Your top 5 weekday meals

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I'm trying to build up a repertoire of weekday teas so that we stop eating the same ones week in week out. I do simply cook to add some variety and ideas but this is mainly for DP and I as DSC wouldn't really like any of it yet.

So what are you top 5 weeks day dinner time meals? 😊

Ginger chicken noodles
Prawn spaghetti
Veggie chilli on baked potato
Lamb curry in slow cooker
Salmon Teryaki with rice

Mince n Potatoes
Roast Chicken
Fish n Chips
Cottage Pie
Burgers Chips Salad
Frying Steak
My dinners are boring I bloody hate cooking. Gone are the days I would text DH and arrange to meet at the pub for dinner.

Family meals:

Mac and cheese
Chorizo and bean stew
Mince - shepherds pie, chilli, Bolognese
Butter chicken
Laksa
Fried rice
Sausages and mash
Pasta bake - bacon / chicken / tuna
Chicken pot pie
Kiev and chips
Meatballs with spaghetti or rice
Teriyaki meatballs

Oooooh what variety!! Thank you for the ideas!

Fajitas (One of El Paso sachets)
Stew
Sausage casserole
Curry (out of a jar as it’s quicker)
Chicken and chorizo tray bake (it’s a mumsnet recipe)

Maybe not the inspiration you are hoping for, but this will now appear on my ‘watched list’ so I can gain inspiration too!

This is a never ending debate / struggle in my house!

These are the (current) family or child friendly meals. I also get the simply cook packs and they like the ragu and the Peruvian chicken.

Roast chicken
Chicken and veg stir fry (using left over chicken) - kids love this and it's quick
Sausage and mash abs veg
Bean stew and crunchy tacos
Sausage and bean stew pasta (using left over sausage)
Chicken fajitas - el paso spices and tortilla wrap

Pasta arabiata
Garlic and herb chicken skewers
Cod wrapped in pancetta tray bake
Balsamic tuna steaks
Root veg casserole (in winter)
Cauliflower and chickpea curry

Oh and always a veggie chilli!

Breakfast for dinner (sausage egg beans mushrooms and hash browns)
Baked salmon with jacket potato and veg
Blackbean Chipotle stew with cheesy dumplings
Homemade scone pizzas (kids like this one)
Pesto pasta with green veg
Baked Potaoes with fillings usually cheesy beans or veggie chilli
Creamy tomato pasta
Veggie lesagne and chips

Following with interest!
Our "repeat recipes" are:
Spaghetti bolognaise
Veggie fajitas or enchiladas
Chicken pie (Joe Wicks recipe)
Prawn and sweet potato Thai curry with rice (there is a Waitrose recipe for Thai curry with white fish and sweet potato but find that prawns or chicken break up less)
Tomato, bean and olive bake topped with chicken thighs and served with crusty bread (from a poster on Mumsnet!)

Sausage and tomato pasta
Salmon spinach and pea orzo
Toad in the hole
Fish with pesto and spinach orzo
Chicken and chorizo tomato rice
Chicken curry

Otherwise it's just quick and easy things like tortellini, bought lasagne, pesto pasta, pizza etc

Sausage and Mash
Roast Chicken
Gougons and wraps or chips/waffles
Fajitas or stir fry
Bolognaise
Jacket and beans/cheese
Vegie or turkey Mince Chilli and rice

OH is trying to go gluten free though so cooking is becoming even more of a chore! I hate cooking, and I hate everyone moaning about what I dish up so it just becomes even more of a chore as you can't please everyone

Chickpea curry with rice
Lentil and beans curry with rice
Veg soup with fried tofu
Spaghetti bolognese
Potato curry
(all of them batch cooked and reheated)

I will be watching this with interest

Cajun salmon flat bread
Pasta pesto with mushrooms
Piri chicken and sweet potatoe fries
Beef stew and dumplings
Roast chicken dinner
Fish finger sandwiches with chunky chips

Chicken wrapped in Parma ham, potatoes and broccoli
Steak, potatoes and asparagus
BBQ chicken in a wrap, rice and mixed veg
Meatballs in a garlic tomato sauce with pasta
Chilli and rice

Also looking forward to some inspiration!

