To ask those who like food and cook from scratch without getting bored what meals do you cook most often, what does a typical week look like and what is your most used cookery book?

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I’m bored of meal planning, also how do others who cook from scratch every night plan the week?

Been meal planning and cooking from scratch for decades now so find it quiet easy but I do try one new recipe a week, which either becomes a regular favourite for a while or is never made again. I have most of Jaimie Oliver's and Tessa Kiros' cookbooks, so usually try something out of them or off Pinterest.

We plan for a week and use a variety of books. We always try to cook completely from scratch and avoid highly processed foods as much as possible, even making our own pitta bread, naan bread, bread rolls for burger etc. Favourite recipes come from Pinch of Nom, slimming world, BBC goodfood ultimate unprocessed recipes, the food for life cookbook. We eat quite a lot of currys such as chicken masala, Rogan josh pork meatballs, chicken kebabs. We use lots of chicken peas and lentils for veggie dishes. Quick favourites include beef spaghetti Bolognese, beef chilli, homemade beef burgers and homemade meatballs. We are a busy family. My husband and I both work, we have 2 dogs and we generally have two different extra curricular activities each night but we see healthy eating as a non negotiable and therefore take the time to plan and cook even though chucking something into the oven from the freezer would be much easier!

I make it up as I go along. Keep a cupboard full of herbs and spices and basics, then order 5 fresh cuts of meat for the week (+ 1 day easy oven food and 1 day veggie) and rotate depending on what we've had the previous night. So if I've done curry and rice Monday, I'll do something with potato or pasta Tues. I quite often have a rough idea what we want for the week so I buy the right veg to go with it, but I'm happy to freeze stuff if we don't get round to using bits.

I don't have to do it any more, but when the kids were still at home I'd do my online shopping and plan five or six meals for the week using Easy Cook magazine. I used to subscribe but after a few years I had a big enough library of them and just rotated them around. Lots of seasonal recipes. The other one/two meals would be stuff from the freezer/leftovers/something really simple like omelette/takeaway.

BBC good food online is great for ideas
We do curry, traybakes, risotto, pasta bakes, fish pies and chilli etc

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