What do you eat?

[Reluctantadult]

What are your go to foods? Those meals you tend to cook week in, week out?

Baked Potato with cheese/beans/tuna/coronation chicken/coleslaw/cottage cheese.... and a side salad

Curry with rice & naan

Burger & Chips

Some kind of pasta dish with garlic bread

Spaghetti bolognaise

Spaghetti and meatballs

Roast chicken or baked chicken thighs.

I think we've had at least one of those every week for what feels like forever. Other things come in waves

Good list, keep em coming...

We usually have jacket potatoes with baked beans and coleslaw one night, pizza another.

No-one warns you that being an adult is 90% deciding what everyone will eat.

I'm vegetarian - quorn fried with veggies, soured cream dip in wraps with rice

Omelette

Pasta with homemade pesto

Quesedillas

Jacket pot with so much cheeeese

Blackened cauli with greek salad and falafel

Chickpea curry, dahl, rice, tamarind potatoes

Curry & rice, chilli, tortilla wrap pizzas, stir fry, Quorn chicken wraps & salad, fish cakes & chips, homemade kebabs, jacket potatoes, omelettes, some form of pasta with garlic bread, fish tacos, fajitas (all vegetarian or fish)

Fajitas, omelettes, roast chicken, mushroom risotto, salmon & pesto mash, stir fries, shepherd's pie. On a 2 week loop, and a lot of things I make double and freeze. Oh, salads, baked pots. Bake a whole bag, and freeze.

Oven baked chicken thighs with some sort of seasoning/marinade (piri-piri, or Chinese, BBQ, lemon and garlic etc) with some sort of oven cooked veg/potato etc

Jacket potato

Fry up (cooked in oven/grill mainly) some combination of- bacon, sausages, mushrooms, hash browns, some type of egg (scrambled, fried etc) baked beans etc

Some sort of stir fry (chicken, pork etc) with stir fry veg, a sauce and either rice/noodles

Sausage traybake, prawn pasta, fish finger wraps, chicken thighs with Nando’s sauce, rice and salad, chilli with rice and taco shells and ALLL the sides, steak and peppers and cheese in a baguette

Spaghetti bolognese, meatballs and pasta, fish and chips beans, hunters chicken

Veggie thai red curry, chilli basil stir fry, chicken adobo, fish with greens and rice, creamy pastas, minestrone, tortellini soup...those are the ones most in rotation at the moment

These sound amazing

Burrito bowls or tacos - in almost every one I include refried beans and sweetcorn/pineapple pico de Gallo, among other components.

Kedgeree

Chicken tikka

Italian beef ragu

Chilli con carne
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Something I started this year that has been really helped is adding a "Successful Meals" tab to my weekly meal planning spreadsheet. If a meal I cook is really nice and I think it would be good to have again I copy across into there. That way I have a list meals that have worked well I can refer to when planning so it's not scratching around for ideas.

Spag bowl
stir fry
steak (pork or beef) with sliced potato’s and veg
fish finger wrap and chips

All these take 20 mins of less:

Spag bol and garlic bread. I always grate a carrot into it to add some more veg 😆
Chicken drumsticks and peppers in a Maggi So juicy bag.
Steak and wedges.
Fish fingers, chips, peas.
Curry and rice.
Beans on toast.
Sausages and mash.
Roasted veg and couscous salad.
Salmon fillets with potatoes and veg.

Bolognaise or chilli
Stir fry
Jacket potatoes, quiche and salad
Sausage, mash and veg
Mixed bean chilli burritos
Falafel, couscous and pitta breads with hummus and salad
Tortellini, bacon, broccoli and pesto
Gnocchi with bacon and tomato sauce
Fish cakes, new potatoes and peas
Fish burgers or beanburgers, salad and wedges

Yeah, every time I ask DD (24 and lives with us) what we should have for tea, she says she doesn't know and doesn't mind. Last time I asked her I pointed out that one day she will leave home and will have to decide every bloody night what to eat.

Lasagne / spag Bol / chilli
Fish pie /fish dish
Roasts
Chops / sausages
Chicken dish
Pasta / curry of some sort
Risotto
Baked potatoes
Salads of varying styles and tastes
BBQ

Plus occasional puddings using seasonal fruits.

And how mind numbingly boring it is!

I used to love cooking now it's just a drain, I think lockdown killed it for me. Anyway we tend to have:

Something noodley - pho / stir fry / laksa
Something pasta - pasta bake, carbonara, salami pasta or gnochhi with chorizo or pesto
Something mince - spag bol, chilli, meatballs, tacos, nachos, shepherds pie
Something beige like kiev / goujons and chips
Something pre made or from a 'just cook' range
Something chicken - could be anything at all that involves chicken breast eg fajitas, enchiladas, chicken in mushroom sauce etc

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mushroom, Parmesan and bacon tagliatelle
Lasagne
chilli with guacamole and hard shell tacos
lemon and lime chicken with rice
chicken schnitzel with pesto pasta
itsu chicken gyozas with chilli paste stir fry greens