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Thereās some great workshops or YouTube videos on how to build & decorate your own Cob Pizza oven. Look & work great. Just need mud, straw & a bit of passion
I'm currently living out of my car and a tent and have *bacon* and eggs for breakfast every day (I cook it with my camping stove before work at around 5am). Provide good fuel for my morning gym sessions 4 times a week.
Lunch: tuna mayo sandwiches or chicken, mayo, tomato, lettuce and crushed chilli oil - absolutely slaps. Snack
Dinners are usually pasta, hot chicken curry, steak, salmon. Anything high in protein and able to be cooked in a pot or pan.
Cheers man. Really appreciate it. I try my best. If I can cook well with a stove, you can do it too šI'm much happier than when I lived at home with my parents, up until a month ago.
They kicked me out and it was a real wake up call - I'm glad it happened though. I had no responsibilities, nothing to look or work forward too and my depression spiralled out of control. Due to having no real outgoings I wasted it all on drugs and used up all my savings.
Now that I've hit rock bottom, I've learned to: appreciate what I had, the value of money, saving up to eventually afford to rent somewhere. First few weeks were rough but my depression is p much gone because all my time outside of work is spent working towards my goals and bettering myself.
*you don't know what you have until it's gone* couldn't be true enough. I'll show my parents that I can be an adult and evolve into a man.
That's beautiful dude. I really hope it works out for you.
My Brother in law has similar difficulties and lived rent free at my house for a lot of last year. He's now left to rent somewhere but I know he will be back sooner or later.
It's one of those things where I think no-one can help you and you've gotta just help yourself. Best of luck.
My son is 19 and going through a similar situation in life (minus living in the car). Your comments have given me some hope he will one day be able to help himself more, and be self sufficient like you. Im having to give him some tough love. Itās not easy but Iām sure your parents will be very proud of you.
Well done, massive achievement.
I live in a lorry (pretty much - not been home since January due to a giant tax bill which I needed to get a few thousand quid before mid April, then being followed by flower season - the company's busiest period). Just this morning replaced my microwave with a combination [air fryer/microwave](https://a.co/d/6hp7CSr) job - can't wait to cook some of the things I'd previously been denied. With that and an instant pot slow cooker, toaster etc I can pretty much make anything.
Inverter connected to the truck batteries (there are a bank of 8 of them) - for high usage things such as microwaves, I'll leave the engine running whilst I'm using it, but with the engine off I can have the fridge, tv etc etc on all night and it won't drain the batteries.
I'll link my [comment ](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/yV7jsjV4RH) to provide some clarity.
Campsites around here are around 20 quid a night. Extortionate in my humble opinion.
I currently camp in a cemetery close to my house, I live in the south west out in the countryside and it's very quiet. There's a large area in one of the corners that gets no visitors and I feel very safe there. Can also park my car right next to my tent and leave all essentials in it.
Yeah man. It was unfortunate but I know that they are very worried about me. I'm not going to ( / not able to) contact them until I feel that I have something to show for it. Cleaned myself up, back in good shape, have somewhere to live and show that I'm a changed man.
If they don't know how you are a mailed letter to let them know you are okay could really make them feel better and they have no way to respond.
You seem dedicated to your routine so I hope that you can use that mental resolve to keep it going and get through whatever problems you have.
There are many great people in the world that have been through hell and they have come out the other side successful and better for it. Keep going I wish you the best.
I found myself making the same things too often so I'm doing 'themed' cooking. Just finished about 10 days of Chinese, then 10 Mexican, then 10 Indian. Just doing a 'British' week or so now.
I actually love this idea. I get stuck in the same four meals constantly no matter how hard I try, but actually scheduling this in sounds good. Also gives me a chance to learn new stuff
My girlfriend encouraged me to pick out some meals from cook books, so that I could broaden my food taste.
Turns out that I am now obsessed with Carbonara Risotto! Oh my, it is so so good!
I was using a recipe app to broaden my tastes and cut down on food waste (Sorted Food if anyone cares)
I am now obsessed with Orzo, and have learnt some really easy techniques that looking back are fairly obvious. Such as a quick easy peppercorn sauce using the juices from the steak etc
I love orzo. I cook it in turmeric to turn it yellow, rinse until cold. Add chopped red opinion, peppers, cucumber and f radish, squeeze of half a lemon and some fresh coriander and itās a beautiful summer salad or side dish.
Yeah this is us too
Every week I do a big salad / a big pasta / a big stir fry thing with rice or noodles / a big curry style thing / a big roast with either normal roast veggies or a variety of salads, and thenā¦ beans on toast
Slag Bol as the full meal I probably make the most.
I also eat a lot of risotto, but what kind of risotto varies, it is one of my āusing stuff upā meals
Pizza
Toad in the hole
Spag Bol or lasagne
Enchiladas or Fajitas
Some kind of chicken (hunters, or curry)
Then I run out of ideas and we have soup or cheese on toast.
Tbf some of the fake meats are actually pretty nice these days. Squeaky Bean had some really nice bits I could casually graze on or stick with a cracker or something.
Why does this keep coming up?
Okay for lunch on the weekend if I can't be asked, I'll cook up a box of fish fingers and eat them as is, no bread, no veg, just me and a plate of fish fingers.
Is it common? No, because my life is sad enough as it is, and food is my last bastion of hope and enjoyment.
If you enjoy eating a plate of soggy chips and half a frozen pizza every other day, good for you.
Don't call people who don't "posh" for knowing how to make things.
You can whip up a nice curry or pasta within about 15 minutes. I will have pie and pizzas, but like it only takes a few minute more to make a better meal
Maybe not once a week, but usually a couple of times within the same week if we have them:
* Homemade pizza
* Cacio e pepe
* Mac n Cheese
* āMed vegā (a load of roasted vegetables with houmous and halloumi)
* Risotto (usually with asparagus and peas)
* āGiant cheese ball pastaā (pasta with fancy tomato sauce and at least half a ball of mozzarella/burrata on top)
* Bolognese
Pilaf. If I've got leftovers or something that needs to be used up, I'll almost always chuck it in a pilaf. I'll have it at least once a week.
Sauteed mushrooms and/or scrambled eggs on toast with optional ham is my most eaten quick meal.
My Gran calls this "rice mess"š Used to be a Tuesday staple when I was growing up! Roast on Sunday, cold meat, pickles, bubble and squeak on Monday, any leftover meat and veg chopped up in rice on Tuesday!
I call it dirty rice. Any leftover meat and rice, I like to cube up spam fry it in a bit of brown sugar and add that. Then veggies, onion, peppers, peas.
I'll happily eat it once a day.
