Traditional dinners

[overandunder9]

DM and DF eat a meat, potato and boiled veg dinner (roast, steak, chops, sausages, fish etc) at least 5 days a week. In my house, we only do this maybe once a week, with the main meals being more pasta, stir fry, curry type dishes. Which is more usual these days? I’m convinced we are more of a ‘one-pot’ society whereas DM is adamant that most people still eat the way her and DF do.

Meat and 3 veg meals are a clear winner in this house. We all have favourite dishes and I accommodate everyone on different days etc but meat and veg is enjoyed by all without amendment for preferences so it gets my vote!

This week for example we've had chicken and potatoes/veg twice: once baked on top of the veggies as a giant traybake and once breasts stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon with cooked veg on the side. We've also have nachos, pasta, curries,but the meat and potatoes/veg is the one where everyone eats the same meal.#winning

DD is vegetarian, and I'm too lazy to cook two meals so we usually eat vegetarian food. We eat all cuisines in our house and very rarely eat a meat and 3 veg type of meal.

Almost never meat and 3 veg meals in this house.

Not popular with me - the cook - either prefer something one pot/one tin or to do something interesting, and not popular with DH - the washer-up, too many pans and he'd also like something different.

Also potatoes are a rare feature for anyone doing low carb. We are more likely to have a pile of roast veg or salad. We eat vegetarian/vegan several nights as well.

Age dependant. My grandparents did, my parents eat half and half whereas I maybe cook it once a week at most (a roast, or maybe lamb shanks)

Dd is vegetarian so we tend to have veggie food 3 times a week at least

I think their way is outdated. Nothing wrong with it of course, but not the norm any more. My parents are in their 60s and don't eat like that. When we were growing up probably 50/50, now less. 70+ maybe still eat that way, but not younger people.

Meat,pot and veg is so boring.
No one needs to eat like that these days,its food designed for the past when work was manual labour or people walked,cycled to work.
Stodge

I eat relatively low carb to help control my T1 diabetes. DD8 and I eat about 50:50. I dong eat pasta or rice or beans and pulses so many one pot type meals are out.

Roasts are really easy and give good leftovers and DD loves roast meat sandwiches in her lunch.

Having said that tomorrow we will have stir fry rice (cauliflower rice for me) and the next night Moroccan kefta tagine. DD has always loved meals with a lot of flavour.

We have meat or fish and veg quite often due as I have two children who basically eat the opposite of each other and this manages to accommodate most of their fussiness.

We do have pasta, curries and noodles etc but they aren’t the backbone of our meals.

sockworkshop i find pasta more stodgy than a meat and veg meal. I don’t go over heavy on the potatoes and have loads of veg.

Im vegetarian, but I still eat potatoes. If I ate meat I'd probably eat mostly traditional British food, it works out much cheaper and easier to portion control, in my experience.
I cook meat meals for my son when he's at home, mostly meat and 2 veg type meals, with spaghetti bolognaise once or twice a week.

We have a bit of everything. We can have curry one night, and sausage & mash the next night. We do steer towards a lot of pasta, homemade pizza, Bolognese type meals though.

My parents are in their early 60s and eat similar to us, whereas my ILs at late 60s/early 70s and are farmers with a more 'traditional' lifestyle so eat more fish + chips, meat and two veg type meals. They don't eat at our house as I think they think we'll cool something 'exotic' such as spaghetti Bolognese or chilli

I just can't manage alot of pasta. My favourite meal ever is probably lemon roast chicken with a variety of fresh green salads.

Tonight we are out and tomorrow we have smoked sausages with cauliflower gratin and stewed courgettes. If my Ds eats even a bit of it I will fall over in shock though.

Meat,pot and veg is so boring.
No one needs to eat like that these days,its food designed for the past when work was manual labour or people walked,cycled to work.
Stodge

It might be boring, but a bit of meat a few baby boiled tatties and veg is most certainly not stodge!

I eat a mix of all things. Except pasta. I rarely touch pasta.

If you find pasta stodgy maiden you are eating too much of it .

I think most people eat a mixture. The roast dinner and bangers and mash are both stereotypical British fayre, but so now are our versions of chicken curry and spag bol. And yes, it isn't a question of 'traditional' dinners or one pots. There's salads and something on toast meals too.

I cook far more traditional meals now than my parents did (or do!). DM was a vegetarian and would invent lots of earthy recipes usually involving lentils or chickpeas, nut roasts or something and lots of spices & odd combinations of veg. Often one pot dishes.
Didn't like it at all and now will make things like chicken, potatoes and veg. Steak, chips and broccoli, sausage, mash and peas. Though we do love pasta and noodle dishes too.

How do you stew a courgette?

I never cook a roast dinner.....And rarely eat meat. We have lots of salads, veggie curries and soups, stuffed vegetables. Rarely eat potatoes (unless new or jacket).
I'm 60 and have never done traditional Sunday dinners.

slice thinly and cook with a bit of chicken stock. Add parsley. Quite good!

(Or ratattouille)

I am in the habit of making nearly all my meals from recipes so apart from a roast it'll rarely occur to me to have eg pork chops, potatoes and veg. I do think it's a bit odd of me to never have that but often prefer a flavoursome sauce or something.
My parents definitely have this sort of thing most nights.

Last week we had:
Fajitas
Pasta salad type thing with olives, feta, sundried tomatoes
Salmon with green beans, olives, roast peppers, new potatoes with dressing
Leek and mackerel pasta bake
Home made crispy chili beef

We eat a roast dinner most Sundays. This week we've had:
Mon mixed bean chilli with brown rice
Tue reduced fat sausages with jacket potato, fried onions and beans
Weds salmon fish cakes new potatoes and salad
Thurs turkey chilli with brown rice
Fri fish goujons with homemade oven chips
Sat homemade beef, lentil and spinachdhansak with chapatis
Today will be roast chicken and vegetables. I try to limit red meat to once or twice a week. DP would eat a roast dinner every night if he could. He grew up eating like that in the 60s and 70s.

pope your leek and mackerel pasta bake sounds good, do you have a recipe please?

We have meat and potatoes 3 times a week. Stew or steak or similar. Then curry or stir fry or something like that.
Most people I know tend to have stew or casserole or a 'proper' dinner. But we don't live anywhere considered cosmopolitan 😂

bluesheep it's this, dead easy except breadcrumbs can be a minor pain. I leave out the capers and add lots of grated parmesan on top!
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/13137/leek-and-mackerel-penne-bake