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).

Thanks and good luck!
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WE all love a pasta bake in our house! Add any meat - bacon or sausage or chicken usually, a few mushrooms and some spinach and pour a pasta bake sauce over the top. Add grated cheese and bake for 30 mins. Delicious!

Cottage pie will always be gratefully received.

Jacket spuds, risotto, lasagne, pizza, burgers, pasta, curry and fish.

We all like different things but my son is mad on bacon

Sandwiches for lunch, and a variety of things in the evening.

Our staple is Pasta, you can make so many delicious meals, last night we had a low fat vegetable Pasta. This consisted of peppers, greenbeans,tomatoes, courgettes, & leeks. Flavoured with a spot of low fat cream & cheese salt & pepper.I just throw whatever is left in the pot with the past then mix through the cream & cheese, tastes great and is a very healthy midweek meal.

A roast dinner
Spag bol
Sausage/spuds/veg tray bake
Cottage pie
Stew made from roast dinner leftovers
Homemade pizzas using dough setting on bread maker

Nutritious, filling, affordable, appealing to most, easy to warm up if anyone's running late and freezable if there's any left.

Has to be pizza!

Miso Chicken and rice soup.

500ml chicken stock,2 skinless chicken breasts,1/4 cup long grain rice,2 carrots chopped,2 tbsp miso paste,1 tbsp soy sauce,1 tbsp mirin,2 spring onions shredded.

Warm the stock in a saucepan. Add the chicken breasts and simmer for until cooked through. Remove from the pan and dice .
Add the rice and carrots to the hot stock. Bring up to the boil, cover with a lid, cook until the rice is cooked and the carrots are al dente.
Add the chicken back into to the pan and add the miso, soy and mirin. Spinkle over the spring onions just before serving.

Both my boys and I love this especially in the winter months.

Half of us are vegan and half eat meat. Vegan staples - lemon and spinach risotto, vegan chilli Meat Eaters - Spaghetti Bolognaise, Chilli
Shared - vegan cream root make (potatoes, carrots, celeriac with chilli and cream), vegan sausages or meat sausages.

Wish Lidl would do vegan cheese and plant milks in pint sizes

One of our favourites is corned beef hash. Just cook a few carrots and an onion with some beef stock. When the carrots are cooked, add half a tin of chopped up corned beef and half a tin of baked beans. Warm through and thicken if needed with cornflour. It's warming and filling.

Rice meals, pasta meals and really innovative salads.

We are trying to save money at the moment so lots of pasta dishes & baked potatoes with various fillings

Egg, chips and baked beans.

We eat a lot of salads with varied meats, we also eat a lot of pasta's. Sunday's are always a roast dinner! :)

Oh yes, egg chips and beans is food for a prince

Our staples tend to be things where people can opt out of parts of it:

Vegetable pad thai. Sometimes spiralised veg instead of noodles. Optional chicken/prawns. Optional homemade pad thai sauce (chilli, lime, soy, peanuts)

Homemade veggie chilli (mushrooms and blackbeans for the main bulk of it). Made into burritos the next day.

Dal with rice or homemade chapattis. Dal varied with spinach or roasted veg or paneer or crisped spiced roast chickpeas or grilled spiced chicken for the meateaters.

Homemade pizza. Homemade base & tom sauce. Margarita then optional toppings.

Roast dinner, spaghetti bolognaise, pork stir fry, pizza, meatloaf among others

Spaghetti Bolognese is a favourite in our house, as well as the good old fashioned bangers and mash!

Chicken traybake...very simple and very tasty. I put chicken thighs on a large baking tray...add diced potatoes, onions, peppers, tomatoes, garlic, drizzle with olive oil and squeeze a lemon over it all. Roast for about an hour.

Our go to meals are spaghetti bolognese, macaroni, homemade curry, roast dinners and salmon with pesto. I serve meals with things like rice, salads, roasted or steam veg and breads such as naan or garlic bread. The recipe i go to is gluten free victoria sponge as i use it to make celebration cakes or cupcakes. I am recently ceoliac so everything for me has to be gluten free however family meals such as lasagna I have adapted to be gluten free and all the family love it!

Most of our go to meals are usually pasta or rice dishes;
Spag bol, pasta with sauce (different types), curry, paella, stir fry.

Homemade dishes in the style of the Chinese takeaway are guaranteed to be eaten in this house! I make sweet and sour, black bean, satay, Szechuan, etc sauces from scratch (I was amazed at how many of the ingredients needed are readily available and how easy it is to make - I thought it would be a real dark art, and you know what's gone into it!) Plus, I can throw in whatever veg needs to be used up.

Cottage pie, chicken curry, Bolognese or chill. Tasty quick meals and I use up what vegetables I have left.

as hubby is now vegan meals that both adults and children like are very hard to come by however we do a mean red lentil spaghetti bolognese or shepherds pie x