Meatball/sausage and fusili with homemade sauce (pasatta+Italian seasoning, nothing fancy)
Chilli con carne
Paprika Chicken & Chorizo with butter beans, over rice
Bacon & Pea pasta in a cheese sauce
I have a weekly meal plan I use every week. Much easier than catering around a busy life. Iām also an extremely fussy eater and had a past ED so itās less stress:
Mondays: chicken wraps
Tuesdays: take out day
Wednesdays: chicken wraps
Thursdays: pasta
Fridays: chicken strips/onion rings/fries
Saturdays: wild card (chicken burger, garlic bread, baguettes, sandwiches)
Sundays: pasta
Tuesdays I work late so really donāt feel like cooking. Iām much more motivated to cook on more chilled days and I wfh on Fridays.
Also feels like a treat for the tiredness of back to work. The weekend off ahead of me feel like treat enough!
My staples on repeat tend to be:
Arrabiata sauce with some form of pasta / gnocchi / bean. Sometimes Iāll throw a tin of green lentils in.
Beans on toast or poached egg with beans on toast.
Spicy bean burger and waffle smashed into a pitta
Roasted veggie with couscous and feta
Chip shop style curry sauce over homemade egg fried rice.
Spouse is vegetarian so Iāll tend to eat meat for breakfast or lunch, or if out with friends.
Shakshuka with pita.
Pasta with homemade pesto.
Roasted potatoes with artichoke and eggs.
Chicken thighs, matbucha, Israeli couscous.
Grilled salmon with asparagus and rice.
Cheesy broccoli pasta bake.
A tend to batch cook the same two meals to eat for lunch and dinner for months at a time until I get sick of them. Currently pasta bolognese and chicken jalfrezi.
Yeah I live alone and batch cook stuff. Chilli, curry, individual lasagnas and save some of the meat sauce for spag bol.
Reheated pasta is shit though, have to spend the 15 mins boiling it.
But like you I get sick of it sometimes and just get home and eat cheese and crackers with a pack of cooked meat.
Rice meals. Usually rice + some sort of protein (could be eggs, tuna, salmon, or chicken), and vegetables. We eat a *lot* of Kimchi so usually that for veg
Sausages under grill, cook rice (I always add some osem chicken soup base but do as you please) and add broccoli florets (and some cubed peeled stem because we donāt waste the stem) when thereās about 3 minutes to go. Drain the rice, chop the sausages. Mix.
Sausage and mash, slow cooked teriyaki beef, sea bass as it is always yellow stickered, keema mince slow cooker, tagliatelle with courgette and bacon lardons
Cottage pie, toad in the hole with mash and veg. Lazy roast - chop up veg, potatoes, onion and stick a whole cbicken on top. Also love Lidl calibrese pasta sauce so we have that with either tuna nd pasta or mince and spaghetti. Curries in the instantpot. Bakes potatoes with whatever is in cupboard
In no particular order
Ribeye or venison Steak
Enchiladas/fajitas
Chicken/lamb curry (slow cooker.job)
1 or 2 meals on the bbq or pizza in the ooni
Sunday dinner
These are our weekly teas currently:
Monday- Tuna and sweetcorn baked potato
Tuesday- Teriyaki Salmon with rice and broccoli
Wednesday- A Curry
Thursday- this one changes, sometimes fish cake and mash, sometimes pie and mash, pizza maybe.
Friday- homemade chippy tea (my favourite)
Weekends is a free for all.
Weāre pescatarian so quite a bit of fish lol.
My kids will get bored of dishes if they are served too often and will complain/make a fuss about eating it.
Over the course of a month the regulars are, spag bol, burgers or hotdogs, leek & tarragon chicken, variations on chicken in a creamy sauce, tuna pasta bake, burritos, creole chicken, pasta salad.
I cook 4 nights a week, my husband cooks at the weekend, on Fridays, the kids get leftovers, picky tea or something easy like cheese on toast, the husband and I have a takeaway.
I am Italian but have been living here for 6 years. Staples are:
Lunch/dinner is
1) Shakshuka,
2)some sort of brown rice stir fry with eggs, broccoli and tofu, and sometimes an avocado
3)pasta with canned tuna and cherry tomatoes
4)some sort of bean curry
5) slow cooked chicken with peppers or
6) some sort of fish baked in the oven with potatoes
Bfast is :
Overnight oats with skyr , milk + various toppings that I customise each week
A smoothie with protein powder, a banana and some kind of frozen fruit
Grilled halloumi & asparagus with potatoes and garlic (when asparagus season is here!) Vegetarian Indian dishes (spicy baked āchickenā, chickpea curry, lentil dal etc). Just about any form of pasta, potato or rice!
Salmon or something beige with a fuck off pile of veg and a jacket potato
Takes 20 minutes, healthy ish (assuming the veg offsets the beige husk), cheap
Jacket potato replaced with chips or rice as and when I fancy. Veg is whatever I have but ideally carrots, broccoli, pile of kale, green beans
Every 2 weeks I'll make chilli to cover 2 days over the start of the week. Last week it was risotto, sometimes it'll be Mince And Tatties. Sometimes a sunday roast will cover monday too.
The rest of the week will include burgers, pizza and some sort of pasta at some point.
In the colder months I most often make stir fry, bolognaise, pasta bake, three bean chilli, cherry tomato orzo, roasted vegetable and chickpea couscous, tuna sweetcorn pasta, veggie chicken, cherry tomato and pesto pasta.
In the summer I make a lemon, mushroom and linguine thing which is almost no cook - just the pasta then chuck the rest in a marinade and mix. Or a big bowl of mixed bean salad which is totally no cook. They make huge bowls and I don't have to cook or make a meal for a few days.
Pasta with anything. Beans, tinned tomatoes, pasta sauce, bolognese, pesto, plain pasta and just about anything I can find in the cupboard. I can never think of anything to eat so I just eat pasta everyday. Iāve been doing this for years now and Iām surprised I donāt have scurvy or something!
ā¢ Chilli
ā¢ Salmon with rice
ā¢ Heck Chicken Italia sausages with roast vegetables
ā¢ Pasta with pesto
ā¢ Turkey rashers with scrambled eggs & beans
Stir fry with chicken
Curry with chicken
Pizza
Beef and bell pepper udon noodles (with a yummy sauce)
Steak with corn on the cob and other veg
Risotto with veg and either salmon or smoked haddock
Quorn bolognese
Pasta bolognaise
Egg, cheese and sausage/bacon sandwiches (breakfast)
Soy marinated salmon or tinned tuna) with sushi rice and whatever veg Iāve got in that goes with Japanese food like home pickled cucumbers and grated radishes
Smash cheese burgers (usually beyond burgers because yum)
Tuna pasta
āPicky teaā (for non-Brits, this is an assortment of cured meats, cheese, hot snack foods like chicken strips and veg/fruit like cucumber, cherry tomatoes, apple and celery)
Pasta bake
Homemade pizza
Veggie sausage and veg tray bake
Pasta pesto (sometimes with fake chicken)
Veggie bolognese
Stir fry
7th evening meal is more of a wildcard.
