Ideas for meals that can last two or three days

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What do you like to make that you can eat over a few days? I already do things like cottage pie, chilli and rice etc.

I have a fussy teen at home who doesn’t like eating a meal twice in a row but I find it convenient eg less shopping and cooking and I can personally eat the same meal a few times quite happily.

Looking for ideas, obviously things that keep and heat up easily and also meals that a teen might like as I tend to have a traditional repertoire 😆. Also meals which can be changed up with different veg or potatoes or salad so they are like a completely different meal if that exists!

The water pipes would still go through them, I reckon, if the heating system had been converted, and there probably wouldn't be adequate ventilation for a compressor. In my modern house, the boiler is in a cupboard with airing shelves.

Buy a big pack of chicken thighs and do a traybake with onions & peppers. First day, have with chips & peas.

Second day, tinned tomatoes, mushrooms, paprika, whatever else you can find, and do a quick casserole, serve with mash and broccoli/carrots. Do extra mash and freeze it.

Third day, remove meat from thigh bones and make a Thai curry with rice.

Keep all of the bones each day, and on day 3, simmer them for a couple of hours to make stock. Refrigerate overnight. Also keep any remaining bits of leftover chicken.

Fourth day, use up all the random bits of veg in the fridge that are way past their best to make soup, adding any remaining bits of chicken, plus the mash from day 2 to thicken it. Every time you make it, the soup will be different because you'll be adding different ingredients. If you have any pearl barley, add a tablespoon of that as well.

Chicken thighs are cheap and tasty, but you could do this with a whole large chicken as well.

I’m still reading the suggestions which are fantastic! I just need to do a bit of planning so I can shop in advance for everything I need.

One small handy tip re soup - save all leftover veg, potatoes the odd sausage, chop them up small and keep in a bag in the freezer. Past-its-best uncooked veg too. Even things like the green rough leaves off spring onions & leeks, spongy tomatoes, flabby cabbage leaves, tough bits of celery etc. A handful of odds and ends in the bag every few days, and there will soon be enough for soup ingredients. Every time you have chicken, make stock with the bones.

I use thigh a lot and use scissors to cut it of the bone as I find it easier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/bhuna_murgh_masala_90385

the second day add a tin of chickpeas to Make it stretch further

its about £5.60 for 2kg

I make rice and flat breads (bbs recipe) to go with them) if you make triple the flat breads, they freeze or just keep