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Old May 6th 2018, 11:25 am
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Typical breakfast, lunches and suppers?

I am looking for inspiration.
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[QUOLunchTE=DXBtoDOH;12495138]Typical breakfast, lunches and suppers?

I am looking for inspiration.[/QUOTE]

I am a big cook and batch cook for the week so i don't have to fart about in the week

Breakfast
Overnight oats
Home made granola
Home made breakfast bars
scrambled egg ( microwave at work)


Dinner ( small amounts not tea size)
These are all batch cooked and frozen

Butternut squash and bacon risotto
Veg curry
wild mushroom risotto
butternut squash and pancetta linguine
turkey and salad filled pittas
soups
quiche and salad
sandwiches
left overs from the night before if i cook too much


Tea

Curries
Stews
Steak
Roast every Saturday without fail ( Northern Brit in me)
Stir fries
Pasta
Home made salmon fish cakes
Paella
Chorizo and tomato orzo ( one of my new faves)

A slow cooker is also a god send


Jamie Oliver ministry of food is a brilliant cookbook and the recipes rarely turn out wrong
I make a lot of meals from there
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This week...

Breakfast - hit and miss. Toast, eggs, fruit or whatever else is there.
Lunch - typically a sandwich.

Dinner - Like Reddiva, I'm a bit of a cook so

Saturday, Prawn Dupiaza and saffron pilau rice
Sunday, Applesauce, mustard and cinnamon glazed Pork Chops with Fondant potatoes and ratatouille
Monday, Pad Thai
Tuesday, Salmon baked in pecan crunch coating with Gratin Potatoes and garlic roasted brocolli
Wednesday Lamb shanks with Mustard and mint, Fondant potatoes, Honey Garlic Carrots.
Thursday, Fruity curried chicken salad.
Friday lunch, Crab and Avocado salad with mango salsa

All of the above is totally home made with no purchased sauces etc as I hate all of the additives and other crap.
Friday night - Daaaan the pub for weekly treat of dinner out
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My. I see you two do a lot of cooking.

I do my weekly cooking in about a hour on Saturday morning.

Your menus do sound great. How much time do you spend cooking on a typical night?
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Today was 10 mins chopping early morning then about 30 mins cooking in the evening.
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Breakfast - nearly always this: 500ml milk, handful of oats, handful of nuts, 2 or 3 Weetabix, a banana and a scoop and half of chocolate protein powder - whizz with a handheld blender (not much washing up).

Lunch - maybe a chicken stir fry, a couple of pieces of filet steak, a chicken salad

Dinner - a roast chicken with some veg, meat (steak, lamb) with some veg, a homemade pie, stir fry, pasta bake, a stew, jambalaya, breaded escalopes, homemade burgers.

I work from home mainly, so all I eat is home made, and I have enough time (and energy) to cook. Sometimes I'll even bake a cake.

Tonight I had a homemade cauliflower soup and 'fajita' kebabs.
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My. I see you two do a lot of cooking.

I do my weekly cooking in about a hour on Saturday morning.

Your menus do sound great. How much time do you spend cooking on a typical night?
On a Saturday I batch cook my dinners for the week. It usually takes me an hour or so ( dishwasher and the nutribullet help)
During the week i am home by 5.30pm so tea usually takes 45 mins to 1 hour. I am not a fan of takeaways ( Being born in the 70's there was only fish and chips) by the time the takeaway arrives here it is usually lukewarm and i like steaming hot food There are always leftovers that i can freeze which saves time. Curries and stews always taste better the day after. My freezer is only full of leftovers and ice cream. You would be surprised how much money you save too as no food goes in the bin.
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Breakfast - nearly always this: 500ml milk, handful of oats, handful of nuts, 2 or 3 Weetabix, a banana and a scoop and half of chocolate protein powder - whizz with a handheld blender (not much washing up).

Lunch - maybe a chicken stir fry, a couple of pieces of filet steak, a chicken salad

Dinner - a roast chicken with some veg, meat (steak, lamb) with some veg, a homemade pie, stir fry, pasta bake, a stew, jambalaya, breaded escalopes, homemade burgers.

I work from home mainly, so all I eat is home made, and I have enough time (and energy) to cook. Sometimes I'll even bake a cake.

