What's for dinner?

[Pepsi4Eva]

Tonight the DCs are having chicken breasts with a mustard and honey cream sauce, with broccoli, rice and steamed carrots. Followed by tinned peaches and vanilla ice cream if I can persuade them to eat it.

I am having a halloumi and salad wrap as I am newly vegetarian.

I watched on netflix the almost-iconic series Jamies School Dinners which i had heard about but never seen. It simultaneously made me feel ALOT better about what my kids eat, but also made me feel that I need to branch out a bit and step outside my -and their- comfort zones. I know they like the chicken dish as it is one I make now and then. DS1 has food issues due to autism and this chicken dish is one of foods he will generally eat and enjoy (as long as there is just a hint of mustard). but I am stretching his tolerance a bit with the peaches and ice cream. So fingers crossed!!

I love it, such an easy way to increase fibre / protein! We all love it, to the point that DD10 will ask for it over 'regular' pasta.

Cauliflower cheese which I made at 6am and jacket spuds. Two sausages for ds7 as a reward for tackling the cauliflower!

Either jacket potatoes with beans and cheese or chicken fajitas... Still undecided!

Mushroom risotto using Angela Hartnett's recipe, which I'm only allowed to make every few months because of the outrageous amount of butter in it.

The omnivores will have a steak along with their risotto.

Minestrone.

Jacket potatoes, salmon , asparagus and green beans. Not exciting but it'll do for a weekday!

It sounds pretty exciting to me.

@Pepsi4Eva I’m trying to go newly vegetarian, I tend to eat vegetarian in January and felt a lot better for it last year. How are you finding it? Tonight I am having fuesli pasta, Marscapone sauce, olives, feta, Parmesan and artichokes

Re-heated Chinese take away.

I usually order the same thing every time, but decided to go "off-piste" and try something different. It was very, very disappointing and I am not looking forward to the leftovers.

Yes, I will be reheating the rice - I have done this for 40 years with both Indian and Chinese leftovers, and haven't succumbed to the almost certain death that this entails on MN!

Baked Sweet potatoes (3 because they are tiny) with both cottage cheese and normal cheese.

We are having Tuscan chicken tonight (sun-dried tomatoes cut in teeny tiny pieces with lots of cream, garlic, peppers & chicken; I’ll throw in some spinach too. Served with pasta for DD2, DD3 and DH. DD1 & I will have either courgetti as trying to cut down on carbs.

Food & ND is blooming tricky @Pepsi4Eva my youngest (age 16) has ADHD and has never eaten well. It’s a textures thing mostly; and the ‘look’. Hardly any veg are on her menu. It’s been a slog. She’ll now eat carrots, peppers, sweetcorn, cucumber, olives, potatoes. So we have the same veg over and over. I obviously give her other veggies alongside the above but rarely eats them. She’ll now tolerate things mixed up like a one pot but for a long time nothing was allowed to touch anything else!! 🤣 Oh and onions are tricky as are chicken thighs even cut in small pieces and skinless! I do one veggie meat a week but any more I feel she’d be malnourished (if she’s not already).

@foparI also always have the reheated takeaway rice for breakfast or lunch the next day and have never even had a dodgy tummy.

Chicken red thai curry with sticky jasmine rice. Followed by mango for desert.

Lamb mince, crushed potatoes and minted peas. Gusto box this week! At least I don't have to think to hard.

Sweet and sour pork with noodles or rice. Hairy bikers S&S chicken recipe, always goes down well

I've been in the office today so its a 30 minute low touch dinner.

Oven baked Turkey meatball pasta with fresh tagliatelle. Fridge to table in 30 mins. I "make " my own pasta sauce but the turkey meatballs are shop bought.

We don't do desserts but DC will have fruit or crackers later. I'll have grapes.

Vegetable rice (cauliflower, carrots, peas, celery, onions) with cucumber, an apple, tuna, and then oatmeal raisin gluten free biscuits.

Everyone's food sounds lovely and is giving me ideas for the rest of the week.
We have just had ours. Tomato soup, that on reflection I should have simmered for a bit longer and used fresh onion instead of frozen as it just didn't taste the same. I had garlic bread with mozzarella with it and ds had two cheese toasties.

Kids have just had tuna and sweetcorn pasta. I’m feeling a bit rough so not sure about us. There are prepped enchiladas in the fridge but don’t really fancy them tonight.

Gnocchi tray bake with bacon, halloumi, & rainbow veg. Easy as anything, and wolfed down, even by the veg sceptic.

So glad I live alone and can eat baked beans every night. I don’t know how you all produce such amazing meals - what a sweat!

Chorizo, halloumi and cauliflower bake, a keto dish. So easy and so yummy

Dal and roasted vegetables. With my DD’s mil’s roti, which she has tried to teach me to make but I just can’t-so she posts me some!

Chinese pork steaks, red cabbage and red onion slaw, broccoli and rice.

Tomorrow and Thursday will be Pork + Lentil chilli. Huge pot to last two days.

Friday shall be pizza and leftover slaw.

@PastaAllaNorma I was intrigued by your comment about butter so I looked up the recipe. Good heavens (but I want it!).

(Would also happily eat your username!)