There are four of us at home - 2 will eat just about anything, one is super

Aug 4, 2015
11:32:01am

crack

picky and one has a long list of food allergies. So, we end up with a pretty standard rotation on a weekly basis where the general type of meal is the same but the specifics are changed around a bit.

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Curious about other families' dinner menu habits

jdub

8/4/15 11:22am

We end up just throwing things together, fend for yourself and eat out

smokymountainrain

8/4/15 11:26am

most nights we get everybody there. My oldest son will often be at work

jdub

8/4/15 11:29am

That's great. I hope we can get there again someday soon.

smokymountainrain

8/4/15 11:30am

There are four of us at home - 2 will eat just about anything, one is super

crack

8/4/15 11:32am

That makes sense. I didn't even think about food allergies when

jdub

8/4/15 11:40am

Too many to list- but the main ones that make it difficult are wheat, pork, beef

crack

8/4/15 11:43am

wow, that would be tough.

jdub

8/4/15 11:46am

We have a couple of stand-bys. We usually do pizza once a week. We also do

FierceArc

8/4/15 11:33am

Nice. I do the same thing you mentioned in your last paragraph.

jdub

8/4/15 11:41am

I'm with you on building dishes around a main ingredient.

SteveOrr

8/4/15 12:02pm

Boring, healthy, every...single...day.

Flippy

8/4/15 11:38am

Well, you can do variety with that too so it's not so boring, right?

jdub

8/4/15 11:45am

Yes, we definitely try to make it interesting by grilling and BBQing the meats

Flippy

8/4/15 11:59am

We try to do what you do and are relatively successful at it. You can do a lot

kotacoug

8/4/15 11:51am

We do a wide variety of things ...

ManicBlue

8/4/15 11:54am

I should give you my wing recipes .

jdub

8/4/15 11:56am

We go on Wing Tuesdays or Boneless Thursdays ... hahaha

ManicBlue

8/4/15 11:59am

probably not.

jdub

8/4/15 12:11pm

.65 per wing? Is that what they cost on Tuesday and Thursday?

crack

8/4/15 12:12pm

Yes ... bone in on Tuesdays and boneless on Thursdays - 4 wing min. per sauce

ManicBlue

8/4/15 12:45pm

Actually, just counting cost (not labor), homemade wings are probably cheaper.

jdub

8/4/15 12:53pm

not to mention the variety of sauces available ... we usually do 6-8

ManicBlue

8/4/15 1:03pm

I typically do two: a buffalo style, and one that is likely similar to the

jdub

8/4/15 1:29pm

Pizza Friday, with a movie

FuriousMonkey

8/4/15 12:17pm

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cvd6262

8/4/15 12:20pm

We plan our dinner menu week to week. We do the grocery shopping

Jeff Spicoli

8/4/15 12:42pm

yep, we have the chicken strips and corn dogs in the freezer too

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