Tonight I had a homemade cauliflower soup and 'fajita' kebabs.
Put a tsp of madras curry powder in the cauliflower soup. It makes it taste really nice
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On a Saturday I batch cook my dinners for the week. It usually takes me an hour or so ( dishwasher and the nutribullet help)
During the week i am home by 5.30pm so tea usually takes 45 mins to 1 hour. I am not a fan of takeaways ( Being born in the 70's there was only fish and chips) by the time the takeaway arrives here it is usually lukewarm and i like steaming hot food There are always leftovers that i can freeze which saves time. Curries and stews always taste better the day after. My freezer is only full of leftovers and ice cream. You would be surprised how much money you save too as no food goes in the bin.
Completely agree on the money saving. Mrs Shed and I started cooking everything since Jan. probably maximum of 3 take aways since and our food bills have probably dropped by more than 50% by making everything and freezing all leftovers.
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Breakfast - usually black coffee and 5 cigs
Lunch - Nothing
Dinner (usually at 4:30 or 5)

I am trying to eat cleanly - Last night poached chicken breasts, used that stock to make rice (was attempting to make jollof rice first time but didnt have tomatos which are a key ingredient! so i just threw in some curry powder!) - that will last me probably 3 nights.
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I don't do takeaways either. For me lunches are yogurts (plain), lunches during the work week is steamed broccoli and a carrot and lentil dish I make on Saturdays and portion out and I now add a diced egg to it. Weeknight dinners, if I remember to eat, is just a salad, bit of oil and vinegar and diced eggs. I recently increased to two diced eggs as I want to increase the protein intake.

Do eat out on weekends. It varies. Saturday nights I usually have a cracking good burger and chips made by my hotel bar, it's surprisingly right on the money. I'm not trying to save money on cooking more (to the contrary I don't think it's possible for me to spend even less on food) but I'm working out more and the workout is becoming more intense, which implies I need to increase the food intake. And therein lies the problem.

Reddiva and Shed's menus do have me salivating but they're very meat oriented and I don't necessarily want to increase the meat intake (I'm meat free Sunday-Thursday). But we'll see how that works out as I can feel the body starting to crave more meat.
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breakfast: low-sugar granola and home-made yogurt
lunch: last nights dinner
dinner: tomorrow's lunch.

today is home-made pork meatballs in a soy, chilli and ginger sauce that I made.

Cooking never takes more than an hour, including eating it and washing up.

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I don't do takeaways either. For me lunches are yogurts (plain), lunches during the work week is steamed broccoli and a carrot and lentil dish I make on Saturdays and portion out and I now add a diced egg to it. Weeknight dinners, if I remember to eat, is just a salad, bit of oil and vinegar and diced eggs. I recently increased to two diced eggs as I want to increase the protein intake.

Do eat out on weekends. It varies. Saturday nights I usually have a cracking good burger and chips made by my hotel bar, it's surprisingly right on the money. I'm not trying to save money on cooking more (to the contrary I don't think it's possible for me to spend even less on food) but I'm working out more and the workout is becoming more intense, which implies I need to increase the food intake. And therein lies the problem.

Reddiva and Shed's menus do have me salivating but they're very meat oriented and I don't necessarily want to increase the meat intake (I'm meat free Sunday-Thursday). But we'll see how that works out as I can feel the body starting to crave more meat.
If you are trying to gain muscle you need to eat 1-1.2g of protein per lb of body weight per day. An egg is 13g of protein, 100g of chicken is about 25g of protein... not going to be easy on that diet. I don't get anywhere near a weight gaining protein intake and I eat meat twice a day.
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Weekdays:-
Breakfast - porridge and banana
Lunch - sandwich and occasionally a soup - bought from work canteen
Dinner - curry or something equivalent - got a lady that cooks home-made dishes - Emphasis to make it as healthy as possible

Weekends:-
Eat out for breakfast and dinner. Skip lunch

I can't be bothered to cook and don't have time to be fair. Plus too much hassle to clean up. The ex-wife used to cook but the above has served me well for the past 3 months since the separation.
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Weekdays:-
Breakfast - porridge and banana
Lunch - sandwich and occasionally a soup - bought from work canteen
Dinner - curry or something equivalent - got a lady that cooks home-made dishes - Emphasis to make it as healthy as possible

Weekends:-
Eat out for breakfast and dinner. Skip lunch

I can't be bothered to cook and don't have time to be fair. Plus too much hassle to clean up. The ex-wife used to cook but the above has served me well for the past 3 months since the separation.
Wife replaced with cook !
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