The meal plan week 37 is going to be a good meal week. We have a special holiday inspired breakfast for dinner french toast planned. Using meal components from one meal to another on at least one night is going to make cooking dinners easier this week. Making dinners we can freeze parts of or all of to make future dinners easier.
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Meal Plan Week 37
Monday - Soy Free Beef Stir Fry
Tuesday - Oat Nog French Toast and Bacon
Wednesday - Cauliflower Soup
Thursday - Fish Free Sushi Night
Friday - Turkey Meatballs, Mashed Potatoes, with Gravy
Saturday - Meatball Subs and Poutine
Sunday - Leftovers
Meal Plan Week 37 In-Depth and Top Tips
Monday
Meal Soy Free Beef Stir Fry
This Soy Free Stir Fry is a super easy meal we love to make on busy weekday nights. We can switch it up as needed. If we want to stick to frozen snow peas, bell peppers, baby corn, bok choy, onion, and beef over rice we can. We can also pick up a stir fry frozen veggie mix as long as it suits our allergies. This is one of those meals that is best when we can make it as easy as possible.
Brand We Have Found:
Coconut Aminos
Top Tip:
If chicken thighs or pork is cheaper then we may switch the beef out for one of those. This dish works with any protein or veggie that is your favourite and budget friendly.
To make it quicker, freeze the veggies and meat already cooked and portioned out. Thaw them and reheat over fresh rice to cut the work in half.
How to pack it for lunch the next day:
When reheating rice it is important to keep it as hot as possible. It is best when microwaved at school or work or in a thermos that keeps the heat in really well. Layer the rice first then the veggies and meat that is reheated. Don’t forget a utensil.
Tuesday
Meal Oat Nog French Toast and Bacon
Making our French Toast using our recipe but switching out the dairy free milk for oat or coconut based nog. We may use a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg in the mix but probably not a lot of other spices.
Our dinner will be had with strips of bacon, cooked up crispy. The other side dish will be cut up fruit. We have a ton of pears and grapes we got on sale so we will use them. They will be plain but cut up and mixed together. The breakfast for dinner meal will have a healthy drizzle of pure maple syrup to top it all off.
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Top Tip:
The french toast can be made up and reheated in a gluten free only toaster for breakfast in the mornings.
How to pack it for lunch the next day:
We send it to be microwaved at work in a microwave safe storage container to reduce cross contact in a shared microwave. Our kids will often eat it as it is and not reheated. We cut the Oat nog French toast in strips with a tiny bit of real pure maple syrup to dip into. Don’t forget a fork, if your kids are like some of mine and hate getting sticky fingers.
Wednesday
Meal Cauliflower Soup
Cauliflower is supposed to be on sale this week at the produce discounter. We need a few heads of it so it can get expensive, if it isn’t on sale the way produce prices are going. Frozen cauliflower is perfectly suitable to use for the cauliflower soup and to keep costs down. It can either be commercially frozen or cauliflower that you have cleaned and frozen from when it is on sale. Always check commercially frozen vegetables for allergen cross contact with the manufacturer.
This recipe uses curry powder, if you are allergic to mustard powder check that it is not included in your curry powder. Traditionally, some curry powder mixes contain mustard. The Minimalist Baker does a fabulous recipe for making your own curry powder, omit the mustard powder if it is an allergen. It is a great way to control the heat of the curry powder. We prefer a mild one for anything our kids eat as spice can flare acid reflux in our child with EoE.
Brand We Have Found:
Broth
Top Tip:
Roast the cauliflower in advance to make dinner prep easy. It can be frozen at this stage or roasted from frozen raw cauliflower.
How to pack it for lunch the next day:
We pack it as we do any leftover soup. Always heated up on the stove as it stays warmer longer. We use a kid sized thermos that is easy for them to open independently and safely. Pre-warming the thermos with warm water is the key to keeping the contents hotter for longer.
We heat the soup up on the stove in a small pot until boiling. The soup should be warm but not too hot so it burns them when they open the thermos, for safety.
Dump the water from the thermos and fill it with the soup. Send it with a spoon.
Thursday
Meal Fish Free Sushi Night
This is one of our kids’ favourite meals that they really miss from restaurants. We used to get sushi a fair amount. Just because we cannot have fish doesn’t mean they cannot have sushi. It just means that we have different sushi.
We will use leftover meat from the stir fry and put it in the rolls. There is also the Carrot lox that we use in place of smoked salmon. Mushrooms are great in place of scallops and shellfish when marinated in a bit of coconut aminos. The bulk of what we put in our sushi are veggies - cucumber, carrots, avocado, cooked asparagus or sweet potato, baby corn, are all excellent fillings we use.
