Meals of the Week, October 25th to 31st, 2026

Hello and welcome to my weekly Meals of the Week post. Every Sunday I like to share with you, my lovely readers, all of the deliciousness that I have enjoyed as my main meals over the past seven days.  That's a whole lot of tasty going on!

This is only my main meals and does not include my breakfasts or lunches. Most of the time I will eat my main meal at noon, unless I am going out to eat or eating at a friends, or having company. That is just works for me. I don't like to go to bed on a full stomach and as I am an early in-to-bedder, it just makes sense to eat my main meals earlier in the day.

I try always to keep my meals budget friendly as well. As a Senior on a fixed budget I need to watch my pennies and I know many of you do as well. I also like to keep things as healthy as I can, which can be a bit of a challenge in today's economy.  

I have had my daughter staying with me these past few weeks as she recovers from her cancer surgery so I have also had to fit in with her tastes and dislikes as well. She is going back to her own apartment on Wednesday next so things will be getting more back to normal then.

Wherever I have eaten out or at my sister's (Sunday dinner most weeks) I have included a "like" recipe to use in it's place.

Doing this each week helps to keep me motivated and helps to keep me eating properly most of the time. I could be tempted to just eat ready meals, takeaways etc. as a single person living on their own. I am determined not to be that person.

I am determined that I will feed myself properly, even though I now live on my own. I don't want to get lazy and just eat out of cans, jars and frozen dinner packages.  Most of what I cook is pretty simple, admittedly, but its all from scratch.

So without waffling on any longer here are the meals which my daughter and I enjoyed over the past seven days. I hope that you enjoy seeing them and that you will be inspired to want to cook at few of them for yourself!

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY, October 25th - Roast Pork with Lemon & Potatoes

We were still not able to go to my sister's for Sunday dinner so I made dinner here at home for Eileen and myself. Roast Pork with Lemon & Potatoes. Adapted from a recipe from Nigel Slater's kitchen diaries, what you have here is a tender and juicy pork roast, browned and then roasted in the oven with potato and lemon wedges which have been tossed together with some oil and fennel seed. The whole thing is magnificently delicious.

We enjoyed this cut into slices and served with some of the potatoes, pan juices spooned over top and some brussels sprouts that I had roasted alongside the pork in the oven. 

MONDAY, October 26th - Amish Savoury Pork Pie

I had leftover cooked pork to use up and so I made this recipe for Amish Savoury Pork Pie that I had not made in a long time.  This is not a pie in the real sense of pies. There is no top or bottom crust.  Just a type of a biscuit cobbler topping.  The leftover pork is browned in a skillet along with a few other bits and then you add potatoes, etc. create a gravy and simmer it until nice and thick. This goes into a casserole dish, dumpling batter is dropped on top and then the whole lot is baked until the dumplings are golden brown.

This made a lovely supper with some salad on the side. Nobody was complaining about having leftovers, and I got to use them up. It was a win/win all round. That's the key to using up leftovers. You have to reinvent them into something that is just as delicious if not more so that the original meal! I did cut the recipe down to make only two servings.

TUESDAY, October 27th - Creamy Italian Sausage with Bow Ties

I know, pork again. I had thawed out what I thought was a package of hamburger but it ended up being ground pork. I made some of my homemade sweet Italian sausage meat and then used some of it to make this Creamy Italian Sausage with Bow Ties.

This is really, really, REALLY good!  The sauce was rich and flavorful.  There is the perfect ratio of sauce to pasta.  The quickness and ease of preparation, plus the deliciousness of it means that it is something we enjoy fairly often. We like easy in this house. With it's creamy tomato sauce, rich flavourful Italian sausage meat and scrumptious pasta, it always goes down a real treat.

Nothing special needed on the side except a salad (we did) and for the heartier eaters some crusty bread to mop up all that delicious sauce!

WEDNESDAY, October 28th - One Pan Chicken Broccoli Alfredo Pasta

We were able to get out for a family dinner at the Big Scoop on Wednesday night. We had not been for several weeks while Eileen was recuperating from her operation. This was going to be Hazel's last week joining us due the the clocks changing on the 1st November so Eileen really wanted to see her.  Thankfully she did not find it all that hard to get around.  She's doing so well.

The special was this Chicken Broccoli Alfredo Pasta Bake (with garlic bread) which is what Eileen had. She loves her pasta.  The rest of us had very disappointing fish and chips. Cindy actually sent hers back and got another piece, but it was as bad as the first one. They just can't seem to get fish right for some reason.

In any case, I am sharing my recipe for this tasty One Pan Chicken Broccoli Alfredo Pasta in place of what Eileen had. (She really enjoyed her dinner.) With plenty of tender pieces of chicken, penne pasta, crispy tender broccoli florets and a creamy white cheesy sauce that can be as high or as low fat as you like. Its delicious and you get in one of your five a day at the same time. All you need on the side is perhaps some crusty bread to make sure you can mop up all of that tasty sauce!

THURSDAY, October 29th - Fruity Sausage Burgers

Without meaning to we have had a very porky week. On Thursday I made us some Fruity Sausage burgers, using some British banger sausage meat. They are very simple to make, only three main ingredients. Sausage meat, dried cranberries and toasty pinenuts. This gets mixed together and shaped into patties. Ready for baking or frying to succulent perfection.

Tucked into soft rolls with a bit of spicy mayo and some rocket leaves, these always go down a real treat. All you need on the side is some salad perhaps, or some oven chips, maybe potato salad if you are not into oven chips. In any case, quick, easy to make and delicious. Works for me every time!

FRIDAY, October 30th - Turkey Sub Sandwiches 

Eileen had a birthday lunch out with her friends on Friday. They went to Angie's right behind where I live.  She wanted me to make Sub Sandwiches for our supper and who am I to refuse my beautiful daughter!  I made us each a six inch sub sandwich. loaded with plenty of fresh ingredients. Red onion, lettuce, Havarti cheese,sliced deli turkey, sliced peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes. Pickles, hot peppers and black olives (for me.)  All tucked into a six inch sub bun with plenty of garlic mayonnaise. They were really good.

I didn't have anything with mine. In fact, I could only eat half of it. Eileen had hers with an instant cup of soup. (Cheese and Broccoli)  I couldn't finish mine. But there were very good.  For the heartier eater you might want to add some potato chips or even oven chips.  Both would work well.

SATURDAY, October 31st - Early Dinner/Late Lunch out

Saturday being Halloween and Eileen feeling so much better, Eileen and I decided to celebrate by having lupper (lunch supper) out. We went to Dee Dees which is a place just down the road that we both like very much. 

Eileen wanted a hot dog and chips and I had their classic burger, which I really love.  They will be closing soon for the Winter so this was also one last chance to enjoy their food, which is superior to the other place we go to with Dad. 

In place of Eileen's hot dog I am sharing my recipe for Air Fryer Hot Dogs. Toasty soft-sided buns, topped with cheese and crispy fried onions, these always go down a real treat. I like to use all beef frankfurters.  We use the soft sided New England style buns. So yummy and the crispy onions add a lovely crunch.

The hearty eater could add some oven chips on the side, or Mac & Cheese, potato chips, potato salad, well, anything really. These go very well with most things.

And there you have it, my meals of the week for this, the last week of October, 2026 (How did that happen? Time is passing by so quickly!)  We did have a pork heavy week, and a bit sandwich type of meal heavy as well, but, well . . . some weeks are just like that!

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