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Post by littlemama on Sept 4, 2021 23:06:36 GMT
In the summer, we eat hot dogs or other sausages, burgers, tacos pretty often because they are quick and it is softball season. I think I do a pretty good job of not repeating things too frequently other than that.
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Post by flanz on Sept 4, 2021 23:11:03 GMT
It used to be beef stroganoff! Or a toasted Italian bread, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil sandwich (I’d eat them every day that I could!) However since finding that I’m allergic to wheat, it’s just not the same! So I guess Buddha bowls. Salads, veggies chicken , steak. I vary the ingredients and switch up dressings. I haven’t had pasta, lasagna, spaghetti, noodles (I miss noodles!) in almost 2 years 😳 Hey friend. Have you tried the BFree GF brown seeded bread? It is delicious when toasted. I'm also pretty impressed with Barilla's GF pastas. They are great served hot, but kind of like cardboard when cold so not good for pasta salad, say.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Sept 4, 2021 23:23:13 GMT
It used to be beef stroganoff! Or a toasted Italian bread, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil sandwich (I’d eat them every day that I could!) However since finding that I’m allergic to wheat, it’s just not the same! So I guess Buddha bowls. Salads, veggies chicken , steak. I vary the ingredients and switch up dressings. I haven’t had pasta, lasagna, spaghetti, noodles (I miss noodles!) in almost 2 years 😳 I found these great GF noodles that are very similar to the wide egg noodles I used to use for my beef stroganoff back when I could eat wheat. I buy them on Amazon…they’re expensive but so worth it for stroganoff. I also use them to make a lasagna bake because they’re like small lasagna noodles. www.isibisi.us/products/pasta/baby-mafalde-20oz
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Post by Scrapper100 on Sept 4, 2021 23:36:04 GMT
It used to be beef stroganoff! Or a toasted Italian bread, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil sandwich (I’d eat them every day that I could!) However since finding that I’m allergic to wheat, it’s just not the same! So I guess Buddha bowls. Salads, veggies chicken , steak. I vary the ingredients and switch up dressings. I haven’t had pasta, lasagna, spaghetti, noodles (I miss noodles!) in almost 2 years 😳 Hey friend. Have you tried the BFree GF brown seeded bread? It is delicious when toasted. I'm also pretty impressed with Barilla's GF pastas. They are great served hot, but kind of like cardboard when cold so not good for pasta salad, say. There are also some Asian noodles that don’t have gluten. Rice noodles and buckwheat noodles are really good. Walmart has GF pastas they are corn and rice if I’m remembering right. Different than Barrilla but I like the elbows.
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 4, 2021 23:43:40 GMT
Chili. (the easy kind.... ground beef/turkey, canned beans, canned tomatoes, packet of chili seasoning, done) Costco salmon with pesto butter. (buy it, stick it in the oven, done) Pasta/chicken salad -- Cook pasta, add cooked chicken (best is the chicken from the Costco rotisserie chicken that I bought when I bought the salmon ), add cherry or grape tomatoes cut in half, mayonnaise, garlic salt, done. Make-your-own-salad. Buy packaged triple-washed spring mix, buy random other salad-y things, put everything out on the counter, everyone makes their own. (the "triple-washed" part is important because that means I don't have to do it. Do you see a theme here? (hint: the theme is "easy" and "quick" and "not much cooking involved"...)
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Post by leannec on Sept 4, 2021 23:47:41 GMT
Spaghetti with meat sauce is one and chili is the other ... love them both
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Post by lisae on Sept 5, 2021 1:38:56 GMT
Homemade pizza. My pizza dough makes enough for 4 pizzas so I put 3 batches in the freezer. It's easy to thaw out and then assemble the rest of the ingredients.
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Post by MrsDepp on Sept 5, 2021 1:49:08 GMT
In no particular order Beef tips, meatloaf, beans (any/all)
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Post by kate on Sept 5, 2021 2:16:04 GMT
Not sure how to answer this, as I have a standing weekly rotation of dinners. My kids rely on it (especially my ASD kid), and DH likes it because he knows what to make if he's cooking that night. He'll often fancy it up a little; I rarely do. The only thing that changes is the veggies - I try to buy seasonal when possible.