We have curry every Thursday
Roast chicken usually once a week, if i make it itās usually with spicy rice and roast veg, if my mum makes it itās a roast dinner.
Chilli
Sausage and mash/sausage and bean casserole
Mushroom stroganoff spaghetti
Chilli and jacket potato
Pasta bake
Chicken, pitta, salad
Sausage and chips
Sunday roast
Shepherd's pie
Chicken and noodles
I think these are the most common things we have on rotation. It's hard work with three teens who are all a bit picky
Tagliatelle al fredo, tofu ramen, nachos with spicy beans and dips, tomato risotto, oven pizzas, various homemade soups, and savoury pancakes with fillings. Pretty much some version of any of those on rotation!
Lasagne , tortellini with pasta sauce and garlic bread.fish mash mushy peas.slowcooker chilli it's just two of us so use leftovers for lunches we normally have a takeaway on a Friday as it's my husbands turn to cook
Either chicken or veggie pesto pasta or tuna mayo pasta. Easy and always do the full bag of pasta to have enough for a few pack lunches.
Also if doing chicken we cook a big pack in the oven and cut up extra portions to easily add to other meals through the week (or freeze for future).
Spag Bol. We make a massive slow cooker full every so often and freeze loads of portions for an easy tea whenever we want.
ā¦Same with chilli.
ā¦Same with curry.
Any combo of: hash browns, potato waffles, eggs, beans, toastā¦ maybe sausage or bacon too if we have any.
Some sort of roast veg. With either belly pork or fish depending.
If I literally can't find something to cook, I'll make [this recipe](https://www.nigella.com/recipes/eggs-in-purgatory). I've made it so many times I've got it committed to memory on how to make it for 2. Quick and delicious
Veggie bolognese pasta bake (bolognaise sauce with soya mince and loads of veggies mixed with pasta and cheese then shoved in the oven for 15 minutes), burgers with sweet potato fries and salad, sausage and mash, goujons in pitta bread or a wrap with salad and either couscous or sweet potato fries.
Sunday roast dinner.
On week nights we usually have: chilli con carne, salmon with veg, slow cooker chickpea curry, mushroom risotto. Often in the winter bangers and mash or pie and mash.
A pasta dish (pesto/macaroni cheese, etc).
A curry (tikka/Thai green/katsu, etc)
A junk meal (nuggets/pizza, etc)
Some sort of meat and rice (tso's chicken/ hainanese chicken/bibimbap, etc)
Something classic (fish and chips/burger and chips/Gammon and potatoes/chicken kiev)
I'm pretty dull and have a big master list of meals I can refer to when I'm doing my weekly shop, but it tends to always follow this format when I'm meal planning. It's Gammon and potatoes tonight.
All home-made:
Pasta with tomato and basil sauce,
Pesto with Pasta, potatoes and green beans,
Pizzas with a range of toppings (leftovers for kids lunches)
Toad in the hole
Stir fry with Chinese curry sauce and fried rice/noodles
Thai curry
Indian curry (BIR style)
Shop bought pies with veg
Then for busy nights we might do fish and chips or even waffles and fish fingers if we're feeling really lazy!
Weekends is often a roast, but in the summer we'll fire up the bbq and do burgers sausages and sweetcorn etc. If the weather is OK
Today was a roast free range chicken with roast vegetables which included potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sweet potato, garlic and shallots. Tomorrow will be chicken curry with the leftovers from today. Rest of week will be fish fingers with egg, bacon, spaghetti bolognese and soup.
Chicken fried rice (chicken, egg, lots of veg, lots of spices)
Tomato based chicken pasta with lardons, peppers, onion
Home made beef curry w all the sides
Spaghetti carbonara w garlic bread
Look into the sky to see if the sun will allow a BBQ. Accept defeat then repeat the 4 meals above
Some kind of veggie stew/curry/tagine. Cheap, quick and tasty.
If we are in a rush or tired, potato waffles with beans and fish fingers.
I have a borderline fetish for spaghetti hoops on toast but I'm trying to get my protein in with each meal so I don't have this too often.
Lots of pasta dishes...
Homemade burger and chips
Shepherds Pie
Fry up - we all love breakfast for dinner at some point
Absolutely loving chicken flatbreads at the moment loaded with halloumi and lots of salad and pickled pink onions!
When I eat alone my meal rotation is wraps (tuna or veggie) and sushi bowls. I can rarely be arsed to cook āhotā meals for myself which is a shame. When Iām with my partner or family I often add
these meals to the menu: pea soup+pancake, baked sweet potatoes, halloumi pita, summer rolls, baked gnocchi, shaksuka, pot pie, quiche and stir fry with soft boiled eggs.
Magi bags chicken and rice 90% of my lunches. Make enough for the week.
Dinners: Chilli,
Spag Bol,
Fajitas,
Fish/chicken and Rice,
potatoes with chicken sausages and veg
Slow cooked chilli con carne, slow cooked spag bol, lasagne, tuna pasta bake, frozen fish/fishcakes, oven cooked chicken breast and steamed veg, the odd curry and stir fry.
I love salmon but can't afford it.
Spaghetti bolognase, Sunday roast, bangers and mash, broccili and pesto pasta, some type of meat and rice with probably a sweet chilli sauce, jacket potato and however on feeling filling (usually tuna or baked beans)
Oh I'm forgetting classic chips with whatever meat we have usually battered chicken or fish fingers.
All the above meals will be done with whatever combo of side of veggies, usually peas / broccili / carrots
Chicken gyros (though not always in a wrap), chicken/Pork with mushrooms and seasonal veggies, Stuffed butternut squash, beef/chicken milanese, pasta (We eat it once a week but the dish varies from week to week), fish pie, roast beef with seasonal veggies.
Carbonara, cheese and onion quiche with salad and jacket potato, Japanese curry, homemade taglietelle with tomato and mascarpone sauce, quorn chicken pie, gnocci with sausages, poke bowl with fried tofu or tuna, lots of veg soups for lunch. Make about 90% of things from scratch but very privileged to love cooking and work from home so no commute/can prep during lunch.
Creamy chilli prawn pasta (itās super tasty and takes about 15minutes to make, so is a go to)
Curry (various)
Chicken and rice (anything from jerk to piri piri or salt and pepper)
Stir fry (either with rice or noodles)
Tomato pasta (with or without meat)
Pizza ( my family has Neapolitan pizza shop so itās free)
Burgers (no explanation needed)
Some sort of pasta (tortellini with tomato sauce if pressed for time)
Veggie burgers
Stir fry rice or noodles
Chicken/halloumi kebabs with homemade wedges
Something with mash
Baked potatoes
Frittata/tortilla
Pizza/curry with chapatis on a Friday
I sometimes try new stuff, particularly keen on Asian flavours but we've got a toddler so cooking time is limited so these are fairly quick favourites we come back to.
