Do you have a full cooked meal every night?

DH is the cook in our home. He likes his traditional cooked meal early evening. I'm not complaining but I would eat differently. He's a meat and two veg man. I would like salads, jackets, pasta, fish.
I eat whatever is put in front of me and I have finally convinced DH that I only want a small portion and this is no criticism of his cooking.
I agree with Liz46 taking it in turns. A chap I know and his wife do that-he simply cooks whatever he is told to
We're not averse to the odd ready meal and we often freeze half of our meal for another night.
We do always eat together at breakfast and evening meal.

Similar to Newquay but in this case I am the cook not DH, but he likes to cook steak when we have it and always does the barbecue.Men of a similar age have been brought up this way , no takeaways ( don't live near any) but now and then a good M&S ready meal .

We have a cooked meal most nights. H has his signature dishes curry and steak and he cooks breakfast at the weekend. The rest of the time it's down to me, must admit I do sometimes find it a chore. Saturday night is my night off, we will have something like homemade burgers from the freezer in a bun or pizza from the freezer. That's the only time we eat in front of the TV.

We have a very light lunch and a cooked from scratch meal every night with fruit ( strawberries at the moment ) for pudding. I would never get away with anything less.

brutal corn on the cob

Yes we have a meal each evening but no starter and no pudding. My husband was a chef so does all the cooking ( I hate it )
We often go out for lunch though then just a quick sandwich in the evening. It's nice to have time now we are retired to relax and enjoy a meal.

M0nica ""brutal corn on the cob"" ..... as in it was really big/massive and looked totally out of place on the plate.

I cook every night or we have something I have previously frozen. About once a month we have takeaway curry on Saturday night. I reckon that Saturday should be easy food so it might be a frozen pizza or something like that.

I had visions of it waving cudgels and bashing the hell out of the rest of the veg.

Like some others we eat our main meal, which I cook, at midday. We gradually eat less as the day goes on. Small tea and supper which suits DH as he gets reflux if he eats late. Breakfast which he makes is toast or porridge, fruit and nuts. We hardly ever eat out so I cook large amounts and freeze quite a lot.

We do eat too much when we are away on ships and then spend the next three months trying to get rid of it just to go back and do the same thing.

DH and I still both work full time so we tend to eat our main meal
In the evening. Almost always cooked from scratch by either me or both of us together . At least one night a week we have a "make do" dinner of fish fingers and mashed potatoes or something similar. I cook for the DGC twice a week too but they will eat anything. They're not fussy eaters at all. Their favourites are Sunday/Monday roast dinners and curry or pasta.

We now eat a main meal at lunch time, usually cooked from scratch, although the other half likes things I do not, so he occasionally has these ready made. We also always have breakfast, but after the mid-day meal we now just have a piece of cake and a cuppa during the afternoon, and that is it. Can' even imagine eating the huge meals we used to get through!

Still eat main meal in the evening usually cooked from scratch by me ,though I do a lot of batch cooking and freezing .I have never really enjoyed cooking except when entertaining but like to eat healthily !Pudding only if one of our DDs is home .
Saturday night is an 'instant'meal though as I insist on a night off. Often M and S £10 for two .
I go out a lot in the day and a proper meal at lunch time wouldn't work for us
We don't eat out a lot but as it happens Sunday will be my fifth dinner (and one lunch) out this week .Darent get on scales...

Yes we still have an evening meal as my husband is out 12 hours a day. It's often a healthy eating ready meal as we're on a diet but other days it might be mince or chicken with veg etc. Lunch is just low fat cheese spread on crackers or an omelette and he takes the same or soup. Breakfast is always fruit and cereal although this morning I deviated a little and had toast! As we have to get up at 5.30am I'm aways starving by 9am! My husband was on holiday for a fortnight so I was on my own - I only ate when I was hungry and sometimes it would be 2pm when I would have lunch. I lived on salads and beans on toast - bliss

I have a full cooked/uncooked meal three times a day! Toast or soup for a meal just wouldn't do it for me - today I've had

Breakfast: Slice of ham, poached egg & tomatoes, coffee

Lunch: Prosciutto, avocado, coleslaw & rocket

Supper will be: cod loin & vegetables, plus wine

I'm soon off for a 2-hour riverwalk so hope to 'walk-off' the coleslaw and wine!

riverwalk you are a woman after my own heart! I eat and cook as I do because I enjoy my food and enjoy trying out new food stuffs and recipes. When I lose my relish for food I will know I am on the way out.

