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

[postivity]

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?

DH has just done this fortnights meal plan, no easy feat S children do different activities at different times… but we’ve decided this year it just needs to ben”pinged” when they come home from their activities!

Sunday- Meat dinner (likely chicken or beef with veg aplenty (cauliflower and broccoli cheese, carrot and swede mash, wilted kale, sprouts and red cabbage) puds and roast potatoes.

Monday - chorizo, prawn and chicken wholemeal rice (added veg, broccoli, pepper, chopped green beans and butter beans)

Tuesday - Garlic, honey and soy Salmon, couscous and veg ( red onion, courgette, pepper, mushroom and cherry tomato)

Wednesday - Stone baked Nan “homemade pizza” (pre brought nans)

Thursday - homemade chickpea, lentil and spinach chants masala curry with Peshawar Nan (Nan being ordered from local Indian with Tikka Nan)

Friday - Fish and chips, (home made, plus homemade tartar sauce and mushy peas)

Saturday - anything in the freezer goes… parents need a night off!!

Next weeks after meals…

Sunday / going out for a friends birthday (he’s Turkish) so will be dinning at their families restaurant.

Monday / Bakes potatoes and filling of choice/ salad

Tuesday - Fish pie (topped with carrot and swede) peas and broccoli

Wednesday - at a works dinner event, kids will likely have takeaway.

Thursday -Spinach and broccoli gnocch, Salmon, pea and samphire buttered garlic sauce.

Friday - Tosd in the hole, carrot and swede mash, kale and peas.

Saturday - takeaway of boys choice (like a “munchy box of sorts)…

Sunday - DH had better have a surprise , it’s my special day 🥳

It will 200% be mixed and matched depending on everyone’s preference.

This week's meal plan..

Monday: lasagne
Tuesday: sausage and mash
Weds: pasta with tomato and basil sauce
Thurs: savoury rice (chicken/veg)
Fri: chicken supreme
Sat: pizza for the kids, biriyani for me
Sun: gammon, egg, chips and beans

I'm a single parent and have two autistic children so quite a lot of our meals are orientated towards them rather than the most balanced or grown up menu

We don’t eat much meat in the week. This week it’s

1. Lentil spag Bol
2. Homemade pesto pasta with feta and peas
3. Lemon and chorizo risotto
4. Homity pie and mash
5. Black bean tacos
6. Cod with bacon and lentils
7. Sunday roast

@thekaratekid

Pretty similar here. An average week looks like:

1. Chilli con carne or spag bol
2. Pizza + side salad (half a medium frozen pizza per adult)
3. Quiche + side salad or tortellini pasta in sauce
4. Sausage (2 x naice sausages), mash and peas
5. Chicken kiev, chips and peas
6. Yellow sticker pot luck
7. Sunday roast (usually chicken) or something like lasagne

Yellow sticker pot luck is also substituted for a takeaway more often than not. We used to do a veg stir fry and also a homemade curry, but I got bored with them. I will probably cycle back round to them again. DP could eat literally the same 3 meals every day for the rest of his life ....I get bored much more easily, so have to give things a rest before reintroducing.

My DH is the same as yours and I'm much more like you. We have had a really samey meal plan for about the last 8 weeks and I am so bored of all those foods.

My previous meal plan was
Soup and rolls (depending on what I have in my oddbox)
Jacket potatoes with baked beans and salad
Stir fry with tofu or cashews and rice noodles or rice
Pesto pasta with green veg or creamy tomato pasta with salad
Pizza or burgers

The plan from tomorrow for us is -
Monday Baked spicy lentils and sweet potatoes
Tuesday Singapore Noodles
Wednesday Campfire Stew
Thursday Steak
Friday Pork with sherry and butter beans

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Mon: pasta
Tues: pasta
Wed: pasta
Thurs: pasta
Fri: pasta
Sat: pasta
Sun:pasta

Or so it feels

However it’s probably more like

Mon: homemade vegetable soup and bread
Tues: salmon, rice and veg (broccoli probably), miso soup
Wed: ham and salad and/or soba noodles or potatoes
Thurs: French toast or pancakes and salad, edamame, fruit
Fri: chicken fajitas
Sat: eat out locally (yakitori or sushi)
Sun: eat out or pasta

Mon - chilli rice rice and nachos
Tues - chorizo and butternut squash risotto
Wed - jacket potatoes with cheese, beans and maybe left over chilli
Thurs - sausage and mash
Fri - chicken fajitas
Sat - bacon pasta bake
Sun - roast chicken, veg and Yorkshire puddings

Sometimes we give the kids oven food and try snd cook something more exciting for just us. Any tips on encouraging kids to eat a more varied diet, I get so bored of having to skip over delicious recipes because I know they won’t eat it

Some great ideas on here. Just done mine and I'm on slimming world so these are meals we will all eat and dc will be none the wiser!

