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...

Mon: Sweet chilli burger with fries and salad

Tue: Thai stir fried pork with basil and green beans

Wed: Miso butter salmon with garlic mash and steamed broccoli stems

Thur: Thai red curry with chicken and rice

Fri: Banger and mash

Sat: Beef bulgogi with rice, lettuce and kimchi

Sun: Bolognese with tagliatelle

Can you tell one of us is Asian? 😂

We have the same week in week out right now as my 5 year old is a PITA with "different" food and wont even try it, I'm hoping they get over it soon as my 2 year old eats anything!

Sausage and mash
Tuna jacket potatoes
Chicken curry
Bacon pea and leek baked risotto
Salmon with sweet potato mash & roast veg
Some kind of roast

The other day DH & I have something more interesting and the kids have a freezer tea, fish fingers or nuggets and waffles (or like last night the 5 year old has a freezer tea and the toddler has chilli and garlic prawn stir fry with us 🤣)

This week: sundried tomato spaghetti with prawns: chickpea and halloumi curry: vegetarian chilli with rice: cod tray bake: veggie sausage casserole.

Other things that make the menu some weeks: potato and corn chowder: red lentil lasagna: macaroni cheese.

Family is me, DH and DC age 9 and 11.

A regular ish week

1. Roast dinner
2. Fajitas/Skewers with rice and salad
3. Chilli or curry kind of thing
4. Jacket potato night
5. Easy tea like fish fingers or left overs from the freezer
6. Homemade burgers or Spaghetti
7. Take away at the weekend or easy pizzas etc

M - we had homemade Sausage /bacon Mcmuffins, cheesy hash browns and beans
T-tempura chicken, sweet & sour sauce, egg fried rice, prawn toast, duck spring rolls
W - Roast chicken & stuffing, roast potatoes and parsnips, carrots sprouts, peas, cabbage, gravy, Yorkshire puds.
T- fish fingers/fishcakes, potato croquettes, cauliflower cheese
F chicken fajitas, salad, wraps
S-pizzas
S - chicken leek, bacon pie, mash, veg, gravy

Typical week here would be:

Roast with 3 veg/yorkshires/roasties or bbq with potato salad/corn on the cob/peppers/aubergine/courgettes
Steak, wedges/quinoa and salad
Chicken, leek and mushroom pie, mash and broccoli/peas
Stuffed pasta with pesto/homemade tomato sauce, dough balls, green beans
Chicken katsu curry with rice and kale/sweetcorn
Gyoza in broth with noodles, spinach, strips of carrot
Homemade pizza with crudites

Other regulars:
spaghetti bolognese
curry (king prawn or chicken)
tacos
chilli
salmon with orzo
jambalaya
chicken kyivs
jerk chicken
macaroni cheese
stirfry
chicken shwarma with homemade flatbreads
Moroccan lamb with couscous
sausages and mash
omelettes
jacket potato
beef stew
pork lettuce cups
quesadillas

This week:

1. chicken breast with garlic butter, chips and salad
2. roast chicken, mash, cauli, broccoli, carrots, Yorkshires and stuffing
3. turkey taco mince, wraps, packet veg rice and salad
4. tuna pasta bake (Coleman’s sachet). I had the left over roast veg with mine. Would usually do sugar snap and tenderstem but no one else was bothered
5. Honey garlic chicken and rice with steamed broccoli, baby corn, Mangetout and carrots)
6. butter chicken (also jar eldest DC has requested to try) pilau rice and poppadoms
7. kids usually have pizza, we usually have a curry later, but it’s the last day of school so it means choppy tea!

General meals are;

Seabass baked and veg (DH has rice too)
Shepherds pie and veg
Pork loin and veg
Chicken breast and veg
Chicken thighs in honey mustard with veg
Salmon and veg
Stir fry pork or chicken (usually thai/chinese)

I don't eat carbs as a rule, im coeliac and dairy free. Veg comprises mix of broccoli, green beans, spinach and/or carrots. Sometimes sweetcorn and/or peas.