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Post by dewryce on Sept 5, 2021 2:18:35 GMT
We have grilled chicken/spinach/fruit/goat cheese and homemade balsamic vinegar salad 1 to 3 times a week. Our second most frequent meal is sweet potato tacos (sweet potatoes and spinach and black beans and meat, and cheese and avocado, no tortilla.) It’s just as easy to make 4 (or 6) meals as it is one so we freeze the extras and they’re perfect for super easy zero effort meals. We also have salmon, once a week. Trying to gather lots of different healthy, but delicious ways to prepare it that DH can enjoy as he’s not a huge fan. Your taco sounds interesting. How do you hold it together without a tortilla? Or do you eat it from a bowl? In a bowl, though you could certainly put it in a tortilla; we were just looking for recipes that cut out most processed carbs. This is the recipe we use. But we double the spinach and cut the sweet potatoes in half. It makes 4 meals for the 2 of us, 1/4 of a large sweet potato per person per meal. Oh, and we don’t cook in the foil packets, though that works fine. We use Corning Ware with a lid on to bake it the first night. Then freeze 3/4ths of it into 3, 3-cup glass Pyrex dishes, take out the night before to thaw and reheat at 375 in those same dishes for 30 minutes. (Convection oven) eta: I have mushy vegetable texture issues and that has not been a problem at all with this meal. And it still tastes excellent after 3 months it these containers.
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Post by freecharlie on Sept 5, 2021 2:22:59 GMT
Tacos. It used to be burritos before I had to go gluten free
Also breakfast for dinner. We have that a lot.
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Post by leftturnonly on Sept 5, 2021 2:35:27 GMT
What dish do you find you repeat more than any others? Hands down, I make SURPRISE! more than anything else. SURPRISE! means you get to go through the fridge and pull out stuff that must be eaten now or tossed and mix it with basics from the fridge, freezer and pantry. A salad on the side is always good. It's not (usually) as hit or miss as it sounds since I'm typically picking from the same general ingredients that mix well together in various combinations.
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Post by SallyPA on Sept 5, 2021 2:46:43 GMT
Vodka pasta is the current fave.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Sept 5, 2021 2:50:42 GMT
I like to try new things and made a variety of recipes, but the ones that are most common and that everyone likes are tacos, spaghetti, and spicy sausage pasta (from Kevin and Amanda's blog--I think she was a pea?).
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Post by penguin on Sept 5, 2021 5:05:58 GMT
Lately I have been making turkey chili, copycat Panda Express string bean chicken breast, and Mexican chicken soup.
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Post by katlady on Sept 5, 2021 6:56:42 GMT
We usually have stir-fry once a week, sometimes twice. It is easy and quick. We also have salmon once a week.
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Post by joelise on Sept 5, 2021 8:39:58 GMT
I mainly cook either Italian, pizza, risotto, pasta with pesto, tomato and veg sauce or mozzarella and basil. Or Asian food, dahls, jalfrezi, Bombay aloo, cauliflower roti etc
I had to google taco soup to find out what it was, it wasn’t what I expected!
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 5, 2021 9:38:33 GMT
DH's favourite is salmon, whatever steamed green veggies are in season (broccoli, pak choi, asparagus, green beans, peas, kale) and "dirty rice". This is steamed brown basmati rice with added olive or sesame oil, soy sauce, dried basil, pumpkin seeds and dried currants or raisins. It's quick, healthy and tasty.
I also do a lot of slow cooker meals: - Turkey mince with tomato, passata, beans, onions, garlic and whatever veggies I have. - Beef Stifado - Sausages with red lentils, onion, tomato, root veggies (sweet potato, celeriac, parsnips) - "Roast" chicken cooked on onion halves and served with the usual veggies. We both love this because it frees the oven up for roast veg, and the juices from the bottom of the slow cooker make the best onion gravy ever.
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Post by gar on Sept 5, 2021 9:40:37 GMT
"Roast" chicken cooked on onion halves Do you brown the chicken first...I roasted a chicken that was once and it looked so insipid.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Sept 5, 2021 9:49:59 GMT
"Roast" chicken cooked on onion halves Do you brown the chicken first...I roasted a chicken that was once and it looked so insipid. No. I make a herb/salt/pepper seasoning mix that includes paprika and turmeric, and rub it well all over the chicken. That gives it colour as well as flavouring. The only thing the slow cooker can't do is crisp the skin in the same way the oven does, but it does dry out so it isn't soggy. Try it?