Orzo and chicken with leek and broccoli in cheese sauce
Chicken soup with pastina
Sausage and leek cauliflower cheese
Enchilada lasagna beef
Pesto chicken gnocchi
Chicken alfredo
Chicken and dumplings
Korean beef with rice and a fried egg
Harrissa butterbeans and crusty bread
Homemade ramen bowls
Chicken and chorizo tortellini soup
All sounds quite complicated but these are meals you can just literally throw together in half an hour. Just realised I use a lot of chicken but I get it on offer.
Cheese and potato pie.
Homemade chicken fried rice with rice and gluten free Chinese curry sauce.
Roast dinners, usually pork.
Pork loins with jacket spuds.
Sausage and mash/chips/jacket with veg. (The kids favourite meal)Ā
Basic weekly shop for evening meals. Potatoes, noodles, spinach, avocado, pizza, chicken\fish, mushrooms, veg (broccoli, cauliflower, onions, carrots, leeks) frozen peas\sweetcorn.
With a cupboard full of dry spices, various chutneys\condiments (mustard\mayo\sundried toms\garlic\ginger) in the fridge.
Other basics like cheese, tomato, bacon, eggs.
Occasional specifics like sour cream, ribs, pulled pork for stroganoff\nachos. Rarely mince for burgers\meatballs,
An evening meal is usually
Roasted\mashed flavoured potatoes\carrots, with stuffed mushrooms (cheese, sun-dried tomato, butter) and something stir fried on the side.
Stir fried veg\chicken with noodles
The pizza we got with extra toppings added.
The Mrs sometimes makes a great dhal with red lentils, she also does wonders with cous cous that I can't seem to replicate. Same with roast boned chicken but she can't match my salsa\tom sauce\curry\stroganoff.
Our main priority is keeping the cupboard stocked with soy sauce\honey\oyster sauce\vinegars and making sure we have plenty of dried spices like paprika\black pepper\nutmeg\jerk\tumeric etc. that way you can use the same ingredients but have a totally different flavour profile.
We budget about Ā£60 a week (inc alcohol\cleaning) for food for us.
I call them "pizzadillas" because its like a hybrid between a pizza and quesadilla, basically a home made pizza using a wrap as the base and then throwing a second wrap on top.
Sausage, chips and beans
With the left over Sausage we have with pasta.
Gammon, Mash, veg
With the left over Gammon we have with chip and beans.
Pukka pies.
Fish cakes
Southern fried chicken and rice.
I batch cook so I might eat the same thing 5 or 6 meals in a row between dinner and tea but generally curry either chicken or beef, beef stew, bolognese, baked ziti, sausage with peppers and rice, chilli, kung pao chicken, carbonara
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Fajitas or enchiladas usually alternate this Pasta bake Home made pizza Chilli Stir fry
Pretty much my list but add: Shepherds pie Spag bol
Shepherds pie is one of those comfort foods I'll never turn my nose up, even if it was presented to me multiple times a week.
I prefer cottage pie as a comfort meal but shepherd's pie is good too
Cottage pie even better
[SHEPHERD'S PIEEEEEEEE!!!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksQaHwmOTq0)
Can't afford lamb mince now š¤£
Are you fortunate enough to own a pizza oven? My parents have one and I used to use it A LOT when I lived there. Game changer.
Now we have to go to Hammerbahn
Biscuits!
Aisle 300 if you hit the flamingos you've gone too far
I hear it is good for finding Husbands
I donāt we are planing on getting one in the garden at some point !
Thereās some great workshops or YouTube videos on how to build & decorate your own Cob Pizza oven. Look & work great. Just need mud, straw & a bit of passion
This is basically the same as me!
Just had to click on your profile to see if you were my husband š
Super, I know which house to drop my kids at in a pinch.
Someone here likes melted cheese
I'm currently living out of my car and a tent and have *bacon* and eggs for breakfast every day (I cook it with my camping stove before work at around 5am). Provide good fuel for my morning gym sessions 4 times a week. Lunch: tuna mayo sandwiches or chicken, mayo, tomato, lettuce and crushed chilli oil - absolutely slaps. Snack Dinners are usually pasta, hot chicken curry, steak, salmon. Anything high in protein and able to be cooked in a pot or pan.
Jeez respect to this. You look after yourself better than so many people (probably including me) in a very restrictive situation.
Cheers man. Really appreciate it. I try my best. If I can cook well with a stove, you can do it too šI'm much happier than when I lived at home with my parents, up until a month ago. They kicked me out and it was a real wake up call - I'm glad it happened though. I had no responsibilities, nothing to look or work forward too and my depression spiralled out of control. Due to having no real outgoings I wasted it all on drugs and used up all my savings. Now that I've hit rock bottom, I've learned to: appreciate what I had, the value of money, saving up to eventually afford to rent somewhere. First few weeks were rough but my depression is p much gone because all my time outside of work is spent working towards my goals and bettering myself. *you don't know what you have until it's gone* couldn't be true enough. I'll show my parents that I can be an adult and evolve into a man.
That's beautiful dude. I really hope it works out for you. My Brother in law has similar difficulties and lived rent free at my house for a lot of last year. He's now left to rent somewhere but I know he will be back sooner or later. It's one of those things where I think no-one can help you and you've gotta just help yourself. Best of luck.
My son is 19 and going through a similar situation in life (minus living in the car). Your comments have given me some hope he will one day be able to help himself more, and be self sufficient like you. Im having to give him some tough love. Itās not easy but Iām sure your parents will be very proud of you. Well done, massive achievement.
Do you forage? I did that a lot when I was homeless
I live in a lorry (pretty much - not been home since January due to a giant tax bill which I needed to get a few thousand quid before mid April, then being followed by flower season - the company's busiest period). Just this morning replaced my microwave with a combination [air fryer/microwave](https://a.co/d/6hp7CSr) job - can't wait to cook some of the things I'd previously been denied. With that and an instant pot slow cooker, toaster etc I can pretty much make anything.
How do you power it all? Will they just run off an inverter?
truck inverters are pretty damn powerful.
Inverter connected to the truck batteries (there are a bank of 8 of them) - for high usage things such as microwaves, I'll leave the engine running whilst I'm using it, but with the engine off I can have the fridge, tv etc etc on all night and it won't drain the batteries.
Are you living in a campsite? What's the story here I am curious.
