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?

The two things I seem to cook all the time at the moment (following a "must use my cookbooks more" phase) are:

Nigellas spring chicken and Gordon Ramseys chorizo, chickpea and prawn stew.

They are both one pot dishes and despite the recipes suggesting they are quick (which they can be) taste better the longer you leave them stewing away so perfect to make in advance.

Other than those it's chilli, steak and salad and seafood pasta here.

I rarely do the same meals one week to another. Every Sunday, I go through my bookmarked recipes & try at least 3 new meals, plus 4 from a huge list of tried & tested. I think I probably do a roast chicken every 2/3 weeks, so thats probably my most used meal.

Roast
Spaghetti Carbonara
Chicken breast stuffed with pesto/sundried tomatoes/cheese wrapped in bacon
chicken legs with tomatoes
Some minced beef meal...Bolognaise, cottage pie, chilli, lasagne

despite its breakfast time having just read everyones messages i could realy go for sum spag bol!not sure how many meals in rotation.like to regularly throw new tastes at the rabble while we in a we-eat-anything phase.current faves are baked white fish with garlic,ginger and herbs.carrot and corn soup with parsnip bread.beef goulash.chick pea burgers with sweet potato wedges.toad in hole.jacket spuds and anything with pasta also very popular.hope your apetite revs up and happy cooking!

Sweet chilli chicken
Stirfry
Chilli/slag Bol/ meatballs
Lamb and spinach curry
Fish pie
Quorn sausage and bean casserole

We also eat a lot of soup and stews at this time of year!

*spag Bol even

Not sure how many recipes I have in my repertoire, or how often I rotate them really. I do know that I tend to get into a rut of cooking the same things over & over, week in week out & then have to give myself a giant kick up the bum to do different things.

Current favourites here are:
Chilli (either with rice or jacket potatoes) sometimes bean chilli instead of meat.
Macaroni Cheese with smoked sausage
Beef stew & dumplings
Corned Beef Hash (perfect autumn food, cheap, warming & easy!)
Cream cheese stuffed chicken breasts with roast potatoes & veg.

Spag bol
Sausage and veg
Risotto
Fajitas
Roast chicken

Had forgotten about toad in the hole. Must make more now getting colder...

Spaghetti Carbonara
Spag Bol
Sausage and Mash
Jacket Spuds, Mackerel or Pilchards and Salad
Pizza

Recently I wrote out all the dishes I can do without consulting a book (in the hope of varying the menu a little more, unsuccessfully) and there were about 50. We eat about 10 of them regularly, I have no motivation at the moment.

Chicken Curry
Pizza & Salad/Jackets
Steak Pie
Roast dinner
Pork stir fry with cashews and hoi sin sauce

They are the things that all of us will eat so tend to crop up the most often!

Chili
Japanese chili noodles
Pasta (with whatever is in the fridge)
Fahitas
Marinated chicken / veg

Chilli
Pasta with prawns in garlic sauce
Sausage, mash and onions
Moroccan chicken with cous cous
Toad in the hole

Anything with pasta always popular - my fabourite atm seems to be with bacon, leeks and courgettes with boursin melted on as the sauce
Cottage/shepherds pie
Curry and rice or sweet/sour with noodles (sorry sauce from jar ) with lots of veg
Sunday roast is getting more usual, never used to but now the kids love anything with gravy
Sausage and mash or fish fingers and potato wedges features once a week

I reckon I probably rotate about 20 meals that I can do without thinking, if you count pasta with different kinds on sauce (are spag bol and lasagne so different?), every so often DH will make a sarcastic comment about the number of recipe books I own

Roast pork (most Sundays )
Spag Bol
Sausage and mash
Pot roast chicken
Macaroni cheese

A typical week:

Spaghetti Bolognaise
Roast chicken and veg
Cottage/shepherds pie
Cauliflower cheese
Pasta with leek, ham, peas, cream & parmesan
Roast leg of lamb with flageolet beans and bread & butter
Chicken casserole
Lancashire hotpot

DS is really fussy, so I often have to cook different meals!

We all eat:
Roast Chicken, tatties and veg
Pork chops, chips and veg
Chicken Curry
Gammon and Pineapple with chips
Mince and tatties (I'm sick of it though!)
Pasta with tomato sauce
Sausages, beans and chips
Pasta, tuna and mayo
Roast beef (at my mums on a Sunday)
And last but not least....... Spag Bol

DP and myself:
Fish Pie
Corned beef hash
Chilli
Mushroom risotto
spicy pork and rice hot pot

When we have the above, DS has:
Chicken Dippers and chips
Burgers and chips
Hot dogs and chips
Pizza
Meatballs and pasta (he'll only eat meatballs in gravy, out of a tin

Pasta with tomato and quinoa/red lentil sauce (OK, veggie version of Spag Bol with different shaped pasta...!) or with roast veg, halloumi and pesto
Home made soup (various types) with cheese on toast
Stir-fry veg tofu/quorn/halloumi with noodles
Veg sausage and broccoli and potato mash
Spanish omelette/frittata

I probably only have about ten meals on rotation at the moment, but am trying to increase variety by trying something new every week.

Good to see what everyone else is doing (and nick some of those quick meal ideas...)

Roast chicken
Lasagne
Chicken fajitas
Curry
Fish and chips

But since ive been pregnant and DP is working 10am-9pm most days were really only having one or two proper family meals each week which is rubbish. I just make mini portions of things for DD like mac n cheese or spag bol.

Ooh tuna pasta bake thats another frequent one in my house... :)

Roast chicken or roast shoulder of pork with veggies
Leftover chicken in a curry of some sort and rice or
Chicken baked in a tomato and mascaopne sauce with new potatoes
Lamb tagine with chickpeas
Veggie lasagne and coleslaw
Omelette and salad
Jacket potatoes with various fillings
Pizza

Spaghetti bolognaise
Chilli and rice
Chicken fajitas
Sausages (my dad makes them so we get quite a few!)
Risotto

Spaghetti bolognese
Roast
Chicken and chorizo rice thing
Moroccan chicken tagine
Sausage pasta (the Jamie o one)
Meatballs in spicy tomato sauce with roasted gnocchi ( sounds fancier than it is and only 5 mins prep)
Curry and rice
Homemade pizza
Beef in ale stew and dumplings
Sausage and mash/ toad in the hole
Carbonara
Pasta arabiata
Thai chicken noodles
Cottage pie

They are all cooked equally regularly. I probably also try something new most weeks. However - I really love cooking and spending time in the kitchen so don't mind the effort. I have also delegated all other domestic tasks (cleaning, ironing, shopping, paying bills) to either dh or have someone to do them
If I had to do all the other stuff we would eat beans on toast and oven chips with turkey twizzlers and take a multivitamin

Teen DS 'prefers' Chicken, pasta and rice so

Chicken in rice sort of jambalya style
Chicken curry
Chicken stir fry
Jerk chicken
Thai coconut curry
Chicken fried rice
Spaghetti Carbonara
Macaroni cheese
Mackerel and Egg Kedgeree thing

As there is only so much chicken I can take

Butternut squash and peanut soup
Tuna steaks
lamb with apricots tagine style
green lentil soup

roast dinner (chicken, pork or lamb) each week and I make enough so we have the same (but with different veg) the following day
roast vegetables (summer or winter veg) with either pasta or halloumi and rice
salmon with new potatoes and broccolli/leeks
Pasta with tomato sauce and salad
Stirfry (prawns or chicken) with veg, spicy szechuan sauce and rice