My day has gone

Breakfast: soft cheese spread on marmite rice biscuits with cucumber slices, fruit juice and lemon tea.

Lunch: vegetable pilau with tomato salsa and stewed apples

Supper: smoked salmon salad and fresh fruit.

No wine though, as I am a very light drinker, but a good long walk this morning, some gardening this evening and a morning spent racing around the shops.

DH likes a cooked meal every evening, but he's not fussy, he eats whatever he's given!
We usually eat late, anywhere between 7 and 9-30 pm, I think this is due to him having always worked shifts, when our meal times were, by necessity, weird!
Normally it's fish or meat with potato/rice/couscous/quinoa and fresh veggies/salad, or a pasta dish.
Last night however, was mince and onions over thick toast, he spent the whole day telling me that was what he really wanted, I have to admit, it was lovely!

In Germany it is very common to eat lunch warm and evening meal cold and We go along with it. Then its all washed up -kitchen tidy, before we take our siesta. The afternoon is then free and in the eveing we each make our own sandwich with or without salad I drink tea and DH drinks beer.

I can't be tied to the oven or cooker due to health so when I'm up to it I cook and when I'm not I order sandwich food or soups or cheese and lovely bread. We have occasional ready meals and take away but not much as it leaves me feeling worse afterwards sometimes. Or I will eat out if I am already out and eat light later on in the day, my DS sorting himself out for food. We just do as we please really, always have.

No since the family left home divorce left me alone I rarely have a proper cooked meal in the evenings ....anyway I was brought up to have a dinner at lunchtime ..... Now it's what ever I can scrap together whenever I feel like it really I suppose I roughly have meal times ... toast and coffee when I get up usually around 7 ....something maybe a jacket potato or salad or toasted sandwich around 1 and something around 5or 6 but these can stretch to very different times if I m doing something or needed somewhere

I'm a lark, while my men are owls - DH is severely disabled. I need to eat at 6-7, while they are nearer to midnight. So I have a light snack, ready meal or whatever, while they cook together when suits them. Maybe not the best solution, but I have a half-way decent breakfast, whereas DS lives on coffee and snacks, while DH only has the one meal. Can't get them to eat sensibly apart from one meal. About once a month we have fish 'n chips takeaway, so that's our social togetherness session and if we go to the cinema or whatever, we have a luxury meal out.

At the moment I have my son and his fiancee living with me so most nights we do have a cooked meal but I've got to agree the planning and shopping does irritate me at times and part of me will be happy when they move into their own place and I can go back to scrambled egg on toast.

I rarely cook a meat and 2 veg meal. In fact, I can't remember the last time I made one. Probably when we have visitors staying. At least then I get to enjoy cooking and eating.
My DH is a veggie who doesn't enjoy food so eats very little at the best of times and often has tinned soup for his evening (main) meal. Yes, he's 6ft and underweight but since he had puppy fat at puberty, is paranoid about getting fat. Definitely verging on the Anorexic to my mind. He doesn't like eating out so we never have an evening meal out. He will scoff cakes with tea/coffee in a cafe so I make do with that as my treat.
I gave up trying to get him to eat healthily ages ago.
I ate a 'posh' fish cake with green veg for my tea last night. Followed by a huge bowl of ice-cream. :-/

I hate cooking nowadays. DH has always preferred to eat late and at odd times (because of his work & just got into the habit.) I find I can't do that any more, and it never really suited me. I mostly let him sort himself out, then have a shared dinner at night when/if it fits in with what we're doing. I could live on pasta & salad, which he hates (It's not proper food and it has a lot of green in it. Left to himself I've discovered he avoids anything remotely vegetable)

Skullduggery- so glad to find someone else who has given up on the thankless task of persuading a reluctant adult to eat healthily :-)