To ask what a typical week of family dinners looks like for you?

There are very few meals that everyone in this house will eat!
Between that and timings of various things I usually make 2 meals. This week:

Monday: DC1 made chilli in Food Tech so ate that. Curry for me, DH, DC2 and 2 friends
Tuesday: Leftover chilli for DC1, pizza for DC2 (they would both have had pizza if not for the leftovers, that's a normal Tuesday) and lamb and feta meatballs with flatbread, yoghurt sauce and chips for me and DH
Wednesday: pasta bake for DCs and either squash risotto or Mexican rice bake for us
Thursday: "chips and" - we're all back late from an event at DC1's school so I'll chuck assorted beige food in the oven!
Friday: not sure yet for DCs, possibly spag bol. Spicy chicken and cous cous with veggies and feta for me, DH and 2 friends
Saturday: probably fajita type things for DCs. DH and I are going out!
Sunday: BBQ at our friends' house

The only things I make that everyone will eat are lasagne, enchiladas, chilli, spag bol and "chips and" (and that's cos the "and" is flexible!).

@BlindBat I think it's like a fray bentos (used to eat them a lot as a kid!)

Last 7 days for us
Beef stir fry
Ravioli and garlic bread
Shepards pie
Beans on toast
Chicken curry
Roast dinner
Vegi chilli con carne
Jacket potato and cheese salad

A typical week for me would be: (all cooked from scratch)

Home cooked Chinese chicken curry, carbonara, curried fish stew, soy salmon and fried rice, burritos, sausage stew (easy version cassoulet), cottage pie, Caesar salad (with lots of new potatoes and bacon), chilli prawn pasta.

Same here! Other frequent dinners include chilli, stir fry, pasta and risotto. Every so often I make something more interesting/adventurous but generally I have to just go with what’s easy and I know everyone will eat.

A pie made out of goblins.....duh. I have no idea

1. Roast / BBQ
2. Vegetarian
3. Fish
4. Pasta
5. Slow Cooker
6. Freezer Food / Take Away
7. Family Favourite

Repeat.

Family of three, all vegetarian. We have most of the following on rotation:

Pasta with pesto and spring vegetables (usually Tenderstem broccoli, asparagus and peas)

Caesar salad with sliced veggie ‘chicken’ burgers

Baked potatoes with beans and cheese

Macaroni cheese with tinned tomatoes and peas

Spaghetti Bolognese (veggie mince)

Halloumi and red pepper fajitas

Creamy bean stew with new potatoes

Daal

Homemade tomato soup and toasties

Chickpea curry

Lasagne

Chilli and sweet potatoes

Veggie sausage casserole

We usually alternate:

Chicken/chorizo/bean/tinned tomato stew
Sausages, either in rolls or with oven chips and peas/beans
Chicken tempura things (big chicken nuggets) which I make into katsu curry with rice or noodles
Egg and bacon pasta or tomato pasta
Oven pizza with token salad and cucumber
Homemade vegetable or butternut squash soup
Sometimes a Thai chicken or prawn curry made with paste and tin of coconut milk
Paella
Sort of a poached chicken with orzo (cooked in the stock with the chicken, it's lovely!)
Fish fingers once in a while although they've gone off them
Cheese/ham toasties if nobody can be arsed

pasta Tuesday (today was bacon and tomato)
Pizza wednesday
meat and potatoes Thursday (those marinated bbq meats or minted lamb kebabs with new potatoes & veg)
Air fryer Friday (beige stuff from the freezer)
Rice Saturday (so stir fry or curry or chilli with rice or noodles)
burgers one day (chicken breast in a bun or beef burgers)

This weeks dinners have been:
Roast chicken with roast veg
Tarka daal with added chicken x2 (leftovers)
Bbq sausages and veg
Omelette with ham and mixed veg
Koftas with greek salad
Pasta bolognese (frozen sauce from batch)

We often also have chilli, chicken cacciatore, pasta or polenta with putanesca, devilled chicken or lamb, home made burgers, lamb curry, lentil salad, souvlaki with greek salad.

Not sure what your definition of ‘family’ would be, as I don’t have kids, but the kind of things me and DP would eat over a week (mostly cooked by me, because I like cooking) would be:

chilli con carne
chicken or fish curry with rice
Chickpea tagine
Steak with salad and new potatoes
Bubble & squeak with fried eggs
Stir-fry
Chicken or fish tray bake
Maybe something like a salmon and prawn salad or a Nicoise style salad in summer
Spaghetti with a tomato based sauce

In winter we tend to have more stew/casserole type things, maybe sausage & mash or toad-in-the-hole too.

I mostly cook from scratch because I enjoy it and I’m quite good at inventing meals from whatever’s in the house, though, so we eat all sorts really. There’s no routine or anything.

