The following extremely depressing things on rotation until I get a proper kitchen back:
A pasta bake, a bung-in-the-oven chicken thing with microwave rice, “leftovers”, a ready meal, some kind of jar + protein deal, something that was on offer
possibly nothing or just toast most nights
but tend to have soup on a monday
veg fried up with chickpeas on tuesdays
some sort of rice dish on wednesdays
alcohol until a pizza on the weekend
I’ll usually order a massive curry once a week from curry in a hurry - they do all the classics with QUORN. Yes mates. That’ll do 2 nights, then a big stir fry and a big spag bol or chilli, all of which is enough for a second portion on another night. This isn’t every week but it’s a lot of them.
essentially will just buy some salad stuff, sweet potatoes and chicken at the start of the week and eat that every day. the variety will come with which nando’s sauce i use.
find that cooking for one can create lots of waste if you want variety
We don’t have specific nights for specific things but currently our meals look a bit like this -
Salmon and quinoa and veg.
Roast chicken, salad and mad jalapeno and coriander salsa thing with also a roasted chilli, tomato, red onion and garlic thing with salsa and fat naan breads.
Some sort of thing with sauce and rice.
Erm… turkey burgers with wedges and salad.
UMMM… turkey meatballs with fennel seeds, tomatoey sauce and spaghetti? Or the same meatballs but with lots of spices etc, a tomatoey sauce and cous cous full of herbs.
Maybe a spaghetti bolognese.
Maaaybe a lasagna.
Some kind of vege chilli.
Nooodlely thing with an egg on top.
A pizza.
Soup.
Kale and chickpea and chorizo tomatoey soup thing.
Fish again, with something.
As you can tell things aren’t that planned. I just buy stuff with things in mind and then see how it goes.
Combination of living alone, working away a lot and in the past having a lot of hockey training in the evenings means that my meal planning is complete anarchy. Couldn’t even tell you what a standard meal for me is. Go through phases of having the same thing 5/6 times over. End up going to Tesco every time I need to eat otherwise a lot of food gets thrown out. Could do with a partner who sorts out my meals tbh.
Monday - stir fry
Tuesday - pizza and salad (not takeaway)
Wednesday - Pesto pasta with chorizo and veg
Thursday - Mary Berry sausage casserole with cider thing
Friday - Freestyle, usually a treat of some sort
Usually something like this, with curries / chicken kievs regularly subbed in.
Monday: pub, fuck knows what 'er indoors eats then
Friday: pizza unless I’m going somewhere to do penoid things the next day, in which case it gets bumped to Saturday
Rest: anarchy
Tuesday is usually fajitas. Standard regular meals are Thai green curry, sausage and broccoli pasta, honey soy chicken and pak choi, cottage pie (butternut squash and cauliflower mash topping), and misc curry.
“What do you want for dinner?”
“Dunno, what have we got in?”
“Not much, I can nip out if you want though”
“No need, let’s see what we’ve got in”
*Establish that we have nothing “in” beyond the same fuckload of grains that have been sat there for months *
“I’ll nip to Bo’s and pick something up, any preference?”
“No whatever you want”
Spag Bol or chilli con carne (never the same week) normally on a Monday
Chicken and mushroom stir fry
Pie, mash, broccoli and carrots
Salmon, jacket potato and peas
Fish and chips
Pizza
Ravioli and garlic bread (most weeks on a gym night)
Ready meal most wednesdays when I work late.
Occasionally a home made chicken curry