Which 5 meals do you cook most often?

[MrsHuxtable]

Please indulge me. Been sick with hyperemesis for the last 5 months, so the thought of food was pushed to the very back of my mind. I'm now ready to look at cookbooks again. It's bliss! In fact, I'm a little obsessed at the moment with all the things I want to eat...

So what are the 5 meals you make the most often?

And also, how many different meals are there roughly in your repertoire that you rotate for dinner?

chicken fajitas
spag bol
macaroni cheese
chilli
chicken fried rice

other regular meals are curry of various types, stew, meatballs and pasta with mascarpone and tomato.

weekly staples are pretty boring in this house but easy, filling and everyone eats them

oh come off it, I am NOT the only person in the world who regularly serves chips (and doesn't pretent that they are "wedges of crisp potato drizzled in olive oil")

Roast (but that seems to go without saying)

Pork and apple casserole
Beef in red wine
Chicken chasseur
Sweet chilli sausages and mash
Chilli
Pasta in varying guises

Pesto pasta

Cheesy pasta
Spag Bol
Roast chicken
Fish fingers

curry (minced beef, chicken or fish) and rice or chapatis
chicken stew
chicken stir fry with noodles
cheese omelette and bread rolls
lamb kebabs and couscous or rice

It would be curry every day for me!

I save the chips for when we have other dc for dinner so I know everyone will be happy. I love chips - and especially fried egg and chips - but I'm supposed to be dieting.

5 regulars on my plan are:
Roast dinner
Nigella's meatballs and spaghetti
Paella
Salmon parcels
chicken tray bake - variations of

Lasagne, Cottage Pie, Spag Bol, Chicken Curry, Sweet and Sour Pork..........

Mmm, I used to be much more confident to try out recipes.

I used to do a lovely nut roast at Christmas with gooseberry sauce.

Now, I seem to stick to what I know - but I've taken it to ridiculous extremes. I really don't know why.

Resolving to be more adventurous.

Perhaps it's pertly been sticking to what I know the children like - it's a pain not using spices when you're a veggie family !

sausage pasta
Spag bol
fish fingers
chicken and rice
sticky maple beef and rice
pizza
fajitas
carbonara
roast.......more than 5...but..er..... thats about it - kids don't like potatoes-makes things tricky/boring.

We have chips quite a lot. And fish fingers and sometimes varying turkey shapes

Spag bol
Chicken wrapped in bacon
Salmon parcels
Cottage pie
Sausage casserole/toad in the hole

There's a hell of a lot of Spag bolognese here......
As for me its:
Spag Bol (no, only jokin......ha ha !)
Pancakes
Bacon eggs and beans
Salads
Chicken casserole
homemade Pizza
Mince

5 regular staples:

Pasta with homemade veggie sauce
Vegetable risotto (veg depends on whatever we have in at the time)
Root vegetable OR spicy butternut and sweet potato soup
Fajitas
Veggie lasagne

Quick meals for the dc on nights we're short of time are:

Home made pizza (ready made bases plus various topping)
Fruity faces (they love this one, basically a salad disguised as a face )
Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup (we keep this one in for emergencies)
Frozen veg with mushroom burgers and oven chips
Veggie omelette OR scrambled eggs with baked beans and toast
Quesadillas

Meals that get rotated, but eaten less often are:

Sweet potato and lentil curry and brown rice
Roasted meditteranean veg bake
Macaroni cheese and fresh veg (dcs would eat this every night if they could!)
Falafels in pitta bread with salad
Roast dinner

In the winter:
Various veggie curries
Veggie chilli
Beef stew for the meat eaters
Baked potatoes with green veg and filling
Soup

Also do fish pie, fishy pasta bake, tomato and olive pasta, rice with veg and meat/fish through it, moroccan-ish tagine, warm couscous salad, aubergine pilaf, aubergine pasta, pasties with salad or green beans and and sweetcorn, baby new potatoes with veg and piece of fish/meat/veggie cakes, cottage pie/veggie version.

If I do spag bol I'll cook it in a massive pan and freeze it in batches so it's a once every three months or so job for me

I'm on slimming world at the moment so we are trying to be healthy:

SW Beef Chilli (with extra lean mince)
Turkey stir fry with noodles (DIY sweet chilli sauce, dried noodles)
Chicken & Chick Pea Curry
Salmon, veg and rice
SW spinach cannelloni with salad
SW spaghetti carbonara (extra lean bacon, tiny amount of parmesan)

Roast chicken
Chicken risotto
Casserole, usually pork and bean or beef in red wine
Chili
Tray bakes of chicken portions and potatoes with various flavourings/seasonings

Roast
Chilli (vegi and meat)
Spag Bol
Casserole
Pasta (either pesto or leek and bacon)

Spag Bol (seems to be a staple dish on this thread!)
Chicken Fajitas with chorizo salad
Lamb tagine
Breaded basa
Swedish meatballs and sauce (yum)

Currently cooking stew but only because we need something warm before we go out this evening.

My kids live off a rotation of:
Fish fingers & sweet pot mash peas
Roast
Pasta parcels
Scrambled egg on toast
Chicken rice veg
Spag /lasagne

DP & I:
Spicy pots, leftover chicken with Thai cucumber ginger salad.
Roast
Falafel salad sweet pot wedges humous.
Pork, garlic, pineapple,coriander stir fry noodles
pizza (bought shock horror) salad

Stir fry with quorn and veg
Mushroom risotto
Creamy salmon spaghetti (tinned salmon, loads of garlic)
Homemade burgers & sweet potato paprika wedges
Butternut squash curry and rice
Roast, mostly often chicken
Souvlaki
Meat/tomato sauce khoresht (basically a spicy stew) and rice with broad beans and loads of dill

DH makes chicken and chorizo pasta and turkey tagine with lemon cous cous often.

All really cheap meals. I'm hungry now...

Roast
Leftover chicken with pasta/fried rice/quesadillas
Spag bol/carbonara/prawn and chorizo
Curry nights (home-made)
baked fish/fish pie
stir fry

Basically anything that can either be prepared in advance, put in the freezer or takes under 40 minutes to cook!

Missed the point that I need only share 5. I'm bloody starving now and on a long car journey with no food. :(

pasta with a garlicky tomato sauce
fish fingers, chips and peas
chicken curry and rice
soup and a cheese sandwich
pasta salad made of left overs