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

Chicken breasts in Parma ham cooked in a white bean, spinach and tomato sauce

Tomato and bean soup with cheesy croutons

Turkey escalopes with broccoli, green beans and new potatoes

Home made pizza

Kale and broccoli gochujang tofu pasta

Pulled pork with coleslaw and corn on the cob.

There’s only two of us and we had a big pack of chicken thighs to use up - so this week:
Mon - enchiladas, cooked enough for 4 portions
Tues - Lebanese one pot chicken, lentil and rice dish (also enough for 4 portions)
Weds - I’m working late but DP will have leftovers of either of these, I’ll take my portion to work
Thurs - leftovers again
Fri - no idea, will rummage in freezer and resist getting a takeaway
Sat and Sun are anyone’s guess but at least one will involve oven chips.

Other things I cook include:
Curry, of various iterations from diff countries
Spag bol
A big batch of soup
Burgers, chicken or beef, or steak sandwiches with v thin steak
Trying to cook more fish so will have that with potatoes or something
Stir fry
A really easy pasta like puttanesca is good to have up your sleeve

We also like dine in for 2 meals or those ‘takeaway’ ready meal bags you get in supermarkets.

This week:
Spaghetti Bolognese
Sausage and chips
Chicken chausseur and mash
Paella
Bean burritos
Pasta Bake

1 day a week the DC's dad feeds them so I have the night off cooking!

Mon - Honey mustard gammon steaks with dauphinois potatoes and veg
Tues - Halloumi burgers
Weds - Chicken cacciatore
Thurs- Sticky beef with jasmine rice
Fri - Italian sausage rolls with salad
Sat - Lamb kofta with flatbread and salad
Sun - Cowboy pie

In the depths of winter we have a lot of stews, casseroles, roasts, pasta bakes and pies!

Last 10 meals we've had:

Dahl with paratha

Lamb kleftiko with potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, onions and herbs

Ratatouille and halloumi bake

Louisiana beef steak with new potatoes and corn on the cob plus green beans

Stuffed peppers with halloumi and mixed grains

Fritatta made with 3 eggs per person with tinned potatoes, sweetcorn, red peppers, garlic and onion, plus seasonings and herbs

Edamame and tuna salad with prawn bao buns

Lamb Saag with spinach, red lentils rice and Homemade Naan

Jacket potato with beans and cheese

Homemade Leek and potato soup with homemade garlic bread

Tomorrow is chicken leg grilled with a chilli lime rub, served with a mango, chilli and avocado salsa and rice.

sorry misread and put like my whole meal rotation list.

half the week it’s just me and dd eating, as dh works shifts. I sometimes eat with him and just give dd pasta pesto, peas and corn. she’d eat it forever. or it’s pizza or fajitas. mid week when it’s all of us it’s curry/rice dish, burgers or bolognase and weekend is like roast chicken or fish option normally if we don’t eat out.

•Cottage pie
•Chicken and chorizo jambalaya
•Pesto pasta
•Baked potato with beans/cheese/tuna mayo and salad bits
• homemade pizza
•toad in the hole
•stir fry or curry dish, but the kids don't tend to eat those.
•macaroni cheese
•mushroom risotto

Sun- Roast chicken dinner, homemade yorkie etc
Mon- left over chicken homemade Marry me chicken on fresh pasta
Tues- Steak Fajitas
Wed-homemade Mac cheese
Thurs- homemade Spaghetti bol
Fri- Baked Potatoes
Sat- Home made pizzas

Child is autistic with arfid so meals have to be tweaked to eliminate issues.

My son has 3 meals he will eat (asd) and I’ve had the same very heathy batch cooked curry and salad dinner almost every night for 4 years (maybe I’m also asd 🤔)

This week

M - part baked baguette and braised BBQ beef, corn on the cob.

T - Meat feast , Lemon & pepper chicken, mint and lamb Kofta, peri peri chicken wings, garlic and herb mushroom and pepper Kebabs , roasted stem broccoli and skin on fries.

W - flat bread Steak Style fajitas (mushroom, peppers, onions, courgettes) homemade coleslaw, sweet potatoes fries.

T - Peri peri baked salmon, Quinoa, sweet potato, squash & broccoli salad

F - homemade pizza, homemade wedges, sweet corn and coleslaw.

Sat - we will go shopping so what ever our teenage children want…

Sunday. Pork and beef Sunday dinner with all the trimmings.