Very low effort cos I CBA

Burgers
Spaghetti
BBQ chicken skewers, rice, veg

Etc

Stews etc in winter, chilli

It's a drag, I know

I enjoy cooking so cook everything from scratch. We normally have a rotation of:

Lasagne, garlic bread, salad
Chicken madras and naan bread
Peppered steak and mushroom pie, roast potatoes, carrots, brocolli
Homemade pizza and chicken wings
Salmon, spicy rice, salad
Steak, chips, mushrooms, salad
Pancetta and lemon wrapped cod, crushed new potatoes and whatever veg is in season
Chicken kiev, chips, salad
Sweet chilli chicken traybake

We have Gousto 3 nights a week.
Probably pasta, chilli or jacket potatoes the other two nights.
Takeaway and Sunday roast over the weekend.
Fine diners we are not. But I do find that Gousto boxes give us a bit more variety than we'd have otherwise.

This week:

Slow cooked beef curry (spicy, so the kids had pesto pasta)
jacket potatoes with beans, cheese and a side salad
Mediterranean chicken and rice bake
bacon/cheese/veggie quesadillas
homemade tomato soup with garlic bread
salmon, boiled potatoes, veg and hollandaise
homemade pizza

Oh and quiche is always my go to when I don't know what to cook, either a crustless quiche made with a tub of cottage cheese and any veg I can find, or a short crust pastry one with bacon and all the cheese

pork and pepper enchiladas
spaghetti bolognaise
sausage traybake
Veggie massaman curry
meatballs and mash and peas
egg and chips
roast dinner

This week we have had

pizza and salad night

peri chicken wings with new potatoes and salad

sausages in buns, with sliced pepper and red onion

pork chops with apples, mash and veggies

pasta carbonara with mushrooms and spinach on the side

Lamb kebabs in pitta with yoghurt and lettuce.cucmber chilli salad

I can’t remember further back than that!

I always start out with a plan and food shop for the week, then by day 2 that plan goes out the window! No week is the same but the past week we've had:

Chicken curry and rice
Veggie tart with cream cheese and pesto
Spanish sweet potato and baked eggs
Creamy chicken with baked potatoes
Lemon and courgette risotto
Beef tacos
Oh and a KFC also!

Good thread I have realised that my dinners are directly proportional to my happiness so it's a long post but properly (overly) analysed

Also I WFH so stuff like omelettes, soup, beans on toast, salad and sandwiches sit in the lunches bracket for me

Monday and Tuesday - weekend leftovers, Brinner, minestrone and bread, freezer surprise

Wednesday oven risotto, egg fried rice, pasta or noodles (ideally veggie mon -wed makes me happiest!)

Then Thursday fake away with trimmings but in small amounts so for examples I cut up naans and freeze otherwise I feel guilty

Friday fish potatoes and veg for example slow roasted tomatoes, roasted broccoli and jersey royales and pan fried sea bass. The key is not roasting together but still easy after a trip to the pub.

Saturday pizza/pasta/BBQ/takeaway away

Then Sunday is weather dependent ideal is roast or BBQ but my back up is copy of Fridays dinner.

When partner is away I normally do noodle soup or a dim sum feast as he hates it.

For my bonus points I try to do a new recipe each week and then stick to a cuisine per week as we have a small household and aren't big eater so there's less waste and you dont get stuck in a rut (ie mexican) and when hosting ill have theme based around whats low in my spice rack to make sure ive got food cupboard, as 3 quid on garam marsala seeds alot for myself but when thrown into 20 for crisps alcohol and booze it seems ok. Often I don't do this and just get pizzas and prosecco as CBA

Tonight we've had risotto and veg
Monday night: fancy soup and crusty bread,
Sunday night: gammon steaks and veg
Saturday night: home made macaroni cheese
Friday night: Pizza and lots of salad

Can't remember further back than that.

Tomorrow night home made cottage pie.

I do a monthly meal plan (well, I try) but make it easier by having about 30% of those "set" meals so = burgers on Monday, every other Wednesday is jacket potatoes, etc.

M = cheese and ham toasties with salad, houmous, crudites
T = homemade chicken soup with rolls
W = baked potato with tuna mayo, beans, green veg (beans or asparagus)
T = sausages, sautéed potatoes, other green veg I didn't use night before
F = tofu/prawn stir fry

Other things we do on the regular are things like spag bol, lemon chicken, macaroni cheese, fish and veg, also these lovely chicken thighs (boned) fried with chickpeas and served with fresh veg, homemade quiche, black bean quesadillas, curries, dals...

I've started to give less of a shit about complaints or food refusal - I tend go serve the meal and if they don't want the main component they just have the carb and the veg. There are few things they all really enjoy so I let them pick a meal a week and then I make a few things I like.

Vegan versions of
Sausage mash beans
Cheesy broccoli pasta (nutritional yeast, mustard and pesto in the bechamel not fake cheese)
Roast dinner,no meat sub just stuffing
Roast Butternut squash 'mac n cheese'
Wraps with veggies and rice
Veg soup crusty bread
Lentil Bolognese

Pasta and pesto (cheap)
Jacket spuds and variety of toppings to suit people's tastes (cheap)
Freezer night or homemade wedges if I can be arsed, fried egg and peas (cheap)
Enchiladas with chicken breast and peppers
Lentil Bolognese
Curry (usually vegetable or egg)
Tray bake or burgers and home made coleslaw.

I need easy, cheap food which everyone will eat. The quicker the better too. I hate providing food for my family. Any ounce of joy I once had was ground out of me long ago.
Four of us: a combination of fussy eaters, overweight adults and underweight teen have made life tricky.