To ask what a typical week of family dinners looks like for you?

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What family meals do you make in a week?

I need inspiration and also just interested to know what everyone does...

A typical week for me would be: (all cooked from scratch)

Home cooked Chinese chicken curry, carbonara, curried fish stew, soy salmon and fried rice, burritos, sausage stew (easy version cassoulet), cottage pie, Caesar salad (with lots of new potatoes and bacon), chilli prawn pasta.

Last 7 days for us
Beef stir fry
Ravioli and garlic bread
Shepards pie
Beans on toast
Chicken curry
Roast dinner
Vegi chilli con carne
Jacket potato and cheese salad

@BlindBat I think it's like a fray bentos (used to eat them a lot as a kid!)

There are very few meals that everyone in this house will eat!
Between that and timings of various things I usually make 2 meals. This week:

Monday: DC1 made chilli in Food Tech so ate that. Curry for me, DH, DC2 and 2 friends
Tuesday: Leftover chilli for DC1, pizza for DC2 (they would both have had pizza if not for the leftovers, that's a normal Tuesday) and lamb and feta meatballs with flatbread, yoghurt sauce and chips for me and DH
Wednesday: pasta bake for DCs and either squash risotto or Mexican rice bake for us
Thursday: "chips and" - we're all back late from an event at DC1's school so I'll chuck assorted beige food in the oven!
Friday: not sure yet for DCs, possibly spag bol. Spicy chicken and cous cous with veggies and feta for me, DH and 2 friends
Saturday: probably fajita type things for DCs. DH and I are going out!
Sunday: BBQ at our friends' house

The only things I make that everyone will eat are lasagne, enchiladas, chilli, spag bol and "chips and" (and that's cos the "and" is flexible!).

Oh I used to have goblin pies too, they're the ones on the red tin, more like a steak and kidney pud, yum

Over the last week/ 2 weeks we've had
Chicken fajitas
Lasagna with garlic bread and salad
Chilli prawn risotto
Pork chops veg and chips
Chicken curry rice and garlic naan
Salmon en croute with potatoes and peas
Fish and chips from a packet
Lemon chicken and rice
Pigs in blankets toad in the hole
Roast pork with all the trimmings
Beef rendang
Mac and cheese with tuna onions peas chill
Meatballs in tomato sauce
Chilli

Lots of batch cooking - tomato sauce, bolog, curry, meatballs.

Neither of tend to get in until around 6 during the week, so tea tends to be fairly quick. This is a summer menu.
Monday: salad and salmon (small spuds optional)
Tuesday: salad and fishcake (rice optional)
Wed: pasta and sauce.
Thurs: quorn kebabs. Salad.
Fri: fish and chips
Sat: supermarket pizza
Sun: jacket spud

Homemade sausage rolls
Roast chicken, crispy potatoes and salad
Lemon Spaghetti with peas and ham
Quesadillas - veggie or chicken and bean
Homemade pizza
Mini jacket potatoes

Other bits but that's really standard

THis week

Roast chicken with leek and baby potato tray bake.
Thai green chicken curry with dhal from the freezer (I batch cook dhal)
Baked salmon with green veg
Cottage pie - bolognese from the freezer bulked out with a tin of lentils and I'll mash the remains of the leek and potato tray bake to make the topping.
Salmon and spinach fritatta using the extra from the baked salmon
EIther quinoa and artichoke salad or spicy mushroom and lentil lasagne
Aubergine caponata

Sausages with salad
Chicken soup
Rice with fried eggs
Lentil curry with fried eggs
Salad with smoked trout
Asian delivery
Pizza delivery

This week we've had
Homemade pizza
Cauliflower cheese
Bbq burgers and sausages
Mystery sauce quinoa by dh with leftover bbq sausages thrown in
Pasta
Croque monsieur

I seem to forget the meals quite quickly :-/

But ds age 3 is suddenly addicted to porridge and had that for several lunches and dinners.

Oh and we recently discovered potatoes in an air fryer. Wowee.

Please can you tell me how to do the peas 🙏🏻 my nan used to do them this way and there's nothing quite like them, I never got the recipe when she was alive. Thank you

Char sui chicken & veg kebabs
Chilli
Chicken curry
Ribs, new potatoes, 4 steamed veg
Hot Salmon and salad
Veg fajitas
Chickpea and sweet potato curry
Black bean veg stir fry

I am reading through all these deciding whose house I’d rather live at, this is the winner so far!!

Last week

Sunday - roast chicken, honey carrots, corn on the cob, grilled asparagus, roasties and gravy, brownies and clotted cream for afters

Monday - homemade steak and kidney pie, mash and peas

Tuesday - chicken madras, rice and popadoms

Wednesday - mac and cheese with bacon and roasted tomatoes

Thursday - chilli and rice with loaded nachos

Friday - pizza, garlic bread and salad

Saturday - fry up!

