To ask what a 7 day week dinner menu looks like for you?

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New year new ideas please!

Ours had got to the stage of something like this...:

1. burger and chips
2. pork loin steaks veg and potatoes
3. sausage, mash, peas and gravy
4. curry and rice
5. pizza and chips
6. take away or eat out
7. roast

I need to mix it up, eat less meat and more veg.

Would you mind sharing what an average week of dinners may look like to you?

I try to do:

Oily fish 2x
Red meat 2x
White fish 1x
White meat 1x
Full veggie day 1x

We generally only eat meat at dinner time.

We eat quite seasonally, some rustle up at the last minute, some batch cooking. Typically our week at this time of year will be something like:

Salmon fillets wrapped in Parma ham, baked and served with creamy spinach puy lentils and green veg.

Tuscan sausage and fennel ragu with linguine pasta and a side salad.

“Spanish chicken” which in our house is chicken, chorizo and chick pea casserole in a paprika, tomato and red pepper sauce, served with rice and green veg.

Frittata with mushrooms, peppers and potatoes in it, mixed veg on the side.

Venison sausage, root veg and chestnut casserole, served with mash or tagliatelle. And with cabbage or green/root veg on the side.

Lamb tagine with couscous and roasted Mediterranean vegetables on the side.

Gnocchi with walnuts, cavalo nero and Gorgonzola. Green salad and tomato salad on the side.

Mine is more ‘themes’.
Sun - roast or pie (but with the usual roast trimmings)
Mon - pasta (this can be spag bol through to turkey meatballs and twists.
Tues - sausages - so could be bangers and mash or something like sausage casserole or toad in the hole
Wed - Slow cooker stew/casserole usually chicken or beef
Thursday - Spice night (so could be a curry, could fajitas, could be chilli
Fri - always fish, so bog standard and chips or grilled salmon and new potatoes or even prawn skewers - but basically sea food/fish
Sat - Takeaway or Fakeaway night.

This week (from my shopping delivery is)
Mon - Spaghetti/meatballs
Tues - Sausage, mash and veg
Wed - slow cooker honey/mustard casserole
Thurs - Pork steak fajitas
Fri - Salmon, veggies and rice
Sat - Kofta kebabs, salad and dips.

DP bought me the green roasting tin cookbook for Xmas so I’ll be trying recipes from that over the next few weeks. We have loads of sprouts still so will start with the crispy tamarind sprouts tomorrow and I’m planning the roasted cabbage quarters and crispy gnocchi with mushrooms,
squash & sage as well. Probably then with some leftovers and fridge curry/stir fry that will do us the week.
I always plan fewer meals than there are days as we always end up doing something random on at least one day (not feeling hungry/DP working late/going out etc) so that reduces waste.

1. Omelette & salad
2. Homemade soup & homemade sodabread
3. Lentil & mushroom lasagne
4. Chickpea, potato & spinach curry
5. 5 Bean Chilli
6. Cauliflower Cheese
7. Roast

This past 6 months or so - apart from Christmas, we have had these meals mostly.

Battered Cod, and 8 to 10 chunky chips, (with curry sauce, or peas and tartare sauce.)

Cheese and pasta salad - from Aldi. (Or the Morrisons 'pick-your-own' salad one...)

Goodfellas BBQ pizza - one between me and DH with a slice of garlic bread.

Cheese and potato patties from Aldi, with beans.

Breville snack sandwich toaster toastie with cheese and beans, OR egg and beans, and sometimes red onion and mushroom.

Spag bol, with quorn mince.

Salmon parcels with peas;

Chicken pie, with peas, gravy, yorkie pud, sprouts, and mash.

Eggs (2) and chips.

Fish fingers, mash, and mushy peas.

Sausage and mash with onion gravy.

Cheese on toast (toasted under the grill with tomato puree on.)

Baked potato with butter, cheese, and beans.

