What meals do you repeat each week?

[Colleen27]

I tend to cook according to what is in season so we don't have a regular rotation, but the frequent requests are shake-and-bake chicken, Mexican (usually tacos or nachos), top-your-own pizzas, breakfast for dinner, and during the summer we grill 1-2 nights a week (more often when it gets really hot... I think we've cooked outside more than in for the last 3 weeks!).

 

[Pesky]

Like pps, we tend to repeat "genres" not particular entres. We have fish/seafood at least twice a week, chicken twice a week and mix it up the rest between beef, pork and other choices. We do tend to do pizza about once a week. Also, scampi, either chicken or shrimp, is in pretty good rotation right now as the kids LOVE it and so do we.

 

[Teresa Pitman]

We're vegan, but the "most requested" at our house are these old reliable (and easy) meals:


scrambled tofu (made with curry powder and lots of veggies)

bean chili

beans and rice

spinach-chickpea curry

black bean burgers

crispy fried tofu (usually served in a wrap with veggies)

vegan pizza

vegan fritatta (made with tofu and veggies)

aloo gobi (a cauliflower-potato curry)


TP

 

[littlebit0863]

It seems like we end up having pizza every Tuesday. I always plan something else but Tuesday is my work late day, and by the time I get off, Dominoes is 5 min down the street from my job, and they have great carryout deals... Or Papa Johns will email me an awesome too good to pass up coupon code. We'll see this week I guess!

 

[Eliza32]

Zhoen

Do you mean the cheese pastries, or the cheese wheels made with ham??? I'll do my best to get you a recipe. I actually live in Hull and there are no less than 3 award winning pork pie butchers in my area!!!

 

[java]

The old standby lately has been Pan fried chicken thighs- with rice and a veg. (*tonight it will be fried zucchini)
It's the one meal that all 6 of us like and eat.

I have requests during the summer so it makes meal planning easier. As I typed this I was asked to make Pancakes one night this week. No problem!

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

I like variety so I alternate meals alot.

Hamburgers on the grill

Chicken Club Sandwiches - I take chicken breasts, cut them sideways so they are thin and then in half so they fit on nice hamburger buns from the bakery. Add bacon, lettuce and tomato. Before you cook them - I like to grill them - I season them with whatever I feel like that day. Sometimes I want hot and spicy, other times I want simple.

Frozen Chicken Patties on hamburger bun with a pickle so they are like Chick-Fil-A.

Buffalo Chicken Cutlets - recipe from Down Home with the Neelys on Food network website.

Buffalo Wings - the kids are always asking for these. Boneless and regular so I pick up the Banquet ones when they are BOGO to have them handy in the freezer

Tacos - either beef or chicken
Quesadillas usually chicken and cheese
Nachos with either beef or chicken
Lasagna - homemade with an easy recipe from Betty Crocker
Spaghetti
Tortillini - the kind in the fridge area. I buy it when it's BOGO and freeze it so I have it for quick meals.

Mini Pizzas - I buy the crust already made in the deli when it's BOGO and freeze it. Then we just add what we want to it so everyone has their own little pizza.

Some sort of stir fry meal - depends on what I feel like doing. I just keep a few packages of stir fry veggies in the freezer, do noodles or rice, some stir fry sauce and whatever meat I feel like that night.

Roast Beef dippers - Roast beef, provolone cheese on sub sandwich bread, dip in beef broth.
Sub sandwiches

I quit doing breakfast for dinner weekly. It was too much work for me because everyone wanted something different.

Can you tell I like quick and easy meals?

 

[taymorel]

We eat spaghetti, tacos, and steak a lot. I don't really know how to cook many meals, but I can make those. We have pizza every Friday and eat out on Saturday nights. And Publix rotisserie chicken or fried chicken are a weekly meal, so I only have to cook side dishes.

 

[MinnieForMe]

I like to try 1-2 new recipes a week but the meals I always fall back on are:

Bake/Roast Chicken
Marinated Steak Tips
Spaghetti/Pasta dish
Meatloaf
Pizza on Friday nights because everyone is running in and out with activities.

I always serve the above with a salad, veggies and/or rice.

 

[Couchy]

In the summer we grill basically the same thing every week .

Chicken 2x a week
Homemade turkey burgers
Some type of white fish
Turkey sausage

We have salad every night and usually grill different veggies as a side, sometimes we grill sweet potatoes

In colder months we
Stirfry
Turkey tacos/lettce cups
Baked fish

 

[jessp1021]

Spaghetti and breakfast are staples here Y'all have gave me some great ideas for new meals and I really think I am going to give the meal planning a try..I think I am going to leave 1 night a week open for a new recipe and do a 6 week rotation

 

[jmb912]

Well here is a list of our favorites and regular meals! Hubby works 7 days on, 7 days off/12 hr shifts and half are days and half are nights, plus extra overtime shifts. So occasionally I might make the kids something just for them if hubby is eating at work....

we always have pizza one weekend night (sometimes we make our own, sometimes we order out)
I also let the kids have mac/cheese and chicken nuggets one night!

