If you aren't having a takeaway tonight, what's on the menu for dinner?

[ErinAndTonic]

I have always had a Friday takeaway for as long as I can remember. I'm also saving for a wedding so trying to cut this down a bit and cook at home.

But sooooo exhausted come Fridays that I always cave! I've realised how much I've eaten out this week and spent on it so about to head to the supermarket.

What do you have on a Friday for a fuss free dinner - whether a bit of a treat or general everyday stuff.. I need to have a word with myself and get inspired for ideas that feel exciting or just super easy on a Friday!

Spice Taylor curry sauce made with ready cooked chicken and micro rice.

Scotch broth made last month and taken out of the freezer this morning. Delicious with some seeded bread to dip in 😀

Fish finger sandwiches. We have Friday night rotation of FF sandwiches, steak baguettes and Fajitas.

The answer is to make something easy whilst you are cooking tea on Thursday eg chilli

We're having Mediterranean chicken orzo from the pinch of nom cook book tonight. I try and make something nice on a Friday as prefer takeaway on a Saturday after a well deserved day of doing nothing 😂 Also, if you do a special dinner on a Friday you can hide in the kitchen with a glass of wine while you do it!

jacket potato with cheese and beans. It's one of my favourite meals, and besides we had takeaway last night and the leftovers for lunch today...

Rice, halloumi, fishfingers and whatever veg needs using up. We’re going on holiday tomorrow.

I caved at the supermarket today and bought a lovely looking cauliflower cheese ready meal, but I pimped it up, cooked some sliced potatoes and broccoli, put them in the bottom of a dish and carefully added the cauliflower cheese with a large flat serving thing, scraped all the extra sauce out of the foil as best as I could and grated extra cheese on top.

bunged some sausages on a baking sheet and chucked it all in the oven, can’t wait for it come out, it’s looking very nice. I normally cook from scratch but this was definitely worth the little effort.

Jacket with beans and cheese - zero effort needed, great for a lazy Friday.

When i am really tired I like breakfast for dinner. Which usually means scrambled eggs, bagels and butter and baked beans. With alot of tea.

Today thought we have had leftover lasagne and garlic bread.

Yum ! Please could you give a bit more detail - how do you do the beetroot, is the goats cheese hot ? Is this a little starter ?

I also love the sophisticated starter juxtaposed with vienetta. I do hope it's mint 🤤

Kievs, chips, peas and sweetcorn

Prawn Biryani and Tadka Dhaal. Drool.

Yum yum. Some of these are inspiring.

we are having a mishmash roasted Kabocha, Labneh, grilled marinaded-in-spice chicken thighs and lots of raw veggies in a salad.

Lovely macaroni cheese (which is its real name, no mac and cheese nonsense), with oven roasted tomatoes. Yum.

Roast chicken, Yorkshire's, roast potatoes and veg. It's easy to cook a chicken in the oven when WFH. Don't like to cook things like this at the weekend and be tied to the house.

I got a brand new Ninja air fryer so am putting it through its paces: ginger/soy salmon kebabs with veggies and brown rice. I’m also on a diet! So I won’t be drinking any wine whilst watching the rugby oh no

Another quick dinner we have is cilantro-lime marinated chicken with red rice and smashed avocado. That's an early shift dinner when I do something quick.
likewise jerk chicken with mango salsa and rice

For the past 20 yrs DH has cooked curry on a Friday night, it's bloody lovely. He does a big pile of home-made chapati too, yum.

Can't get takeaway locally (rural far west of Ireland), so I make my own. Defrosted a chicken Madras for dinner, just had it with some plain basmati. I make it once a month and divide into four portions (DH has gone off curry, so it's just for me). I'll be cooking venison burgers when DH gets back from the pub, in home-made burger buns (not something I usually do, but got the urge today :)

You are all making me so hungry.

We are having lamb steaks, bulgar wheat and roast veg tonight.

@ErinAndTonic I feel you. Can you compromise and choose a ready prepared dinner from the supermarket? My parents look forward to their supermarket fish, chips and peas every Friday at a fraction of the chippy cost, just half an hour in the oven.

Mushroom risotto, using homemade chicken stock and elderly mushrooms. I found an excellent microwave recipe so I can sit around with a single malt while it cooks.

Jacket potatoes with leftover homemade curry from last night with a bit of salad

Pork schnitzel with roasted root veg

That sounds delicious 🤤. Do you think some griddled halloumi could make this a filling meal for a meataholic that would ask me what we were having with it ?