How often do you cook the same meal?

[Sair]

If it was up to DP it would be the same every night, some store bought chicken stuffed with ham and cheese (the name escapes me for the moment) packet pasta (usually alfredo) and peas, carrots and corn (frozen of course).

I on the other hand prefer some variety but I have my favorites. We tend to go over the same menu every month but sometimes those favorites will pop up twice in that month. Hope that made sense

[The[cookie]Doctor]

LOL we have the same thing every week We're boring meat and vege people so that's pretty much three times a week. A stirfry gets chucked in and a pasta and a lasagne. Makes it easier to shop and DF is a fussy eater so makes it easy for us I guess. I used to be a really adventurous cook but DF limits my imagination.

[feeb]

We have waves of eating same few things and then not having them for ages.

Most fortnights we will have a spag bol, a roast, chicken wings and what ever else.

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

We have the same meal maybe 2-3 times a fortnight... and that's 3-4 different meals repeated and some different ones maybe once a month (that's things like fish and chips or pizza or frozen meals). We usually have a cooked Sunday dinner on Sundays, lasagne every other Monday night, I like the current Sainsbury cheap recipe cards so we have those quite a bit (that's a chicken meal and a salmon risotto atm). And there's the aubegine pasta that we all love and I can have for lunch the next day. I haven't done some of my favourites for a bit so will be doing some old favourites this next couple of months.

I like maybe about 20 dinners that I cook, but we have "easy" food at least twice a week as I'm at work all day and want time with DS, not cooking. And once I'm doing a meal I'll do it several times after that and have to force myself to do something else.

We have a new, never tried before meal AT LEAST once a fortnight, if not once a week, and often that becomes a new favourite and is done every week for a couple of months!

Wow, that was an essay, hth!

[Salsa]

And there's the aubegine pasta that we all love and I can have for lunch the next day.

PLEASE send me the recipe! I have just started a new thread today asking for Aubergine recipes - have a look




All this talk about Sunday roast that some of you still have makes me want to get into doing something like that regular. Its such a lovely tradition. So much 'love' in a proper meal like that. We have just recently stopped doing regular takeaway nights, so perhaps we should exchange it for a good roast dinner - i know its more work than takeaway, but just as enjoyable - if not more so!

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

I've already replied to it, Salsa!

[Phteven]

i know its more work than takeaway, but just as enjoyable - if not more so!

It's not really a lot of work in a roast - I like to do lamb in the slow cooker and then it's just a matter of veges and gravy.
I make gravy from the meat juices while the meat is resting and the veges are pretty simple too.
Once the boys are older they can do more food prep - they're already very enthusiastic helpers and Yasin is allowed to stir the gravy while I'm standing beside him.

[Salsa]

We dont have a slow cooker, but I see lots of people in Oz seem to use them. I mentioned it to DH but hes reluctant to get one. But in my head it must cook meat that justs tender and juicy -is that right? And can you do batches?

[Phteven]

You must convert your DH!!!
Slow cookers/crock pots are the bestest!!
The meat is so yummy and tender and they're a great money saver because they work best with cheaper cuts of meat. We're having lamb shanks tonight - $4 a kg.
They're also great for Mums and working people because you can put your meal on in the morning and then at the end of the day/witching hour you don't need to worry about.
They're good for the environment too because they use as much power as a lighbulb compared to an oven that is very power intensive.
I usually cook enough for a meal for now and a meal for the freezer but my SC is large enough to fit a meal for now and 3 meals for the freezer. I have a big one because they last for years (no moving parts) and one day I'll have teenage boys on my hands with teenage boy appetites.

[Phteven]

I try to cook with what's in season and what's on special at my butcher.
Some things we only have once a month or less if the ingredients are season but other things we have quite often. We have lamb curry about once a fortnight because we all like it so much - I have one going in the SC right now.

My MIL cooks the same meal 19 times out of 20!!!! It is rice, salad and a sauce with meat, ginger, onion, tomatoe paste and garlic. Even on the rare occasions that FIL cooks something else she still dishes out meal A with it.
She serves it up for lunch as well as dinner!!!!
I don't know how my FIL copes. My Dad started to complain after eating 3 meals there lol.

[Astrid]

We go through phases with food. Some months it seems like we stick with the same few dishes then all of a sudden we remember a dish we have not made in ages and then our menu seems to change. Most of the time meals are based on what meat is on special or what suits us at the moment, such as a meal that goes for a couple of nights. If a dish turns out really well I will tend to repeat it frequently till I am sick of it. Summers we tend to be a lot more repetitive, basically what cooks well on the BBQ and salad.

Once we have our vegie patch going I am sure things will change.

[New Dawn]

Glad I am not the only one who does the same thing over and over again lol

my moto is if it isnt in a jar or from a packet I cant cook it....I do love to LOOK at recipes but next to never try to cook them...

mostly I cook chicken chicken and a bit more chicken expecally while BHL is away...

Like the ad says "If you dont like chicken there something wrong with you!"