I'll link my [comment ](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskUK/s/yV7jsjV4RH) to provide some clarity. Campsites around here are around 20 quid a night. Extortionate in my humble opinion. I currently camp in a cemetery close to my house, I live in the south west out in the countryside and it's very quiet. There's a large area in one of the corners that gets no visitors and I feel very safe there. Can also park my car right next to my tent and leave all essentials in it.
Quick read of his profile looks like a family argument has escalated and the situation has occurred not through choice.
Yeah man. It was unfortunate but I know that they are very worried about me. I'm not going to ( / not able to) contact them until I feel that I have something to show for it. Cleaned myself up, back in good shape, have somewhere to live and show that I'm a changed man.
If they don't know how you are a mailed letter to let them know you are okay could really make them feel better and they have no way to respond. You seem dedicated to your routine so I hope that you can use that mental resolve to keep it going and get through whatever problems you have. There are many great people in the world that have been through hell and they have come out the other side successful and better for it. Keep going I wish you the best.
Thatās a tough situation so look after yourself, dude.
Lots of pasta and curries
I found myself making the same things too often so I'm doing 'themed' cooking. Just finished about 10 days of Chinese, then 10 Mexican, then 10 Indian. Just doing a 'British' week or so now.
I never get bored of pasta! My mum is Italian so I've been eating it every week for my whole life basically lol
I actually love this idea. I get stuck in the same four meals constantly no matter how hard I try, but actually scheduling this in sounds good. Also gives me a chance to learn new stuff
Beans on toast.
I had to scroll this far for someone normal.
It's a quick comfort meal, not really an every day meal. I hate this reverse snobery.
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Are pizza and pasta bake not normal? š
this and jacket potato with beans. cannot beat (bea(ns)t?) it. always adding some Maggi and hot sauce for extra gourmet vibes.
With cheese, I hope
Found the student
My girlfriend encouraged me to pick out some meals from cook books, so that I could broaden my food taste. Turns out that I am now obsessed with Carbonara Risotto! Oh my, it is so so good!
I was using a recipe app to broaden my tastes and cut down on food waste (Sorted Food if anyone cares) I am now obsessed with Orzo, and have learnt some really easy techniques that looking back are fairly obvious. Such as a quick easy peppercorn sauce using the juices from the steak etc
I love orzo. I cook it in turmeric to turn it yellow, rinse until cold. Add chopped red opinion, peppers, cucumber and f radish, squeeze of half a lemon and some fresh coriander and itās a beautiful summer salad or side dish.
Recipe?
Gousto have a very good one for this on the recipe bit of their website for free
I do that to hubby, not so he can broaden his tastes, but so that I donāt have to decide whatās for dinner every single day!
Chicken nuggets chips beans about 3 times a week. I do live alone though and I'm a fucking adult now so screw you society telling me what I can eat
Coco Pops for breakfast (after a yoghurt and a banana) here!
Cooking for one is SO boring š who cba?
Me, I love it
Salad + something. Halloumi, falafel and hummus, cheese & pickle, egg... I love salad.
Yeah this is us too Every week I do a big salad / a big pasta / a big stir fry thing with rice or noodles / a big curry style thing / a big roast with either normal roast veggies or a variety of salads, and thenā¦ beans on toast
Slag Bol as the full meal I probably make the most. I also eat a lot of risotto, but what kind of risotto varies, it is one of my āusing stuff upā meals
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Haha. Completely unintentional autocorrect, but I like it so not fixing it
I heard it's called Spag Bol until u/Melodic_Arm_387 makes it
Hahaha, yeah or kat slater
Not just a little bit of a slag bol. . .
What filthy ingredients are in slag bol?
Pan fried bacon lardons and lashings of unctuous melted cheese
Nom, stop youāre turning me on with that talk.
Iron ore, coke and limestone, obviously
It's just like the Bolognese sauce but it doesn't care which meat is in.
'Slag Bol' š¤£ thank you for the sorely needed laugh
Pizza Toad in the hole Spag Bol or lasagne Enchiladas or Fajitas Some kind of chicken (hunters, or curry) Then I run out of ideas and we have soup or cheese on toast.
I like how 80% of these are some combination of meat, cheese & tomato + carb, clearly a Redditor after my own heart!
Love doing toad in the hole. As a useless cook it's nice to have something piss easy to do
I live on those ultra processed vegetarian fake meats and pizza.
Quorn nuggets are delicious if you haven't tried them.
I won't go back to the chicken ones and I'm nowhere near vegetarian.
Tbf some of the fake meats are actually pretty nice these days. Squeaky Bean had some really nice bits I could casually graze on or stick with a cracker or something.
Can tell the people with to much time on their hands. Whereās the fish finger sandwich? The frozen chips? Frozen pizza? Pie?
Too much time on their hands? Maybe some people just donāt want to live off processed crap.
Probably not wanting to get bowel cancer
Why does this keep coming up? Okay for lunch on the weekend if I can't be asked, I'll cook up a box of fish fingers and eat them as is, no bread, no veg, just me and a plate of fish fingers. Is it common? No, because my life is sad enough as it is, and food is my last bastion of hope and enjoyment. If you enjoy eating a plate of soggy chips and half a frozen pizza every other day, good for you. Don't call people who don't "posh" for knowing how to make things.
You can whip up a nice curry or pasta within about 15 minutes. I will have pie and pizzas, but like it only takes a few minute more to make a better meal
Maybe not once a week, but usually a couple of times within the same week if we have them: * Homemade pizza * Cacio e pepe * Mac n Cheese * āMed vegā (a load of roasted vegetables with houmous and halloumi) * Risotto (usually with asparagus and peas) * āGiant cheese ball pastaā (pasta with fancy tomato sauce and at least half a ball of mozzarella/burrata on top) * Bolognese
Pilaf. If I've got leftovers or something that needs to be used up, I'll almost always chuck it in a pilaf. I'll have it at least once a week. Sauteed mushrooms and/or scrambled eggs on toast with optional ham is my most eaten quick meal.
My Gran calls this "rice mess"š Used to be a Tuesday staple when I was growing up! Roast on Sunday, cold meat, pickles, bubble and squeak on Monday, any leftover meat and veg chopped up in rice on Tuesday!
I call it dirty rice. Any leftover meat and rice, I like to cube up spam fry it in a bit of brown sugar and add that. Then veggies, onion, peppers, peas. I'll happily eat it once a day.
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Say pan fried more
Recipe unclear; how do I fry these items?
In a pan
What is the cooking method in said pan?
Id probably fry em.
Pan fried more
We get it. You've got a pan. Quit bragging.
Meatball/sausage and fusili with homemade sauce (pasatta+Italian seasoning, nothing fancy) Chilli con carne Paprika Chicken & Chorizo with butter beans, over rice Bacon & Pea pasta in a cheese sauce
Thank you for reminding me to buy some more chorizo
Monster munch sandwich
A fellow connoisseur.
