To request your midweek meals please....

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Just that really. We are stuck in a fairly boring routine of my main go to dishes & am seeking inspiration from you guys please.

Paella with mussels, squid, prawns, mushrooms, chorizo (I know I just love it in there).

Avocado rice with garlic and herb chicken thighs. Chopped greens (spinach, young cabbage) etc. with onion and bacon and soy sauce

Chilli - two tins of mixed beans, two tins of received beans. Chopped tomatoes, onions, mushrooms. Add packet flavouring

Sweet potato mash( (I make with a hand blender as I don't like lumps but this is a bit extra) with pork belly and assorted chargrilled vegetables.

Diced lamb in pitta bread with onion and other various salad with garlic mayo as a homemade kebab

Great jambalaya recipe for you if you're interested. Takes a while to cook but can stretch to three days!

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mommasmeatjambalaya_76386

I need inspiration too! Fussy eaters making everything very dull here (they don't eat all of this!):

Roasted veg with feta and pitta
Hotdogs (with real sausages) and salad
Pulled pork with coleslaw and green beans
Spaghetti and bolognese/meatballs
Burgers and salad
Sausage, mash and broccoli
Chicken and veg kebabs in oyster sauce and rice
Chicken and pesto
Chicken fajitas (made mushroom and leftover bolognese fajitas last week which was actually really great)
Meat and 3 veg type offering.
Pizza
Orange food and chips...

Hmm

Salmon steaks with pasta and pesto and salad OR with stir fry and noodles
Carbonara OR meat balls with tommy sauce and salad
Chicken thighs, Cpl of shallots, juice of lemon, stock, curry powder, creme fraiche, bag of spinach, rice and French beans
Chicken thighs rubbed with salt, pepper, garlic, juice of a lemon and paprika with salad, roasted spud or cous cous
Taco shells - kit plus mince
Spag bol
Shepherd's pie
Leek, chicken and ham pie (white sauce, drop of wine, bit of onion and cheese) ready made flaky
Sausage, mash and beans
Gammon, egg and chips
Fish cakes, chips and peas
Kedgeree
Cheesy cod and spinach bake with croquet pots.
Omolette, salad, bread and butter
Lamb chops and Greek salad
Pizza and salad

Roll on summer and barbecue bits with salady bits

Crab and sweetcorn soup. Ready in 10 minutes!

I need to save this, I always get stuck in a rut (especially when DH is working away and it's just me and kids) and end up making really bland chicken rice and veg

Most of the above in some fashion, although the kids will ask for a 'comfort food dinner' once in a while I.e:-
Cheese and potato pie, beans and sausage
Beans and cheese on toast
Poached egg on toast
Salad (lettuce, toma, cucumber, peppers, sweet corn and carrots) with chicken breast/Kiev etc
Corned beef hash
Beef stew
Chicken broth
Beef or chicken casserole, mash and green beans
Sausage casserole with warm baguettes
Jacket potatoe cheese and beans/ tuna mayo/ chilli

When I make chilli, slag Bol, casserole etc I will put in any veg I have- onions, mushrooms, peppers, celery etc to add to their 5 a day and bulk out the dish with less meat so it goes further.

Stirfry and noodles
Chickpea curry and naan
Dahl
Pasta with green veg and pesto
Homemade bean burgers
Hallumi and roast veg in pitta
Falafel and hummus
Risotto
Fajitas

Don't think ours will help much but this week we're having/had

Sunday - roast chicken, roast potatos various veg
Mon- left over chicken, lemon and coriander cous cous and salad
Tues - 5 bean chilli, wraps, cheese, salad
Wednesday - pork and veg stirfry with noodles and black bean sauce
Thursday - veg curry, rice and mint and cucumber yogurt
Friday - carbonara and salad
Saturday sausage chips and beans
Sunday roast beef and trimmings

Oops mean spag bowl

Very boring I'm afraid:

pasta, pesto & bacon
tuna, jacket potato & broccoli
left over bolognaise/chilli with chips/jacket potato
left over lasagne with veg
chicken nuggets & chips
sausage & chips
various veg grill/beanburgers with chips/waffles/jacket pot & veg
veg/quorn stir fry

Tuna and Pasta Bake.
Chicken Curry.
Bacon Cheese and Onion Potato Pie.

