What did you have for dinner tonight?

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I'll go first. I'm hoping to get some nice ideas 🙂that I wouldn't think of myself as my brain is tired of working out what were all going to eat every day 🙄

Today we had (per person):

1 large protein wrap with sliced, seasoned fillet steak, cooked rare (150g), 200g sliced and fried mushrooms and 80g fried onions and 40g grated red Leicester and cheddar cheese with garlic mayo.

It was delicious and very filling 😋

Also what's the oddest thing you've made with leftovers?

Last week, to save it from going to waste, I ended up eating diced cooked carrots and boiled potatoes mixed together with some salad cream and diced, pickled gherkins. Sounds weird but tasted okay 😂

Used to be aka Chicken Veronique 😋

We have chicken tacos tonight for DCs and tacos with refried beans for me.

Sounds good. Not had tacos/Mexican for a while.

DCs have been agitating for Taco Tuesday which we used to do quite religiously. I find it very boring tbh but at least it takes away the decision-making for one night a week!

Had a cheats lazy-cook night... curry - leftover chicken with a Lloyd Grossman balti jar, along with some flat coated sliced potatoes (tesco) cooked till crispy and a bag of sharwoods mini popadoms.

Really quick and really nice.

Had a very easy 20 min dinner. Old el paso chili and garlic rice meal, just had to chop peppers, onion and chicken and warm up some taco pocket things. Was very tasty mind you and low effort.

we had homemade sausage rolls as I over bought sausage meat at Christmas. Served with mash potato and corn on the cob. And then left over apple crumble. Weird but nice.

I really like the sound of that.

We still have taco fixings for tonight, but tomorrow I think sausage rolls sounds perfect.

Oh, I do like sausage plait, and we've not had that for a long while.

I usually make it as one large roll with sausage meat and a bit of sage, parsley and onion. I've even been known to add some chutney, etc, to the mix for variety.

It always goes down a treat, too. Nice comfort food for miserable weather!

Last night we had shredded hog roast meat from the freezer with stuffing, a bap and apple sauce.

Same again tonight, but with fried onions, mushrooms and BBQ sauce instead of stuffing and apple sauce.

Nice and quick!

FWIW I like spreading my pastry with a layer of apple sauce then adding the sausage meat. One of my Dcs has food issues and so I also peel courgette (to take away the nasty green bits) and grate it into the sausage meat as well to add some veg that his suspicious mind usually misses.

I suggested sausage rolls to fore-mentioned suspicious DCs on the way to school and they rejected it for today sadly. [weeps]. So I have just bought them a half roasting chicken which I will serve with a pasta salad with fresh cucumbers, tomatos grated carrot and the leftover feta cheese with some lemon. If I tell Ds1 it's 'Greek roast chicken and salad' it will get past him as we went to Greece last year and he conceived a mad passion for everything chickeny and lemony. Bring on the summer holidays I say!

That sounds nice. I've mixed apple sauce in with the meat mixture, but haven't tried spreading it on the pastry. Would be interesting to see if it makes a difference to the overall flavour 🤔

It's probably nicer in the meat tbh- keeps it moist.

It;s McDonalds all round tonight. We got vouchers in the mail and it works as we are all coming home via the same bus depot next to McDonalds at different times today.

I think I may have broken my own speed record - 5 mins with no prep. It was pretty boring, though: Mixed-grain microwave rice with (cooked) frozen edamame beans and tinned salmon. I sprinkled it with sumac to break up the blandness.

It was okay; would actually be nice with a little extra effort: maybe some yoghurt with lemon and herbs and/or spring onions/chives.

It's stir fry tonight for us. Chicken, peppers, pak choi, water chestnuts, onion, sugar snap peas, bean sprouts and a honey and soy sauce - served with rice (me) and noodles (DH).

I had a pack of Spar Chargrilled Chicken Slices, with various veg that I chopped up, then put into containers in the fridge, including raw garlic cloves and raw spinach leaves. A pack of 2 Spar hard-boiled eggs that I quartered, and cubed Cathedral City cheese, a spoon of Branston Pickle, tomato sauce and vinegar, and a mug of PG Tips!

I hate cooking and won't do it, and there's a built-in oven, but I used a large wooden block on the top to use as a worktop, so I microwave everything!

Tonight I'm having a pack of Spar Chicken Nuggets, or chonky nibbles as I call them!

We sometimes have edamame beans and a tin of salmon mixed into left over mash with a handful of chives and parsley. Then either heaped in the frying pan and fried like a frittata (if the mash is sloppy) or make into fishcakes and fried separately (if the mash is dry/firm).

McDonalds was blissful.

Tonight the DCs are having loaded potato skins with peas and sweetcorn. I am having minestrone with a bread roll. I wasn't sure what to make the DCs then recalled i have pancetta in the freezer so that's a go. I'm trying to reduce my grocery spend this month as I have a tendency to buy fresh. There is a whole category of 'Froze and Forgot' in my kitchen.

Sounds good to me, and better than eating rubbish!

Mine was a lazy meal today as I was alone.
Cheese pierogi, dry fried in a pan and served with pickled white cabbage, onion and green pepper.

My signature ‘dustbin’ soup, as my DM used to call hers. Onion, celery, carrot, potato, pearl barley, broccoli cauliflower, chicken and veg stock cubes, parsley, and some leftover cheese sauce.

We make something similar, with grated raw carrot, microwave or normal brown/wild rice, edamame beans, tinned or fresh salmon or tuna, and some v quick pickled cucumber, and spring onion. Sometimes, we add diced avocado, too. Topped with a homemade soy/honey ginger dressing and sesame seeds.

If made with microwave rice and tinned fish, it's ready in 10 minutes or less.

We had marinated chicken (the recipe said Greek chicken), halloumi, various salad veg, olives, rice, flatbreads, hummus and tzatziki. In various combinations as I have four kids and two are fussy.

Soy, lime and ginger dressing

2 tbsp dark soy
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
1 tsp honey
¼tsp ginger puree (or more to taste)

You can vary the ingredients to suit your own tastes. I make up a much larger amount and store it in a jar/ bottle in the fridge. That way it's on hand for a quick rice bowl/stir fry, etc.

Damn, I'm supposed to be in skinflint mode and now I think I need all those ingredients 😂