AIBU... some dinners you can’t eat at the weekend?

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Does anybody else designate certain dishes to weekdays only and HATE having them on the weekend which should be a bit more ‘special’
Spag bol for example!!! That’s a weekday dinner!

AIBU? And also..... what’s your favourite weekend dinners?

A few months ago I ordered a dominos for Saturday lunchtime. It felt so wrong -takeaway is a Friday or Saturday evening treat.

I used to work in a pizza place and I always used to wonder who these people were who ordered pizza mid afternoon! It just seemed so decadent!

If we have a takeaway it tends to be a Thursday night.

Well tonight I am making a chinese curry, spring rolls.

Mussels tomorrow in garlic and wine sauce with crusty loaf yum!

@Toomanycats99 Now that is weird, takeaway is an after 6pm thing.

It’s Friday night 🎉
Any ideas for yummy dinners?
I so want nachos with cheese, salsa, guacamole, sour cream..the works..but not keen on the sauces in jars..but cba to make fresh today, even though it’s massively easy 😂

My DH is like this. We had friends coming on a Wednesday and they like simple plain food so I did a roast. Apparently you can’t have a roast in the week. 🤷‍♀️

I am having Gammon steaks and cauli cheese because I rebelled and had a take away last night !

What I cook depends on my shifts. If I'm on an early (1700 finish) it tends to be quick and easy because I'm knackered. So a one pot chicken tray bake. If I'm on a late (2209 finish) the DH eats what I've put in the freezer, like a chilli, and I'll grill some haloumi when I get in, or a couple of boiled eggs. Just can't be faffed cooking properly that late.

If I'm on nights (2200-0700) then I'll do a proper dinner as I have loads of time, like a curry or boef bourgignone with mashed celeriac. On my rest days I can faff around a bit more so I'll do a roast.

Just got back from holiday so feeling lazy tonight. So chicken thighs with butternut squash, garlic and thyme one pot. Throw it all in and leave for 40 mins with broccoli couscous. (Broccoli in blender and nuke).

I don't like spending more than 20 minutes prepping so anything with more than 10 ingredients in a recipe gets ignored

Sunday - roast or slow cooker casserole dish
Mon - Wed - quick, but health dinners (use pinch of nom a lot)
Thurs - freezer tea
Fri - freezer tea or fajitas
Sat - something 'nice' like steak or that requires a bit more effort. And crucially, with wine!

Stir fry - weekday meal only.

We always have steak and blue cheese salad on Fridays (with pecans, honeyed apples, avocado, eggs etc) 😁 super yummy!

Yes!!!

Friday night is pizza night, DH sulks worse than the kids if I ever dare try to change that 😂

No. What is being cooked depends on so many factors - including who is going to be there to eat and including how much time there is to cook.
In our house it is more likely people won't be about at weekends. We tend to have our 'roast' on a Wednesday or other mid week day, as more likely to be more of us here.

Haha this is so true!

Dc have lots of extra curricular clubs between them so the evening meals often reflect how much time it will take to make/eat.

Weekday meals here are often, sausage mash & veg, pizza, pasta, jacket potatoes, curry etc.

Weekends are more like roasts, lasagne, stew & dumplings.

We might have pizza on a saturday night but if we do I'll make sure we don't have it midweek the following week.

Must admit though I'd never see beans on toast as an evening meal, only lunch.

I’m the total opposite! People always remark on our big weeknight dinners, but weekends we do easy stuff so that we can nip in and out and enjoy the time without being stuck in the kitchen. Big disclaimer though, I work from home a lot, and so can start spaghetti bolognese at 9-10am during the week before settling into work. My husband always does a gigantic fry up on Saturday morning so we have lighter quick meals later. Sunday I tend to use up whatever’s lingering, and I have a delivery every Sunday evening to start the week off with new meal plans.

I totally agree! Lasagne is a Saturday tea for sure!

We do throw caution to the wind and have fajitas on a Monday sometimes ... using leftover roast chicken, obvs

YANBU definitely specific meals in our house for weekend and weekdays. Dh would be very unimpressed with spag bol on a weekend. I'm considering doing paella on Sunday but I know it's going to go down like a lead balloon but it's what I've got in without shopping...so tough😂

Ah yeah there is absolutely weekend food;I wouldn’t make something with lots of small dishes midweek, even if it took the same amount of time to cook. Too decadent.

I make mini “feasts”at the weekend, reserving leftover in new guises - midweek all food is served on one plate, and is very much “a thing, with a carby thing, and some veg” not “three types of veg dish, a kind
Of flatbread and a side of fish with dipping sauces and scattery bits”

@Enb76
I had to google what Gentleman's relish was as I know it as something that I wouldn't have on toast 😂

We have quite a regular food plan of stir fries, pastas, fish with jacket potato and veg, various slow cooker dishes with rice. Those are weeknight meals and wouldn’t be eaten at the weekend.
We don’t have roast very often but if we do it’s a Sunday.
We have takeaway/ or HM equivalent on Friday. Saturday is often HM pizza.

Years ago when my MIL was alive we were visiting and mentioned in passing we were having fish and chips for Sunday dinner. She was horrified. We never did have specific meals for certain days of the week. I do a roast dinner on a Sunday or midweek we had roast chicken Tuesday past. We just do whatever suits at the time. Now we are both retired and everyday feels like a weekend.

Phew this is def me.

Pasta, meat and veg, quiche, salad, soup, casserole, jacket potatoes, stir fry etc def mon- thurs.

Pizza, curry, lasagne and garlic bread, fajitas all fri/sat/sun territory.

Since having DC have disliked meal planning / cooking and the time it takes, including at weekends