What are your regular family meals that you do on repeat?

[Slythermum]

I'm trying to meal plan to save time and looking for some easy quick ideas for things I can do over and over again. There's usually two adults and 3-4 kids here. My imagination (and enjoyment of cooking) has abandoned me for now!

Mac and Cheese
Roast chicken and potatoes
Pizza
Hot dogs....

Hidden veg Mac and cheese
Fajitas (with chicken nuggets for fussy kids)
Fish tacos (we use the crispy chicken old el paso box and use salmon instead of chicken)
Fish finger butties
Smoked salmon pasta with a cream sauce (my fussy 4 year olds favourite meal, strange kid!)
Pizza
Tuna pasta bake (4 year old just has pasta and the vegetables)
There's a few others but usually someone complains about it!

Spaghetti and veggie meatballs
Lentil stew with rice
Pesto pasta
Baked potatoes with beans

Moussaka
Spagbol
Pasta bake
Chilli
Sausage Surprise (sausage and tinned beans, not baked beans, stew)
Paella
Risotto
New Zealand Breakfast Pie (eggs, bacon, leeks, chilli, cheese, baked in bought puff pastry)
Homemade pizzas
Curry
Biryani
Delia's shallow-fried fish, chips, peas
Baked spicy salmon steaks
Salmon and broccoli creamy pasta
Pasta carbonara
Toad in the hole, onion gravy
Goulash
Chicken paprika
Chicken chasseur
Coq au vin
Boeuf Bourgignon
Beef, Guinness and prune juice stew (Marco Pierre White has a load of simple recipes on YouTube that use Knorr stock cubes - this is one of them)
Quiche Lorraine (or any quiche, really)

@CharSiu

Char Siu pork , hence the user name :) Ma Po which is a tofu and spicy pork dish Baked Fish stuffed with ginger Steamed stuffed cabbage rolls Spicy prawn noodles Duck pancakes Chicken Porridge Crispy belly pork Dim sum

As DH is English I do a roast dinner
chicken and vegetable pies
Cauliflower cheese with bacon

Chilli
Lasagne
Pan fried salmon with veg

As his Mum is arriving it will be all English food for 5 days.

Oh no if I was her I'd want to eat all your specialities every day if I was staying with you as I wouldn't know how to make them myself and it would be a treat.

Here we have quite a lot of ‘on a stick’ it’s usually some kind of chicken and veg combo with different marinades or spice rubs on the chicken, lemon and garlic, tikka paste and yoghurt, honey and mustard etc. Veg whatever needs using up, usually peppers, cherry tomatoes, red onions etc. I sometimes mix it up a bit my subbing chicken for haloumi or sausages, chorizo etc. For some reason the stick seems to make things that are otherwise rejected, acceptable.

Yesterday I made a copycat version of a pasta dish we had in Italy with tomatoes, fennel and nduja.

Tonight I was trying to make space in the fridge for the Christmas shop so did nacho chicken. Chicken mini fillets and peppers, in a dish topped with the salsa left over from yesterday’s veg chilli, topped with crushed left over tortilla chips and grated cheese. Served with sweetcorn and salad. Went down surprisingly well!

Tomorrow I’m doing tuna, sweet potato and chilli fish cakes which I’ll make extras of for the freezer.

After that it’s onto the Christmas menu!

We got Gousto for awhile but stopped because the quality seemed to go downhill after the first lockdown. Now we just use their menu cards and buy the stuff ourselves. We're a veggie house and our regulars are:

Nasi Goreng
Shakshuka
Lasagne Primavera
Halloumi Burgers
Palak Paneer
Marmite Mac and Cheese
Lentil Dal
Pan Haggerty
Paneer Chilli Noodles

There's more, we have about 30 cards we tend to go through but the above are regular picks.

I pictured gammon as fish! So many great ideas here.

@DockOTheBay

Almost all my dinners are from the Pinch of Nom books/blog. We have quite a lot of rotation including:

Beef casserole
Poulet au vinaigre (chicken thighs in creamy sauce)
Campfire stew
Diet cola chicken (tastes like sweet and sour)
Salmon and asparagus pasta
Tuna pasta bake
Toad in the hole
Paella
Traybake of potato wedges, chorizo, chicken, red onion
Traybake of Mediterranean veg and cod
Traybake of chicken thighs and spiced rice
Mediterranean chicken orzo
Chilli loaded wedges
Home made chicken nuggets/ fish nuggets

These a re brilliant, I will check that book out!

@Cocona

We got Gousto for awhile but stopped because the quality seemed to go downhill after the first lockdown. Now we just use their menu cards and buy the stuff ourselves. We're a veggie house and our regulars are:

Nasi Goreng
Shakshuka
Lasagne Primavera
Halloumi Burgers
Palak Paneer
Marmite Mac and Cheese
Lentil Dal
Pan Haggerty
Paneer Chilli Noodles

There's more, we have about 30 cards we tend to go through but the above are regular picks.

I like the idea of the recipe cards, used to have them years ago and also could make a sort of binder with quick ideas in.

