If you live alone or cook for one, what do you eat in a week ?

[MosmanP]

Long story but my children will literally only eat 2 to 3 meals so I have to cook them on rotation which is fine they meet all their food groups are nutritionally it’s all good I’m just bored shitless.

tonight I’m having a jacket potato with cheese and Branston pickle that’s how inspired things are at the moment.

I absolutely do not want to eat ready meals so I’m happy to bunch cook and freeze things.
However. I dont eat chicken or fish and I wouldn’t eat a steak or joint of beef/pork/ lamb.
The dog has more variety than me.

Lasagna is ideal, veg or meat. Once cold you can slice it into individual portions to freeze.

I stir fry quite a bit. Quick, healthy and works with whatever is in the fridge. Or risotto. Or pasta with pesto. Both again with whatever is in the fridge. I also love fish with streamed veg, but that doesn't work as a suggestion. Quite a lot of jacket potatoes too, usually with tuna.
And toast if I just can't be arsed!

i usually eat the same meals 2-3 days in a row. This week - stir fry, mushroom stroganoff and veg, salmon fillets and salad. Occasionally I do a full roast then eat 1 portion and freeze the rest in individual complete meals.

A lot of toast 😅

Far too much🙄Turkey steaks and pork steaks are good as they are thin and cook quickly. I made a chicken satay in slow cooker- delicious sure u could substitute the chicken with turkry thigh. Try taming twins website. Sorry but savvy enough to add a link🙄

Far too much chocolate, wine and general crap unfortunately. I don’t finish work until 6pm so by the time I’ve walked and fed the dog I really can’t be arsed to cook anything. And I don’t like pasta which seems to be most peoples go to for a quick meal.

I usually have the same meal twice in one week

This week's been fairly typical. I don't really like cooking so I go for quick and easy. Some weeks I'll have stir fry a couple of nights.

M - scrambled eggs on toast
T - baked potato with cheese and coleslaw with some cherry tomatoes
W - homemade lentil soup and bread (froze the rest of the soup)
T - pasta pesto with bacon, peppers and tomato
F - leftover pasta from last night
S - pizza
S - fish cake with oven chips and steamed veg

I batch cook. Every weekend I make a pan or two and freeze in individual portions. Currently my freezer contains:

cottage pies
two types of dal
two types of curry
three flavours of soup
sausage casserole
and possibly some other stuff I’ve forgotten about…

i never cook in the week - too tired from work, but dinner is never boring and I can choose what I want on the day. It works for me!

I live alone. Things I eat a lot
Cottage pie (batch cooked and portioned to freeze)
Corned beef hash (as above)
Pasta bakes with tuna or veg ones, sometimes with chorizo (as above)
Quesadillas (filled with cheese and any bits of left over veg, ham etc)
Jacket potatoes
Omelettes with salad or veg, sometimes a few chips
Beige food chicken dippers/waffles/beans or a frozen pizza
Fresh soup and bread or with garlic naan
Egg fried rice (I add in stir fry veg, soy sauce and any bits of leftover meat)
Sausages with mash, gravy and veg
Carbonara
Loads of salads with feta, tuna, halloumi
Avocado with cherry tomatoes/feta/chilli flakes on toast
Pitta breads toasted with falafel, hummus and salad
Nachos - I batch cook chilli with minced beef and black beans then leave one portion to have over plain tortilla chips with guacamole, salsa, sour cream, jalapeños, cheese

I don't eat meat/dairy regularly but kids/husband do so I meal prep a lot!

Today I'm making butternut squash soup and a lasagna to keep the carnies happy. They have a rotation of lasagne/bolognese/curry/walnut cauliflower tacos (which I eat too)/Kiev/salmon and rice/pizza.

I'll prep roasted vegetables, sweet potatoes, stuffed mushrooms, soup, salad bases, mushroom burgers and salad dressings for me, as well as overnight oats, and smoothies.

I batch cook too so rarely cook in the week. I don’t like pasta much, I rarely cook it.

Typical week would be:
Fish x 2 nights. A salmon fillet (steams in foil with butter in ten mins) with a salad and half a packet of cooked puy lentils sort of thing.
Two or three batched cooked jobs - usually I have a selection of, beef in red wine, curry, coq au vin, chilli or Middle Eastern lamb to choose from, with a portion of batched cooked cauliflower cheese or half a (pre baked while the oven is on for batch cooking) baked potato.
Maybe half a pizza and salad one night

I cook twice a month, making 6 portions of two dishes on different days so that is builds the variety in my freezer stash.

Sometimes I cook for one if DD is with her Dad for the weekend. Other times I cook for two.