We batch cook and prep on a Sunday, as both boys play high level sports and train/play 5/6 x per week and we also work F/T/ go to the gym.

my staples are:

bolognaise
fajita' kit (chicken, veg)
sausage casserole slow cooked with potato and veg in it
pizza w salad or peas/corn (fridays)
smoked cod and mash with parsley sauce
tai green curry (prawns) w rice or sweet n sour prawns and rice (sauce from a jar)
burgers n chips
pasta tortillini
slow cooked roast chicken with potato and veg
leftover roast chicken turned into a chicken tonight sauce dinner with rice
fish pie
pasta tray bake (usually tuna or something similar)

We generally have chicken wraps of some sort usually fajitas

mince dish -Spag Bol/chilli/lasagne

salmon and rice or salmon pasta (depending on the previous nights carbs)

chicken again, usually with fried rice and veg

steak and sweet potato with corn on the cob

Saturday something nice like a home made pie or a new recipe or pizza

Sunday Basa and chips

That does sound good! I'll try it too.

Sunday - Chicken, mushroom and tarragon filo pie with truffle mash and peas

Monday - Tofu, red pepper and red onion stir fry with an orange and chili sauce and rice

Tuesday - herb crusted Hake with skin on mash, roasted tomatoes and a courgette salad

Wednesday - Halloumi and portobello mushroom burgers in brioche buns

Thursday - Macaroni cheese with roasted broccoli and soy marinaded mushrooms

Friday - Butter chicken curry with naan

Saturday - Takeaway

(All our meals are veggie)

fajitas
pizza
beans on toast
tuna sandwich
pasta
Baked potato
homemade soup

Nothing fancy, we try and make meals everyone likes. When it’s cropping season at the allotment we eat a lot of fresh food too, or freeze things like onions for winter soups and stews.

Thanks so much - it sounds amazing, I will definitely making this next week 😀

This week we have
Panzanella with mozzarella
Crunchy pea and mint salad
Veg fajitas
Lentil tacos
Egg salad with new potatoes
Soy mince cottage pie with green beans
Tomato and basil soup with crusty bread

We meal plan on a Saturday morning but this week we've had the following:-
Mon - carbonara
Tue - curry kit or simple cook kit
Wed - orzo
Thur - chicken pesto pianini
Fri - fajitas
Sat - pizza & nibbles
Sun - spatchcock chicken

We always have a few curry kits like spice girl or simply cook in the cupboard so we usually have at least one of them a week, and Monday is always some kind of pasta. We did hello fresh, a couple of times for new ideas.

I'm on hols at the moment but last 7 meals at home were: lamb koftas and cous cous, steak sambo and chips, crispy pork stir fry with noodles, cod tacos and salad, bangers and mash, spicebag and curry sauce and last night before hols we had a meat and cheeseboard.

Really quick things and try and do a mix of things DD likes and new exposures (that she will rarely try).

On standard rotation is:

Veggie sausages, chips and beans
Tofu scramble, toast and tomatoes
Butternut squash based mac n “cheeze”
Soya mince, mash and peas
Fishless fingers, sweet potato chips and cucumber
Noodles with tofu and sweetcorn
Lentil soup with bread and marg
Vegan pizza with hummus
Tomato chickpea pasta (but she’s gone off that)

Attempted something new tonight, Refried bean tacos, rice and corn on cob, she ate the rice and corn only, but trying to repeat exposures.

Oooh lurking

We have ended up very beef heavy this week, due to the items that were on offer/reduced when I went shopping. We rarely have beef more than twice a week so it does feel a bit strange - but I'm not complaining!
Tomorrow, we are having pasta, veggies and meatballs.
Today, we had a beef and root vegetable stew with rye bread (used the slow cooker).
Yesterday, we had rib eye steak (reduced) with homemade chips, carrots and corn-on-the-cob.
Sunday, we had chicken cooked in one of those Nando's oven bags with roasted whole sweet potato and peas.
Saturday, we had homemade pizzas (dairy-free household so vegan cheese) whilst watching a sporting event live stream.
Friday, we had Thai yellow curry with jasmine rice and prawn crackers.
Thursday, we had jackets with tuna sweetcorn mayo and salad.

In regular circulation..
Roast dinner
Home made tandoori butter chicken
Lasagne
Chilli
Chicken pie (mash topped)
Thai curry
Sweet n sour or sweet chilly chicken
Louisianna linguine (simply cook)

Same category of thing.different flavours.

Pasta (so could be carbonara, aglio e olio, marinara etc)
Chicken/pork stir fry
Pancakes
Fish dish
A Curry
Roast chicken/chop/joint
Takeaway/frozen food/simple meal

Thank goodness I live alone. Meal plan Mon-Fri : jacket potato with beans and coleslaw or tuna and coleslaw. A choice of 2 - luxury!