Do people really eat a cooked meal every single night?

[JonesyAndTheSalad]

I just can't!

I have done this week as we've got guests so it seems the polite and right thing to do...to cook a meal each night.

But the endless stream of meat and potatoes is awful!

We've had pasta one night but that was also with meat...another night we had pizzas...home made...the other nights it has been curry with chicken and rice and a variety of red meat with various potatoes.

I always ask the guests "What do you fancy this evening?" and it's always meat and potatoes of some kind!

Is this usual? Tonight I just didn't fancy it so said I didn't fancy a full meal and I ate some yogurt...they were a bit

Do you eat like this every night? Or do you sometimes think "Meh I'll have a sandwich" or "The kids will be happy with egg on toast and some fruit"

Or is it only me?

For supper abiut 5-7pm, I microwave scrambled egg, frozen cabbage and mixed veg, adding nuts before a 4 minute cook, with milk. I eat 4 times a day. Breakfast 6-7am of fish, soaked dried fruit, cress, lettice, nuts, and a banana with milk. Lunch about 9-11am of liver, frozen cabbage and mixed veg, and nuts for 6 microwave minutes, with a mango or apple and juice. Tea about 2-4pm of soft cheese, soaked dried fruit, cress, lettice, nuts, and a banana with juice. Good eating.

We have soup two or three times during the week and a salad every week (though sometimes this involves cooking a tuna steak or chicken breast), and we'll quite often have an omelette or something. I don't really count that sort of thing as proper 'cooking' because it's so easy, but it's still a proper meal. We have light breakfasts (fruit or yoghurt) and I don't eat lunch (rarely hungry at that time and we eat dinner early) so by dinner time I'm hungry and need something filling.

I would always cook something for children and guests though. If I have people coming to stay I'll meal plan and prep as much as possible so I don't really have to think about it. I would never expect guests to cook, although I'd happily take them up on the offer if they wanted to!

I cook from scratch every night - it never takes more than half and hour (if you are organised) and I tend to double up and freeze so I have 'ding meals' ready for if I am in a rush can't be arsed cooking.

If you are sometimes taking things from the freezer (even if you have previously prepared them yourself) you are not actually "cooking from scratch every night".

We eat a cooked meal every night, and that is how I was brought up. I think I would be very hungry if I just ate a yogurt!

DH and I just remarked to each other how annoying it was that we were going to have to decide on something to eat for dinner AGAIN - every 24h to have to eat dinner is just such a drudge. And it's Saturday so it's not even (not) cooking, it's what to order from Deliveroo!

I wish I had even the vaguest interest in eating, let alone cooking - it's just so tiresome having to plan meals every frigging day!!

Yes unless I've had a huge lunch (occasionally we will send out for fish & chips at lunchtime at work so then tea will be something like egg or beans on toast. Most days that's not practical though do lunch will be something like a sandwich or jacket potato etc

If I don't have a substantial evening meal I tend to start feeling dizzy/nauseous later in the evening.

Genius46 - what do you mean by "Good eating"?

And do you share meals or eat alone?

Of course cooking a meal often takes more than half an hour.

Cooked meals every night here, well at least parts cooked ( rice for chirashi, steak for steak salad). Very, very few are meat and potatoes as I limit meat to 2-3 times a week max and I dislike potatoes in general.

Lunches are haphazard for all and have always been. Work and school prevent really having a leisurely social meal and are usually quick for both the children and the adults. Dinner is the meal we catch up and eat something substantial together. The only time dinner might be a quick affair is if lunch was substantial like a large Sunday lunch or celebratory lunch.

In terms of the drudge of cooking - not really as I menu plan and have things I really would like to cook and eat on the menus, as well as things I would like to try to cook. Variety and planning make things much easier.

We have a cooked meal every night, sometimes something quick like pasta bake, baked potatoes or even frozen with chips, but usually its proper meals, bolognaise, curry, roasts, etc. My parents always did when I was you get and it just doesn't feel right if I don't make sure there's a cooked meal every day. In fact I've just finished cooking two meals because I know I wont have time tomorrow so ones to be heated up.
Saying that I'm not precious about when it is eaten, dp works nights and with a six month old one of us often ends up heating ours up whenever we want it, so when dd is older if she join any clubs out of school hours there will be a meal in the fridge waiting when she gets home.
I wouldn't judge anyone who didn't cook every day though, surely what they and their family eat is non of my concern. Plus if I'm staying with someone I'm happy to help cook or eat whatever they happen to be eating, cooked meal or not.

I have always cooked an evening meal. It's only recently I have started to have 1 night where kids just have sandwiches or dippy eggs but this is more to do with not having time plus if kids have had a cooked meal at school that day then a light tea is fine although they usually raid the cupboards for snacks afterwards! My oldest used to take a packed lunch every day until recently so couldn't give sandwiches for dinner too.

Tonight they are having beans on toast probably followed by yogurts but thats mainly because they've been playing out all day and are shattered so quick easy tea all round.