Yours all sound yummy.

We’ve had homemade beef burgers with homemade chips (I cook these in mild olive oil with turmeric and garlic).

Chicken thighs cooked over loads of sliced red and yellow peppers which go soft and yummy

Lentil Dahl , rice and poppadums (I fry these in minutes as they go all sorts of exciting shapes)

Salmon cooked with ginger, soy sauce and honey and noodles

We discovered this yummy 5 minute pudding where you blend frozen strawberries with a bit of Greek yoghurt or cream - instant amazing gelato that rivalled italian equivalent I thought !

Most of the time I’m fully out of ideas and we end up with pasta and pesto with crème fraiche which I’m bored of. Or egg fried rice while also bored of

Cheese swirls
Veg stew with rice (slow cooker)
Homemade pie
Fish and chips (Iceland fish extra special amazing)
Slow cooker curry

Cajun chicken salad with croutons
Chilli con carne
Mushroom Risotto
Home made pizza
Steak, wedges and veg
Sunday is always a full on roast, with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puds and lots of veg

Recents

https://greatcurryrecipes.net/2014/02/23/chicken-passanda/

https://melizskitchen.blogspot.com/2020/05/chicken-doner-kebab-chips.html?m=1

https://www.marionskitchen.com/thai-cashew-chicken/?fbclid=IwAR2pR6cWyBKEvcyGFb-lo0HOhPKJryYVMO97_WnGnwSon6DYsgf9yGPuL2E

http://www.lisadawsonstyling.com/blog/2019/1/4/new-year-new-plan-seven-one-pot-meals-to-get-you-through-the-week?rq=New+year+New+plan

Kedgeree, or variations thereof. We prefer to use smoked mackerel (less bones) and don't always bother with the egg. Always contains a variety of veg and green leaves.

Red lentil and veg curry with rice, sometimes add a boiled egg and some raisins for a 70s style egg curry.

Chickpea spinach and sweet potato curry (my personal favourite), Sam stern recipe.

Potato wedges with assorted root veg/ frozen peas etc and eggs baked in ramekins with a bit of butter for the last few minutes of the wedges cooking time. Or sausages or fish fingers.

Indonesian hotpot - a very old bbc good food recipe I think, basically noodles cooked in a spicy peanut butter sauce with white fish, peppers and peas. It has spring onions, garlic, ginger, chilli, but somehow manages not to be too hot. I can try and find the full recipe tomorrow, it's amazing

Just me and DP, so we quite often have things that do two nights or make a portion for the freezer. I’m a one-pot cook, DP is much more sophisticated. Staple meals here are:

Chilli with rice, then the following day in a jacket potato with salad
Spaghetti bolognese
Nigel Slater’s sausage and mustard pasta
Chickpea curry with pita breads
Chicken satay curry
Pasta bake - with chorizo, or chicken, or just veg
Chicken fajitas
Sausages, mash, green veg
Sausage and butterbean casserole - again with mash
Shop bought chicken pie, or quiche, with potatoes, chips, green veg, or beans
Brinner - full English for dinner
Risotto - I do a leek and pancetta one, DP does a chicken and red pepper one if we have had a roast
Veggie burgers in brioche buns, chips, salad
Macaroni cheese
Spaghetti carbonara
Lasagne - sometimes a shop one
Cottage pie - again, sometimes the M&S Gastropub one

We do a menu plan on a Sunday and try and cook things that have the same base fresh ingredients so no food waste - eg this week we had the sausage and butterbean casserole, then today I made the chickpea curry, because both involve celery and carrots, tomorrow is chicken pie which we will have with the remaining potatoes.

At weekends we often have an M&S dine in thing, or a takeaway. We used to go out ?

Kiev mash and green beans
Mac and cheese
Roast chicken thighs and vegetable rice
Chicken and chorizo fried rice
Ham and mushroom or just mushroom tagliatelle
Omelette

Pasta (Bolognese, pesto, seafood, other concoctions), risotto (various), curries (various), chops/pie/chicken and veg, stir fry, fish, paella, enchiladas, fajitas, tray bakes (lasagna, shepherds pie etc) ... does get in a rut but I have maybe 20 everyday things (under £3 a head)