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

Batch cook and in the freezer
chilli con carne
bolognaise sauce
compound butter

In the fridge
ginger shots
pickled red onions
roasted chickpeas
hummus
chopped herbs
salad dressing

I make 4 loaves of bread at the weekend, and freeze 3 for the week.

I also batch cook something every weekend and freeze so there's always a variety of dinners quickly available, so bolognaise, tomato and veg pasta sauce, chickpea curry, mixed bean chilli or beef chilli, aubergine and lamb bake, etc.

If we have leftover meat from a roast we slice and freeze with lemon or lime juice, garlic, ginger and chilli ready for a stir fry, or mince it to make a cottage or shepherds pie.

And I bake oat bars every few weeks, slice and freeze individually. They're good for breakfasts or a filling snack. I use oats, peanut/almond butter, some cooked, mashed fruit, usually apples or pears, and some nuts and/or seeds.

When I have plenty of time I make preserves such as chilli and garlic sauce, chilli jam, piccalilli, gooseberry jam, etc.

I love some of the ideas on this thread and may add them to my list.

I do these pickled onions

Pickling is very forgiving, no need for perfection. The seeds make all the difference imo.

Oven on once a week for batch cooking:

Potatoes
Vegetarian sausages
Large bake with mushrooms, spinach, chickpeas, etc (makes four meals)
Boiled eggs on hob at same time

A squeeze of lime juice and a generous pinch of salt does a cracking job of quick red onion pickle.

@user1471527955 i usually use red wine vinegar. Fresh Tomato and red onion go will together also

I too do a pancake batch which we keep in the fridge in a tub and the kids pop into the toaster then have with blueberries - this is ours

www.mrslardeedah.com/before-school-protein-pancakes/

Hush now with the apologising- I've grabbed a pen and paper for the answer

What's the best vinegar to pickle red onion? Sorry if that's derailing thread.

@Brainfogblue Can i have your flapjack recipe, I've yet to find a good one.

Oh I sometimes make ham and egg cups - two slices of wafer thin ham in each cup of a muffin tray. Crack an egg into each one. Top with grated cheese and some salt and pepper. Bake.

I don't class them as batch cooking though as the family make it through all 12 in a matter of hours.

muffins for the dc each week. That's about it.

If we wanted tuna mayo, I would just make it on the spot. I make overnight oats the night before too.

I usually have some boiled eggs in the fridge. They last a week or so in their shells. I snack on these if I get munchy. If they don't get eaten as snacks then they get incorporated into a lunch or a quick tea towards the end of the week, and I boil a few more at the weekend.

I usually have some microwavable containers of homemade lasagne and Mac cheese in the freezer for DS. He works nights, so even on the nights he is off he is more likely to be wanting food at 3 a.m. than when we eat, so he can sort himself out a hot meal from frozen.

I buy a big pack of chicken breasts, slice it all up, divide it into portions, put on a few different marinades then freeze them in the marinades, so when I take the chicken out the freezer for dinner, it's already marinaded.

Nothing that regular tbh. Following for inspiration though! I'm gluten free and dairy free atm, so I like the idea of the oat pancakes (which I could make with non-dairy milk).

Banana muffins, because I always have bananas that go brown before I can eat them.

@Mauro711 - I need to do that more. Easy way for healthier meals

Chocolate chip cookies - it's the only junk we have at home, and I want it home made (nicer, too).

I wash and peel/chop fruit and leave in tupperware boxes.

Pickled red onion.

Boiled eggs.

Tub of home-cooked oatmeal.

Hummous.

Never have zero leftovers, but also never throw food away.

@ItGhoul - it’s not bulk batch cooking. I just know we will use it through the week.
So for example if I make tzatziki today, I would just make a large amount knowing between the three of us we will eat that much over the next 5-6 days. Saves makes mess chopping every day.

If I’m chopping veg for carrot soup, I might as well as enough for another day as it’s an extra 1 min work and means I have something fast for lunch when no time in freezer

we Don’t buy pre made cake or similar as too many allergies, so I know each week if I make something that’s it for the week. I would make something once and that’s it for the week. What I make varies and I make on any day I have time, not a set Sunday

I'm an empty nester and it's less fun to cook for just one so on a Sunday I make different things and put into glass jars to build salads with for the first few days of the week. What I make varies but this week I made:

Bulgur with chopped spring onions
Courgette patties
Roasted cauliflower and broccoli
Spinach frittata
Grated carrots and beetroot
Tzatziki

Then I have some seeds and nuts in the cupboard that I sprinkle over.

I also always have pizza buns in the freezer if one of the kids come home.

Just granola and mayonnaise for me.

And as I'm the only one who eats them it might be more like once a fortnight than once a week.

Flapjacks for the DC for school once or twice a week and a veg and bean soup made from freezer veg and tinned tomatoes and pulses so really easy

Banana muffins for DH and DS to grab as breakfast on the go
Hummus for lunch/after school snacks
A few boiled eggs in the fridge for adding to salads, ramen, put in sandwiches or just eaten with salt (if you are my DD)
Batch of cookies of some sort
Soup (only in winter)

I make chicken stock weekly using what is called here in the US a Cornish hen.
Cold meat from said Cornish hen for sandwiches, maybe a chicken pot pie, maybe a Caesar salad.
Soup - my rotation is usually lentil-veg, general veg, minestrone, split pea, carrot and ginger, and mushroom, using weekly homemade stock.
A couple of hard-boiled eggs.
Occasionally boiled potatoes (small ones). We have potatoes salad, potsto and egg salad, smashed potatoes with parm, potatoes go into soups...

This, i barely plan for a day never mind snacks for a week

The only thing I make with regularity are American pancakes. Make a massive batch and freeze them. The kids just pop in the toaster with they want them. I do batch cook every week though. I menu plan and order my food shop for a Sunday evening/Monday morning and then usually prepare dinners for the days I work