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What is on your weekly dinner menu? What are your staple go to meals?

We all have a general go to menu with a few new things here and there. Growing up my mother made home made beffaroni, spaghetti with meat sauce, baked and or barbecue chicken, meat loaf, stew chicken and she just rotated it. We had something special for Sunday dinner twice a month and we ate out every Friday rotating who picked the restaurant. During the summer we had potato/ macaroni salad like every other week among other things. What does your weekly menu look like? Mine is like Meat loaf Some sort of pasta with ground turkey and sauce Home made chicken faitijas Shepherd's pie Turkey casserole Pretty much you can count on us eating any one of these at least once a month I try twice a month to make something different. I look up reciepes or use one from my cookbook. I have my standby because they are quick and nutritious. We have a veggie and or a salad with it. Sometimes the ones i try are easy and good so they enter the weekly rotation as i call it

Public Comments

1. It varies from week to week but here are the main ones I make: Spaghetti meatloaf goulash tacos frozen pizza baked chicken pork chops lasagna chicken and rice casserole ribs brisket There are more but I can't think of them at the moment!! lol
2. I try to be varied and interesting. I own a TON of cookbooks and try to schedule/plan menus so we eat different foods. Lately, that hasn't been happening much, so we tend to eat a lot of chicken/beef/pork with rice and salsa -- cooked as a one pot meal. That, and we all like spagetti, chili, fried chicken, and other simple foods. (And during the summer, lots of eggplant dishes, and cold bean salads -- we take advantage of the abundance at the local farmer's market.)
3. My menu varies on what is on sale at the supermarket for the week. I wait until I get the flyers in the mail and make the menu from that. usually I have: Sloppy Joes Hamburgers Baked Chicken Tacos Pizza
4. Chicken and dumplings (I don't raise them for nothing:) tacos turkey/spinach roll ups roast w/veggies and potatoes in the crock pot rice/bean burritos tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches
5. Spaghetti Burritos Chicken Parmesana Those are the ones we have the most. :)
6. frozen pizza hamburgers tacos frito chili pie chili dogs
7. I never do the same meal twice, I like to change it up so the kids dont get bored and I don't get bored However I do have Friday fish night--whether it be fresh fish or fish stick and I vary the side dish I will do one night that's a soup-last night it was homemade Ministrone, last week it was Corn Chowder, the other week it was beef barley We will eat pasta 2x a week but I vary it alot I just have never gotten into that type of thing at all. I love cooking and I love experimenting with all sorts of foods and recipes.