What were the last three meals you or your partner cooked for the family?

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I’ve come back from holiday and lost my mojo. Trying to get ahead and plan for the week and running out of inspiration. I like cooking from scratch - this week I’ve made slow cooker lamb ragu, beef and lentil curry. But I seem to be leaning towards red meat a lot and trying to break that habit so looking for inspiration!

Steak with salad and new potatoes
Spanish omelette and salad
Baked potato with left over bolognaise sauce

Veg curry
jerk chicken, rice and beans and mango salsa
spring green chilli and garlic tagliattelle

Today I've made dhaal that we will have with homemade roti, salad and pickles. Yesterday I made chicken wraps and chips. Tuesday I made a turnip and lamb curry with white rice and salad.

We are away but before we went we had;

Sat - Lamb cobbler (gf/df, made in slow cooker)
Fri - chicken breast stuffed with vegan feta, mushrooms and spinach, green beans and aspargus
Thurs - pork chops in BBQ rub, green beans and broccoli.

Slow cooked ox cheek stew with mash, I cooked.

Spinach and ricotta filled pasta with pancetta and asparagus in a lemon butter sauce, I cooked.

Oven chips, tuna steak for me, home made ox cheek leftover pie for him (we have a pie maker and it was ready made pastry, so easy, he made it), I dealt with the tuna as he doesn't eat fish so would over cook it....

I'm intrigued by chicken and vegan feta..

Ah, just realised df might be dairy free, sorry

Cauliflower cheese with chopped bacon through it, served with homegrown roasted carrots, potatoes and tomatoes.
Curried carrot soup (pinch of nom recipe) served with cheese on homemade sourdough toast.
Haggis with homegrown turnips and mashed potatoes.

Our vegetable patch has been very productive this year. 🙂

Thai Chicken Salad tonight
Home-made bacon.& mushroom quiche, baby tatties & green beans w hot Tahiti, Lemon & Feta dressing
Chicken salad wraps

• Sausage casserole with winter veg dumplings
• Carrot and lentil soup with a tadka (it was sort of daal-ish, it was delicious)
• Burritos with a chicken and sweet potato slow cooker chilli

Our family-friendly staples are things like the above, plus scrambled eggs on toast, roasted tomato soup, pasta with tomato and aubergine sauce, slow cooker curries (generally more veg focused, e.g. chickpeas but sometimes with chicken), fish finger sandwiches, pesto pasta (I make a lot of pesto!), meatballs (generally turkey) in broth-type soup.with rice, egg-fried rice, lemony/creamy pasta e.g. with courgette and maybe smoked salmon, laksa-type noodle dishes with salmon or just veg.

In the winter I make quite a lot of soup and focaccia - soup is always more appetising if you have good bread 😁

I also make chicken and veg pie quite a lot in winter, or do it with dumplings rather than pastry lid.

The Roasting Tin cookbooks are.good - I did a nice salmon with broccoli and a ginger-peanut sauce the other week. Generally everything in there is a bit lighter and pretty quick/straightforward too.

I know it sounds obvious but it helps to have a list of all your tried and tested options in easy view - I can't tell you amount of time I spend gormlessly standing in front of the fridge unable to come up with a single meal idea until I look at the list!

Chilli, chicken pasta Alfredo, pork fajitas. (Well seen I'm on annual leave!)

Tomato soup with Spanish tortilla, salad and baguette
Honey & mustard chicken with pasta
Fish finger tacos

Toad in the Hole
Chilli and Rice
Rolled stuffed belly pork.
Stir fry
Steak and chips.
(Yes more than 3 )

Cauliflower cheese with leeks and mushrooms, veggie shepherds pie and veggie fajitas

Paella
Lamb steaks with Broad bean and courgettes (although we prefer the veg warm)
Parsnip and pancetta tagliatelle

Potato bake
Tuscan chicken
Chicken tikka masala

All home made, no sauces from a jar

Pasta bolognaise
Fajitas
Roast chicken

Pie and mash

Roasted chicken thighs with onions, chips and salad

Sausage and butterbean casserole

Seafood Chowder with white soda bread last night.
Spaghetti bolognaise the night before.
Breaded fish, mash and cabbage on Monday.
Tonight it'll be Vietnamese pork bowls with rice. https://www.recipetineats.com/vietnamese-caramelised-pork-bowls/
Friday is tarragon chicken with green beans and potatoes. https://eatlittlebird.com/creamy-tarragon-chicken/

Lasagne

Sausage,mash,Yorkshire and onion gravy

Cod fillet and scallops with leeks and bacon.

Spag bol
Kievs with chips
Sausages and mash

and tonight I‘ll do creamy salmon spaghetti

Root vegetable curry with rice.
Sausage & bean casserole with crusty bread.
Cottage pie with peas and leeks.

Chicken Parmigiana with mash.
Gammon steak with new potatoes, asparagus and pineapple.
Beef and red wine ravioli with roast vegetable sauce and doughballs. Did not make the ravioli!

Japanese curry and rice (tried a meat free version using potatoes, worked well)
Lemon spaghetti
Jacket potato with beans and cheese

Burrito bake
Dolcelette mushrooms with steak and jacket potato
Salmon roast veggies and rice.

This sounds delicious! Do you use a particular recipe?thank you so much for all of these just reading through and noting them down.

love the idea of broccoli and cheese soup.

Ive signed up to hello fresh to get me going for two weeks on the cheap deal and am going to try and start planning ahead with my own dishes after.

ill check out the meal planning thread too thank you!