What are your 3 ‘go to’ family suppers?

Though I’ll probably do it with low fat fromage frais cos my DH won’t eat full fat cream - always keeping an eye on his BP

Thanks BB for cabbage idea. We eat cabbage a lot (adds a healthy green tinge to the complexion ).I tend to just braise it with butter and throw in things like walnuts.

Bathsheba, I suppose low fat fromage frais would do. However because the recipe is directed to those who eat low-carb, full fat cream is used for both protein and energy.

Most recent set of dinner basics:
1. Some type of chilli beans with short brown rice
2. Some type of spanakopita with (usually) salad
3. Some variation of roasted veg with baked potatoes (or just stir in orzo at the end) and cheese/cottage cheese
4. Soup. Any kind. And often.

Kedgeree
Vegetable chilli and rice
Jacket potato with all sorts of toppings

Ooh I would love the recipe for the pork sage and onion dish!

Roast chicken, roast or jacket potatoes, lots of veg

Chickpea, sweet potato and spinach curry

Smoked sausage, sautéed potatoes, sweetheart cabbage

Roast chicken

Stir fry beef and peppers

Delia Smiths frugal pie - carrots, leeks, onions, potatoes layered with white sauce and topped with cheese.

Supper has always meant hot choc and a biscuit before going to bed

My husband always cooks cabbage with fennel seeds delicious

Supper is something posh people eat at about half past 8, accompanied by fancy drinks.

They all sound lovely and thank you for so many new ideas, I will be trying some out.

Oh my! Can I come and eat at all of your houses, please?

Lasagne
Roast Dinner
Boeuf Bourguignon

Gosh I am somewhat taken aback by how few vegetarians on this thread!

Here you go phoenix. -

Pork & Apple serves 4

800g pork (I used to buy diced but last week tried loin steaks cut in half and everyone agreed tasted nicer!)
2 chopped onions
2 large baking apples peeled and thick cut
2 teaspoons dried sage
3 tablespoons of water

Put all that into a flat Pyrex dish, cover with foil and oven cook 170° for 90 minutes.

In the meantime make a pan of mashed potatoes & I add good amount of grated strong cheese.

Remove foil, spread over the pork/sage and onion with the mash and put in oven for about 20 mins. I often put the mash on earlier in the day and then put it in the oven when we want to eat. It’s nice with dark green cabbage.

Mac n cheese as done on Almazan Kitchen (YouTube)
Vegetarian Wellington with crushed potatoes and wilted greens.
Ale battered cod and chunky chips with mushy peas.

sausage and chips
lasagne
roast chicken

another non-vegan - sorry

I DO like the sound of Urmstongran 's pork dish, although I don't eat meat. ??

Spag Bol, mince'n'tatties, and sausage, egg and chips.

Spaghetti bolognese made with quorn

Lentil cottage pie

Fish, salad and baked potato

I'm a northerner so I have breakfast dinner and tea super is a cup of tea and toast before bed husband southern so he has breakfast lunch and super and tea is a drink fir him not a meal married 35 years and he hasn't changed over to my ways give it time

Shepherd’s (cottage) pie
Chicken curry
Haddock with crushed new potatoes

Goodness I am both impressed and amazed at all your versatility. I am doubly relieved at the sometimes confession of laziness. My 'go to' snacks would always be the more exotic filled rolls of egg or bacon. Yes this is lazy if you like but it is so instant and I salivate at the very thought. A little offset to my (pretend) shame is that I pretty much always have my own soup on the go. More salivating! Hats off to all of your inventiveness. My days of that are long gone.

Actually Scribbles when you think about your Pan Heggerty (thank you by the way for how to make it) it’s not THAT different from my pork & apple! Both use potatoes, onion and cheese. Yours has bacon as a side and mine has pork. Variations on a theme! I just need a name for my dish....

Boiled ham joint, mashed potatoes, carrots and peas.

Spaghetti Bolognese made with finely chopped onion, and pepper and tinned tomatoes and passata.

A stew including swede, carrots, parsnip, onions, handful of pearl barley, dumplings and braised beef cubes or turkey.