Sometimes DH makes a Thai green curry or some sort of jambalaya. Occasionally I make a lasagne or moussaka.

This post is good for ideas!

A typical week one roast dinner either pork, beef or occasionally a chicken with Yorkshire puddings carrots and peas. Bolognese with wholemeal spaghetti. I always make enough for 2 meals, I'll freeze the second meal and maybe have at the end of the week. Cheesy pasta bake with bacon lardons and peas. Southern coated chicken steaks in brown bread roll and side salad. Thin and crispy pizza. Fish in breadcrumbs and baby potatoes with peas. Toad in the hole with half fat sausages and baked beans, skinny burgers in brown bread rolls, pork steaks and apple sauce with baby new potatoes and carrots, 1/2 fat sausages and mash with baked beans/spaghetti hoops. Salmon steak in lemon juice with a jacket potato and peas. Chicken breast with baby new potatoes peas/salad. DH is veggie and he'll cook penne Arabatica, veggie burger in brown bread rolls and side salad, cheesy pasta bake, homemade pizza, homemade lentil loaf with baby potatoes, pasta Alfredo with halloumi. Mushroom risotto with chopped peppers, roasted Mediterranean vegetables and halloumi burgers, All Day Breakfast with veggie sausages, fake bacon (facon), 2 eggs, hash browns, baked beans and plum tomatoes, toad in the hole with veggie sausages. In winter we both have stew. In the autumn and winter we both have home made soups (Potato & Leak, Tomato and Lentil and Winter Vegetable soup with onion, carrots, swede, parsnips and a potato. I make homemade lasagne more often in the colder weather. I also make DH an aubergine lasagne with mozzarella pearls and plum tomatoes served with mixed vegetables.

That's a lot of chips.

Burgers
Pizza
Salmon
Roast chicken
Pasta
Lasagna/veg lasagna

What ever is yellow snickered!

Last 7 days
Today - fish pie, parsley sauce batch cooked and frozen
Mon - cold roast chicken/nut roast potatoes, salad home made blue cheese dressing
Sun - roast beef/nut roast (batch cooked) roast dinner; apple and blackberry (yellow sticker) crumble
Sat - smoked salmon and spinach red pepper pasta, dead easy one pot meal.
Fri - tuna mayo or cheese and beans baked potatoes; red cabbage slaw,
Thursday- chicken/ chick pea tofu curry, home made sweet potato pakora everything previously batch cooked and frozen, fresh beetroot, orange corriander salad
Weds - home made pastie, oven chips and campfire beans - pastie filling/pastry and beans all from freezer
Batch cooking this week was lentil soup, spag Bol, crumble topping

Great thread, so helpful

This week:

Five guys as birthday treat
Steak, chips, broccoli
Salmon, potato croquettes, veg
Pizzas
Breaded chicken goujons in wraps veg on side
Burgers in brioche buns veg on side

Too meat heavy, but three boys here and one is training

Ooooh, love this thread
this weeks menu
sunday - picky tea as everyone over for the football, cheese, biscuits, dips, quiche etc.
monday - falafels, feta cheese and bulgur wheat with harissa, cucumber and tomatoes
tuesday - halloumi and bacon Caesar type salad
Wednesday - baked cod with chorizo, new potatoes and peas
thursday - Korean beef and rice bowl (hello fresh recipe)
Friday - prawn laska with udon noodles
saturday - usually something quick (soup and crusty bread) or a take away

My family hate my meals, I’m very adventurous and creative and they all want ‘traditional’ meals . I try to make interesting variations on things and it’s not appreciated. DP keeps cooking now. He makes things like curries , casseroles , roasts , chicken or fish and rice and veg.

My recent (and much nicer and more interesting in my opinion) meals were : pork pie lasagne (it was amazing hence my username) , deconstructed sushi in giant Yorkshire puddings, vegan hot dogs made with marinated carrots and smoked tofu, with gherkin, apple and cabbage coleslaw. I have made some lovely savoury ‘cakes’ I made a marmite sponge with a soft cheese topping and grated Red Leicester and rocket, also An olive and sundried tomato sponge I like to get the texture to be like cake and not bread and cut it like a wedge of cake.

