Dinners - do you cook the same things?

[pollR78]

We just have whatever we fancy, but like most, I eat more salads and things in the summer months

In the last week I have started using my slow cooker more and had mince & tatties, and last night a sausage casserole, these are all fab in the autumn/winter, I am also going to start making soup again, never fancy soup in the summer but its getting chilly again so soup will be on the menu

I don't recall eating the same things every week as a child although we did usually always have roast beef or beef casserole on a Sunday - now me and Amy just have what we want on a Sunday, usually macaroni cheese! Might start making a beef casserole now the weather is turning

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[tonicha]

We vary stuff depending on the season, but I do like salads at any time of the year

And a curry was on the menu for every Saturday, when we lived in England. Cooked on Wednesday or Thursday, eaten on Saturday

And we do bbq's most of the year too, although it gets too hot in the middle of the summer, unless we eat about 9.00 or 10.00

I certainly couldn't plan for a month, although I do sometimes write a week long menu out, buy the stuff in the market and shops and then change it round as the week goes on

[debih]

We were very like Jo when I was growing up - a set pattern of meals. You always knew what day it was by what you were eating!

Sundays were roast dinner (at lunch time) and salad in the evening (unless it was the winter and then we might have chips or potato scallops); Mondays were left overs, Tuesdays were Shepherds pie or chops and veg, Wednesdays were usually egg and chips, Thursdays was sausages or a pie of some sort, Fridays was always fish (if we were flushed it would be fish and chips from the chippie) and Saturdays were a fry up at lunch time with salad in the evening.

I don't have a set routine at home. We have lots of salad during the summer and roast dinners on a Sunday in the winter. I do try and plan my meals at the beginning of the week and have a wipe clean board that I write the meals down on. I usually do my menu the day I go shopping and go through the fridge and the freezer before writing my shopping list. I have gotten out of the habit of doing it though so must start that up again - it saves so much waste.

I am a pretty seasonal cook and don't really tend to buy fruit and veg that is expensive because it is out of season, although I will if I am doing a particular recipe.

We tend to have a casserole of some sort on a Wednesday as we often eat at different times - L eats early as she goes out to Guides, S comes home later as she goes to an after school club, Mick often gets home late on a Wednesday and I just eat whenever. Thursdays are usually something a little more exotic as I have the time during the day to do it and the girls go to my mums for dinner - so we will perhaps have a curry or risotto (which the girls hate). Mondays are often left overs from the Sunday roast - but that could be as a pie, shepherds pie, curry, etc.

[JoM]

Saturdays were a fry up at lunch time with salad in the evening.

I can never remember what we had for Saturday tea, but we always had our stew at lunch time and it was eaten with a fresh loaf of crusty bread which me and my mom would've bought in town that morning.