What food do you make weekly just to have to hand?

Only yogurt cake. DS takes some to school
every day. He wasn’t quite eating enough at lunch and was getting awful headaches/migraines on days when he had a lot of sports. It’s just easy and I whip one up on a Sunday and freeze in portions
Oh and also Roast chicken - again I do one every Sunday for consumption through the week. There’s always some roast chicken hanging around.

I batch cook as I live alone

Usually
Boiled eggs
A soup (so lentil and veg or tomato and white bean)
A main meal (beef stew, cottage pie, pasta bake)
Sandwich filler or chopped salad

@BloodandGlitter is this Mayak eggs? What recipe do you use?

This thread is making me feel simultaneously hungry, inspired and yet inadequate lol

Hey if you're not into batch cooking that's fine it just means this thread isn't for you, there's bound to be one that is for you. So you can post there instead of posting that you don't like it.

I make korean drug eggs, they're so addictive. I've been known to stand in the kitchen just eating an egg with the marinade straight out of the bowl on more than one occasion.

A couple of different soups
Bread
Veggie chilli (usually the Anna Jones one which is lush)
Often roast a chicken for sandwiches etc and make stock
Hummus

Last three are vg for hungry teens coming home from school.

I always batch cook / pre prep my dinners - chilli / curry / spag bol / meatballs etc

I think you only don't fancy it if you don't really like it very much to begin with or if it is a processed dinner. I always look forward to the meals I have made.

I have nothing to add except tons and tons of respect for you OP. What a great use of time and also making a huge contribution to your family’s health. 🙌

I don’t really batch cook as I never fancy it after.

but if I make soup I’ll put a leftover portion in the freezer. I will make a batch of dal.

I’ll make a big bowl of pinhead oatmeal porridge and heat up portions in the week.

I make a bit more roasted veg and it’s handy for an omelette….

Homemade bread.

Energy balls - great for after gym but also super practical if I am e.g. out of the house early and cannot eat

Overnight oats or chia seeds

Fruit compote - take a carton of whole frozen berries and stew in a couple of inches of water whilst stirring. That's it, although can add a bit of demerara sugar. Great on porridge, oats, anything really. And you can freeze.

Gram flour pancakes - 100ml gram flour, 150ml water, some salt and cracked black pepper. That's it and can be used for mini savoury pancakes with veg/ mushrooms, ideal for quick dinner or breakfast.

Also boiled eggs

And toasted nuts - whole roasting tray of nuts done on 140 fan oven for 45 mins - keeps us going for ages and easy go to snack

DH makes hidden veg pasta sauce which we keep in freezer, does for pasta obviously but also pizza.

It really helps me avoid processed food, if I have a few of these to hand. Esp with working FT and travelling, it makes it so much easier.

And coleslaw recipe please!!

Would you share the pickled cucumber recipe please?

I’m with you, I decide on the night what I’m cooking.

@GreyWasp how do you do the cucumbers please? 😊

I make my own sauerkraut and kimchi once every 4-6 weeks as I love it as a side with noodles and veg for lunch. I bake a fresh sourdough loaf every week and also tend to do a big tray bake at the same time. Either carrot cake , jam and coconut sponge or lemon and sultana. I make up sandwiches and freeze them for my DHs packed lunch… I tend to buy whoopsied extra nice sandwich meat and rolls for this so no set day for this, just when I see bargains. I tend to do a soup the day the bread is baked and we have that through the week.

Soup and banana pancakes.

Soup
Coleslaw (teenage DS eats it with everything!)
Hummus
Cakes or cookies or flapjacks
Bread
Naan

That's what I usually make to just have knocking around for people to grab whenever.

I make my own wholemeal bread (by hand, not using a bread maker).

I don't like flabby blotting paper bread in plastic bags so I spend about half an hour on a Sunday morning making enough bread for ds and I for the week.

I also make some variety of vegetable soup.

And a large batch of tomato sauce to act as a base for pasta dishes..

I make a ham every week from a gammon joint and slice it ready for sandwiches.

I've never seen anyone make nice bread maker bread.

Bolognaise sauce here too. Not always with pasta.

Batch of tomato sauce
Focaccia
Bean salad in Tupperware
Crostini
Cooked pasta ready for quick heating
Usually a soup too

Cake.
Soup or salads or dhal for my lunches during the week.
More recently, puddings, e.g. an apple crumble or a bread and butter pudding, which will last 2 or 3 days... because my ds is a sporty teenager and is never full.

I like the pancake idea.

Sorry to sound dim but what's your recipe? I've never been able to make pancakes that's can last either a fridge or a freezer

I make a big batch of caramelised onions, then freeze in small pots.
They'd last in the fridge, but I'm usually only cooking for 2.

Same as a basic tomato sauce, & Chinese brown sauce.