We make sushi rice using a recipe from All Recipes and special sushi grade rice. Cook it up and use it on sheets of allergen friendly seaweed or nori. Use a sushi mat wrapped in plastic wrap for easy clean up. Use coconut aminos for a dipping sauce and wasabi in a brand that is safe for you, if you like it.
Brand We Have Found:
Coconut Aminos
Top Tip:
Use unseasoned rice wine vinegar for making the sushi rice. It is unsweetened. The seasoned contains sugar and is perfect in salad dressings.
How to pack it for lunch the next day:
Since we are making sushi without fish it keeps a bit better and longer. We will make an extra roll for each child. We cut it and put it into a small container and store it in the fridge. In the lunch bag we send a small well sealing container of coconut aminos. The aminos will leak otherwise so to help further we pop it in the container with the sushi so that if it leaks it leaks on them.
Don’t forget the chopsticks.
Friday
Meal Turkey Meatballs, Mashed Potatoes, with Gravy
Our egg-free turkey meatballs meal is like getting dinner at Ikea. Or at least that is what the kids say. We pick up lingonberry jam at Ikea just for dinners like this. The dinner will be meatballs, a gravy, mashed potatoes, and either a steamed veggie like carrots or a quick salad like our Festive Spinach Salad.
Brand We Have Found:
Gluten Free Bread Crumbs
Plumm Good (our favourite)
Panko (will need crushing to make smaller)
Top Tip:
Make the meatballs ahead of time, cook through and freeze in a container. Cook from frozen in the oven or in a pan on the stove top to save time. Doubling the recipe is a great way to make them, put half away in the freezer for another meal.
How to pack it for lunch the next day:
Reheat the meal components together in a frying pan with a couple of tablespoons of water. Meatballs, mashed potatoes, and gravy all together but in parts of the pan to themselves.
Cover the pan with a well fitting lid and heat over medium heat for 4-5 mins. Remove the lid and let any remaining water cook off, about 2 -3 mins. Layer the food in a thermos that has been warmed by hot water and drained.
To heat this meatball meal up if a microwave is available, send the meal in a microwave safe container. When heating, open the container or place it loosely over the dish to vent. Microwave for 1 minute 20 seconds, check it is all heated through and heat by 25 seconds longer, as needed.
Saturday
Meal Meatball Subs and Poutine
Heat the meatballs up in Marinara Sauce with a bit of Italian herbs (oregano, rosemary, basil, marjoram and thyme). Soak until the meatballs are heated through and the sauce is bubbling. Toast top 8 and gluten free hot dog buns in the oven on a lines cookie sheet. Put the meatballs and a bit of sauce on the bins and top with dairy free shredded cheese and toast again under the broiler until the cheese is slightly melted. Dairy free cheese will not melt totally or the same as regular cheese. If melted too long it will harden.
Poutine is a VERY Canadian dish. It is French fries with Cheese cured (or shredded dairy free cheese, for us) smothered in gravy. Most fast food places and diners make this dish and there are a million variations. If you want to leave the cheese off do and just do fries and gravy. The gravy will be the leftovers from the night before. Reheat the gravy on the stove, adding a bit of water if needed.
The fries will be starchy potatoes cut in fry sized sticks and soaked in salted cold water. Soak for at least 30 minutes. Remove them, place on a clean tea towel and roll to dry. Pre-heat the air fryer. Toss the fries in a bit of neutral oil with a high smoke point, Place in the air fryer, don’t over fill the basket. Cook for 28 minutes at 380F, shaking at least halfway but preferably every 5 mins. Put the fries in bowls, sprinkle on the cheese, and top with hot gravy. The gravy will melt the cheese. Eat with a fork.
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Top Tip:
Cut the meatballs in half or slices so they are easy to eat and don’t roll off the bun.
How to pack it for lunch the next day:
We put the meatballs and the tomato marinara sauce in pre-heated thermos after heating up. The bun is sent separately so it doesn’t get soggy. The kids can
Sunday
Meal Leftovers
One of our standard meals of the week. We will be using up anything in the last couple of days that is left over. We heat the food up on the stove, usually. It is the ONLY time we make different meals with the kids. For us it is too tough to make more than one meal usually but since we are only reheating food it is easy to do.
We will be baking cookies with the kids this day so we need an easy meal that leaves the oven free. Most of what will be reheated will only need the stove top. If there isn’t a lot leftover we will pull leftover soup out of the freezer and heat that up.
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Leftover Containers
Rubbermaid TakeAlong Containers
Top Tip:
When we have leftover soup or when we double the soup batches we freeze the leftovers in 1-2 person portion containers so we can make them as needed. This
How to pack it for lunch the next day:
We only reheat food once for best food safety practices. The more times food passes through the temperature zone where bacteria breeds it increases the risk of bacteria growing.
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