Mon: spinach & ricotta pasta bake & salad
Tues: prawn curry & lentil Dahl with rice & h/made chapatis
Wed: roast chicken with Caesar salad & chips
Thurs: leftover chicken - quick fried rice
Friday : chicken stock for a ramen with udon noddles, various veg & a soft boiled egg on top. Main reason we buy a chicken most weeks!

Saturday: chilli con carne

Sunday: beef roast or stew/casserole and veg

@ShottaSheriff can you share your butternut squash biryani recipe please that sounds lovely

I love this thread! Nothing to add though as I don’t eat meat and I m the only one who eats fish/seafood, DS doesn’t eat vegetables, DD doesn’t eat pork and DH doesn’t like pasta. It’s a huge challenge, I love takeaways and eating out as we can all just have what we like, there is nothing all 4 of us eat!!

@postivity

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?

OMG that's sooo unhealthy!!!!

I am so shocked at how many people have burgers and chips for supper. I would t ever consider cooking burgers... or chips...
Sausages and mash....
I can now see why the U.K. has such a problem with obesity...

I used to have a sort of theme per night as I get so fed up with the thinking- but this helped.
It was

Monday Rice / noodles
Tuesday. Eggs/ cheese - although kids have stopped eating omelettes so I need new inspiration here.
Wednesday Pasta
Thursday soup / stew - often a batch cooked thing from freezer, served with bread
Friday - early kids tea - pasta/ cheese on toast/ v basic, then we either have a takeaway or high end ready meal eg Cook. I did go through a phase of cooking something more grownup/ fancy. Can't be arsed atm!!
Sat - sofa supper so something not messy like pizza/ frozen breaded something.
Sunday I always get stuck on, run out of inspiration. Hopefully go out!

Ours is usually
Monday: Meat free - this week a courgette/aubergine pasta bake
Tuesday: Fish - Salmon and new potatoes
Wednesday: Something with rice - this week Goat curry and roti (I have some unused goat in the freezer which needs eating up!)
Thursday: Quiche and soup
Friday - Osso buco (again in freezer) with risotto
Saturday - I'm going to get fresh pasta in London.
Sunday - Roast

@whattodo2019

I am so shocked at how many people have burgers and chips for supper. I would t ever consider cooking burgers... or chips... Sausages and mash.... I can now see why the U.K. has such a problem with obesity...

I wouldn't eat burgers, but sausage and mash occasionally is yummy!

I have some sensory issues and I’m veggie
Probably something along the lines of:

Mon: Cauliflower, roasted pepper, broccoli and tofu
Tues: Fresh filled pasta. I may try a beetroot or other dough rather than classic egg pasta. Likely filled with spinach and ricotta with fresh tomato sauce
Wed: roast sweet potato, pepper and kale with halloumi
Thurs: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Pepper with garlic bread and tofu
Fri: Garlic Risotto
Sat: stuffed pepper
Sun: halloumi wrap with pepper and broccoli

I appreciate it isn’t the healthiest. I’m aiming to try 1 new food every week

This week:

Roast chicken/pork/beef
Pizza and crudités
Pasta and garlic bread
Chicken goujons, spicy wedges & beans
Sausages, veg, mash & gravy
Curry (usually chicken) & rice
Veggie burgers in buns with salad/coleslaw

Vegetable curry with rice
Chicken stir fry
Pizza and salad
Baked potatoes with prawns and salad
Gammon, mashed pots, broccoli, spinach
Thai green curry with rice
Vegetable fajitas

I been eating so much microwave meals lately but usually morning is egg sandwich, lunch if I don’t skip will be another sandwich and dinner something with rice, meat/fish coleslaw

@whattodo2019

Shocked really?

I love my weekly burger it's the only thing that doesn't change I have one every week without fail

@whattodo2019

I am so shocked at how many people have burgers and chips for supper. I would t ever consider cooking burgers... or chips... Sausages and mash.... I can now see why the U.K. has such a problem with obesity...

A burger once a week will not make a person obese. A burger every day however, not great.

@HaudYerWheeshtYaWeeBellend

Your menu sounds delicious and very healthy.

We eat a lot like that but I use the food kit service mainly so I don't have to think about it.

1. Veggie chilli, jacket potatoes
2. Veggie Fajitas & guacamole
3. Aubergine Pasta
4. Bean burgers, chips & salad
5. Mushroom risotto with edamame
6. Schezuan Tofu noodles/Pak Choi etc
7. Vegan shepherds pie & green veg