Chicken Tikka takeaway from Tesco - not the 'proper' takeaway as it's very expensive now. Ditto the chippy. Gone up some 30% this past year. Won't pay it now. The supermarket Indian takeaway tastes the same as the takeaway one. The Chinese one doesn't though, so we do have that (from the takeaway,) once every 2 months now.

for us I tend to do;

Mon- pasta something
Tues- tacos or fajitas
Wed- rice something
Thurs-hotdogs or sausages
Fri-soup and cheese
Sat- roast
Sun- supper like cheese on toast / eggs on toast.

I'm getting bored though.

Oh and a chicken roast meal once a month.

This week is planned to be:
Chicken Fajitas
Butternut and spinach lasagne
Prawn stir fry
Veggie chilli
Indian
Spaghetti and meatballs
Roast

@Boiledbeetle

Well as my weekly menu is currently

Monday: breakfast chicken dippers lunch chicken dippers tea chicken dippers
Tuesday: breakfast chicken dippers lunch chicken dippers tea chicken dippers
Wednesday: breakfast chicken dippers lunch chicken dippers tea chicken dippers
Thursday: breakfast chicken dippers lunch chicken dippers tea chicken dippers
Friday: breakfast chicken dippers lunch chicken dippers tea chicken dippers
Saturday: breakfast chicken dippers lunch chicken dippers tea chicken dippers
Sunday: breakfast chicken dippers lunch chicken dippers tea chicken dippers

I don't think I can be of much assistance other than to say that compared to mine yours it's positively awash with choice!

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I love junk food but chicken dippers make me gip, there is something weird about them! .... give me 20McDs nug nugs though 😋

Our meal plan for this week

Monday - Thursday: Gousto (photo)
Friday: Takeaway
Saturday: Pizza (maybe home made!) and coleslaw
Sunday: Roast chicken with half price chrimmy accoutrements from the freeze r + 🥦 🥕 and Yorkshire pudding.

@Popskipiekin

1. Jamie Oliver sweet potato curry

1. Mince meal - meatballs / spag bol / chilli
2. Baked fish - salmon teriyaki or with Delia smith pesto crust
3. Baked risotto - bbc receipt, super easy and adaptable

Or kedgeree

1. Pasta “carbonara” - not really, but frizzled chorizo, spag, an egg and peas plus Parmesan
2. Fajitas or tacos
3. Fuck it let’s have breakfast for dinner (kids absolutely love this one)

We love a fry up breakfast for dinner every now and then! In fact, it's what we had yesterday

I’m in a bit of a rut too, some great ideas here! A typical week for us (2 adults, a fairly fussy 6 year old, a 2 year old, and a 9 year-old with ARFID so extremely restricted eating and has to be cooked for separately) would be:

1. chicken curry with veg and rice (with shop bought sauce)
2. salmon, new potatoes and veg with lemon and dill sauce
3. breaded fish from freezer, chips and peas
4. sausage, mash and beans or veg
5. roast
6. pizza and salad
7. chicken, boiled/mashed potatoes with veg and gravy

Is pizza and chips a thing? I either have pizza on its own if it has a lot of toppings, or with salad. You can easily get more veg in your existing plan by adding veg/salad sides and reducing the servings of meat where possible eg put less meat in the curry. Or indeed swap your curry, burger, pizza, sausages etc for veggie ones.

*Sunday dinner
*Spag bol (from the freezer)
*Curry with Sunday leftover meat
*Jacket potato, beans and cheese
*Pork chops, bashed potatoes and asparagus
*Fishfingers, chips and peas
*Paella

During lockdown, with all of us at home and working and home schoooling, I’d do a “Soup of The Day, Bread of The Day, Spread of The Day” for lunch each week day. I figured that a combination of hearty soups, some sort of protein-y spread whether it was pâté or cheese etc and whatever toast-able carb was available (bagel, soda bread, sourdough, focaccia, baguette, crumpet, oatcakes, pumpernickel, seeded baps) covered every major food group.

I can't begin to imagine planning meals for an entire week - but why would anyone have chips with pizza?

