What do you home make every week?

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I am looking to tweak our diet slightly and add a few more home made things. What do you make as a weekly staple, recipes and storage tips? Thinking along the lines of fresh mayo, maybe dabbling in bread. Any other ideas welcome for components of meals or snacks

I tend to make bread weekly but more in autumn and winter.
The only other regular made from scratch food is for our dog. 🐶
Oh, and i batch cook jacket potatoes and roasted veg, portion and freeze for quick meals.

Bread
Salad cream
Any cakes or puddings
Soup
Porridge mix
Yoghurt

Most food, often a big lasagna of some variety, with only 2 of us here now it does 3 meals a day!

Not loaf of bread but other bread based items like pizza dough/ cinnamon buns/ pitta/ naan - depending on weekly menu

I have start making biscuits once a week. Less crap ingredients and cheaper. Shortbread, gingerbread, cookies, lemon and almond.

Sourdough every few days
Pesto every couple of weeks
Pasta sauce - veg and bolognaise
Cakes
Soups
Pies
Sometimes ice cream if I can be bothered

I tend to cook/bake on Sundays when im doing Sunday dinner.

Soup most of the year, pasta salad in summer
Breakfast muffins
Oat bars

Sausage rolls
banana bread / cake
frittata

@Caspianberg can I ask what fat you use for your biscuits etc? Butter is so expensive now. I keep thinking I will bake biscuits/cakes etc for the school lunch boxes but the amount of butter means it’s expensive!

Nothing 🙈

There was a good thread about this a few months back:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5268461-what-food-do-you-make-weekly-just-to-have-to-hand

I've started making wraps and milk rolls. Relatively quick and soooo much nicer than shop bought. I also make cakes etc for snacks.

Nothing every week. Bread which is every other days.

Things which I do home make regulary

• cakes and blueberry pancakes when I can be bothered
• burgers
• spice mixes
• pizza
• Ragu (one child loves spag bol and lasanga)
• various crumbles

It’s probably easier to list the things we buy regularly which I don’t

• peanut butter
• jam
• crackers
• pickle
• occassional jar of pasta sauce (non UPF)
• wrap
• oat milk
• baked beans
• Ice cream
• Pasta (made it once, easy but the kids were not impressed)
• Recently mini cheddars
• custard
• basic cereals

@Whatareyoutalkingaboutnow
How do you defrost/cook the baked potato? Really like this idea.

Bread in the bread maker.
Yoghurt
Not every week but jams, jellies and chutney when the fruit is in season. Fruit liquors too.
Pickles
Kombucha
Clothes too if that counts

Granola
Banana bread, or carrot cake for a change
Tray bakes, such as mixed Mediterranean vegetables.

See mayo looks fairly easy and we eat a lot of it. So I’m looking for some easy additions like this just to tweak things with minimal effort

In the last week I’ve made:

chocolate tray bake cake
humous
guacamole
colealaw
salad dressing
bread/pizza
soup
yogurts
ice cream

That’s fairly typical. Things I’d like to start making are: sourdough, fermented yogurt, mayo, dried fruit.

Plus my dd made granola. And I make up a muesli/seed breakfast mix with less sugar for me.

@Tupperwarefan - I use proper butter. It’s still cheaper for like to like products ie I could buy basic palm oil Biscuits in shop, but with proper basics it’s more. Plus we are overseas so something like shortbread is an import and costs ££.
We also have allergy child so I like to know what’s in them without ‘could contain xyz’

Every week? Nothing.
As needed:
Cake, biscuits, brownies etc - there is usually something on the go.
Birthday cakes (4 times a year!)
Bread/flatbread/pitta/pizza base depending on times and menus
Soup

Most evening meals are home cooked.

DH does home brew beer.

I don't make any one of these every week but as needed or occasionally:

mayo (stick blender method)
guacamole
houmous
sourdough (slice and freeze)
crumpets from the sourdough starter
jams/pickles in season
cakes/biscuits
pizza dough
butter if I pick up yellow labelled cream
ice cream/sorbet
elderflower cordial
fermented veg (kimchi, sauerkraut etc)

Also not weekly:

Mincemeat for mince pies
Red onion chutney

Both last forever so just make a batch

Not a weekly thing but I do make pickled onions, cabbage and chutneys.

Mango chutney is really easy and much better than shop bought.

I've also done bottling but only with veg, I'm not brave enough to do meat.

I do a sort of 'preserved' veg thing. Get a jam jar or a kilner jar and add a peeled clove of garlic. Then add layers of sliced pepper (different colours look good) mushrooms, olives, fresh herbs sometimes some pepper corns or coriander seeds.

Then fill the jar with oil (olive is best but expensive) and put it in the cupboard for a week or two. Serve in a small bowl with fresh bread (that you will now be making).

Soup.

If you are making mayo then a 50/50 mix of mayo and yoghurt (home made or bought) and a finely chopped garlic clove makes a great garlic dip.

If I'm making a baked potato I cook more than one and the next day I use the left over potato(es) in to gnocchi.

I live alone and I quite like traditional food so I'll make something like a shepherd's pie and portion it before the final cooking so I have one for me and 3 for the freezer. If you are cooking for a family you could dish out an extra portion and freeze that.

During colder months, a lot of very substantial vegetable soups, with lentils and/or pearl barley/orzo pasta.

Batch-cooked mince, with red lentils and a lot of finely chopped veg. The basic mix then turns into
a) Bolognese sauce (tomato purée and Italian herbs added)
b) Chilli - tomato purée, paprika, chilli powder and kidney beans added
c) in colder months, shepherd’s pie, beef stock cube and baked beans (dh insists!) added

Plus I nearly always have garlic bread in the freezer - a couple of small baguettes, cut in half across, then halved, soft butter with plenty of garlic and chopped parsley. TBH I never find ‘shop’ GB buttery or garlicky enough. .