If there was only you and No expense spared give me your meal plan

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One can only dream as I have super fussy children and dh. But I'm not fussy at all and eat a huge range of things and not to wish my life away, but when the kids move out I dream of having lovely rich flavourful meals

If it was just up to you with no expense/waste to think of what would you have?

A few of mine would be steak, peppercorn sauce, chips and veg

I'd try lots of different Greek foods

Lasagnes/chillis filled with loads of lovely veggies (instead of smooth passata and that's it/have to cook a veg one separately)

Stews, again filled with lots of veg

I'd try loads of meals from around the world

Is this no expense spared and no calories spared?

Probably mostly the same but I'd buy the better olive oil, vinegar, cheeses, organic veg and fruit.

Restaurants every day until I was sick of them!

Prawns, sushi, steak, clams, on repeat in various different ways.

Yes no calories spared 🤣

Ooh yes to buying nicer things and eating out!

This is my life. I eat separately to DH and we have ample finances and time. I still eat like a uni student and I order Deliveroo more times than I care to admit. Sometimes twice in one day.

I honestly am trying to stop because I need to lose a stone. So I’m following for ideas haha

Lobster, langoustines, really fresh fish especially salmon, turbot and sole in fact probably any fish or seafood except mussels
Steak, peppercorn sauce and chips for me too OP
Fresh fruit salads, Pavlovas, any dessert really so long as it doesn’t contain coconut....
Gosh, I’m drooling here....l

Yes, definitely what @YanTanTetheraPetheraPimp said

I would order in sashimi nightly.

No calories spared - I'd try every curry recipe I could lay hands on, and have them with huge naans ordered in from a restaurant.

Lots of roasted red meat...lamb, beef, duck
Steak, prawns, Greek and Chinese food.

Roasted Mediterranean veg, lamb cutlets and cous-cous
Bowl of soup (for dinner, and that's it, because I'm not hungry, I'm tired, and I want to read rather than cook)
Spicy upon noodles with chicken and prawns
Paella with loads of chorizo
Paneer curry with loads of sides of pickles, Dahl, potato aloo, naan bread (and no rice)

I hate family meal planning, no bugger is happy, not even the person doing the lions share of work!

All the cliche stuff: caviar, champagne, oysters, lobster, truffles, along with raspberries, mango, Eton mess, cream, Mediterranean type food with plenty of herbs and garlic; mead and red wine.

Sushi
Lamb chops
Steak

That kind of thing

Salad and bread and cheese.

I'm the fussy eater, my family will eat anything but do expect a full meal every day (I do most of the cooking). If it was just me I wouldn't bother to cook at all!

In fact my family are so unfussy that every time I cook something I don't eat and make myself a salad they will look at me with Bambi eyes and say 'ooh that looks lovely, can I pretty please have some too?'

I long for fussy eaters who will just settle for some beige food and leave me to my salad. Although I probably wouldn't say that if I had them

Fresh tagliatelle with creme frais, blue cheese, chicken and bacon lardons. Handful of peas my favourite meal.
Lasagne home made.
Bolognese home made.
Home made pizza.
Home made Canelloni in tomato sauce.
In a former life I was probably Italian. Oh and Italian ice cream for dessert.

My family are pretty good eaters but there are a few things I love that they are largely ambivalent about so for me things I love that they don't so I'd eat while they were away would be"

• lamb chops, ideally with a tomato salad and a roasted pepper salsa. or a butter bean mash (or all of the above)
• Roasted aubergine, preferably with Japanese flavours like miso and sesame.
• stew: none of them are big fans but a lamb or oxtail stew are things I LOVE and don't get to make that often.
• pasta with sauces they wouldn't (all) eat eg garlic prawn, butter and white wine.

I don't think I'd ever make spaghetti bolognaise again. Not because I do't like it but because I just find it so boring!

Lobster, high quality sushi/sashimi, more lobster ... the quality and availability of lobster here is actually appalling. I would have huge juicy, sweet fleshed beasts which are off the usual weight scale.

I am an advanced cook/restaurant junkie myself and we already eat in the way described upthread but wrt lobsters, you cannot eat what you cannot access easily.

Just whatever I fancy whether it's beans on toast, smiley faces and fish fingers, a greasy takeout or a meal in a Michelin star restaurant. No plans just what I feel like on the day.

I'd probably eat a pretty healthy diet and eat much less meat but top quality when I did. I'd eat a bit more seafood and fish. Lots of highly veg-based curries, chillis, salads with some fancy/exotic ingredients. Moules frites. The occasional steak and roast. The thing which stops me eating that way (apart from my fussyish dc and meat-loving dh) is the time and effort rather than cost really.

Macaroni cheese with crispy bacon and onion bits with warm mince pies with clotted cream for pud.

I'd go to Miller & Carter and get a sirloin steak with onion loaf, beef tomato, lettuce with no dressing, but beef dripping sauce on the steak, plus fries. I'd have it with sparkling mineral water with lemon. I've only been a few times back in 2017 (I discovered it then!) but not since then. Would love to go back. I think this meal is £22.95.

So not a meal plan but a lot of my meals would be either sandwiches (nice baguette/crusty bread with nice ham & salad, or egg Mayo, tuna salad, chicken Mayo, Brie and bacon etc)
Or a mix of things like Parma ham, salami, olives, sundried tomatoes, all the cheeses, potato salad, bread, crisps etc

My husband likes these things but he thinks dinners should be a ‘proper’ meal like meat and 2 veg with gravy, or a big pasta meal etc
Nothing picky or soup, jacket potatoes etc - he deems that as lunch appropriate only 😂

Ds leaves home this October, I'm going to have a year off cooking. Given the choice I would have delicious things from a deli counter every day, artichoke hearts and olives and cheese with crackers, huge leafy salads with the odd flatbread. And otherwise, toast and marmite.