Menu Plan Monday, Week Eighteen

Time for Menu Plan Monday! This week is very much a knee-jerk reaction to last week's shopping-eating-drinking binge and so is full of cheap kitchen-ready dishes. No shopping for me this week, nosireebob. No more spendiespendie for a little while.

Until Saturday, actually. Our local farmers market should be opening this weekend and I look forward to lots of cucumbers (all my cucumber plants drowned) and corn. Mmmm! Buttery sweet corn and crisp refrigerator pickles! Can't wait! And, if we can get properly organized on Sunday morning, there's always the Coventry Farmers Market with its fresh sauerkraut and delicious beef ...

Monday

• Picnic leftovers: Hot dogs with fried mushrooms and chopped cucumbers in light Italian.
  

Tuesday

• Last of the leftover pasta salad, pickled beets, and cherries.
  

Wednesday

• Not CMOT Dibbler's Sausages-inna-bun¹: Grilled garlicky chicken sausages (from freezer) with peppers and onions on a bun. Plus salad.
  

Thursday

• Salad day: lettuce from the garden, grape tomatoes, cucumber, celery, carrots, and red onion. Plus grapes and chunks of white Stilton with cranberries.
  

Friday

• Grilled boneless skinless chicken breasts (thawed and marinated in light Italian) with parsley rice and tinned green beans.

Saturday

• Pasta salad on lettuce leaves (from garden) with chopped cucumbers and tomatoes in light Italian.

Sunday

• Grilled marinated boneless pork loin chops (thawed and marinated in barbecue sauce) with corn on the cob and cucumbers in light Italian.
  

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¹ "And then you bit into them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything."
(from Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures)