Meal plan

I have been trying to work out a meal plan so that we can cut down our time in the kitchen and spend more quality time as a family and eat at home as much as we can.

(A work in progress, it will probably take a few weeks to perfect this.)

Monday

Lunch: Aloo / potato paratha

Options (made on the weekend)

• Stuffed
• Mashed, boiled potatoes mixed in with wheat flour.

Dinner: Rice or pasta
Options

• Mushroom fried rice
• Biryani
• Khichdi
• Pulao
• Pasta with red sauce (store bought or bulk frozen at home) and frozen veggies.

Tuesday

Breakfast: Upma or leftover khichdi with rai + hing tadka

Lunch: Palak / spinach paratha

Options (made on the weekend)

• Blanched, ground spinach mixed in with wheat flour.

Dinner: Uttapam / Idlis / Dosas / Cheelas with Sambar and/or chutney
Options

• 1 cup rolled oats + 1 cup roasted coarse rava + 1/2 cup ground flax seeds + lots of kadhi patta + salt to taste. Soak all this and keep for about half hour or more. (Can even soak in the morning before leaving for work.)
• Rice flour + Jowar flour + Oats flour + salt to taste

Wednesday

Lunch: Methi / fenugreek paratha / thepla

Options (made on the weekend)

• Fresh chopped methi and yogurt mixed in with wheat flour.

Dinner: Roti (homemade or from outside) + Sabji
Options

• Cauliflower 
• Potato
• Doodhi

Thursday

Lunch: Broccoli paratha

Options (made on the weekend)

• Boiled, ground broccoli mixed in with wheat flour.

Dinner: Oats Kanji + Stir fried / roasted / tandoori style veggies
Options

• Roasted asparagus (drizzled with olive oil + sea salt + black pepper)
• Tandoori gobi
• Tandoori bhindi

Friday

Lunch: Dal / lentil paratha

Options (made on the weekend)

• Boiled, ground dal mixed in with wheat flour.

Dinner: Soup + bread (homemade) / Bread rolls / Cheelas
Options

• Barley and Mushroom soup

Saturday

Sunday