Every week, kept forever
Feast of Santiago (Sat 25 Jul) week. Six nights of Spanish flavours built around ready-made shortcuts to keep it doable with the newborn: Wed tapas at home, Thu gambas al ajillo + sourdough, Fri bavette tagliata with freezer romesco (Steak Night), Sat M&S empanadas + Santiago-day salad, Sun proper paella (the one real cook), Mon Unearthed tortilla + salad. Ocado delivery, ~£88.60 Santiago additions.
First full week with the new baby. Everything one-hand: bowls, pasta, sandwich, noodle soup. Steak Night Fridays anchor the week — chimichurri steak bowl to open (Fri 10), steak sandwich on ciabatta to close (Fri 17). Freezer does the heavy lifting mid-week: lasagne (Sat), Batch Lady satay curry (Sun), baked feta pasta (Mon veggie), bolognese (Tue), mushroom ragu pappardelle (Wed veggie), prawn miso noodle soup (Thu). Waitrose delivery, £75.72.
Five freezer items chipped away: Mexican pulled pork tacos (Tue), harissa baked eggs (Wed veggie), veggie miso ramen (Thu), BBQ salmon caper-preserved-lemon-dill butter (Fri), deep-fried cod & chips — new fryer debut (Sat), chicken pie (Sun), mushroom ragu pappardelle (Mon veggie).
Mole chicken (batch + Fri tacos), Spanish tortilla, BBQ halloumi + harissa couscous salad, pulled mole tacos, cold sambal-tumis noodle salad. Banana bread Sunday bake. Light, cold-friendly, gut-health-leaning. Chilli + dahl saved for cooler weeks.
Pork belly, dahl, Keralan coconut curry, BBQ prawns, curried chicken thighs, lamb koftas. Last asparagus, World Refugee Day mezze.
Lamb koftas, spatchcock chicken, BBQ salmon (World Oceans Day), shakshuka, halloumi, pork tenderloin, beef burgers. Sunday cookie dough bake.
BBQ pork belly + soy-maple-ginger, BBQ sea bass, chicken tikka coconut curry (Spice Tailor), duck legs, panko prawns, chicken Milanese. Not archived to disk before being overwritten — sorry.
Curried BBQ chicken thighs, BBQ salmon + cucumber yoghurt, BBQ halloumi + courgettes, lamb koftas, beef burgers in brioche. The original gold-standard week.
From this week onwards, every plan is auto-archived to its own URL and listed here forever.