This week's plan:

Monday - Steak pie (individual veggie alternative for my pescatarian) with spring greens and carrots.
Tuesday - Chicken, stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon served with new potatoes, tender stem broccoli and green beans (plant based alternative for the pesci one)
Wednesday - Beans and egg on toast.
Thursday - Sausages with mash and veg
Friday - Stir Fry
Saturday - Gammon steak with potatoes & veg
Sunday - Vegetarian chilli made in the slow cooker with rice and whichever veg hasn't been eaten yet.

We usually have
Pan fried salmon / potatoes/ green veg or salad
Spaghetti Bol with salad OR chilli con carne OR a sort of curried mince with peas/ kale
Chicken "fajitas"- chicken, onions, peppers, salad / wraps or pitta bread
Halloumi and tomato based veg
Chickpea curry and rice
Veggie pasta- some of mushrooms, peppers, courgette, spinach
Maybe a picky meal with hummus/ taramasalata/ Turkish spinach pastries and salad / pitta
Sometimes cheese on toast with tomatoes or beans on toast.

This week:

Korean chicken and sweet potato fries
Duck pancakes
peri peri chicken and green veg medley
Panko chicken tenders and mini corn on the cob
another duck pancakes (they’re on offer; usually wouldn’t do it twice)
salmon and med veg rice
Beef strips and king prawn veg stir fry

This weeks menu is
indoor picnic (sausage rolls, melon, cheese, yoghurt, carrot, bread sticks, hummus)
mango chicken curry from Bored of Lunch cook book - family fave - slow cooker
Chicken thighs in Korean bbq sauce (jar) - slow cooker - with stir fry veg and some noodles
tuna, pea and pesto pasta
sausage, mash, veg
thai green curry - slow cooker.

Last 7 days for us :

Pork chops and salad
Mascarpone and spinach tarts and salad
Roast dinner (this week was beef)
Lamb chops and roast cubed potatoes
Smoked salmon pasta
Ready meal
Pork mince and mushroom pasta

Felch you certainly like your chips! I didn’t realise you could still buy Goblin pies. Takes me back! Used to have Goblin meat puddings at my Grandma’s.

Egg & chips
Sausage and mash
Pasta bake
Enchiladas
Spag bol
Pizza
Stir fry
Noodles
"Picky tea"

Sunday - DS25 made sausage and black olive pasta and salad
Monday - Beef Stroganoff with rice and Broccoli, Adult DC doing their own thang
Tuesday - Left over pasta from Sunday with salad
Wednesday - Roast salmon with crushed new potatoes, home-pickled red onion, peas
Thursday - Slow Cook Lamb, roast spiced cauliflower, tomato salad, hummous and flatbreads (fancy for a week night cos DB staying!)
Friday - Share pizza with DH at the pub
Saturday- Butternut and chorizo pilaf, salad
Also, as you said you're interested in how others cook, I try not to waste anything - so the water from steaming the broccoli will be the veg 'stock' that I cook the lamb in, the water from the peas will be used to cook the rice for pilaf, and the cauli leaves I will shred and cook in butter to form the basis of a Cauli mac n cheese for next week.

Prawn, mushroom, vegetable Chinese/Thai noodle dish

Stuffed chicken breasts with potatoes, carrots and broccoli

Homemade fish & chips

Sweet potato and coconut curry

Breaded chicken with roast potatoes, salad and tomatoes

Spaghetti with tomato/veggie sauce

Teriyaki salmon with rice and pak choi

Red Lentil Daal
Baked salmon, sweet potato and green veg
Scrambled eggs with spinach on sourdough toast
Smoked tofu, quinoa, garlicky green beans with Parmesan
Homemade soup with homemade oatcakes and cheese
Fish pie & veg
Roast dinner