Ok. So I am building a personal list of things that we cook for dinner on a regular night of the week. I am looking for your additions to this list. My goal is to have a master list so that when we are meal planning for the week, we don’t just say tacos, breakfast, and sandwiches over and over again.

Here is my list. What would you add.

Jambalaya
Seared Pork Chops
Shepherds pie
Spaghetti w/meatballs
Tacos
Grilled Cheese w/soup
Chicken Shawarma
French Bread Pizza
Tator Tot Casserole
Grilled Burgers
Griddle Burger Sliders
Gumbo
Smothered Pork Chops w/rice
Beef Roast
Potato soup
Meatballs & smokies
Meatball Sub
Sausage Poboy
Chicken fricassee
Sausage & rice
Low country boil
Country fried steak
White chicken chili
Fried shrimp
Caesar / house salad
Alfredo Pasta
Smoked ham
Roast pork tenderloin
Ham steak
Chicken Parmesan
Chicken sandwiches
Shrimp etouffee
Pulled pork
Red/white beans
Shrimp&grits
Chili
Upside down pizza
Chicken noodle soup
Baked chicken thighs/breasts
Steaks
Grilled pork steaks
Lemon pork chops
Chili dogs
Turkey w/dressing
Hamburger steaks
Roast beef poboy
BLT
Grilled chicken
Pig in a blanket
Ribs
Quesadillas
Club sandwiches
Chili/cheese tots/fries
Enchiladas
Chick/Sausage Sauce Piquant
Monterey Chicken
Country fried steak sandwiches

Breakfast for dinner:
Dutch baby
French toast
Pancakes
Eggs/bacon/toast
Biscuits
Cinnamon rolls
Sausage balls
McMuffins
Eggs bene

What to add???

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Posted by Darla Hood

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:22 am to Jibbajabba

That is a pretty comprehensive list!

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Posted by LSUcdro

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 10:30 am to Jibbajabba

So basically everything lol

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Posted by blueridgeTiger

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 11:12 am to Jibbajabba

I didn't do a word search, but I don't believe I saw a couple of things I often eat for dinner:

Poached salmon
Pho

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Posted by BayouENGR

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 11:24 am to Jibbajabba

Greek salad with grilled chicken
Grilled chicken souvlaki with tzatziki

Muffulettas
Muffuletta pasta salad

BBQ chicken pizza

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Posted by BooDreaux

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 11:45 am to BayouENGR

Grass fed steak/beef

Alaskan salmon

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Posted by hungryone

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:16 pm to Jibbajabba

Your list includes some things we rarely-to-never cook or want to eat, but hey, that’s what makes the world go ‘round. (Ain’t no tater tot casserole coming out of my kitchen.) Some stuff we routinely eat that’s not on your list:
—lentils: either cooked into a thick curry (with rice or naan) or thiner as a soup
—chopped greek salad, w cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, Tnuva feta, homemade croutons
—paella, with chicken and chorizo (I actually make it far more often than jambalaya)
—good cheeses (2-3 different kinds) w/bread and fruit (one of my favorite suppers of all time)
—shakshuka, or other baked/skillet egg dishes (like eggs poached in leftover creamed spinach or in a bed of leftover mashed potatoes)
—broiled Aidell’s chicken sausages (Costco sells ‘em), or same sausages diced into a veggie stir fry
—kale Caesar salad w/hardboiled eggs as the protein (and homemade croutons)
—pork tenderloins, oven roasted & flavored in various ways

My freezer is full of cooked food, so weeknight suppers often feature something defrosted that can be repurposed or rearranged....like the pasta sauce I threw together yesterday out of leftover pulled pork, half a can of frozen cento tomatoes from the freezer, some diced celery, carrot, and onion, plus some red wine.

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Posted by Jibbajabba

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:28 pm to hungryone

Lol!!! Tator tot casserole is my wife’s favorite food! I have to admit that I don’t care for it but I eat it because she is so proud of it. She is from a different part of the country and it was the first thing that she ever learned how to cook. Also, the kids like it. I is basically just ground beef, cheese, tator tots and some seasonings.

The list you gave sounds good and I would eat it but do you have small children and do they eat it?

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Posted by Jibbajabba

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:30 pm to hungryone

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—good cheeses (2-3 different kinds) w/bread and fruit (one of my favorite suppers of all time)

You know, I have never thought to just make a charcuterie board for the family. I could pitch it by calling it a “family lunchable” lol. It will happen soon!

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Posted by hungryone

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:50 pm to Jibbajabba

No, I don’t have any small fry. But I grew up eating whatever my parents cooked, and none of us were picky eaters. So I say at least attempt to feed your children a varied diet, repeatedly. And peanut butter sandwiches are acceptable if they hate your dinner.

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Posted by nateslu1

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 1:55 pm to Jibbajabba

No meatloaf with mashed potatos?

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Posted by Jibbajabba

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:00 pm to hungryone

I do everything in my power to introduce them to different foods but they are fairly finicky. Not chicken nugget and Mac and cheese only finicky but there is a lot of things that they don’t seem to enjoy. That being said, my solution is as follows. They have to eat at the same time as the rest of the family and if they don’t want what we made, they can have fresh fruit for dinner. We always keep apples, bananas, and other types of fresh fruit in the house. We all enjoy fresh fruit. I try not to offer cereal or pb&j too often because I don’t want them just diving straight into that when they need to at least try what we are having.

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Posted by hungryone

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Posted on 10/6/19 at 2:14 pm to Jibbajabba

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That being said, my solution is as follows. They have to eat at the same time as the rest of the family and if they don’t want what we made, they can have fresh fruit for dinner. We always keep apples, bananas, and other types of fresh fruit in the house. We all enjoy fresh fruit. I try not to offer cereal or pb&j too often because I don’t want them just diving straight into that when they need to at least try what we are having.

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable plan to me. They aren’t coerced and can exercise choice, and you aren’t a short order cook catering to everyone separately. I have a pile of nieces and nephews, all of whom are now adults. Several were raised in very kid-centric households where little Johnnys four year old aversion to green things was carried on into all aspects of household cooking. It’s completely funny to watch them discover at age 20-25 that Food X is actually delicious after having been told “but you hate it” over and over again for 15 years. Palates change.

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