To ask what British people have for dinner usually

what we are eating this week
roast chicken
lasagne
chicken and bacon pie
veg chilli tacos
beef stew and dumplings
salmon thai curry
lamb with cous cous and hummus

we do not eat lunch!

I have breakfast lunch and tea.
Tea eaten about 6 ish.
Stir fry.
Sausage mash onion gravy peas and carrots
Cottage pie.
Chicken chips and beans.
Gammon
Smoked haddock new potatoes n peas.

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We are only 3 (well, we are 5 really but 2 are autistic and no chance of them eating HF!!)

Which reminds me - maccy cheese is another British fave. Great for autism (colour wise!!)

We get 5 meals/week and the first box was free with free delivery.
Then we got an additional 12 boxes for £48.48 including delivery.

Very hearty meals and good value at that price. It's up to 62 quid now 5 meals 3 folks inc delivery at full price but, for convenience and delicious meals without the faff of deciding what to make each night, top notch.

And - if you have kids that are good eaters, you could easily eek out an extra portion (or 2 for small kids) from the ingredients they send.

We eat about 7.30pm. That’s our main meal.
it varies. We usually have a veggie meal/2 x red meat/2 x fish or seafood/ 2 x chicken a week
so Saturday we had Chinese slow roast duck, rice, bok choi
Sunday Roast chicken
Monday left over roast chicken creamy pasta.
Tuesday a veggie orzo dish
last night we had fish pie, mash and green beans.

We try and eat with seasonal local products too.

Another British person who doesn’t eat much ‘British’ cuisine, Although I was brought up with most of my meals based around meat, two veg and potatoes, along with Spag Bol, homemade curries, chicken fajitas, etc.

Now, I cook a lot of what I call ‘modern fusion’, mostly vegetarian (although I’m not vegetarian, I try to eat less meat), different grains and spices, with influences from all over the world. I use www.mob.co.uk for a lot of my recipes, it’s a recipe site full of different chefs with lots of different styles. I make exactly one roast a year for Christmas.

I don’t eat breakfast and I usually eat the night before’s leftovers for lunch. Tea/dinner for me is about half seven. I try to get organised to eat earlier, but it rarely happens.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes is a good website for most recipes. It's easy to follow & has a good range of food to try

I'm not sure there's much "british" food being served at tables these days.
We easily ear curry, pasta or something like chilli more than we would eat traditional British food, however as cold weather creeps back in, we will start to eat roast dinners, jacket potatoes, cottage pie, and steak and ale pie with mashed potatoes more often.

Dinner (between 11.30-1pm)

Soup with toast
Boiled eggs with toast
Sandwich with crisps and a slice of cheese (even if its a cheese sandwich)
Toastie
Smoked salmon with dill mustard on toast
Garlic mushrooms on toast

We eat far too much bread 🤣

Tea (between 6pm & 8pm)

Sheperds pie with veg
Cottage pie with veg
Spag Bol
Chilli
Beef casserole
Chicken casserole
Cassoulet (huge favourite)
Chicken and mushroom pie
Steak and ale pie
Lasagne
Thai green curry
Indian curries
Spanish chicken tray bake
Sunday dinner (not always on a Sunday)
Goulash
Fish pie
Gammon, egg and chips
Sausage & mash with mushy peas
Corned beef pastie pie
Stew/cawl
Hunters chicken
Salmon fillet with herby baby roast potatoes & peas
Salmon pasta
Salmon with salad
Cajun Chicken with roasted veg
Leftover roasted veg gets turned into soup
Meatballs with pasta
Steak and chips
Fish and chips with mushy peas
Fishcake with salad
Salad lardons (homemade dressing)

These are eaten depending on the time year and we do occasionally have a pizza or a take away I've listed what I cook from scratch.

I have an aga which is off for the summer but during the winter the slow cooked meals are made up in the morning and left in the SO until we are ready to eat which is why I cook so many of that type of meal, makes it so much easier.

I think you can't go wrong with the BBC Good Food website - lots of recipes and they always work. You can search for a specific dish or ideas for an ingredient. Also Delia Smith has done so much to modernise British home cooking and has introduced the nation to many foods and ingredients over the years. I have a well-used copy of her Complete Cookery Course which I love.

Our usual meals:

tuna steak, rice and veg
spaghetti bolognese
stir fry
chilli
chicken fajitas
sausage and mash
beef stew
salmon, sweet potato
curry

Curry
Pasta
Roast chicken
Fish
Soup
Baked potato

A variety of curry dishes & from different parts of the world. Different pasta sauces and fish dishes. Always the same filling for baked potatoes and always the same sides with the roast chicken

FWIW you sound so British in the way you type 😂

This weeks list is

• Pasta primavera
• chicken pad thai
• Turkey meatballs
• Scrambled eggs on toast (swimming night)
• Home made pizza and salad (play date night)
• Roast dinner
• Chicken pesto pasta and salad

The Taming Twins website is good for simple recipes.

A roast is a fairly rare event in our house, maybe once a month. Most of our meals are based round rice or pasta and we eat a lot of (british) curry. "Meat and two veg" or equivalent (eg breaded fish with oven chips) I'd say twice a week max.

When kids were on school dinners sometimes I'd count that as their hot meal and just have sandwiches in the evening.

Mac n cheese with mackerel or prawns in
pizza with salad
tofu fried rice
baked potato with beed stew
curry
fish and veg
cottage / shepherds pie
egg and chips
lentil soup
roast chicken with trimmings
noodle soups

We tend to eat between 7 & 8pm and rotate meals between fish, meat and veggie dishes.

Common meals are curries (meat, fish or vegetable, with rice or Naan), spiced chicken or lamb or falafel with roast vegetables or salad plus flatbreads, fish pie, cottage/shepherd's pie, sausages (butchers only - we don't eat UPFs) with mash and veg, homemade pizza, Quesidillas, omelettes, baked potatoes with eg vegetable chilli and salad, stews (traditional British with fresh bread or eg Tagine with grains), gnocchi with pesto, pasta dishes (usually with a ragu or eg cacio pepe for quickness), Greek salads and gyros, scampi/breaded fish with chips and peas, marinated prawns or salmon with rice and veg, fish cakes and roasted veg, sushi platter with miso, Thai green curry with rice, beef in black bean sauce with rice and stir fried veg,...

I could go on and on BUT I think the general picture for most British families is that we eat a fairly rounded menu of meals influenced by many cuisines, not really traditional British foods every day.

@Anisty the cheapest I've found is £40 for 3 meals for 4 people.

A roast (meat, roast potatoes, veg gravy etc.)
Sheppards Pie
Spaghetti bolognaise
Carbonara
Jacket potatoes with variety of toppings - cheese, homemade coleslaw, beans, tuna, sweetcorn
Chicken and chorizo traybake
Omelettes and chips
Casseroles in the winter

Only one pheasant per peasant.

Though pigeon is easy to come by around here.

A brace of pheasants

^

I'd be tempted to say this isn't typical of British households but you never know

with rhubarb crumble...creme anglaise 😁

Just remembered ambrosia rice pudding, perfect 'camping in the british summer' food.

I'd love to eat at your house @LesTroisSorcieres
It all sounds delicious.

I having a good run on dinners at the moment

We had honey baked salmon, cauliflower cheese and baby roast potatoes last night. Twas lush

Tonight is pad Thai

Dunno what the kids'll think

I'd say that's very rare tbh, certainly among working people. May be different among retirees. Do you work?