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To serve chips as a side dish with Quiche Lorraine?

272 replies

BigFishLittleFishy · 23/01/2026 18:43

Help us solve a family debate!! If you don’t serve chips what is the best side dish for a quiche?

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Robogob · 25/01/2026 01:42

Chips and beans.

mondaytosunday · 25/01/2026 01:26

Don’t really need any more starch with a quiche, so salad with lots of variety.

ExpectZeroContext · 25/01/2026 00:50

Lol. What a ridiculous concept.

namechangetheworld · 25/01/2026 00:45

Bernardo1 · 24/01/2026 20:39

Chips with quiche ? Not really.
Could be worse, I've been offered chips with lasagna.
As others said, salad most appropriate.

If chips the priority, then traditionally fish, or I find a nice gooey omelette a favourable match.

Chips with lasagne is lovely to be fair. You can mop up the leftover sauce really well with a chip - but not a forkful of lettuce!

namechangetheworld · 25/01/2026 00:43

I always serve it with chips and cold veg for the DC (and DH) and salad for me. I'm in no way shape or form a health nut (and usually love chips!) but I actually think the salad goes much more nicely.

sleepwouldbenice · 25/01/2026 00:38

DeltaVariant · 24/01/2026 18:35

Chips, quiche and some salad? Retro really but a super tasty classic!

This
there isn’t much carb in the pastry
so some new potatoes or chips are fine. Not loads
plus salad
so greens, protein, carbs…..

ProfessionalPirate · 25/01/2026 00:37

Worralorra · 24/01/2026 23:20

Depends how big a slice of the quiche! And if you purchase a quiche, the pastry is quite often thicker than homemade…

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Well, a bigger slice of quiche isn’t going to change the proportion of pastry…
To be honest, I don’t approach my food like a geometry challenge, but appreciate some people need to in order to keep themselves under control. If it works for you then great.

ImogenBrocklehurst · 25/01/2026 00:14

Depends. Supermarket quiche with beans. Homemade quiche with salad and some combination of new potatoes, potato salad, coleslaw, rice salad or chips. Chips are definitely not weird with quiche.

kennycat · 24/01/2026 23:26

not had quiche as an adult (husband doesn’t like) but as a child we had flan a lot in the summer with new pots, beetroot and salad. can you even still buy flan?!

Worralorra · 24/01/2026 23:22

BauhausOfEliott · 24/01/2026 13:57

That’s fine but not everyone has low-key orthorexia

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A lot of people don’t get nutrition guidance, either. Balance is key.

Worralorra · 24/01/2026 23:20

ProfessionalPirate · 24/01/2026 15:45

Good grief, how thick are you making your pastry crust if it accounts for a third of the meal?!

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Depends how big a slice of the quiche! And if you purchase a quiche, the pastry is quite often thicker than homemade…

ZestyDog · 24/01/2026 23:06

My teenage best friends mum used to serve us up M&S Quiche and oven chips every Saturday for tea.
They were mega rich and very posh.

JMSA · 24/01/2026 23:04

Hmm, I’d probably go with salad and potato wedges.

BambinaCucina · 24/01/2026 22:41

I'm not a massive chip lover, but I do enjoy quiche, chips and beans. I do make homemade chips though.

Otherwise, I enjoy it with salad and coleslaw.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 24/01/2026 21:52

mathanxiety · 24/01/2026 18:31

One third is a limit, not a target.

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It doesn't mean one third out of a list of three things, though. Especially as by that logic, they've already got far too much protein via the medium of bacon and cheese in addition to the egg.

KM123456 · 24/01/2026 21:44

Spinach salad. Quiche and spinach salad was a staple menu item in the seventies and eighties in the fern bars. With white wine. Especially for the women--the guys ordered burgers.

ItsPronouncedThroatwobblerMangrove · 24/01/2026 21:18

Bernardo1 · 24/01/2026 20:39

Chips with quiche ? Not really.
Could be worse, I've been offered chips with lasagna.
As others said, salad most appropriate.

If chips the priority, then traditionally fish, or I find a nice gooey omelette a favourable match.

The line between an eggy quiche and an omelette is a very short one, so I don’t think you’re too far away from appreciating quiche and chips tbh.

Jonnybigwallet · 24/01/2026 20:48

Nice crispy sauce potatoes.

Growlybear83 · 24/01/2026 20:40

soupyspoon · 24/01/2026 20:18

I wonder what is more mentioned on this site

carbs
narcs
ND
mother in laws

😆😆😆I suspect they would all be fairly close.

Bernardo1 · 24/01/2026 20:39

Chips with quiche ? Not really.
Could be worse, I've been offered chips with lasagna.
As others said, salad most appropriate.

If chips the priority, then traditionally fish, or I find a nice gooey omelette a favourable match.

vickylou78 · 24/01/2026 20:33

Salad, coleslaw and new potatoes

soupyspoon · 24/01/2026 20:18

I wonder what is more mentioned on this site

carbs
narcs
ND
mother in laws

RawBloomers · 24/01/2026 20:14

Depends what you like, but a pastry dish with chips is far too carb heavy for me. However, if you’re serving a crowd or tend towards a carb heavy diet, it’s fine. If I were serving a bigger group I’d do chips (or new potatoes, braised lentils if a particularly health conscious crowd) and salad.

Baked beans are lovely with quiche, but I would still want some sort of veg that wasn’t pulses and many want a healthier option especially if you’ve got pastry and chips as the other bits of the meal.

Theworldisfloating · 24/01/2026 20:02

As a vegetarian I would just be having cheeses and onion quiche. But it’s one of my favourite meals.
Because I normally have it for my tea, quiche with chips/ proper new potatoes. With salad in summer/ autumn winter lots of different vegetables ( anything) . Or if just wanting comfort chips and beans.
If feeling lazy I make a pastry less quiche or an impossible pie.

ProfessionalPirate · 24/01/2026 19:55

mathanxiety · 24/01/2026 18:31

One third is a limit, not a target.

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Says who? Certainly not the pp that I was replying to.

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