Chilli - Mon
Homemade burger and chips -today
Fish,mash and vegetables -wed
Chicken fillets, chips and curry sauce - Thurs
Possibly take away Friday
My kids are with their Dad for the weekend so I'll have beans on toast, cheese and coleslaw on Saturday
And maybe jacket potato on Sunday

We eat a lot of stir fries but these dishes we have quite often:
Homemade sushi with miso soup and seaweed salad (the whole family is involved in the making so it’s usually a Friday meal)
Frijoles charros (vegetarian)
Chickpea and beans curry
Salade niçoise (kids’ favourite)
Steak tartare with various side vegetables
Fish/tofu/seafood stir fry with rice or soba
Goya chanpuru (without pork)
Vegetarian tacos
Soba soup with shrimp and vegetables (usually spring onions, soybeans, shredded cabbage)
Okonomiyaki
Various one pot fish and lentil stews

So, dd is veggie but eats out a lot.
DS1 wants protein.
I’m trying to lose weight.
DH is cutting down on red meat
DS2 & DS3 are easy, though will change likes/ dislikes day to day.

current variations are Greek salad +/- halloumi/ lamb/ potatoes
Morroccan chicken or halloumi with lentil salad and tzatziki.
traybake potatoes/ chicken thigh/ spinach in curry spices with mango chutney, red onion in lemon juice and yoghurt stirred through
spaghetti arrabiata +/- prawns and salad
puff pastry tart with mascarpone/ capers/ fried onions/ spinach on top (smoked salmon on non veggie half, feta on veggie half) with new potatoes and salad
Veggie curry with roast cauliflower and roast sweet potatoes, spinach, lentils and coconut milk.
Jacket potatoes with beans/ cheese/ tuna/ salad
Harissa and halloumi couscous (gousto recipe. Or maybe hello fresh)
lasagne- either mince beef or spinach and tomato.
mussels and part baked bread
Pearl barley cooked in stock with peas, mange tout and a honey/ mustard/ olive oil dressing, +/- hot smoked salmon.
pancetta, asparagus and Pearl barley risotto with goats cheese.
lentil Dahl with naan.
tortellini with pesto and salad.

Bonus is around £180 for a fortnight for 6 people for dinner, plus leftovers, though 2 days a week don’t have veggie options. Works for us as we have those days when DD is out!
lunches are leftovers/ wraps (often with leftovers/ quiche/ toasties/ salad
Breakfast is cereal/ porridge/ egg on toast/ peanut butter toast.

So many having fajitas! Do you have them with chicken or mince? Would love an easy recipe.

this week:
Sunday we had Texas chilli with rice (but no chilli powder 😆)
Monday pan fried salmon, mash and greens
Tuesday butter chicken rice and naan
Wed prob have frozen pizza as there is a football game here we are watching
Thurs usually have leftovers
Fri takeaway
Sat I’m planning to make a big pot of pea and ham soup and homemade bread rolls.

I add the veggies into the meals, we rarely have them on the side because it’s just easier.

This week;

Sunday - Usually a Roast. This week was Chicken. I also prep Monday's Dinner
Monday - Lamb Koftas, flatbreads, salad and garlic yogurt dressing.
Tuesday - Chicken, Chorizo and Cannelloni beans with kale
Wed - Teriyaki Chicken, rice and broccoli
Thursday - Miso Salmon, asparagus, roasted cherry toms and new potatoes
Friday - Pizzas
Sat - Beef Massaman curry, noodles and greens.

Then sandwiches, jackets for lunch.. usually spend about £170 a week for 4 adults/large teens

Our house - one veggie (me), DH meat eater but trying to cut down, and one DC8. This week our meal plan was/ is:

Friday - fajitas (all of us had veggie with quorn pieces)
Saturday - fish and chips takeaway (just chips for me)
Sunday - roast (chicken for DH and DS)
Monday - veggie sausages, egg, chips and beana
Tuesday - homemade curry (chicken for DH and DS, veggie for me)
Wednesday - veggie paella (DH might add some prawns to his portion)
Thursday - pasta with mushrooms, broccoli and cheesy sauce

Other dishes which regularly feature on the menu are chilli con carne, omelettes, pie and mash, pizza, shepherds pie, spaghetti bolognese, tomato pasta, jacket potatoes, casserole with dumplings, kebab skewers.

In no specific order. We have a fairly small rotation with fussy ish eaters.

Spaghetti bolognese
Spaghetti carbonara
Chilli con carne (veggie and not veggie)
Eggs, beans and toast
Chipolatas, beans and baguette
Cheese toasties and salad
Chicken Teriyaki
Beef stroganoff
Potato gratin, ham, salad and baguette
Roast on a Sunday
Pizza (of course!)
Burgers once in a while
Seabass in butter and lemon with rice and green beans ( they're fussy eaters but they eat that,feeling very lucky!)
Salmon in parcels ( with cherry toms and celery)
Salmon with hollandaise sauce and sautéed potatoes or rice
Chicken with creme fraiche (and mushroom for the adults) with rice
Beef bourguignon with rice or mash ,baguette and green beans
Brushettas with tomato, ham and cheese
Chicken curries and rice/naans
Tacos

We tried stir fries, paella, mixed salads (like tuna nicoise), omelettes but that hasn't really worked out (lots of waste and hungry kids).

Normalish list:

Pork chop, boiled potatoes and veg
Chicken fajita pasta
Jacket potato, cheese and beans with salad
Chilli and rice
Spag bol
Stir fry
Chicken dinner

We’ll be having this week:

Home-made lamb burgers with sweet potato fries and salad
Lamb koftas (remaining lamb mince) with pearl barley, mint and roasted veg salad
Salmon and veg ramen
Three bean chilli with jacket potato
Shashouka
Spicy salmon, brown rice and veg
Black bean enchilads

This week for us is:
Roast pork
Veggie chilli
Mango chicken
Fish pie
Chicken fried rice
Chinese 😁