italian, like black beans from the south and beyond, Japanese and like chilli, similar story to the black beans.

All Out of Lentils

This picture is called Pantry, Green Gables Home, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Monday sees some left over bacon that we made into soup Cabbage, Bacon & Potato Soup

A bit rough this menu, but also a pantry challenge. We had some things left over from last week, which is amazing really. Probably something to do with the gifted turkey and having left overs again after going back to a five person family this Monday after our son went back to the city after his break. I may buy mince and small amount of steak for the Japanese pancakes and the canned corn, eggs and ham, or go through the menu again and fine tune it.

Tuesday ~ Tuna Casserole
Wednesday ~ Left-overs
Thursday ~ Spaghetti Bolognaise
Friday ~ Mince Chow Mein
Saturday ~ Possibly Mediterranean Grilled Polenta with fish & salad
Sunday ~ Red Onion & Green Pea Fritters with Braised Beans needs fresh tomatoes & lemon juice or wombuk salad
Monday ~ Japanese Pancakes (uses cabbage)
Tuesday ~ Cabbage with Split Peas if not having chow mein and Japanese pancakes or Spaghetti with Tuna Sauce
Wednesday ~ Mushroom & Caper Pasta
Thursday ~ Mung Bean and Vegetable Soup
Friday ~ Tomato & Borlotti Bean Soup
Saturday ~ Possibly Noodle Omelettes uses canned corn, eggs & 100g ham or cauliflower
Sunday ~ Lucy's Adzuki Croquettes & Spicy Sesame Sauce
Monday ~ Spicy Azuki Bean Risotto

Swap recipes: Greek Bean & Silverbeet Stew
Italian Vegetable and White Bean Soup
Sweet & Sour Fish Sticks & Rice

Have tabouli mix for salad if we have a tomato in the garden.

Successes from last week:

Red Onion & Green Pea Fritters
Lentil Burgers with Tahini Sauce
Asian Bean Cakes
Pistou Soup

All very nice.

Interesting recipes: Spaghetti with Garlic Butter, Bacon and Prawns
Roasted Chipolatas with Creamy Polenta
Spaghetti with Tuna, Peas & Borlotti Beans
Sausages with Lentils & Polenta
Vegetable Slice with Asparagus Salad

Avoiding Buying Meat Menu

I am avoiding buying meat so I don't have to go shopping at my usual place 50 minutes away. I may have a small shop when I go to the regional centre, I have to go there the day after to have a dressmakers fitting for my daughter. I will order the fruit and vegetables online as usual in two days time and make up a basics shopping list. I figure vegetarian is cheaper than meat. I'm trying to give myself a good base to start paying bills. I have used items I found in the pantry in my plan. Even some silverbeet in the garden.

Tuesday ~ Celery & Silverbeet Pie
Wednesday ~ Rice Noodle & Vegetable Salad (needs red capsicum)
Thursday ~ Microwave Tuna Mornay
Friday ~ Indian Styled Potato & Pea Curry
Saturday ~ Red Onion & Green Pea Fritters
Sunday ~ Creamy Lentil & Rice Dish uses unsprouted mung beans
Monday ~ Hearty Mung Bean & Tomato Soup
Tuesday ~ Mung Tamarind Dahl or Mung Bean and Vegetable Soup
Wednesday ~ Braised Beans, (uses green beans and dried lima beans)
Thursday ~ Cabbage with Split Peas
Friday ~ Mushroom & Caper Pasta
Saturday ~ Asian Bean Cakes
Sunday ~ Pistou Soup (uses four bean mix and pesto)
Monday ~ Lentil Burgers with Tahini Sauce
possibly Wombuk Salad with Sesame Dressing

In the end I saw frankfurters on special around $4 a kilo and we have all the ingredients for Fettucine Carbonara apart from bacon that I bought on special.

Frankonarra maybe twice (needs mushrooms), or Continental Frankfurter Bake.

Pantry Items Left:

Rice stick noodles
canneloni
hokkein
romano or borlotti beans
sweet & sour sauce

Swap recipes: Bean & Pumpkin Stew
Curried Lentil & Pumpkin Soup


Interesting recipes: Tuna & Broccoli Bread Bake
Sausages with Lentils & Feta (uses fennel pork sausages & puy lentils or French styled lentils)
Left over Sausage Chilli (uses beef sausages and four bean mix)

Recipe using four bean mix: Chicken Tacos

I was wondering if anyone thought that the $21 challenge is the Down Under version of a Pantry Challenge?

I was given a turkey, so have added in turkey to go with the wombuk salad. Also some turkey and coleslaw may be the go.