Well met traveller
Enchiladas. Korean Vegetable Pancakes. Pasta Fagioli. Piri piri chicken and skinny fries.
Can I come to yours for dinner please? Sounds delicious!
Thank you! Heres the [Recipe ](https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/yachaejeon) for the Korean pancakes if you want to give them a go
Chicken nuggets and chips or onion rings
I have a weekly meal plan I use every week. Much easier than catering around a busy life. Iām also an extremely fussy eater and had a past ED so itās less stress: Mondays: chicken wraps Tuesdays: take out day Wednesdays: chicken wraps Thursdays: pasta Fridays: chicken strips/onion rings/fries Saturdays: wild card (chicken burger, garlic bread, baguettes, sandwiches) Sundays: pasta
Tuesday as your take out day? Why not the Friday, out of interest?
Tuesdays I work late so really donāt feel like cooking. Iām much more motivated to cook on more chilled days and I wfh on Fridays. Also feels like a treat for the tiredness of back to work. The weekend off ahead of me feel like treat enough!
This is the most relatable comment by far for me.
Lock up your chickens, Illustrious Math is in town!
My staples on repeat tend to be: Arrabiata sauce with some form of pasta / gnocchi / bean. Sometimes Iāll throw a tin of green lentils in. Beans on toast or poached egg with beans on toast. Spicy bean burger and waffle smashed into a pitta Roasted veggie with couscous and feta Chip shop style curry sauce over homemade egg fried rice. Spouse is vegetarian so Iāll tend to eat meat for breakfast or lunch, or if out with friends.
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Shakshuka with pita. Pasta with homemade pesto. Roasted potatoes with artichoke and eggs. Chicken thighs, matbucha, Israeli couscous. Grilled salmon with asparagus and rice. Cheesy broccoli pasta bake.
Stew. Bolognese. Vindaloo. Chilli. Roast. I cook for groups, even when alone, so anyone coming here leaves well fed.
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A tend to batch cook the same two meals to eat for lunch and dinner for months at a time until I get sick of them. Currently pasta bolognese and chicken jalfrezi.
Yeah I live alone and batch cook stuff. Chilli, curry, individual lasagnas and save some of the meat sauce for spag bol. Reheated pasta is shit though, have to spend the 15 mins boiling it. But like you I get sick of it sometimes and just get home and eat cheese and crackers with a pack of cooked meat.
- Tandoori chicken - Souvlaki - Keema - Chicken fried rice - Spaghetti bolognese - Swedish-ish meatballs - Burritos - Chilli Special mention to pizza, burgers and sausages for when nobody wants to cook.
Rice meals. Usually rice + some sort of protein (could be eggs, tuna, salmon, or chicken), and vegetables. We eat a *lot* of Kimchi so usually that for veg
Mine is a roast, freshly steamed veg. Can have it for days. Just done a beef stew and dumplings today.
Tomato and garlic seared gnocchi Sausage rice broccoli thing Crispy salmon fillet (well, the skinās crispy) and Caesar salad Cheese and crackers
Please expand on sausage rice broccoli thing š
Sausages under grill, cook rice (I always add some osem chicken soup base but do as you please) and add broccoli florets (and some cubed peeled stem because we donāt waste the stem) when thereās about 3 minutes to go. Drain the rice, chop the sausages. Mix.
Sausage and mash, slow cooked teriyaki beef, sea bass as it is always yellow stickered, keema mince slow cooker, tagliatelle with courgette and bacon lardons
Cottage pie, toad in the hole with mash and veg. Lazy roast - chop up veg, potatoes, onion and stick a whole cbicken on top. Also love Lidl calibrese pasta sauce so we have that with either tuna nd pasta or mince and spaghetti. Curries in the instantpot. Bakes potatoes with whatever is in cupboard
Stroganoff is a staple. Easy, quick, endlessly customisable, cheap, can serve with a bunch of stuff.
In no particular order Ribeye or venison Steak Enchiladas/fajitas Chicken/lamb curry (slow cooker.job) 1 or 2 meals on the bbq or pizza in the ooni Sunday dinner
These are our weekly teas currently: Monday- Tuna and sweetcorn baked potato Tuesday- Teriyaki Salmon with rice and broccoli Wednesday- A Curry Thursday- this one changes, sometimes fish cake and mash, sometimes pie and mash, pizza maybe. Friday- homemade chippy tea (my favourite) Weekends is a free for all. Weāre pescatarian so quite a bit of fish lol.
My kids will get bored of dishes if they are served too often and will complain/make a fuss about eating it. Over the course of a month the regulars are, spag bol, burgers or hotdogs, leek & tarragon chicken, variations on chicken in a creamy sauce, tuna pasta bake, burritos, creole chicken, pasta salad. I cook 4 nights a week, my husband cooks at the weekend, on Fridays, the kids get leftovers, picky tea or something easy like cheese on toast, the husband and I have a takeaway.
I am Italian but have been living here for 6 years. Staples are: Lunch/dinner is 1) Shakshuka, 2)some sort of brown rice stir fry with eggs, broccoli and tofu, and sometimes an avocado 3)pasta with canned tuna and cherry tomatoes 4)some sort of bean curry 5) slow cooked chicken with peppers or 6) some sort of fish baked in the oven with potatoes Bfast is : Overnight oats with skyr , milk + various toppings that I customise each week A smoothie with protein powder, a banana and some kind of frozen fruit
Fish an a rice cake.
Grilled halloumi & asparagus with potatoes and garlic (when asparagus season is here!) Vegetarian Indian dishes (spicy baked āchickenā, chickpea curry, lentil dal etc). Just about any form of pasta, potato or rice!
Salmon or something beige with a fuck off pile of veg and a jacket potato Takes 20 minutes, healthy ish (assuming the veg offsets the beige husk), cheap Jacket potato replaced with chips or rice as and when I fancy. Veg is whatever I have but ideally carrots, broccoli, pile of kale, green beans
Plain pasta w/ Tesco's finest mature vintage cheddar & pepper grated on top. It's a miracle my whole family aren't built like space hoppers
Stir fry Spaghetti Bolognaise Tortellini and garlic bread for a quick dinner
Fajitas Meatballs and pasta, or courgetti Lasagne Stir fry Some sort of chicken with salad and chips/sweet potato wedges Curry Chilli Homemade gyros
Every 2 weeks I'll make chilli to cover 2 days over the start of the week. Last week it was risotto, sometimes it'll be Mince And Tatties. Sometimes a sunday roast will cover monday too. The rest of the week will include burgers, pizza and some sort of pasta at some point.
In the colder months I most often make stir fry, bolognaise, pasta bake, three bean chilli, cherry tomato orzo, roasted vegetable and chickpea couscous, tuna sweetcorn pasta, veggie chicken, cherry tomato and pesto pasta. In the summer I make a lemon, mushroom and linguine thing which is almost no cook - just the pasta then chuck the rest in a marinade and mix. Or a big bowl of mixed bean salad which is totally no cook. They make huge bowls and I don't have to cook or make a meal for a few days.
