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....

Freezer fish & chips
Sausages in any form (sandwiches/toad in the hole/ with mash)
Steak pie

Can anyone share a chilli recipe that isn’t too spicy for small children? They are ok with a very mild level of spice but nothing too hot…

Pasta

• with pesto, green beans and pots
• with sausage and tomato
• with bacon, tomatoes, courgette, creme fraiche
• with smoked salmon, leeks and cream
• with chorizo and jarred peppers
• arrabiata & amerticiana

Rice

• chorizo or bacon, tomato oven baked risotto
• baked salmon and stir fry veg
• pork with cucumber and spring onion

Lentils & beans

• sausage and lentil simmer
• with salsa and sea bass
• sausage and bean casserole
• with salmon and spinach
• with pork fillet

Chicken

• fajitas
• stroganoff
• wrapped in Parma ham
• roast with chips & coleslaw
• curry
• and pea risotto
• and black bean enchiladas
• breadcrumbed
• arrabiata and Parmesan dumplings

Eggs

• with oven chips
• frittata and salad
• with corned beef hash

Mince

• bologanise
• chilli
• with courgette and feta
• cottage pie

Fish

• greek / Italian baked cod
• smoked haddock in milk
• tuna nicoise
• salmon wrapped in filo

Plus roast dinners, stews, jacket pots, pies, curries, toad in the hole, duck breast, steak, salads & just meat, pots & veg

Turkey tacos
Cottage pie

Mine are quite fond of mince

Chili with rice
Spaghetti Bolognese
Cottage pie
Stew done in the slow cooker, served with bread or jacket potatoes
Jacket potatoes with tuna, cheese or leftover frozen stuff
Sweet and sour chicken (uncle Ben's sauce) with rice and broccoli
Chicken curry (jar sauce) with rice and supermarket naan/poppadoms
Baked salmon, potatoes and veg
Baked sausage with tomatoes, either chopped into pasta or served with mash (Jamie Oliver)
Jamie Oliver Saturday afternoon pasta (tuna and tomato pasta)
For kids only - packet macaroni cheese
For kids only - pasta with cheap jar sauce, cut up hot dog sausages or cold cooked sausages and sweetcorn
I would do pesto pasta but they don't like it.
Chicken and rice -fry peppers, onions mushrooms, cherry tomatoes etc with chicken, cook rice in chicken stock with some peas and sweetcorn, combine on plate maybe with garlic bread.
Frozen pizza
Chicken nuggets and oven chips

We have a rice cooker and I find this makes rice really easy to do as an accompaniment, much nicer as well as always perfectly cooked and fluffy. You can season it easily too so it doesn't have to be bland plain rice.

@minipie

Can anyone share a chilli recipe that isn’t too spicy for small children? They are ok with a very mild level of spice but nothing too hot…

Jamie Oliver one except I swap out the balsamic vinegar for a square or two of dark chocolate, and add big cubes of sweet potato.

I tend to add spice as the recipe amounts give a very mild version.

Thank you!

Katsu curry sauce with fish fingers
Homemade pizza
Tomato cheese pasta
Tacos with prawns
Chickpea curry

Spaghetti bolognese
Sweet and sour pork
Salmon with a sticky Asian sauce
Chicken or prawn stirfry
Sushi
Pasta with a creamy tomato sauce with bacon, veg and cheese.
Jambalaya
Pineapple chicken with rice
Chicken and bean cassoulet
Roast dinner

Pizza chicken and homemade wedges/salad,
Taco night,
Roast chicken dinner,
Shepherd's pie,
Lasagne,
Soup and a toastie- quick!

