Dinners - do you cook the same things?

[Diflower]

We do have the same things, fairly regularly, but not on the same days or even weeks; even those might get variations, and it's according to season. But on other days, we have all sorts, there's no rhyme or reason other than what I've bought that week, the weather, what we fancy, what there is to use up...

A constant source of amusement (rightly or wrongly) for Bb and I is a couple we met on holiday in Tunisia.
It wouldn't be our choice to have half board, but it was a sensible option there.
It was hot. Very hot.
We were somehow stuck with this other couple, sharing a table for dinner each evening; the first evening we'd happened to arrive at the same time and were thus assigned. They were nice, it wasn't a problem, except they were odd and funny

There was a big buffet, lots of options, some dishes sitting in warmers, others freshly cooked as you waited. One (particularly hot) night, there was goulash. Now I for one just couldn't possibly have eaten goulash when the temperature was around 35 degrees, but they both did. They commented that normally they would only have goulash every nine weeks.

It emerged that they had devised a 9-week menu for dinners at home. Entered on the computer and stuck like glue
So, just once every 9 weeks they had fish and chips - goulash once - but more to the point, this was a year-round plan, and that more than anything is what puzzles both of us.
Would you really cook and eat goulash in the middle of a summer as we've just had? Or sausages with onion gravy?
And would you have any inclination for ham or chicken salad in November??

I did work with someone though, whose mother had a fortnightly menu, which never, ever altered

[saundra]

we always eat what ever there was in the house
it was always roast dinner on a sunday
i baked on a saturday afternoon cakes pie and stuff for the weekend
even now i shop on a saturday for the week
only difference being dont do many sunday dinners
couldent eat salad in the winter tho
except perhapes in a sandwich
tomatoes dont tast the same
i like fruit/veg in the right growing season here in the uk
goulash in august ugh

[Ally]

I make a right mish mash, hot potch of different meals but a curry has to be done once a week by special request..

I love and eat salad all year round.

[Diflower]

We do eat love salad and eat loads all year Ally, but in winter as a side, not a main dinner, you know, not just with cold meat or even hot. Plus as Saundra says, it has to taste good.
Saundra agree uggh is right to goulash in august

[JoM]

We pretty much ate the same things on certain days when I was growing up.
Roast beef on Sundays, leftovers of the roast on Monday, Shepherd's pie on Tuesday, lamb or pork chops on Wednesday, either steak or pie on Thursday, plaice and homemade chips on Friday and beef stew on Saturday. I didn't like beef when I was a child so while my Nan was alive (she died when I was 7) my Dad used to drop me off to have dinner with her and my Granddad every Sunday because they always had roast lamb which I loved

Now, although I decide on the week's menu when I do the weekly shop, we have quite varied meals from week to week.

[Workingman]

A bit like Jo, if I'm honest.

Mum had a range of dishes we got regularly. Monday was always a rehash of the Sunday roast, then came whatever was available during the rest of the week - pies, stews, sausages and eggs and beans. Being Catholics we always had fish and chips from the chippy on Friday.

Today I am more 'freelance' and cook whatever I fancy when I fancy it - if that means goulash in June, so be it.

[Ally]

We do eat love salad and eat loads all year Ally, but in winter as a side, not a main dinner, you know, not just with cold meat or even hot. Plus as Saundra says, it has to taste good.
Saundra agree uggh is right to goulash in august

That's the beauty of living here though, somehow the salads are still fine for a main meal even in 'winter.'.

Mind you..as I'm not much of a meat eater at all, and really love salads, I tend to eat lots of them anyway.

[Ally]

We do eat love salad and eat loads all year Ally, but in winter as a side, not a main dinner, you know, not just with cold meat or even hot. Plus as Saundra says, it has to taste good.
Saundra agree uggh is right to goulash in august

That's the beauty of living here though, somehow the salads are still fine even for a main meal in 'winter.'.

Mind you..as I'm not much of a meat eater at all, and really love salads, I tend to eat lots of them anyway.

I was probably a rabbit in a previous life.

[Kaz]

My mum and dad were real creatures of habit and we tended to knw what day of the week it was by what was on the table

We do have favourites, so I guess we do tend to have the same things fairly often, but certainly not governed by what day of the week it is. I tend to decide what we'll eat on the day - depending on what we have on the fridge or freezer, and what veggies or salad we have

[saundra]

have to say when i was at home and first married it was
always a joint on a sunday cold meat monday and fried potatoes and a rice pudding
cant remember the rest of the meals
but we did have fish/chips on a saturday dinner