Staple Family Meals - share them with Lidl: chance to win £100 NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

The team at Lidl would love to hear what your staple family meals are in your family What's on your repertoire of dishes everyone likes? Have you adapted any older family favourite recipes for new diets or likes/ dislikes? How do you dish up something everyone likes? What accompanies your favourite dishes? Is there a recipe you turn to time and time again?

Whatever your Staple Family Meals are, Lidl would love to hear them!

Please post your recipes on this thread and you will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will get £100 worth of Lidl vouchers (note the winner will be sent 4 x £25 vouchers, one voucher can be redeemed per transaction).

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My great niece loves her veggies & I'm sure she's going to take after me as a vegetarian. The other week her Nana was eating steak & she asked what it was so she said 'it's steak, it's from a cow'. Olivia looked horrified & said 'But Nana, you can't eat a cow, it's an animal!' She'll be 5 soon but she always asks for veggies when we ask her what she wants for dinner.

Our favourite dish is an American one, called Buffalo chicken. It's adapted from its original American recipe to make it slightly healthier!! It's quite a hot dish as well, so depending on who is coming we will vary the amount of hot sauce in the dish.
I always try to serve up food in the middle of the table for everyone to help themselves, so people can take the appropriate portion size, but this doesn't stop my husband going in for seconds before others have finished their firsts!!
We have Buffalo chicken with a homemade potato salad, and a green salad.
Other than that the recipes I turn to time and time again are our favourite veggie ones, like aubergine based dishes, because they are so quick and filling after work!

Salad and anything, usually hot in winter. Healthy, nutritious and filling!

Kedgeree!! Quite simple and quick, just need a few pans. Cook basmati rice, boil some eggs, cook smoked haddock/cod then mix the cooked rice and fish into a base of sauteed onion, garlic, cumin seeds, fennel seeds, tablespoon hot curry powder, lump of butter and salt, once its all mixed add lemon juice and coriander and serve topped with hard boiled egg. I take out some of the onion mixture before adding the curry powder for my 3 year old as she doesn't like anything too spicy. Its nice with some green veg like aspargus or fine beans added as well, but I'm the only one in the family that thinks this

Unfortunately my little boy is a very fussy eater so his staple meal is fish fingers, french fries or happy faces, and marmite!

pasta bolognese

We have several ‘staple’ meals that we eat regularly: cottage pie, chilli, spinach, chickpea and sweet potato curry, baked haddock with butter beans, tomatoes and onions and sweet and sour chicken. We have at least one of these meals every week.

Home-made spaghetti bolognese, various curries (but mainly kurma and pathia), chicken meals then turned into soup, savoury croissants ...

Jacket potatoes, pasta bake, spag bol., chicken fajitas, and usually a pizza night.

Sausages or fish fingers, oven chips or potatoes and beans or peas

Spaghetti Bolognese
Sausage Casserole
Pasta

My children will eat anything as long as they can have tomato sauce with it!

Veggie lasagne with garlic bread is always a favourite, jacket potatoes with beans and cheese and veggie bolognaise and also popular.

Definitely pasta in our house. We make up big batches of lasagne and sauces for pasta bake and spaghetti. We also like a good roast once a week as well.

I love adding honey roasted carrots to my dishes ! We all love them

pasta with whatever veg is left over. 20 mins from start to finish and everyone eats it. It is my favourite "I haven't been shopping meal" that everyone will eat!

Sausage casserole is my easiest staple meal - precook the sausages; bung them in the slow cooker with a tin of toms and whatever leftover veg and herbs you have in. Nice and easy. :-)

Our no 1 family meal is chilli!

We do our shop in Lidl for mince, tinned tomatoes, Pitta breads, garlic, chilli powder, rice and sour cream. Then I cook it all up without a kidney bean in sight because we can’t stand them!! We all love it, especially my 2 year old and we have it once a week without fail! The best bit is that it all comes to about £7/8 in Lidl!!!

We love bean chilli made with kidney beans and haricot beans, tin tomatoes, tomato purée, 2 stock cubes, smoked paprika, a pepper, a carrot, an onion, several cloves garlic, three or four chilli peppers. Served with brown rice, chopped fresh coriander on top and a dollop of sour cream or Greek yoghurt.
Very healthy, very tasty and very cheap to make too.

It's usually really tough to find a meal everyone will eat in our house but either a creamy pasta dish or vegetable and prawn fried rice usually go down well.

Monday night is always slow cooker chilli as the kids love it and we both finish work a little later so it is helpful to have tea cooked and ready for when we all get home.

Spaghetti bolognese, pork chops, roast chicken, sausages, along with either potatoes, pasta or rice.

We eat loads of salad and vegetables with fish and eggs and love adding avocados and assorted nuts

Loads of stir fries and pasta/rice. We get through a lot of chicken !.

A chicken stew with all different types of veg is a firm favourite that I cook in bulk and freeze. You can have it with anything, rice, pasta, potatoes, chips. It's tasty and nutritious. I make chicken soup and spag bol in the same way so we always have something decent in the freezer :D

Curry, pasta, falafel, stew