Cauliflower Cheese
Ratatouille & baked potatoes
Fish pie
Spag bol (meat /veg)
Lasagne (meat/veg)
Roast chicken & veg or salad
Spinach & cheese quiche & salad
Fish cakes
Roast veg & home made humous & salad
Aubergine parmigiana
Curry - prawns or veg with dhal
Roast fish on roast veg
Fennel & leek soup with garlic bread
Lentil soup
Lentil cottage pie
Creamy mushroom pasta
Creamy salmon pasta
Salmon Teriyaki & sticky rice
Salad Nicoise
Tuna steak with mustard or horseradish mash & greens
Salmon en croute

Pasta bake
Leek and haddock risotto
Chilli
Chilli rice bake
Haddock cheese bake
Salmon tray bakes
Salmon with roasted veg and rice
Chicken casserole
Vegetable casserole
Vege gratin
Salmon encroute

Cottage pie
Fajitas - chicken or salmon
Teriyaki salmon, noodles, stir-fry veg
Carbonara
Teriyaki chicken thighs, rice, stir-fry veg
Beef stroganoff and tagliatelle
Mac n cheese with lardons topped with tomatoes

Spaghetti Bolognese
Lasagna
Beef stew
Gammon roast
Jacket potatoes with different fillings
Stir fry

Jacket potatoes with tuna and salad
Chickpea and spinach curry (with Spice Tailor kit)
Lentil cottage pie
Salmon with potatoes and vegetables
Roasted vegetables with halloumi
Veggie burgers
Smoked haddock kedgeree

Some of my go to dishes….

Fajitas
Tacos with chilli beef, cheese and salsa/salad
Spaghetti bolognaise
Roasted vegetables with sweet chilli fries and chicken or fish
Tuna and sweet corn pasta bake
Veggie sausages and mash with peas/red cabbage
Slow cooked beef with mash and broccoli
Stuffed Peppers with rice and feta
Greek style type tea - flatbread/hummus/olives/salad/halloumi and chicken on skewers
Chicken and mango salad
Vegetable lasagne with garlic bread
Chickpea curry with naan bread

We eat meat about 2 times a week and a fish dish once a week.

Marking!

We do over & over

Burgers
Mozzarella tomato pasta bake
Halloumi with cous cous with cooked tomatoes and red pepper stirred through
Roast chicken & veg
Coconut prawn curry with green beans
Lamb massaman coconut curry
Lamb casserole with mild spices
Noodle soup
Risotto of many sorts but usuals are leek and goats cheese, pea and prawn, bacon and green veg
Soup - leek and potato is a winner, or pea
Stir fry
Pasta with cream, bacon and courgette/peas
BBQ belly pork strips
Bagels with salmon and cream cheese
Bolognese
Waldorf salad (with leftover chicken)

Lasagne… from a packet…

Curries (batch cook the base sauce from the Curry Secret book)
Macaroni and broccoli cheese
Spaghetti Bol
Lasagne
Pizzas
Jamie Oliver’s veg chilli in wraps (batch cook)
Spanish chicken
Salmon and veg
Roast dinners
Roast dinner left overs made into a pie
Toad in the hole

Leftovers fried rice
Nigella’s sweet potato Mac n cheese
Pasta puttanesca
Home made pizza with 3 ingredient pizza dough and very quick pizza sauce (that I freeze in cubes)
Nigella’s sunshine soup
Greek chicken breasts with spanakopita twice baked potatoes
Tacos
Nigella’s Mexican lasagne
King Ranch chicken
BBC good food Sausage Ragu
Delia’s egg and green lentil curry

Carbonara
Spaghetti bolognese
Sausage and mash
Chicken and salad with baby potatoes
Brown stew chicken
Cottage pie
Italian braised lamb steaks
Chilli con carne
Cod with smoked paprika lentils
Chicken curry
Pork lasagne (with butternut squash slices instead of pasta sheets)

Chicken jambalaya (Delia's recipe)
Spaghetti bolognese
Teriyaki salmon with noodles
Homemade pizza
Frozen breaded fish, oven chips and peas
Breakfast for dinner (sausage, beans, scrambled egg, toast/hash browns, tomatoes, mushrooms)

Posted too soon.

Risotto (bacon and pea, prawn and pea, fennel and prawn with lemon)
5p pasta (pancetta, peas, pesto, parmesan, pasta)
Gousto recipe prawn arrabiata
Gousto recipe Normandy chicken
Baked potatoes
Fajitas
Pulled pork in rolls with coleslaw
Slow cooked brisket with roast potatoes and veg
Sausages and mash with veg
Leek and cheese pasta bake

Savoury Mince Crumble
Pepper and Black Bean Fajitas
Macaroni Cheese
Sausage plait
BLT traybake
Pork Chops
Dal of many colours
Roast Chicken

Roast chicken about once a week. Use leftovers for curry.

Chilli con carne
Fajitas
Chicken skewers in sweet chilli with rice
Beef casserole
Thai curry
Stir fry
Pasta pesto
Salmon and New potatoes
Pork fillet roasted then use leftovers in sweet and sour

Lasagne
Spaghetti Milanese
Roast chicken
steak pie

Chilli, rice & tortilla chips
Lasagne, salad and garlic bread
Spag bol
Sausage pasta
Tuna pasta bake
Maggi bake in the bag chicken with new potatoes & veg or rice and salad
Roast chicken, mash & veg
Roast beef, roast potatoes, Yorkshire’s & veg
Fish pie
Cod in tomato sauce with chorizo
Pizza
Somerset pork, new potatoes & veg
Chicken Chasseur or Provençal, new potatoes and veg
Spanish chicken, rice and veg
Jambalaya
Hairy Bikers Spicy one pot pork

Come to think of it, I don’t think my kids are as fussy as I thought they were!