I like the idea of burnt aubergine chilli, though. Little did you know that everyone would be hounding you for a recipe, @AtLeastThreeDrinks

Low carb here so:

Halloumi & Veg traybake
Red Thai chicken curry with cauliflower & broccoli
Sausage casserole with celeriac chips
Gammon with cauliflower cheese
Paneer curry with kale & broccoli
Salmon traybake with roasted red peppers & tomatoes
Lamb kofta with Greek salad & tzatziki

I love these threads – the source of many great ideas! I’ve put about 3 weeks’ worth here. DH is a very committed meat-eater, so there’s not much vegetarian on offer. DH and I batch-cook and freeze portions of anything suitable, so most weeks we’ll have a meal from the freezer on one day. I’m also a big fan of M&S and Aldi ready meals, which we have once a week or so. On a 3-week cycle:
Kedgeree
Fish (sea bass, usually) + roast potatoes + veg
Spaghetti Bolognese
Goulasch
Roast (lamb, gammon, pork or turkey) + potatoes + veg
Next day, salad with the cold roast leftovers
Roast chicken (Tesco ready roasted) + roast potatoes + veg
Next day, salad with the cold chicken leftovers
Next day (in best MN style) – chicken broth
M&S Ready Meal (Chinese one week, Indian the next)
M&S quiche + veg
Steak pie + veg
Pasta with a ham, cheese, mushroom and cream sauce
Lamb kebabs (Aldi) with Moroccan couscous and yogurt
Duck legs (M&S) with red cabbage and apple (home-made) and noodles
Sausages, cabbage and mash
Chipolata sausages in a cranberry and mushroom sauce, on toast, with red cabbage
Venison stew with mashed potatoes
Mince and tatties
Fish and chips (home-made chips)
Nut roast (occasionally, when I can be bothered)
Coconut chicken stew

Ours is usually:

Sunday - roast and all the trimmings,
Monday - use leftovers to make sweet and sour pork, or cottage pie or shepherd’s pie or hearty soup etc,
Tuesday - veg curry and rice,
Wednesday - sausage, mash, peas, onion gravy
Thursday - veg chilli, rice, sour cream and cheese,
Friday - kedgeree or poached salmon, mash and broccoli
Saturday - baked potatoes or frozen pizzas

That sort of thing. That’s for two adults and a 2.5 year old toddler. We’re fortunate DC is not a fussy eater.

Is pizza and chips a thing?
yes!!!

I always meal plan as we have 8 children so I need to be organised!

So starting from tonight

Roasted cod with spiced lentils
Sweet and sour pork and rice
Beef stroganoff and rice
Sausage, mash, veg and gravy
Chimichurri lamb burgers and wedges
Honey and mustard chicken with bacon, new potatoes and veg.

These are all recipes from the body couch app. We all eat the same as they’re filling enough for kids but healthy enough for me to eat and lose weight as long as I exercise.

Out of my 8 children one is quite picky but I don’t make a big deal of it, but she doesn’t get offered anything else. We all have fruit and yogurt for pudding.

Salmon with veggies and potato wedges (usually 2-3 times a week)
Spaghetti with broccoli and asparagus in chilli
5 bean chilli and rice
Veggie curry and mini naan
Veggie burger in brioche
Soup
Takeaway once a week

Im doing calorie deficit at the moment. DH goes along with it but eats a lot of biscuits in the evening!
DD’l is away at uni.

Using this week as an example. Family of 5 with one vegetarian (me)

Today: tacos (beef and veggie)
Monday: slow cooker ham in cola w/jacket potatoes and cauli cheese (no ham for me)
Tuesday: pasta bake with garlic bread
Wednesday: Chicken/quorn nuggets with chips and corn
Thursday: stir fry w/chicken and/or veg
Friday: pizza w/salad

Not very exciting but everyone likes it all.

I love a roast! Must make a note to do more roasts as I always enjoy them when I make them.

Sunday - roast of some sort
Monday- pasta with ham and peas
Tuesday - keema out of freezer
Wednesday - chicken and cashew veg stir fry
Thursday - salmon with pesto and cherry tomatoes
Friday - steak
Saturday - some kind of stew or one pot thing or take out or fajitas