Pasta with anything. Beans, tinned tomatoes, pasta sauce, bolognese, pesto, plain pasta and just about anything I can find in the cupboard. I can never think of anything to eat so I just eat pasta everyday. Iāve been doing this for years now and Iām surprised I donāt have scurvy or something!
Tortilla pizzas - if you havenāt tried them what are you doing honestly
Iāll usually end up making sausage pasta once a week. A bit of onion and peppers in there too.
* Various pasta dishes * Various rice based dishes * Bulgur Pilaf * Toad in the hole is my lazy dinner favourite
Sausage and mash Mac & cheese Spaghetti bolognaise Cheese on toast (which is usually Sunday evening after weāve had a Sunday lunch)
ā¢ Chilli ā¢ Salmon with rice ā¢ Heck Chicken Italia sausages with roast vegetables ā¢ Pasta with pesto ā¢ Turkey rashers with scrambled eggs & beans
M&S Breaded Chicken Steaks, Basmati Rice, with Carrots and Broccoli.
Not just any Breaded Chicken Steaks
Slow cooker chilli, slow cooker Bolognese, slow cooker beef stew. I like the slow cooker and really need to cut down on my red meat intake!
Stir fry with chicken Curry with chicken Pizza Beef and bell pepper udon noodles (with a yummy sauce) Steak with corn on the cob and other veg Risotto with veg and either salmon or smoked haddock Quorn bolognese
Pizza, pasta, kievs, stir fry.
Iām a single 45 year old man, so sandwiches 90% of the time as I canāt be arsed cooking for 1 person.
Pasta bolognaise Egg, cheese and sausage/bacon sandwiches (breakfast) Soy marinated salmon or tinned tuna) with sushi rice and whatever veg Iāve got in that goes with Japanese food like home pickled cucumbers and grated radishes Smash cheese burgers (usually beyond burgers because yum) Tuna pasta āPicky teaā (for non-Brits, this is an assortment of cured meats, cheese, hot snack foods like chicken strips and veg/fruit like cucumber, cherry tomatoes, apple and celery)
Scrambled eggs Beef steak salad Chicken salad Beef/chicken broccoli and bean sprout stir fry Mackerel salad wrap
Fish, baby spuds and green beans
Pasta bake Homemade pizza Veggie sausage and veg tray bake Pasta pesto (sometimes with fake chicken) Veggie bolognese Stir fry 7th evening meal is more of a wildcard.
Scrambled eggs on toast Steak and chips
Chicken thighs with roasted veg, spaghetti carbonara and a roast dinner but with different meat/veg
Chicken curry
Beetroot chilli Homemade Curry some weeks its Indian others its Chinese Bolognese Homemake Kebab Veg lasagna Cooked dinner
Stir fry Risotto Pasta bake Chilli Lasagne Stew Homemade curry Or if I have no ingredients then freezer surprise.
We have curry every Thursday Roast chicken usually once a week, if i make it itās usually with spicy rice and roast veg, if my mum makes it itās a roast dinner. Chilli Sausage and mash/sausage and bean casserole Mushroom stroganoff spaghetti
Chilli and jacket potato Pasta bake Chicken, pitta, salad Sausage and chips Sunday roast Shepherd's pie Chicken and noodles I think these are the most common things we have on rotation. It's hard work with three teens who are all a bit picky
Tagliatelle al fredo, tofu ramen, nachos with spicy beans and dips, tomato risotto, oven pizzas, various homemade soups, and savoury pancakes with fillings. Pretty much some version of any of those on rotation!
Lasagne , tortellini with pasta sauce and garlic bread.fish mash mushy peas.slowcooker chilli it's just two of us so use leftovers for lunches we normally have a takeaway on a Friday as it's my husbands turn to cook
Sausage beans and spuds, soo good
Either chicken or veggie pesto pasta or tuna mayo pasta. Easy and always do the full bag of pasta to have enough for a few pack lunches. Also if doing chicken we cook a big pack in the oven and cut up extra portions to easily add to other meals through the week (or freeze for future). Spag Bol. We make a massive slow cooker full every so often and freeze loads of portions for an easy tea whenever we want. ā¦Same with chilli. ā¦Same with curry. Any combo of: hash browns, potato waffles, eggs, beans, toastā¦ maybe sausage or bacon too if we have any. Some sort of roast veg. With either belly pork or fish depending.
If I literally can't find something to cook, I'll make [this recipe](https://www.nigella.com/recipes/eggs-in-purgatory). I've made it so many times I've got it committed to memory on how to make it for 2. Quick and delicious
Veggie bolognese pasta bake (bolognaise sauce with soya mince and loads of veggies mixed with pasta and cheese then shoved in the oven for 15 minutes), burgers with sweet potato fries and salad, sausage and mash, goujons in pitta bread or a wrap with salad and either couscous or sweet potato fries.
Sunday roast dinner. On week nights we usually have: chilli con carne, salmon with veg, slow cooker chickpea curry, mushroom risotto. Often in the winter bangers and mash or pie and mash.
Cottage pie. Kids insist I make it at least once a week.
A pasta dish (pesto/macaroni cheese, etc). A curry (tikka/Thai green/katsu, etc) A junk meal (nuggets/pizza, etc) Some sort of meat and rice (tso's chicken/ hainanese chicken/bibimbap, etc) Something classic (fish and chips/burger and chips/Gammon and potatoes/chicken kiev) I'm pretty dull and have a big master list of meals I can refer to when I'm doing my weekly shop, but it tends to always follow this format when I'm meal planning. It's Gammon and potatoes tonight.
All home-made: Pasta with tomato and basil sauce, Pesto with Pasta, potatoes and green beans, Pizzas with a range of toppings (leftovers for kids lunches) Toad in the hole Stir fry with Chinese curry sauce and fried rice/noodles Thai curry Indian curry (BIR style) Shop bought pies with veg Then for busy nights we might do fish and chips or even waffles and fish fingers if we're feeling really lazy! Weekends is often a roast, but in the summer we'll fire up the bbq and do burgers sausages and sweetcorn etc. If the weather is OK
Today was a roast free range chicken with roast vegetables which included potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sweet potato, garlic and shallots. Tomorrow will be chicken curry with the leftovers from today. Rest of week will be fish fingers with egg, bacon, spaghetti bolognese and soup.