On the days I'm off or working from home, I make dinners that can be re-heated the next day. Things like:-

Lasagne
Chilli
Salmon, prawn and almond curry
Chicken enchiladas
Irish stew
Seafood chowder
Roast dinner e.g. small turkey joint with mash and veg.
Stir frys

Quick dinners are things like:

Pasta dishes
Pizzas (buy the bases and put my own toppings on them)
Soup (home made and then re-heated).

Chicken breasts with bacon and stuffing from the butcher with baby new potatoes and broccoli spears.

Turkey burgers (my butcher does home made turkey burgers) with stir fry veg. and baby new potatoes.
Omelette
Quiche from M&S

I appreciate some of these dishes wouldn't appeal to you as you don't eat chicken or fish but they might inspire someone else.

Sorry, I’ve just seen what you don’t eat. What do you like to eat? Delia’s lentil mousakka freezes well/is nice although I don’t add as much wine as she says as I can always taste it. Recipe

i make myself veggie chilli in the slow cooker quite a bit. Then have it with pitta bread. Then you just need to chuck a pitta in the toaster and serve yourself rather than faffing with rice.

Another I do is veggie fajitas by putting chopped peppers, red onions sweet potato on a tray with the fajita seasoning. Then cook same time as beige stuff for dd. Nicer than having fish fingers and you're running the oven anyway.

I have phases of eating the same thing every day for a week because I like it so much, then am bored of it and can't touch it for ages. I live with DD 24 but we cook separately.

Typical meals: homemade vegetable soups/bread, felafels and salad in wraps, eggs different ways on toast or with vegetables and cheese in an omelette, stir fries of loads of veg, plus tuna or prawns or tofu, some of the Plant burgers/mock salmon from Sainsbury’s when yellow stickered plus veg or salad, pan fried gnocchi with tomato based sauce or pesto or cheese.

Lots of baked potatoes and salads. Deli food. Soups. Sausage and mash. Liver coated in seasoned flour and gently fried for a few minutes-quick, delicious and full of iron.

I think it really helps to spend some time working out different meals that use your key ingredients, so you don't get bored eating things on repeat but you don't let things go to waste. So for instance if you had a punnet of mushrooms you might plan a mushroom stroganoff, mushroom stir fry and a pasta with garlic mushrooms.
A three pack of peppers, stuffed peppers, fajitas and vegetable skewers.
Etc.
Look to batch cook bases that can be adapted to make different, roasted veg can be used for a pasta bake or in a fritata. Even just having a bag of sofrito chopped in the freezer allows you to grab a handful to grab as and when.

My slow cooker is a godsend casseroles this week load of chicken curry to be made.all chopped I can’t chop stuff now. Chilli con carni is another favourite I’ll use quoin mince for that lot.

I batch cook.

Cacciatore with carrot spaghetti
Sausages and mash with veg
Cottage pie
Mediterranean fish stew with cauliflower rice
Jacket potatoes
Sausages and lentil casserole
Currys
Dahl
Lasagna

I try and make healthy swaps too. So sweet potato or root veg mash, turkey mince and tomatoes for cottage pie base.

There's only the two of us now and OH is the cook. We have basic mince and mash, mince also becomes chilli or cottage pie. We also have home made burgers seasoned as he wants with cheese or chilli. Soup is a favourite, he does pea and ham with a gammon joint which he partly shreds into the soup so you get some gammon on each bowl, the rest is used for sandwiches or salad.
Fish is an easy option and can be done in lots of ways. What about a quick fry up, nor just for breakfast.

A lot of stir fry and curry as well as ready meals / tins.

Amazing thank you, lots id forgotten about thst i do like. You cant go wrong with an omelette

I always find mushrooms handy too if you like them
Garlic mushrooms and cheese on a jacket potato
Creamy mushrooms on toast
Add to an omelette

I don't eat meat, but occasionally will eat fish. Most of my dinners are fairly quick and easy, more like lunch food than dinner - sometimes I just have a nice toasted sandwich if I'm not that hungry.

I batch cook lentil vegetable soup and butternut squash & sweet potato soup so have a few portions in the freezer for lunches/ dinners during the week.

I sometimes make my version of spanish omlette - fry some potatoes and onion in olive oil, add a few eggs (I add some garlic and cheese also), and finish under the grill. Serve with salad and coleslaw.

I also buy good quality pizza bases, and add loads of my own toppings (broccoli, spinach, red and yellow peppers, red onion, courgette, lots of cheese). Sounds weird but is delicious.

I freeze sourdough bread in slices so I just pop 2 in the toaster and add toppings (tuna and cheese melt, brie & tomato slices, or poached egg & avocado). Great for lunches or a quick dinner.

I also have nice veggie burgers in the freezer, which I bake and then add a fried egg on top - yum!

Also veggie stir-fry's with brown rice, or spinach and feta cheese parcels made with puff pastry - these freeze well and bake in about 30 mins.