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    Easy Weeknight Dinners

    Easy Weeknight Dinners For The Family

    Chilli

    There are loads of great family dinner menu ideas out there, and many of them are focused on saving you time and effort each time you cook during the week. Fewer seem geared towards batch cooking several meals at once, though...and surely that’s the ultimate time saver for busy weeknight dinners?

    With any sort of range cooker, batch cooking larger meals designed around canny use of leftovers is a breeze - and one of the easiest ways to save yourself hours of cooking over the course of a working week. Moreover, it’s a lot cheaper to put together a menu lasting several days than it is to start from scratch every night.

    The only issue you’ll have is trying to decide which sorts of dinners will result in the tastiest and most versatile leftovers. As dedicated batch cookers ourselves, we’ve got a couple of ideas we think you might like...

    Chilli

    Chilli (con carne or veggie)

    Batch cooking a large family-sized pot of chilli at the start of the week is a great way to get three or four different meals out of the original sauce mix. After you’ve made the initial sauce mix to serve over rice, you’ve got endless options for reusing leftovers during the week.

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    Roast Meats

    Roast meats - chicken, beef, or pork

    There’s so much you can do with leftover roast meats

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    Potatoes

    Potatoes

    It’s always worth doing a much larger batch of roast spuds or homemade wedges than you actually need for a single meal. There are very few follow-up dinners that won’t make room for an artfully reworked potato or three!

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    One-dish bakes

    One-Dish Bakes

    One-pot roasts and bakes are arguably the reigning kings of time and energy saving, enabling you to jazz up midweek leftovers into a whole new set of easy family dinner menu ideas with almost no extra effort at all. Better yet, you’ve only got one roasting dish to wash up afterwards!

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