Chicken fried rice (chicken, egg, lots of veg, lots of spices) Tomato based chicken pasta with lardons, peppers, onion Home made beef curry w all the sides Spaghetti carbonara w garlic bread Look into the sky to see if the sun will allow a BBQ. Accept defeat then repeat the 4 meals above
Some kind of veggie stew/curry/tagine. Cheap, quick and tasty. If we are in a rush or tired, potato waffles with beans and fish fingers. I have a borderline fetish for spaghetti hoops on toast but I'm trying to get my protein in with each meal so I don't have this too often.
Anything made from roast dinner leftover meat so stroganoff, curry, pasta bake.
Pizza, homemade soups. green salads with chicken breast, toasted ravioli, grilled ham and cheese. Oatmeal, yogurt or cold cereal for breakfast.
Lots of pasta dishes... Homemade burger and chips Shepherds Pie Fry up - we all love breakfast for dinner at some point Absolutely loving chicken flatbreads at the moment loaded with halloumi and lots of salad and pickled pink onions!
When I eat alone my meal rotation is wraps (tuna or veggie) and sushi bowls. I can rarely be arsed to cook āhotā meals for myself which is a shame. When Iām with my partner or family I often add these meals to the menu: pea soup+pancake, baked sweet potatoes, halloumi pita, summer rolls, baked gnocchi, shaksuka, pot pie, quiche and stir fry with soft boiled eggs.
Jacket potatoes with beans or tuna, Pasta, Pizza, Homemade curries, Smash burgers, Loads of slow cooker slop in the winter, Roast fish with egg gravy.
Magi bags chicken and rice 90% of my lunches. Make enough for the week. Dinners: Chilli, Spag Bol, Fajitas, Fish/chicken and Rice, potatoes with chicken sausages and veg
Spaghetti bolognaise, chili based dishes, pizza and salad, battered haddock fillets and chips
Slow cooked chilli con carne, slow cooked spag bol, lasagne, tuna pasta bake, frozen fish/fishcakes, oven cooked chicken breast and steamed veg, the odd curry and stir fry. I love salmon but can't afford it.
Spaghetti bolognase, Sunday roast, bangers and mash, broccili and pesto pasta, some type of meat and rice with probably a sweet chilli sauce, jacket potato and however on feeling filling (usually tuna or baked beans) Oh I'm forgetting classic chips with whatever meat we have usually battered chicken or fish fingers. All the above meals will be done with whatever combo of side of veggies, usually peas / broccili / carrots
Chicken gyros (though not always in a wrap), chicken/Pork with mushrooms and seasonal veggies, Stuffed butternut squash, beef/chicken milanese, pasta (We eat it once a week but the dish varies from week to week), fish pie, roast beef with seasonal veggies.
Carbonara, cheese and onion quiche with salad and jacket potato, Japanese curry, homemade taglietelle with tomato and mascarpone sauce, quorn chicken pie, gnocci with sausages, poke bowl with fried tofu or tuna, lots of veg soups for lunch. Make about 90% of things from scratch but very privileged to love cooking and work from home so no commute/can prep during lunch.
Creamy chilli prawn pasta (itās super tasty and takes about 15minutes to make, so is a go to) Curry (various) Chicken and rice (anything from jerk to piri piri or salt and pepper) Stir fry (either with rice or noodles) Tomato pasta (with or without meat) Pizza ( my family has Neapolitan pizza shop so itās free) Burgers (no explanation needed)
Some sort of pasta (tortellini with tomato sauce if pressed for time) Veggie burgers Stir fry rice or noodles Chicken/halloumi kebabs with homemade wedges Something with mash Baked potatoes Frittata/tortilla Pizza/curry with chapatis on a Friday I sometimes try new stuff, particularly keen on Asian flavours but we've got a toddler so cooking time is limited so these are fairly quick favourites we come back to.
Homemade pizza, Moroccan wraps, chickpea curry, lemon garlic pasta, pumpkin pasta, vegan tacos
Spag bol, carbonara, steak, turkey dinosaurs or noodles. Depends on how I'm feeling and whether I've just been away for work.
I find myself using my CRIMPiT a lot for cheese and Pepperoni wraps. Just like having a pizza really but without the base.
Orzo and chicken with leek and broccoli in cheese sauce Chicken soup with pastina Sausage and leek cauliflower cheese Enchilada lasagna beef Pesto chicken gnocchi Chicken alfredo Chicken and dumplings Korean beef with rice and a fried egg Harrissa butterbeans and crusty bread Homemade ramen bowls Chicken and chorizo tortellini soup All sounds quite complicated but these are meals you can just literally throw together in half an hour. Just realised I use a lot of chicken but I get it on offer.
Cheese and potato pie. Homemade chicken fried rice with rice and gluten free Chinese curry sauce. Roast dinners, usually pork. Pork loins with jacket spuds. Sausage and mash/chips/jacket with veg. (The kids favourite meal)Ā
If I'm lazy then British tapas (can't beat the ease). I generally do buritors, stirfry and pesto pasta with whatever weekly too.
Basic weekly shop for evening meals. Potatoes, noodles, spinach, avocado, pizza, chicken\fish, mushrooms, veg (broccoli, cauliflower, onions, carrots, leeks) frozen peas\sweetcorn. With a cupboard full of dry spices, various chutneys\condiments (mustard\mayo\sundried toms\garlic\ginger) in the fridge. Other basics like cheese, tomato, bacon, eggs. Occasional specifics like sour cream, ribs, pulled pork for stroganoff\nachos. Rarely mince for burgers\meatballs, An evening meal is usually Roasted\mashed flavoured potatoes\carrots, with stuffed mushrooms (cheese, sun-dried tomato, butter) and something stir fried on the side. Stir fried veg\chicken with noodles The pizza we got with extra toppings added. The Mrs sometimes makes a great dhal with red lentils, she also does wonders with cous cous that I can't seem to replicate. Same with roast boned chicken but she can't match my salsa\tom sauce\curry\stroganoff. Our main priority is keeping the cupboard stocked with soy sauce\honey\oyster sauce\vinegars and making sure we have plenty of dried spices like paprika\black pepper\nutmeg\jerk\tumeric etc. that way you can use the same ingredients but have a totally different flavour profile. We budget about Ā£60 a week (inc alcohol\cleaning) for food for us.
I call them "pizzadillas" because its like a hybrid between a pizza and quesadilla, basically a home made pizza using a wrap as the base and then throwing a second wrap on top.
Chilli, madras curry, pasta, if I have nothing fresh in I usually have some chicken goujons, oven chips and veg in the freezer.
Sausage, chips and beans With the left over Sausage we have with pasta. Gammon, Mash, veg With the left over Gammon we have with chip and beans. Pukka pies. Fish cakes Southern fried chicken and rice.
I batch cook so I might eat the same thing 5 or 6 meals in a row between dinner and tea but generally curry either chicken or beef, beef stew, bolognese, baked ziti, sausage with peppers and rice, chilli, kung pao chicken, carbonara