What was on your dinner plate tonight?

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We had an odd one of trying to use up what we have before payday + what is fresh on offer in Lidl.

It resulted in skin on oven fries, topped with a kind of mexican-spiced beef mince (almost like taco beef) and cheese, with Mexican street corn salad, homemade guacamole and some dipping tortillas.

We are currently creating a meal-planning spreadsheet and will be watching this thread in the hopes of stealing your meals!

I was using up stuff so did a bolognese on homemade flatbreads topped with parm and cheddar.

Chicken and ham lasagne using up leftovers .
made with lots of mozzarella
salad with it .
Cup of tea and home made chocolate hobnobs . I’ve started baking a bit more recently .

Homemade spaghetti carbonara with sautéed garlicky broccoli on the side

DS7 had chicken nuggets for the 32nd day in a row

Myself, DP and DD5 had ramen with eggs, quorn, cucumber and cherry tomatoes.

My son took a pic of his. I tried to edit my previous post but couldn't figure it out 🤷‍♀️

Katsu tofu...

That looks so lovely, and bless your son for taking a photo, glad he appreciates that he's getting tasty restaurant quality food at home!

Thanks @Wingwalk - he does appreciate it. He brings others round to sample my wares 😆

A McDonald’s 😅 we’ve been on the road for over ten hours today, looking forward to arriving at the drive through.

Chicken, broccoli and mushroom Thai green curry with Jasmine rice.

Mushroom cup a soup, toast with butter, cheese and marmite separately on three slices.

Mac cheese with cherry Tom's and diced onion, roasted in airfryer with chips and ketchup

Ratatouille, stir fried brown rice and spring greens with garlic, natural set yogurt

Salad (various leaves, courgettes, green beans, chilli and tomatoes with a tahini dressing) plus reheated leftovers from yesterday’s BBQ (veggie sausages, mushrooms and corn on the cob).
I don’t normally take pictures of my dinner but for some reason, took one tonight!

Gnocchi in a tomato and red pepper sauce with chorizo. I’m on holiday at the mo, so I made the sauce at lunchtime and let it cook on low for ages, then pan-fried the gnocchi to add in at night. It was really good actually - I added a bit of hot honey to cut through the acidity of the tomatoes and give a kick, plus a load of paprika.

DS asked for creamy cheese chicken. So I concocted a dish, topped with grated cheese and breadcrumbs and put it in the oven for 5 mins. There was an assortment of potatoes leftover. Peas and carrots too. DS approved.

DS made toad in the hole last night, it was the best toad in the hole I've ever had! He made cheesy mash too (I'm sensing a theme...).

Cod in breadcrumbs, not from my own fair hands but from box in the freezer, cauliflower, broccoli and potatoes.

3 bean chilli - obsessed with the MOB app, so good for meal ideas, prepping ahead and outputting shopping lists. We use it every week now and haven’t had a bad meal yet!

Nothing. Because at 18.00hrs I ate a bowl of peanuts. So when it came to dinner I was not hungry. Ashamed to admit to it, because I am supposed to be trying to be healthy.

Leftover roast chicken that we’d barbecued. Fried new potatoes and a mixed salad in mustard dressing
The chicken tasted incredible

Macaroni cheese, oven chips and salad.

Ours was lovely! Salad from the allotment (lettuce, tomato, apple cucumbers, peppers, peas and basil then mozzarella, a jacket potato with extra mature cheese and roast chicken

A spicy slowly braised ratatouille, made with onions, courgettes, aubergine, fresh jalapenos and tomatoes, served with French beans. All home grown.

Odds and sods dinner using up stuff.

Sausages, a few bits of broccoli, the last of a Savoy cabbage and 2 potatoes made into chips, DD had some leftover sliced tomato.... and some bread and butter.

Well at least you didn't eat the dinner when you weren't hungry.

Nuts are good for you.

Popcorn🤣