To ask if you eat meals you'd never feed to guests but love?

[Exhausted4ever]

So, I adore this meal which is (very) broadly speaking a sausage cassorole, but is just sliced cooked Sausages and baked beans, mixed with gravy topped with sliced boiled potatoes with a bit of thicker gravy on top of them and cooked in thr oven for at least half an hour. It's soooooo good, proper comfort food. But I would never serve it to guests! Do you eat things you'd be too embarrassed to serve to guests but really like it yourself?

Chips cheese and beans or chips cheese beans and little bits of fried bacon on top. Me and my eldest use this as our go to option when I cannot be bothered to cook a proper meal from scratch if dp is working. Still have to do nuggets and waffles for my other son with asd.

Homemade chilli (from the freezer) in a bowl, covered with grated cheese then sour cream and topped off with lots of crunched up Doritos. Had it for dinner last night, then had it for dinner tonight!

Various rice pouches with tuna and sweet corn mayo or ham and cheese or chorizo and prawns (I don’t like prawns but like this it’s so good) or chicken and chorizo.

Snack - wafer thin ham, add a laughing cow triangle and squish and cherry tomato cut in half, roll up - aperitif!!

Pot noodles, instant noodles with tofu, poutine made of chips mozzarella and gravy

A favourite snack involves finely chopped onions and scrunched-up crisps in a bowl, sprinkled with chilli powder and a generous squirt of lemon juice. Stir together well and eat with a spoon. I was introduced to this treat by my DH. It is related to Indian snacks such as chevro but might be his own invention.

Most people think it is weird and won't try it, but it is tasty. Our DDs regard it as a taste of home. I like it quite soggy, with loads of lemon but DH prefers a drier mix.

Snack - wafer thin ham, add a laughing cow triangle and squish and cherry tomato cut in half, roll up - aperitif!!

I've done this from childhood! Sometimes switch the tomato for a gherkin..

@Exhausted4ever that sounds AMAZING. If you served that when I came over for dinner I would love it (and you for inventing it).

My dh likes...and me and our ds (dd not so much) a dish we made up - mince beef dry fried then add a tin of baked beans and a tin of tuna. Add spices, I use curry powder and chilli powder...sometimes garlic powder if we have any...some Worcestershire sauce. Mix it all up... It’s yummy but most people we know do this face —>

@4amWitchingHour
Eggy rice - rice cooked so it's almost overdone, add misc cooked veggies and an egg then fry til the egg is cooked through. It's not egg fried rice, it's a big mushy comforty mess. I don't make this for anyone except me!!
I AM JUST ABOUT TO COOK THIS, LITERALLY, SO WEIRD, (was procrastinating on mumsnet!) one of my Mums go tos for when you are too tired or can't be bothered to do a 'real' meal. I have some veg, broccoli, peppers, mangetout etc that need using up. Also fed up with two of my DDS, food police, always want spicy or a 'meal' with ingredients, never want to just look in fridge and make do.

Isn't that bacon thing a posh Jocasta Innes living cheaply recipe? She used to write for Cosmo.

Jacket potatoes, with vegan cheese and coleslaw or mashed potato with tomato soup poured over the top

Cheese on toast with dry roasted peanuts pushed in cheese and smeared with creamed horseradish sauce. Reminds me of Christmas???

@Serin

Sliced potatoes, layered with onion and bacon and cooked in the oven for a good 90mins. Serve with bread and proper butter. Heaven.

We eat this in our Northern household (without the bread & butter). Hereabouts it’s imaginatively known as ‘Bacon, Potatoes & Onions’ 😀 DH loves it with pickled red cabbage.

I like to melt some dairy milk, mix in Rice Krispies and eat it straight away. If I'm out of Rice Krispies I'll dip digestives in.

@Serin

Sliced potatoes, layered with onion and bacon and cooked in the oven for a good 90mins. Serve with bread and proper butter. Heaven.

Oooh a proper bacon hotpot! Lovely with lashings of vinegar. I'd love it as a guest!

Meal for one, not for sharing .... Tin of tomatoes in a round baking dish, hot sauce and fried mushrooms, spinach, peppers and onions in it (or whatever), make a well in the middle, break an egg in, grill. Serve with a dollop of yoghurt or sour cream, lots of pepper, crusty bread and butter for dunking.
If I make it for DP he likes some chorizo in with it too, and a little paprika. Sometimes have it for brunch and then can’t move.
Also happy to eat macaroni cheese until I pass out. (Which is why I hardly ever cook it. No self control).

A tin of chicken in white sauce mixed with a microwave pack of white rice. So bland and boring but so stupidly comforting.
Also, sausage roll with chips and gravy. That was my first hot meal after having my daughter, god knows why I fancied it but it was so good after 9 months of HG!
The cheapest instant noodles I can lay my hands on mixed with a tin of tuna and chilli flakes.
And my late grandmas cheese and onion pie. A bag of grated cheese, a bag on chopped onion (has to be the the chopped and grated stuff, she couldn’t chop or grate for herself) mixed with egg and topped with premade pastry. Serve with beans and chips. Or her corned beef and potato pie, cold, with loads of brown sauce.

@Etinox you’re an ANIMAL.

I actually don't think there's anything I'd never serve to a guest 😅

Butty tea - fish fingers, potato waffle, cheese and ketchup on white buttered bread

Sloppy lasagne ready meal with really dry oven chips

Ready made mac n cheese with big chunks of buttered granary bread to dip in the left over cheese sauce

Strong carb theme

[quote Piglet89]@Etinox you’re an ANIMAL.[/quote]
I do like my food!

@blubberball 🥰 that’s so touching.

I love this thread. Food and drink are MAJOR sources of pleasure for me in lockdown.

Chip shop chips salt and vinegar and five spice sprinkled over and a good dollop of mayonnaise

Yes, pasta, beans and cheese all melted together.

Hot dogs with m&s tinned chilli and grated cheese on. Mashed potato on toast with melted cheese on. Tinned spicy mackerel on jacket potato. All lovely!

@Serin's dish is 'Bacon Hot Pot' as taught to teenage girls in domestic science class in the early seventies.

It was already on my list to teach granddaughter (9) to make, over the next few weeks.