What food do you make weekly just to have to hand?

[GreyWasp]

I always make:

batch of soup for lunch (not in Summer)
a couple of loaves of bread in bread maker
sandwich filler for the kids - tuna mayo, coronation chicken etc
green juice for me (on a weight loss kick)
overnight oats for teen daughter
used to make breakfast muffins but fallen out it
Chinese style pickled cucumbers - we make a massive batch which my daughters have with almost every meal think it is a social media thing

Just has become part of my routine and does make life easier

Curious what others do

Following with interest as I am an "open the cupboards at 5.30pm and work out wtf I'm making for dinner" type woman.

I really really wish I was like you, so hopping on here for tips.

Oat pancakes, ds eats them when he gets in from school. I make a massive batch of them on a Monday and keep them in a tub in the fridge.

I make soup for my lunch for the week and have fruit salad in the fridge to top yoghurt for breakfast and for kids after school. That’s about it, I do keep ingredients for quick dinners, eg mushrooms/ tomatoes for a quick pasta sauce with onions and cream. I also have a freezer stocked with batch cooked casseroles etc that can just go in the oven.

• A few batches of soup. One chunky one usually, and then a blended one. Can be anything but favourites are tomato soup and spicy sweet potato!
• Loaves of bread and pitta breads.
• Broth to make pho.
• Basic tomato sauce that we can turn into whatever we fancy.
• Yoghurt.
• Curry.
• Quiche in the summer.
• Pasties in the winter. Not every week though.

Some weeks we also batch cook chili, bolognese, etc. We don't really have a weekly rotation of meals though, tend to change quite a bit, so it really varies!

Can you share the recipe please? They sound great.
What does he have with them?

Absolutely nothing, lol.

What happens if you've made something you don't fancy when the time comes?

Yeast free bread for the intolerant one. Soup, fairly often. Labneh (lactose free) also for the intolerant one. I do cook every evening and we often eat leftovers for lunch the next day.

Not weekly, but I always have some homemade soups in the freezer

Yes please @MissyB1

When I only had 2 kids I used to do lots of this sort of thing. Wish I could get back into it. I did energy balls, hummus and seed crackers every week. Seed crackers OMG. I will share the recipe in a sec. Those are quite expensive to make so it stops me overeating them. Ditto the energy balls really.

Soup, stew, or big salad. I freeze cubes of stew and soup.
Bread, pizza dough, tortillas, or pita bread. I can freeze bread or the pizza dough for later use.
A big stir fry
Big Batch of oatmeal and yogurt

Boiled eggs for the fridge- handy as a snack with salt, on toast for a quick brekkie or in a salad

I really don’t have much to do to on a Sunday (kids are no longer very young). It gives me just enough to do between pottering around the house/sitting on my arse whilst still feeling like i am unwinding

Soup during winter
Batch cook a meal for the freezer at the weekend
A cake (to stop me buying treats but can often eat a third before anyone else in the family has seen it)
Then usually some banana pancakes for my toddlers too!

Oh, and hummus too! Though that's more than weekly as we're all hummus fiends. 😆

I always have a batch of spag bol in freezer for any evening I don't feel like cooking. Usually 6 or 7 portions.

Oh pasties what a great idea! Going to adopt this. Always crave a pasty!

JimHalpertsWife

Following with interest as I am an "open the cupboards at 5.30pm and work out wtf I'm making for dinner" type woman.
I really really wish I was like you, so hopping on here for tips.

love your username!! I am the same type of woman and hoping for inspiration but am a rubbish cook so might just read and wish …

A couple of different Korean side dishes (banchan), usually wilted spinach, a cucumber salad, and some pickled radishes as well as a batch of gochujang sauce. Dinner at the moment is often a bowl of rice with fish and a couple of different vegetables, and this makes it all a lot quicker.

I don’t make actual meals. More like snacks/breakfasts on the go.

They're so easy too! Cheese and onion pasties are my fave. 😍 Smushed onto heavily buttered bread and devoured as a sarnie.

Ooh I like the idea of making this. Please may I ask your recipe? My son has got into the habit of eating crudite with ranch. Would prefer something with less additives

Here you go
https://www.thekitchn.com/

It's in American measurements so in ours you need;
85g rolled oats
250mls milk
100g soft butter
The rest is in tablespoons or teaspoons.

He has them with either butter/jam/syrup /Nutella

Of course!

Tin or two of chickpeas (or you can use the dried, but I usually can't be bothered. I include some of the aquafaba)
Garlic (clove or two)
Lemon juice (I use a full lemon)
Tahini (usually two hefty teaspoons, depends on taste)
Olive oil (a good drizzle...I'm not sure, I eyeball a lot of things!)
Salt and pepper

Blitz! I like adding spices like paprika, or roasted red peppers too. Even rosemary is nice! Dark chickpeas (kala chana?) have a nutty flavour too. You can even mix things up and use one tin of chickpeas and one butterbeans!

Your son might like ful medames/foul muddamas. Some leave it chunky, but I was taught to make more of a hummus texture!

https://palestineinadish.com/recipes/foul-mudammas-fava-beans/

@FlickFlackTrap if link doesn't take you straight to the pancakes, just search oatmeal panc on the Kitchn

Bollognause sauce, including loads of veg (batch cook) - quick, healthy meal.

Soups, again batch cook.