How often do you cook the same meal?

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This May Be Wandering Outside The Scope Of This Topic....would It Be Helpful If I Can Provide Simple Recipes To Replace The Cans, Jars And Bottled Sauces That You Commonly Use?

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please Please Help Me Out I Only Ever Use A Jar!!!!! If There Is Another Way Please Tell Me Or Pm Me With Them

I've started a new thread for trying to break the jar habit...

we tend to go in waves, we'll have something that we really like probably once a week, and then cause we have it too much we'll get sick of it, and not have it for months.

Although spag bol appears at least weekly, I make a huge pot of sauce and freeze it in meal sizes and then i just have to cook pasta and reheat the sauce, so its a quick and easy meal. Steak and veg also appears quite often, and in summer we have a lot of bbq's

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We have our favourites, and I probably cook some repeat meals about twice a month.
I like to use Continental meal flavour bases. Stroganoff, Apricot chicken, pork in plum sauce, greek pita pockets etc. They are quick and easy, tho I don't always follow them exactly. I add extra vegies to bulk it out a bit. I try and make sure every meal makes at least 4 serves. I try things that I wouldn't normally try and if I don't like them I don't buy them again! Jar sauces are great too. Add meat and vege and pasta or rice. use different kinds of pasta...try gnocchi or raviolli etc to add variety.
HTH :)

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Yes I have started to use those Maggi flavour bases... Love the beef stroganoff. Want to try it with beef mince.

I also do spagetti bolagnaise every few weeks, its easy and goes a long way.

DH doesn't like change - prior to meeting me, he'd rotate between chicken kiev with potato gems & snags with potato gems.

Now we have roast on Sunday, kiev on Tuesday, snags on Wednesday, lamb backstrap on Thursday and friday is takeout, and Saturday could be anything. Of course if we're having problems with Pip, its all out the window.