I added this to another meal plan thread but this week is
Mon: Chicken soup type thing from yesterday's roast
Tue: Toad in the hole
Wed: Stirfry using chicken nuggs
Thurs: something with beef (waiting for inspiration to strike on this one)
Fri/Sat: away

I'm constantly searching pinterest for ideas though so shamelessly placemarking this

This week we are having;

Edamamme stir fry with Thai green chicken
Chicken casserole and sweet potato mash
Spicy turkey chilli
Nando's sauce marinated chicken with lots of vegetable accompaniments
Indian lentil, chickpea and cauliflower curry
Broccoli fried chicken and sweet potato wedges

We'll be eating out Saturday night.

Forgot to say as well :-
Lasagne
Chicken and Bacon Lasagne.
Cheese and Ham Pitta Pizzas.

Sun - roast rib of beef (was reduced for quick sale)
Mon - Spaghetti Bolognese
Tue - Pork chops, potatoes, veg, gravy & apple sauce
Wed - sliced beef, sliced green veg served with rice
Thur - Pork and apple meatloaf, potatoes and veg
Fri - Crumb fish, oven chips, peas, tomatoe
Sat - Dunno, haven't planned it yet

Slag Bol
Curry
Roast
Toad in the hole
Chicken with rice and peas
Pizza, garlic bread & salad
Casseroles

we had roast lamb yesterday with all trimmings plus cauli cheese.
turned left over into a lamb and spinach/butternut/mushroom curry
tomorrow it's toad in hole with left over cauli cheese and veg
weds I am off so will make an aubergine parmigiana thing (new recipe, having it every week at the mo) kids can have a carbonara
Thursday I am doing pork loin, left over parmigiana thing, garlic bread, salad
Friday we are out - Saturday we go away - sunday roast.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3091674/melanzane-parmigiana

We have a kitchen chalkboard too. Just me and DP, but this week's menu is:

Omelette, salad, crusty bread
Quiche (shop bought), beans, jacket potatoes
Chorizo and red pepper pasta
Delia's Basque chicken
(Delia does two nights)
Lasagne, peas, garlic bread
Sunday lunch out, scrambled eggs on toast for tea

Easy midweek things for us are stuffed pasta with sauce and salad, stir-fry with noodles, chicken fajitas, the aforementioned chorizo pasta. Most weeks we have at least one mince based thing which makes a freezer portion too. An easy, tasty meal we often have is chorizo scrambled eggs, over smashed avocado, on ciabatta.

Tonight we had Mexican bean chilli soup with chicken and avocado. V simple - onion, red pepper fry until translucent, add garlic, cumin, mild chilli, ground coriander fry for a couple of mins. Tinned tomatoes, tinned black beans, stock cube. Fran sh with leftover roast chicken and chopped avo covered in lime juice and cleanser. Relish and ready in 15 mins :)

Toad in the Hole.
Roast Chicken.
Spag bol.
Bacon, mushroom and cream pasta.
Tuna pasta.
casserole (usually beef)
Sausages and mash.
salmon
fish and chips
jacket potatoes and choice of filling
chilli and rice / chips

Beef goulash. Fish pie. Cajun chicken, wedges and corn on the cob. Salmon, couscous and salad. Chicken and ham pie, chips, veg and gravy 🤗

Lamb meatballs made with apricots and courgette ribbing things and hummus
Fresh filled pasta with pesto
Homemade chicken ham and leek pie with mash
Sausage gnocchi
Lasagna
Fajitas

Easiest Ever paella
Chicken portions baked with breadcrumb, pesto and lemon topping
Chicken ramen
Veggie chilli
A pepperonata thing with lots of added kale and a little chorizo, with either eggs baked into it or halloumi alongside

Slag bol is making me laugh

Tonight we had gammon egg and chips

Rest of the week looks like
Veggie fajitas or enchiladas and salad
Sausage and mash and a green thing with gravy
Veggie chilli
Roast chicken and accompaniments
Veggie curry
Slag bol ()

We also do an olive heavy pesto pasta, tortilla omelette and salad, occasional pie, noodle soup with leftover chicken, lentil curry or dahl, veg soup with nice bread, pizzas, steak or chops with two veg and a potato something... Depending on whats available really

Enjoying nosing at other people's dinners