Chicken or veg stir-fry
Pasta and pesto
Spaghetti bolognaise
Chicken curry
Jacket potato with tuna and broccoli
Jacket potato with cheese and coleslaw
Chips and nuggets/veg burger
Pizza
Chilli
Fajitas

Prawn fried rice,
Tuna pesto pasta,
Fish finger wraps,
Spag bol,
Jacket potatoes and tuna/cheese/beans or chilli,
Chilli with rice, taco shells, lettuce and guac/salsa/cheese,
Lasagne, salad and garlic bread,
Prawn or calamari noodles,
Breaded chicken, coleslaw, and salad
Fish, chips and peas,
Salmon baked with pesto on top, then finished off with cheese under the grill,
Stuffed pasta with butter, sage and Parmesan,
Fajitas,

Mince
Spag Bol
Cajun dirty rice
Chilli con carne
Lasagne

Chicken
Mushroom & chicken stroganoff
Chicken curry
Green curry
Spanish chicken & rice
Stir fry
Roast chicken
Pizza topped chicken
Bacon wrapped oven chicken
Chicken thighs n chips
Peanut chicken

Pork
Gammon steak
Roast gammon
Ham pasta bake
Pork mince and noodles
Roast pork
Pork chops
Sausages n chips

Fish
Fish n chips
Salmon n new potatoes
Thai curry
Prawn linguini

I also do paneer curry every so often

I'll make myself noodles and lentil soups etc.

Kids will have the odd 'freezer' meal if we are eating a different times etc so pizza, nuggets etc.

Take away is normally a kebab

Place marking to read later as I really need to do this!

Fajitas are a hit here, with everyone helping themselves to different fillings/dips etc. Same with beef tacos and just crispy chicken/salad wraps.

Creamy chicken and Chorizo pasta too (Tesco recipe)

Roast
Tuna pasta bake
Pizza
Spaghetti bol
Lasagne
Gammon egg chips
Sausage beans hash browns
Hunters chicken
Fajitas
Burgers

I forgot

Quesadillas
Jacket potato with various fillings - prawns, cheese, beans, chilli, tuna, coleslaw

Chicken or beef fajitas
Macaroni cheese
Indian Curry with rice or flatbreads
Vietnamese pork with lettuce wraps
Pasta with tomato sauce or spag Bol
Burgers in brioche bun with chips
Sausage or fish fingers and chips
Pizza, sometimes home made
Thai curry with sticky rice
Jerk chicken with rice and salad
Occasionally risotto

Pesto pasta
Jackets with whatever
Homemade Pizza
Lasagne
Chilli
Chilli lasagne
Beef casserole
Beef bouvingnon
Morrocan chicken
Spag bolognese
Spag meatballs
Pulled pork
Chicken wraps
Spiced shepherds pie

These suggestions have all been so brilliant! I'm reviving this thread in case anyone else needs some ideas too!

Pesto pasta

Stir fries

Freezer to oven jobs

Casseroles (cheat versions - prepped veg, quorn chunks, packet or jar casserole sauce. Long cook time but quick prep if you have a slow cooker even better!)

Jacket potato+ beans/cottage cheese/tinned chilli/tuna mayo (for dd I'm veggie)/bolognese sauce

Stuff on toast - beans, tinned mac cheese, spaghetti hoops, eggs

"Mixed grill" or basically a fry up but for dinner - eggs, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, hash browns or tattie scones, beans...

Ready meals at times but I'd add some microwaved veg like carrots or beans or sweetcorn or peas etc

Omelette and oven chips (chips just for me)

Pie and mash (pie from chippy but we didn't like the chips - dd hates potato - so I'd make instant mash to go with for me and dd would have bread and butter)

This is from when I was a full time working single mum and dd was at the stage of clubs and classes every sodding evening!

@JackieWeaversZoomAc - genius!
I’ve had a sachet of Katsu curry sauce hanging around in my freezer. Why did I never think of drizzling it over fish fingers??
🤦🏼‍♀️

Oh year fish fingers are the bomb with Katsu sauce. When I first made Katsu I pounded the chicken, crumbed it, fried, sliced etc. It's delicious but takes time. Not great on a Wednesday after work.

Once I figured out that fish fingers worked there's no going back.

The sauce is super easy (carrot onion curry sauce) to make & freezes well too.

Following- great ideas!