What’s for dinner AND is it from a packet/box?

[Bigpinksweater]

Be honest!

These threads usually attract replies from busy mums saying ‘aubergine orzo with lemon chicken’ and I think ‘from scratch, at 5pm, with 2 hungry kids??’

Please let me know!

Jacket spuds for three of us and left over macaroni cheese for the other one.

Pork chops, mash (ready made) and veg - I work 9-5 and have a two year old that screams at me the whole time I’m cooking and then refuses to eat 90% of the meal.

Spaghetti bolognese, sauce made from scratch as I don’t like to use jarred pasta sauces as they’re not very nice. I didn’t make the spaghetti from scratch though.

I don’t know if this is allowed. It’s from Sarah Rossi new slow cooker recipe book.

Chinese all you can eat buffet.

It was lush

I am bursting.

DH, the cook in our house, is out. DS had pre-prepared lentil curry and rice, since he went to bed I’ve had a bag of hula hoops and shop bought samosa. About to embark on a packet of Jaffa Cakes. Living the dream.

Vegetable chilli and rice, from scratch for me. DC won't eat it though so sandwiches, tuna, and various fruit and veg sticks for them. Tbh DC isn't a huge fan of much cooked food and would happily have sandwiches for every meal. At least the bread is from the breadmaker.

Tinned tomato soup with toasted cheese sandwich and it was yummy

DS had bacon, mushroom and cheese omelette with tomatoes, peas and (randomly) half an avacado.
I had leftover chilli with cauliflower rice.

DH didn't fancy chilli so had a fish finger butty

I've never heard of s butter beans mash, but I love butter beans so will be trying this 👌🏾

Pizza. From a box, because we've both been at work all day and have five different after school activities (two for each of two children, plus one for DW) to fit in.

Mushrooms with garlic butter from Tesco (fresh veg section), stir fried with some olive oil, a diced chicken breast, fresh garlic, fresh spinach and purple mangetout. So pretty much from scratch. Made two portions so will have the same tomorrow night.

I had a Fray Bentos pie. Minced beef and onion. On its own in a bowl with a spoon. I ate it all. I regret nothing.

I've spent the day batch cooking to fill up the chest freezer for the next term - to make it easier for school night/homework/clubs.

I've made chicken tika masala, sausage & mozarella pasta sauce, bolegnese, chilli, taco mince and smoked sausage mac & cheese.

After that i didn't want to ast any of them so we had a mince round out of a box with oven chips 🤣

This is what I had too, not slow cooker though. Was very nice.

Well, today we had homemade lasagne (made a hidden veg sauce yesterday, cooked with frier mince today, portion of homemade cheese sauce from freezer as I always do double, and shop-bought fresh lasagne sheets), and a homemade sponge pudding with homemade jam (by my brother, not me) and birds custard. But, yesterday was tesco pizza. So, balance 😁

Jerk chicken, rice and peas, plantain, chopped salad. From scratch, but there are four adults in the house and we take it in turns.

Sausages from the butchers,mash, carrots, peas, onion gravy, apple sauce all home made and British. Though to be honest I do tend to mix in a few ready made items to make life easier, for example tomorrow is British beef steaks with a ready made sauce and oven chips.

Lamb steaks, mashed potatoes and vegetables with gravy for the three of us. Gravy involved a stock cube. Added in red wine, flour, redcurrant jelly and cooking water from the carrots.

DH and I are on mat/pat leave at the moment awaiting the arrival of DC2, so can spend a bit longer on meals in the week.

Home made chicken dippers, broccoli, corn on the cob, mixed beans from a can. Simples.

Home made chicken soup, the broth kind. Enough left over for another dinner or a few lunches too. I make it in a big stock pot. Oh, the stock was shop bought, but fresh ready made, not cube.

Now regretting my small salad from earlier as I’m hungry again so think I’m going to have a slice of cheese on toast. I won’t be in bed for a few hours yet anyway so it’ll stop me going near the crisps.

I recently joined a darts team and I’m cooking the halftime food for tomorrow so that’ll be my dinner then. I’m doing slow cooker marry me chicken (TamingTwins recipe) and having it with microwave rice as we only have a microwave and slow cooker at the pub. I need to make around 20 portions so I’m doing 5 times the recipe. Carrying 3.5kg of chicken breasts home earlier was fun.

DH is an excellent cook and makes everything from scratch - he made a “stew” tonight. It was a beef stroganoff with notions. We should just have had toast (or not let him anywhere near the double cream) 😫

Rump steak burger with cheese melt and a side of broccoli here

Garlic bread pre brought from lidl
beef ravioli pre made by mr sainsburys just put in boiling water for less than 5 mins
tomato sauce also made by Sainsburys out in microwave to warm up.

shattered had a long day and live on my own. Not in the mood for cooking from scratch