I saw this book in Myer. I usually don't go browsing for things. I accidently went into the book section to take a mobile phone call. Thought it looked very interesting. Also saw a book by Debbie Macomber which I thought was very interesting.

Better Weather for Soup

I bought an Australian Woman's Weekly today, actually my husband did. I wanted to get some ideas about fashion. I don't usually buy it, but it turned out to be handy. I am doing a pantry challenge and found the omelette recipe really good. I had already ordered my fruit and vegetables which I am not scimping on as they are run down, and they had a special on red capsicum, and I had bought the vermicelli noodles last time when I saw them in Coles.

We took pot luck with the meat when my husband bought the usual UHT milk boxes, our eucalyptus washing powder and the cheese. We buy these from the farmer's shop and needed some meat for tonight. It was good as all we have left until the fruit order comes is cabbage. Thursday is my actual shopping day.

Tuesday ~ Pies & Chips
Wednesday ~ Beef & Cabbage Stir Fry (beef mince) meat from IGA Curried Mince
Thursday ~ Left over fish fingers? with Tomato & Onion Salad with Tamarind
Friday ~ Vegetable Noodle Omelette (from AWW) uses bok choy, vermicelli noodles, red capsicum
Saturday ~ Lentil & Cauliflower Dahl or Curried Lentil & Pumpkin Soup
Sunday ~ Cabbage with Split Peas
Monday ~ Indian Cauliflower & Chickpea Curry
Tuesday ~ Green Lentil Soup
Wednesday ~ Potato & Egg Salad with Caper Dressing or Potato & Egg Salad
Thursday ~ Mushroom & Caper Pasta
Friday ~ Prawn & Pumpkin Paella
Saturday ~ Wombuk Salad with Sesame Dressing with Felafel
Sunday ~ Zucchini, Tomato & Chilli Rigatoni
Monday ~ Clam Chowder needs cream or Seafood Chowder,

Swap recipes: Bean & Pumpkin Stew
Potato & Cauliflower Curry
Indian Styled Potato & Pea Curry
Mexican Macaroni Cheese
Asian Bean Cakes
Rice Noodle & Vegetable Salad (needs red capsicum)

Left-overs: Noodle Frittata with Plum Sauce

Baking: Carrot Cakes without Cream Cheese Icing, Icing made with Coconut Cream

Interesting recipes:
Lentil Burgers with Tahini Sauce
Black-eyed Beans and Sausages with Tomato Sauce
Sausage & Cannellini Bean Frittata uses beef sausages

Menu & Pantry Challenge

No I haven't fallen off the menu planning wagon. I went for a small shop while I was buying deb dresses and shoes and other evening dresses etc. Mostly I bought the ingredients for tuna casserole we were to have that night as I would be home after the shops closed. I asked my husband to buy ingredients for the Greek Salad and the pies and things for when he was away on a business trip, or a trip for work to learn things. Obviously I have spent modest amount on the dresses, but since I don't usually do that sort of thing, I am doing a pantry challenge so my son can come home for the weekend as well, as it is Labour Day and Canberra Day, which is nice, it doesn't usually happen that way. Maybe it will again next year. I know I looked for borlotti beans recipes, as I always try to keep borlotti, lentils, chickpeas and butter beans in the pantry, 2 cans of each for recipes for 6 people.

Tuesday ~ Cheesy Chicken Pasta Bake (Chicken Mince)
Wednesday ~ Pumpkin & Green Bean Curry
Thursday ~ Tuna Casserole
Friday ~ Tuna & Mushroom Spaghetti (I think)
Saturday ~ I forgot what it was but it was planned out
Sunday ~ Pies & Chips
Monday ~ Fish Fingers with Greek Salad
Tuesday ~ Spaghetti Bolognaise
Wednesday ~ Vege Burgers & Wedges that we didn't have because of left overs (a new thing in this house)
Thursday ~ Zucchini Pasta
Friday ~ Red Lentil Burgers & Wedges
Saturday ~ Anchovy Puttanesca
Sunday ~ Instant Falafel Burgers with Rice & Herb Salad
Monday ~ Mexican Macaroni Cheese

Extra recipe: Broccoli Pasta
Spicy Lentil Noodles
Pasta Primavera
Brown Lentil & Vegetable Soup (depends how many cans of tomatoes I have)
Vegetarian Lentil, Carrot & Cumin Loaf


Interesting recipe I could use in the future:
Sausage & Pumpkin Curry
Noodle Salad uses lebananese cucumbers and cooked chicken
Rice Noodle & Vegetable Salad
Baked Beans with Cheese Cornbread
Left-over Spaghetti Frittata