...to ask you your family’s favourite five meals?

[AndOfCourseHenryTheHorse]

Just out of interest, as I’ve really been enjoying the fridge contents threads! Also, I’m in a bit of a recipe rut, so could use some inspiration.

We are a family of four, (2 adults and 2 dcs). I eat mainly veggie, but, since my family can’t seem to agree on veggie meals that we all like, I now just cook meat for the rest of the family and adapt it, so it’s suitable for me too.

Our favourites are:

• roast dinner
• choose-your-own-toppings pizza
• pasta and veggie tomato sauce
• sausage mash & gravy
• Buddha bowl / salad type things with everyone’s favourite things

Homemade Pizza (but they have to 'help' make it)
Spaghetti Bolognese
Pork and Apple Pie
Picnic Floor Dinner
Risotto
Veggie Curry or Stew
Anything with Pasta in it

Pork or beef roast dinner
Homemade lasagne
Homemade Spag bol
Beef curry
Pizza chips and beans!

My husband would just have curry, 5 different ones.

My kids would have
Chicken nuggets and chips
Chicken dippers and chips
Chicken goujons and chips
DD1 Pesto pasta DD2 chicken pie
DD1 hot dogs DD2 prawn noodle stirfry

I would have
Seared tuna steaks on avocado and leafy salad with soy, ginger, lime, garlic and chilli dressing
Spag bol
Steak and chips
Chicken or beef pie
roast

Makes menu planning a pain, because there is always someone who is not keen on what I dish up, but ce la vie!

Roast ( chicken or lamb)
Sweet and sour chicken
Thai curry - chicken or beef
Pasta carbonara
Shepherds pie

Any roast dinner with all the appropriate trimmings trimmings.
Fillet steak, pepper sauce, J.P. salad
Chicken stir fry with noodles
Quiche, new potatoes, fresh veg.
Egg and chips with bread and butter
[Proper chips made from fresh potatoes, not frozen, fried in chip pan!]
Lasagne

We eat seafood about three times a week favourites are
king prawn & chickpea curry or stirfry
Panfried salmon with veg and new potatoes
Rainbow trout & veg parcels
Fish pie with goats cheese sauce to make it a little less fishy for the toddlers

Non veggie favourites are
home made Nando's with home made sweet potato fries
roast chicken
toad in the hole

Roast Dinner (usually chicken)
Spaghetti Bolognese
Beef Tacos
Lasagne and Garlic Bread
Cottage Pie or Fish Pie

Very interesting thread, thank you! And thank you for reminding me about craponara (yes, that's what I call it) - I love it and should do it more often!
Family is husband and 2 cats (but the latter are a separate issue, and a special needs one), so human food preferences boil down to: lasagna, moussaka, that mince and rice stuffed in cabbage leaves dish no one here probably ever heard of, roast cock/lamb and something else I can't think of.
I love how my husband makes pasta when I feel ill.

I was also wondering if people who posted here their yummies manage that on 35quid per head budget as in the previous thread, or do it not too often. I don't think all this amazing foreign weirdness can be achieved on that, unless, of course, the pulses are your staple.

Cassoulet! That;s the 5th one. The best way, I found out, to cook venison so that it is soft and juicy. But this is probably a very obnoxious thing to say, so ignore the venison bit, just accept cassoulet. Or stew if you voted to Leave.

• Homemade pizza
• Homemade chicken curry (Balti, Thai red or Hugh FW's baked chicken)
• fajitas or burritos
• toad in the hole / sausage and mash
• pulled pork in buns with coleslaw and 'yellow rice' (my chucked together savoury rice)

Sausages, mash, veg, onion gravy.
Kedgeree.
Roast chicken, roast tats, proper sage and onion stuffing, veg, gravy and the bacon the chicken was roasted under crumbled over.
Dal, chapatis, coriander chutney.
Toasted chocolate button sandwiches on the beach in Cornwall.

Chicken Fajitas
Sausage Casserole
Chicken drumsticks, new potatoes and cherry toms roasted with Nando's piri piri salt
Lasagne
Ham joint with new potatoes

Were not veggies but DH and DS both love cottage pie made with quorum mince!

DH and I also eat a lot of no meat pasta, mainly spinach and ricotta tortellini or four cheese tortellini with a tomato based sauce (I add chilli sauce to mine for a kick)

Meat based things we eat slow cooked joints (pork or beef) and m&s do these really nice bbq mini sausages that I throw in the slow cooker with some gravy, Worcestershire sauce and a pinch of paprika

Roast
Spag Bol
Cottage pie
Fish pie
Tuna pasta bake

Tofu stir fry
Salmon with noodles and a Thai broth
Fajitas
Spaghetti
Prawn linguini
Roast peri peri chicken with flat breads and salads

Roast dinner
Meatloaf
Meatball chilli
Bolognese/lasagna
Curry and pilaf

Homemade lamb kebabs.
Thai green curry
Home made sweet and sour veg (just lightly battered and fried veg in sweet and sour sauce)
Roast dinner
Chicken and tarragon pie

DH and I eat mostly different things - I have many food intolerances!

For me:

Chicken breast with cheese and proscuitto
Cottage Pie
Roast Chicken
Haddock Mornay
Steak

For him:

Pie
Lasagne
Curry
Chinese
Roast beef

Roast dinner (chicken usually)
Pesto Chicken tray bake
Veggie Shepard's pie (although sometimes add in chopped bacon)
Lasagne
Bacon and pea risotto

Homemade soup - chicken noodle or root veg and lentil with nice crusty bread
Chorizo, sweet potato and pepper hash with a fried egg
Spinach and ricotta lasagne
Fish pie
Chicken, chips, corn on the cob and coleslaw (this ranges from entirely homemade to nuggets and preprepped lol, but everyone actually eats it regardless so it’s a good standby!)

My son is suspicious of most food that is not beige though so he mainly lives off weetabix lol

if they like salmon we do a taglitelli pasta with a crème faiche nd cream sauce dish.basically cook onions and garlic in nob of butter and oil.add some scallions.add some stock and win reduce a little then add the salmon (prawns too are nice) then add the cream and crème fraiche and mix through some tagliatelle
also salmon fillets on the bottom of mac and cheese is a really nice addition.
sausage and bean casserole.
crruy
lasagne
chilli
pie of some sort
tuna and sweetcorn in pastry envelop
hot dog ssausge dolmio pasta

Chicken supreme with rice
Lamb fillets with rice and broccoli
Pasta with tuna and pesto
Noodles with ham and peas
Sausage, mash and broccoli

Also curry, pizza, fish fingers.

...oh, and leek and potato soup, lentil bake, omelettes and bacon sandwiches.

That is pretty much all they eat!

Roast dinner
Chilli
Stir fry
Roast Mediterranean veg with some kind of meat
Breakfast type meal eg gammon egg beans mushroom