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!
MNHQ

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[FlopIsMyParentingGuru]

Macaroni cheese
When I’m feeling particularly reckless I add broccoli
Never goes down as well as the original though!

[FlukeSkyeRunner]

Meals my whole family like include:

Grilled salmon with stir fried veg and noodles, with ginger, sot and lime sauce
Pasta bolognaise
Cottage pie
Chicken and mushroom/gammon leek and mushroom/lamb and veg pie
Chicken and chorizo traybake
Lasagne
Meatballs
Thai red chicken curry
Oven baked chicken, prawn and chorizo risotto

[NauticalDisaster]

Sausages, mashed root veg, and steamed mixed veg (broccoli, sugar snap peas, carrots, baby corn) always goes down well. As does spaghetti with meatballs, steamed veg, and garlic toast.

[NerrSnerr]

I make veggie chilli in the slow cooker which always seems to go down well.

[Salmonpinkcords]

Our favourites are spaghetti bolognese and chilli con carne - I make big pots and freeze the leftovers.
One of the easiest meals I do is pasta with tomato sauce with salmon and frozen veg - its quick and healthy and everyone likes it. Sometimes i do with leftover chicken.
I like My children to eat different foods and a recipe I adapt is a risotto - sometimes chicken and leek, sometimes butternut squash, sometimes salmon - just whatever I have in the house and needs used!

[Cheekyandfreaky]

1. pasta in any form. Quick sauces with pesto and cream or just some friend onions, garlic, the whole cupboard of herbs and always veg.
   
   
2. As an Asian family with no time, my lovely mum freezer bags up fried onions, ginger, garlic and chillis which we can chuck into dahls, chicken or veg to make traditional meals.
   
   
3. roast chicken- start in slow cooker with a load of veg, crisp off in the oven for skin. We do use the oven bag chickens from Lidl which are great.
   
   4)batch cooked soups or bakes done on a Sunday, frozen and then mid week defrosted and heated.
   
   
4. stirfrys, usually using pre-chopped bags, onions, ginger, chillis, some meat and then spices and soy sauce from the cupboard.
   
   
5. sometimes pies out of leftover chicken curry- layer of mash, topped with curry, topped with pastry and then in the oven.
   
   
6. Thai green or red curry- spice paste from the supermarket, coconut milk, veg, meat, yum.

[Taffeta]

Toad in the hole - eggs milk flour for batter whisk up, sausages in hot oven for 10 mins, take them out and crank it up even higher, stick them back in for 5 mins, then add batter and cook for 35 mins or so. Serve w greens and baked beans
Roast chicken or pork with roast potatoes parsnips carrots and Savoy cabbage
Sausage tray bake with garlic salt roast veg and new potatoes all drizzled in oil baked for 50 mins
Salmon tray bake with bacon new potatoes peas and spring onions
Chicken fajitas - a GH recipe from 20 years ago! Marinade for a few hours chicken onion and peppers in garlic lime coriander chilli. Make guacamole with avo, spring onion, coriander lime and garlic. Serve w cherry tomatoes sour cream and tortilla wraps

[PorridgeAgainAbney]

As a pp said, when you have a child with food allergies the family favourites of your childhood have to get adapted somewhat!

Weekdays it's usually a variation on a theme, usually batch cooked, frozen and reheated:
Chicken and mushroom pie
Fish pie using topping of mash/swede and canellini or butter beans
Curry
Some sort of meaty/beany casserole
Jacket potato or fish and chips or wedges on a Friday as I can't be bothered by then .

Weekends I usually try to do something different as there is more time, so I'll experiment with new meals; if they work (50/50 chance to be honest) then they might become a family favourite down the line .

[TheKnackeredChef]

One of my DCs is vegetarian and one is a picky so-and-so, so finding meals which suit everyone is a bit of a challenge. I like stuff which I can cook all together, just making a tweak here or there for veggie DD. Fajitas and burritos always go down well (I substitute chicken for halloumi in DD's), as does a nice curry with all the extra bits and bobs. Toad in the Hole is a winner too. I froze a load of pigs in blankets just before Christmas so I've been using them to make it recently. I may never go back.

