How Do You Choose What To Cook In The Evening?

[Smowball]

Are you super-organised and plan your weeks meals in advance?
Do you go shopping and just pick 6/7 meals for the week?
Do you wake up in the morning and decide then?
Or are you running around the kitchen at 5pm like a headless chicken trying to scramble a meal together??

[rockyracoon]

OH cooked breakfast for everyone while I sorted dinner, I was still in my PJ's when the rest of the family got here at 2 o'clock, after dinner OH washed and tidied, then round to mum's Boxing Day. Did the games work?

[ummmm]

I'm organised this week. I'm making a chuck steak chilli that we will also have tomorrow. Then with the extra rice I cook I will make egg fried rice and chicken in black bean sauce and I bought some seabass today for fishy Friday :-)

[mazie]

Sore point Rocky....I managed to get Tomb raider and Spyro off E-bay as well as the ones you kindly sent me and the Damned X Box wouldn't work......So my Son is looking for a second hand one in Edinburgh .....Grrrrr

Thank you again, it was really kind of you to go to so much trouble xxx

[mazie]

I love Sea Bass....think I might have fish this Friday

[ummmm]

I got it from Aldi. Two frozen fillets for £2.99 and it's cook from frozen. It really is good.

[mazie]

I've had that before ummmm, and, yes it is good...right that's Friday sorted :o) I love a cooked breakfast but not in the morning, so every fortnight we have an all day breakfast for Tea. A real treat.

[LyndaB]

I used to do a 'big shop' every month until I realised how much was wasted. Now, on payday, I get enough from the butchers to last for four weeks (usually 4 Sunday roasts big enough for leftovers, 1lb mince, stewing steak, 2 pork chops, and whatever looks good in the butchers window) and from the supermarket I get everything else. I just get bread and milk in a daily basis as needed. I decide on what to have that night when I get home from work at 2pm (I start very early in the morning), usually utilising anything that needs using up! On Sunday we had roast beef, so last night I bought a jar of curry sauce and made beef curry yesterday (which we are having tonight) and tomorrow we are having delicious pork spare ribs (which I've marinated tonight's they tast much better that way). If we have chicken on Sundays, then in Monday we might have chicken pie, or chicken goujons. We usually have fish in one form or another on Friday, and a takeaway on Saturday. So Wednesday and Thursday will be something like lasagne, sausage and mash, stir fry, casserole etc.

[Georgiesmum]

My son does our food shopping for the week on a friday night. Before he goes, he works out our menu for the week and then he buys accordingly.

[emmie]

take something out the freezer in the morning, let it defrost and see what it is, nothing like a surprise to keep things interesting.

[Francis Asis]

Its Tuesday so its Pasta

[joeluke]

'How Do You Choose What To Cook In The Evening?'

I don't

I just wait for it to be put in front of me ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

I look on the shelves and in the fridge freezer and select something that doesn't seem quite as unappetising as the rest.

[Barmaid]

I do a combination of all 3.

Mr BM often changes his plans last minute (actually, they are not changes, they are stuff he has forgotten to tell me about), so whilst I might plan we'll have certain meals normally based around my work, it generally all goes to pot.

So whilst I'll buy stuff for things I am planning to cook, it doesn't always work out that way. Plus I don't do 9-5 and it can change at short notice.

Then there are days when I expected to be away, but it gets pulled so I am here all day kicking my heels. Thus my favourite place to be at this time of year is in the kitchen.

I don't really do "running" or "headless chicken". I'm more of a "sod it, I'll have a glass of wine and think about it" girl at which point I will throw something together from what I have or we'll end up eating out. Although at any one time, I reckon I have enough combinations of food to come up with about 10 different meals quite quickly.

What makes me die laughing is that Mr BM called me a lazy Lady today. Knob.

[sherrardk]

I am a super organised sort - I write a list for meals, lunch boxes, stuff that's running low and stick to it (then I divide it between the stuff I get from Asdq and Aldi). That way we always have what we need (so I don't have to pay extra at the village shop or get the car out to go to town) and there is minimal waste. With so many of us it's difficult to just throw a meal together from what might be in the cupboards/fridge.

[Eve]

I tend to wing it on a day to day basis, often decide as i'm walking round the mini supermarket and usually have a look what's in the bargain bin or what offers are on though I don't tend to make anything too exciting as it's just me.

I'll sometimes make something like a spag bol so I have enough for two nights.

I don't always have much of an appetite, especially at the moment, and am too tired to do much cooking when I get home so I eat a lot of soup and sandwiches/wraps.

[atalanta]

I go to my freezer last thing the night before, and go
" eenie-meenie-minie-mo . . . "

[DC_FC]

it varies, we sometimes buy the stuff for tea/dinner for the next 3 or 4 teas, other times we do as before but only for 2 or we just wing it and decide either day before whats for tea the next day or decide on the day.

[fairycakes69]

I decide what we'll have Monday to Thursday, make a short list and order online, then the rest of the week it's just what we fancy , since the kids (well adult kids) fend for themselves, (carry outs mainly for them). seem to spend more money on the trips to tesco for the three days than for the rest of the week.