My dinner tonight was mediocre and I'd like to complain.

[eighthfavouriteperson]

urgh. I was very hungry and looking forward to it.

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'Alexa, add M&S frozen choc chip cookies to my shopping list'

@BeyondMyWits I love those cookies! I undercook them so they're really gooey and cookie dough like

My dinner was a surprising hit with both my husband and I. I made a pork satay stir fry as pork was cheap and I added tenderstem broccoli and red onion. It was delicious!

Mine was surprisingly tasty.. yesterday’s stew covered with Asda pastry with roast veg 😋

Had really big fancy plans for tonight. Turned into jacket potato with leftover bolognaise 🥱 🥱

My sympathies OP . I often feel cheated that I’ve wasted all the day’s calories on something I don’t even like. What a travesty!

Enjoy your relaxing evening

Mine was disappointing too, I had left over chilli that was mediocre yesterday so not entirely sure what I expected this evening

Never mind, the gin is helping

I had a delicious stir fry, but I'm starving again now.....

My husband made prawn and chorizo frittata. I would complain as it was rubbery but it seems churlish as he cooked AND washed up...

Mine wasn't mediocre but was a dissapointment. We thought we'd get a takeout from a new palce and couldn't find it then took a wrong turning twice and got stuck in traffic. The whole trip added an hour to our commute home.
Got home and realised DH had brought the wrong soup and this one was shite. Not just that's he'd brought only one portion of the main meal. Plus no salad that I was really looking forward to.
He offered to go back and pick more up but I faked being satisfied and we both ended up eating less and insisting we were fine so the other would eat more. Then when he went I had a cup of tea, some jammy Dodgers and a couple of lindor to fill me up and now I feel like sugar overlaid on a half empty stomach.

So that's me.

I had a homemade Chinese Style Chicken Curry last night and it was lovely. Had enough left for today and was looking forward to it…we all know curries are better on day 2!

It was bloody horrible. Chicken was tough and sauce was tasteless….very disappointed 😔

Mine was disappointing too! We had salmon in foil parcels with ginger, spring onions, chilli, slivers of red pepper, coriander & soy sauce. Ran out of rice as thought we had a new bag but we didn't so had steamed new potatoes which were watery & overcooked & overcooked sugar snaps as dd rang me & I was distracted at the very moment I should have been dishing up.

I REALLY want something sweet & indulgent but resisting as trying to be good

Mine too - I’d bought some of those Heck posh nuggets as wanted an easy dinner (Ofsted in last two days) and they were vile 😖

I think that's one of the biggest problems I had when I was single. I often find when I'm cooking a meal then eating it, it wasn't quite what I wanted. But if someone else cooks it, it's much better. Now my husband does a fair chunk of the cooking, it happens less.

Having said that, the meal he cooked tonight was very meh. Over cooked and tasteless. Although I won't complain to him as I could have cooked if I'd been that bothered!

@DramaAlpaca

I had a below par dinner yesterday so I feel your pain.

I was on my own for dinner and decided to make egg fried rice to use up some left over rice, but put two eggs in when one would've been plenty.

I ended up with a bowl of ricey scrambled egg

How was "ricey scrambled egg"? (As I feel if I were to try egg fried rice - this is exactly how it would turn out!)

Same. Very meh.

Why are we all putting up with mediocre meals! We should rally. We deserve better!

Haven't you got the ingredients for a mug cake? Flour sugar oil and cocoa powder?

I had fruity cheese (leftover from Christmas) on stale nan bread and grilled for not quite long enough. Even more disgusting than it sounds.

I made a sort of frittata, baked in the oven, to use up various ageing vegetables, and some coleslaw. The coleslaw includes red cabbage and the whole thing has turned pink, which is a bit weird, but it tasted OK. Would have had a better texture if I'd bitten the bullet and finely shredded the cabbage, carrots and apple on the chopping board instead of grating them in the food processor, but there we are. The frittata was all right, but nothing special.

My husband was a bit dubious about the whole thing, largely because of the pink coleslaw, but said thoughtfully after a while 'Actually, this is ...' 'Adequate?' I said. 'Oh no', he said. 'A notch above adequate, I think.'

(I did a lot better last night. Lentil bolognese with spaghetti and Parmesan. It tasted great and I will make it again. Had the leftovers for lunch today.)

My prawn noodles were very average and strangely tasteless. Tastebuds are hit and miss still after covid. Making up for it with a large bar of Lindt chocolate which strangely tastes as good as ever.

@spongedog it wasn't as bad as it sounds actually. I fry chopped spring onions and a bit of fresh chilli, stir in the cold cooked rice, season with soy sauce then stir in an egg per portion of rice. Only I thought there was more rice than there was... so it looked like scrambled egg.

Mine would have been delicious but it was only half warm. I'd had the oven on for an hour, too - no idea why things were so different today.

How frustrating!

May I add to your sorrow by saying that mine was delicious. Leek and lentil bake - yum

I just had leftover meatball pasta. It was meh yesterday. It was more meh today, but needed eating and i won't waste it.

I made peanut butter chicken and rice for DS, he said it was lovely, I’m not keen on it so had chicken pasta with tub of sauce, it was OK, but not great. Yoghurt for dessert was nice.