I have 3 kids with different tastes but at least with these meals everybody is happy because I will not cook "other" meals for a picky person LOL...

meatloaf/mashed potatoes/corn
chicken parmesan
spaghetti/breadsticks
breakfast for dinner (pancakes/eggs/hashbrowns/bacon)
chicken cordon bleu, veggie, and something else
bbq chicken cooked out on the grill
hamburgers/hot dogs on the grill, corn on the cob
for kids only...fish sticks and lipton rice, we have cube steaks
rotisserie chicken (kids love this)
pork chops/au gratin potatoes/ green beans
kids also love when I have time to make a baked ham dinner

Ok that's what I can think of for now!!

 

[saradela]

Coca Cola Chicken

Black beans with cream , cheese and avocado, plus salsa

chinese rice

huevos Rancheros


mmmmmmmmmmm....

 

[disykat]

While I do mix it up occasionally, we definitely have favorites we repeat often. We go through phases where we'll have tacos every week, phases where we'll have spaghetti every week, etc. When we eat out, we often like to go to the SAME restaurants and order the SAME thing.

We have a Thai place with a beef salad that I have every time I go there, sometimes every week. We also have a standard order at our favorite pizza place. Same at our favorite Chinese place. When I visit my hometown, I can hardly wait to go to my favorite place and order the exact thing I've been ordering there for 45 years!

I'm suprised by the number of people who don't eat the same things over and over.

 

[IDoDis]

Like Reg, I try to rotate through several weeks. Every week I have

A pasta (chicken and broc w pesto, sausage and kale w rigatoni, lasagna, lasagna rollups, linguine w bolognese, or putanesca)

A breakfast for dinner (french toast, pancakes, eggs benedict, crepes, always with a giant fruit salad and sausage or bacon)

Meat, french bread, salad and a veg (meat can equal steak, rib roast, pork tenderloin, veal or lamb chops)

A chicken, veg and starch (includes asian stir fries, grilled chicken, all cuts, roasted whole chicken, kabobs. Starch can include naan bread, potato, polenta. Veg can be anything, we love vegetables)

Hotdogs, Hamburgers, macaroni & cheese and baked beans (DS4s pick!)

A casual sandwich (grilled cheese, reubens, BLT w avacado)

A fish, starch and veg (striped bass or tuna caught by DH, shrimp, lobster)

We also have homemade pizza regularly. In winter, I roll out my winter foods into the rotation - chili, stew, shepherds pie, meatloaf, a whole roster of soups.

I love meal planning - I could talk about this all day!

Funny how so many people have tacos regularly. They used to be in the rotation until one day the family sat me down and and said, we hate tacos, don't ever make them again!

Jane

We live in New Mexico and I never make tacos and no one orders them when we eat out at New Mexican food restaurants. I also thought it was interesting that so many people eat tacos for dinner.

On a fairly regular basis once a week we'll have:

stir fry with chicken breast for the meat
spaghetti (with ground turkey and with whole wheat or whole grain spaghetti noodles)
breakfast burritos for dinner (scrambled eggs, cheese, hashbrowns, chopped green chile)

The winter menu is different since I use the oven which I avoid doing in the summer. At least once a week in the winter we'll have:

green chile chicken enchiladas or red chile enchiladas with ground beef
crock pot meals like beef stew or a roast

 

[lucyem]

In the summer we tend to eat a big salad every night along with the "meat of the day". The salad varies depending on what I have in the house and what comes out of the garden. We buy a half a cow in the fall and raise our own chickens so we just thaw out whatever we are in the mood for. (or will thaw quick cause we forgot to pull something out of the freezer earlier)

In the winter we eat similarly. Though I cook more roasts and crock pot recipes then. And we eat frozen veggies from the garden I freeze in the fall.

 

[Maggie Lizer]

In the summer, steak and salad night and sandwich night are two that are done every week.

In the winter, we do a lot of stews, chilis and soups.

 

[mom2val]

T

 

[#1hoosierfan]

In the summer we grill pork chops, chicken (twice usually), fish (salmon or tilapia and steak about once every 2 weeks. We also have tacos frequently and pasta (either tortellini or spaghetti.) In the winter we switch to hearty soups, chili, crock-pot meals, and casseroles.

 

[drcmk]

We live in New Mexico and I never make tacos and no one orders them when we eat out at New Mexican food restaurants.

I live in PA now, but I will live in NM one day. We spend a few weeks in NM every year and when I am home I miss the food. No green chiles here.

I don't do tacos every week, but at least twice a month we have something Mexican-ish like bean burritos, chicken enchiladas or tacos.