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Post by gar on Sept 5, 2021 10:03:58 GMT
Do you brown the chicken first...I roasted a chicken that was once and it looked so insipid. No. I make a herb/salt/pepper seasoning mix that includes paprika and turmeric, and rub it well all over the chicken. That gives it colour as well as flavouring. The only thing the slow cooker can't do is crisp the skin in the same way the oven does, but it does dry out so it isn't soggy. Try it? Maybe I need to give it a go again 😊
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Post by anaterra on Sept 5, 2021 10:51:19 GMT
The mexican version of spaghetti.... which is ground beef and fideo in tomato sauce... sometimes we use shells or potatoes instead of fideo.. but id say every single week we have some version on grd mt/tomato sauce/something.. we also have pork chops every week... either fried, grilled, as carnitas or guiso... i also buy a rotisserie chicken every week before my work week starts... we eat it several different ways...
It is just dh and myself
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Post by Restless Spirit on Sept 5, 2021 11:49:24 GMT
Baked fish and salmon several times a month. And chicken in various forms. I buy a Costco chicken at least twice a month.
DH loves burgers so we buy a box of frozen preseasoned burgers (I forget the brand) from Sam’s Club. I can only eat about half of one, but they are tasty. The other thing DH requests frequently is Instant Pot Baby Back Ribs finished on the grill.
I make a big pot of chili frequently and all year round. We eat some and I freeze the rest. Nice to have on hand for a quick meal DH can heat up. Add some corn muffins and it’s a meal.
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Post by paigepea on Sept 5, 2021 12:40:00 GMT
In the winter lentil soup
All year long bbq teriyaki salmon OR lentil tacos
In the summer my kids go to camp and I close the kitchen.
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Post by candygurl on Sept 5, 2021 13:05:52 GMT
Right now as it’s hot probably tacos, spaghetti or sandwiches for dinner. We grill chicken at least 1x/week to get a few meals out of that.
In the winter: white bean chili or a one pot pasta dish. And lasagna too.
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Post by quinlove on Sept 5, 2021 13:43:03 GMT
When I had my family of 5 to feed every night, spaghetti with meat sauce. We had it about once a week, never any left overs. The kids reminded me that I would have them turn their shirts around backwards so as not to get sauce on the front. Not so noticeable if it was on the back. I thought it was genius, they think it as a cute childhood memory. So win - win. 😊
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Post by hannahruth on Sept 5, 2021 13:46:40 GMT
Pasta - rotate what type but we have pasta at least weekly.
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Post by peasapie on Sept 5, 2021 15:16:57 GMT
Some things from Costco:
--Their caesar salad and their roasted chicken = chicken caesar salad. --Pre-made chicken coconut curry over cooked rice. --Four-cheese and spinach manicotti --Grilled chicken street taco kit
Also, we don't eat red meat, so I cook a lot of fish. At least once a week I turn oven to 425 and in a square pan, inside foil, put any fish I want to cook, salt and pepper, parsley, olive oil, top with some mixture of vegetables like chopped onions, garlic, carrots, tomatoes, beans, etc., Close foil and cook 25 minutes. It's a super easy and healthy way to cook fish and you can change it up depending upon what you put on it. You can also do this on the grill; however, I don't turn the grill on just to cook one thing, so it's usually into the oven for me.
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Post by peasapie on Sept 5, 2021 15:18:21 GMT
It used to be beef stroganoff! Or a toasted Italian bread, tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, basil sandwich (I’d eat them every day that I could!) However since finding that I’m allergic to wheat, it’s just not the same! So I guess Buddha bowls. Salads, veggies chicken , steak. I vary the ingredients and switch up dressings. I haven’t had pasta, lasagna, spaghetti, noodles (I miss noodles!) in almost 2 years 😳 I never heard of Buddha bowls, so I looked it up and they look interesting. Can you give me some idea of the vegetables and proteins you like to use and the kinds of dressings?
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Post by ScrapbookMyLife on Sept 5, 2021 15:27:55 GMT
My own version of tacos.
I cook a couple pounds of hamburger every couple/few weeks or so. I scramble/crumble it. Very little seasoning. I freeze it in individual portions. I freeze street taco size flour tortillas.
I take one or two packettes of the hamburger and one or two tortillas out of the freezer when I get home for the day and put it on my defrosting sheet. When I am ready to eat....I lightly butter the tortillas and cook them on the gf grill or in a frying pan, then add the heated up hamburger.
Quick and easy, I have them a couple times a week.
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