Help! In shop. Realised I need anniversary meal for today.

[SkyPieRat]

Something simple but nice. I'm an awful cook. I'd totally not realised as DH is working from home he'll be eating with us!

M&S Food - could you pop to a local BP garage to pick up something? Ps Happy Anniversary

What shop are you in?

No, need to make from scratch. Thanks.

Several tubs of their luxury ice cream - to be shared after children are in bed ...

Happy anniversary.

Get a crusty fresh bread, Camembert and an Italian meat selection. Nice bottle of wine.

Camembert in the oven, fancy bread and meat on a plate, call it an Italian evening. Job done happy anniversary!

Tapas type thing? Chorizo, foccacia, cheese. You could make patatas bravas, gigante piccante, pardon peppers? Which shop are you in?

What type of food do you both like? What shop are you in? Clues please!

Local supermarket. Needs to be a proper main meal (that kids will also eat!).

Usually eat
Chicken pie
Pasta Tom/bolo/bake
Red/green curry
Bbq

Why do you need to make from scratch when you can't cook?

Get thee to m and s or Waitrose and buy boxes of nice food.

Steak and chips?

I'd settle with that

Or if you must lasagne with a nice salad and posh garlic bread. For goodness sake buy a fresh cheese sauce and layer with that. Don't try and make one.

And a nice pudding!

Chicken to roast and prepped sides plus nice ready made pud?

Nice quality pizzas (if the shop has frozen Crosta and Mollica ones, these are amazing) and ice cream?

Are you OK? You seem to be disproportionately worrying about a simple everyday task.

What’s your/his favourite meal? For our anniversary my husband would be wanting burgers chips and homemade coleslaw!

Roast side of beef with homemade potatoes, Yorkshire’s and horseradish!
Or a salmon Wellington with veg
Or fajitas/nachos and lots of dips etc

What does he like eating?!

Boil pasta for 6 minutes, add chopped ham, some double cream & grated cheese. Bake in oven for 30 minutes & serve with garlic bread. It’s so easy. Desert - baked bananas sprinkled with brown sugar & cinnamon & served with ice cream. Dead easy.

You don’t NEED to make a meal from scratch, especially if you’re not a confident cook. So do you WANT to, in which case I recommend a traybake, choose whatever protein, veg and extras you like, bung it in the oven drizzled with olive oil and it will be delicious. Or you somehow feel coerced into cooking from scratch, presumably by DH, in which case the anniversary is not worth celebrating imho.

Happy aniversary! Also, are you ok? This seems a but too ott to be honest. As a suggestion, how about a bbq?

Just do a meal that everyone enjoys. Spaghetti bolognese maybe and buy a nice dessert, a bottle of something, some garlic bread and salad.
Flowers on the table.

Can you not just order some nice takeaway and then noone needs to cook

If it's your anniversary that presumably means it's a special day for you as well as for your husband, so shouldn't you get to pick something you'll enjoy without slaving away at an activity you don't much enjoy, like cooking? Go for a ready meal or something that requires minimum effort, or order a takeaway! Happy anniversary.

Pork in mushroom sauce. Pan fry mushrooms in butter, remove Pan fry chops or pork steaks in same pan (or thinly sliced pork tenderloin). Remove, return mushrooms, add tub of double cream, dijon mustard and season. Add meat back to the pan. Serve with cubed roast potatoes and tender stem broccoli.

Lasagne is good. Layer your usual bolognaise with pasta and a bought cheese sauce. Serve with salad and crusty bread and a nice wine.

Pasta: fry off some chopped bacon. Add tinned tomatoes and stick cubes. Add Creme fraiche and frozen peas, toss the cooked pasta through, salad and bread.

Rotisserie chicken with potatoes and veg.

But the others are right, why so much pressure on you to cook?

Usually for us something ‘special’ is something we don’t eat as often - so either takeaway or totally unhealthy (I do a brilliant fried chicken)
Or something like lamb or steak which we eat less often.
What about lamb chops buttery new potatoes and salad? Would kids eat lamb. Mine wouldn’t but they’re small. Could do lamb cubes with garlic and oregano fried up and served with flatbreads salad and fries like a nice kebab. Tatziki on the side.
Could do steak fajitas tray bake style - sliced up thin with peppers and onions and kids can serve themselves. Buy some guacamole sour cream cheese. Ace.
It’s our anniversary this week and I’m either doing lamb (can you sense a theme here?) or beef probs truffle mashed potatoes if I do that. It’s all about the sides starters and dessert!
Anything is special with a great bottle of wine.