To regularly serve the same meal 2 nights in a row?

[AuntGinny]

For example, pot roast on Sunday with roast tatas, slow cooked leftovers on Monday with bread and butter. Different veg. Corned beef hash with green beans on Tuesday, leftover corned beef hash with baked beans on Wednesday. Pasta bolognese on Thursday, left over bolognese on baked potatoes on Friday. I really don't mind eating the same thing twice and my kids seem to like things better at the second or third offering.

boxing day leftovers from Christmas day
We always do double quantities of Christmas day gravy, just for the leftovers. YUM!

YANBU. Cook once, serve twice - efficient and tasty!

If you're happy, the DC are happy and you are generally eating a balanced healthy diet then don't give a second thought to what your friend thinksl

I do not like your friend.

So non-environmentally friendly with her failure to batch cook or use leftovers. It is a terrible example for her children. She should be ashamed.

I purposefully make 2 of the exact same meal (Shepherds pie, Lasagne etc) and put one in the fridge for later in the week. Not even different sides etc!

For people who have a thing about not eating same or similar two nights on the run, can always just do something different on Day 2 then use the leftovers from Day 1 on Day 3. If freezer space is at a premium.

Nobody called me a slattern said friend made me feel like one. What I probably meant was 'lazy feckless bad mother and slob' but slattern seemed to do a quicker job of it

Can you slow cook leftovers safely? I alothought you shouldn’t.

Seems OK to me, nice food.

If you feel it's boring you could do a leftovers dish the day after the day after - eg cook Monday & Tuesday, eat leftovers Wednesday and Thursday. Cook Friday, etc.

You're OK as you are though.

One of the 'I wake up every day clean the whole house, bake the days bread, do a full gym workout, farm my 100 acres, put a full face of make up on, donate a kidney and write a novel before I even wake the DCs' types.

And yet, even though she's perfect, seems like a shit friend.

My experience of some women like this (looking at you SIL) is that they get to a certain age when their children are older and no one appreciates it, they didn't get a medal, their husbands take it all for granted and no one is reciprocating... and they get bitter and angry and passive aggressive. I'd rather please myself, be a 'lazy' wife and mother and have a happy if slightly untidy home eating leftovers and not running myself ragged.

I live alone and have a huge freezer, and make v good use if it.
I've ordered a large piece of brisket this week which will do four different meals, at least two portions of each, then stock on top of that.

I do this but tend to freeze the extra or we take it for work lunches. Before DS when DH would go away for a week for work I'd cook a big pot of chicken and veg stew and eat it for five nights straight with crusty bread. I love it, the veg goes mushy in the freezer, nice not having to wash up or cook when it's just you at home but still have home cooked food. YANBU.

Oh just thought, I'm roasting a chicken tomorrow, a very large one, for two of us, we'll have roast tomorrow, I'll make some kind of chicken pie (with shop bought pastry the left over today veg and the extra gravy I'll make tomorrow) on Monday and some kind of Mediterranean veg and chicken pasta Tuesday, and will eat chicken sandwiches for lunch until it runs out, and the cat gets the scraps.

Sounds fine to me. If I am at work I will have the same meal twice. The menu you wrote sounds good to me.

I do this for anything made with mince or stews I’m tempted to buy a massive pan so I can batch cook even more for the freezer anything to make life easier and things normally taste better second day