By far the most popular is home made Nando's though. Roast chicken with a spicy rub, mashed baked sweet potato, spicy rice, corn on the cob, garlic mayo, flatbread, grilled halloumi, olives, hummus and chips. Everyone loves it.

[sharond101]

Enchiladas, meatballs, sausage pasta, chicken and rice

[claza93]

Spag Bol, chilli, Monday night is pasta night and I make a huge batch so they can have it for lunch the next day! We tend to have a roast on a Sunday too

[ButterflyOfFreedom]

Shepherds Pie!

Very easy but hearty & healthy (ish!)

Mash potatoes, carrots, peas, onions, green beans, mince beef, gravy, Henderson relish - what's not to live!

[ilovekitkats]

baked beans on toast
cheese potato bake - this is a favourite
spag bol
fishfingers and beans

[Lemonadesea]

meatballs and spaghetti
Pumpkin risotto
Coq au vin
Cottage pie
Cheese and potato pie
minestrone soup
french onion soup and crusty bread
felafel
lemony chicken

I could go on....getting hungry now.

[Zomam]

Chilli! We love it in our house, and always change what we have with it - pittas, wraps, rice, baked potatoes or tortilla chips. Always a hit and so easy to throw together!

[Stickladilove]

Chicken/Prawn fried rice. I use leftover rice, lots of veg and eggs.

Tandoori chicken, family favourite with home made fries and a cold drink.
I use my air fryer to grill the chicken

Thai Green curry with chicken or prawns with basmati rice and poppadoms

Home made pizza with various toppings and salad

Chicken and sweet corn soup with garlic toast

flat bread made with grated coconut and plain flour, served with dhal

[starlight36]

Sausage pasta - kids 'squidge' inside of six sausages into a pan with chopped up rosemary and some garlic. Fry until sausages are brown and then add two tins of chopped tomatoes. Cook for about 20 minutes and stir in your favourite cooked pasta. My kids love this and with a topping of chilli flakes, pepper and cheese is great for adults too.

[SandysMam]

We love a curry but with tons of added veg. Peppers, onions and spinach always go down well. Micro rice makes it super quick as well.

[MyPreciousWaja]

We eat loads of curries. I use any veg I've got lying round and add chicken or prawns.

We love a fish pie. Just bung the fish in the bottom of a dish, top with a cheese sauce and then a nice thick layer of mash.

Tonight we're having a Spanish style chicken traybake... chicken thighs, chorizo, tomatoes, red onions, red peppers and quartered small potatoes all in the same big roasting tin.

Tomorrow is lasagne and Friday night is kedgeree. Yes, I know it's meant to be a breakfast meal but we love it!

[foxessocks]

Pasta is my go to and we all love it and I can put loads of veg in it. And we have garlic bread with itwhich the kids love. It's so versatile

[3boysandababyontheway]

I have 3 boys. 1 who is incredibly fussy. My go to fuss free meals have to shepherds pie, home made soups, stews, sausage pasta and lasagne. I know these will be eaten no matter what.

[Treaclespongeandcustard]

Spag Bol is our 'go to' tea that everyone will always eat. I usually make it with quorn and so far nobody has noticed :)

[Royalsteph]

Tuna pasta. Tuna, pasta, spring onions, peppers and cucumber. Mixed together with salad cream and mayonnaise, topped with grated cheese. Quick and easy with leftovers used for packed lunches the next day.

[Ratbagratty]

"Sticky rice", this can be risotto in any form like chicken mushroom or butternut squash or a fish based one. It can also be leftover rice fried with cheese with anything from tomatoes, peppers to bacon thrown in it.

[misskatamari]

So many great, tasty ideas on here. We do a lot of batch cooking and freezing, so bolognaise, curry, lasagne, shepherds pie, chicken and ham pie, pasta bake, casseroles etc are staples. I often do a roast chicken in the slow cooker served with roasties and veggies which the while family love. It's so easy doing the chicken in the slow cooker and the meat just falls off the bone, so you get loads of meals out of it as well.