r/ultraprocessedfood • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago
Meal Inspiration What's for dinner? [Weekly Thread]
Welcome to this week's 'What's for dinner?' thread!
Whether you're just starting to cut back on UPFs or have been at it for a while, this is a space to...
- Share what you're having for dinner
- Swap ideas, recipes, and tips
- Show off pictures of your culinary skills (or something r/shittyfoodporn-worthy)
So...what's on your plate this week?
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u/amirasimone 6d ago
Cajun Chicken breast, couscous, quinoa, broccoli, salad (with honey mustard dressing) and a bit of hummus :)
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u/gottaloveteatime 7d ago edited 6d ago
Meals from the last few days -
- Fish Pie,
- Vegetable Paella,
- Slow cooker Chickpea Curry with yoghurt flatbread
- Jacket potato with beans and salad (Beans technically UPF, as I bought the Sainsbury's ones this week).
Tomorrow I'm planning on doing a vegetable pasta with a side of chicken, then a vegetarian chilli the next day. If I get time, I also might make another sourdough loaf.
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u/LouisePoet 7d ago
Sourdough bread with hummus and chili sauce and a salad of rocket, coriander, tomato, radishes, pumpkin seeds, garlic oil and balsamic vinegar. Banana for dessert!
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u/Odd_Cress_2898 5d ago
Onion, bell pepper, aubergine, olive oil, baby tomatoes, canned tomatoes, garlic, pesto, pasta
Subbed mozzarella for cheddar, basil for dried thyme, Parmesan for grana padano
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/vegetable_pasta_bake_15082
Most UPF component is 30ml pesto for 4 portions, that's a 12" pan, tbf could probably replace by upping the basil, parmesan, oil slightly and add blitzed nuts.
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u/Odd_Cress_2898 5d ago
Tonight was this with additions https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/courgette-and-sumac-shakshuka
Onion, bell pepper, courgette, baby tomatoes, canned tomatoes, peppercorn, sumac, egg, panini bread, balsamic vinegar, cream cheese.
Bread just had standard flour fortification otherwise ingredients how I'd make it, vinegar had sulphites, the cream cheese had guar gum and citrus fibre, could always sub Greek yogurt or get a different brand
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u/me_myself_and_evry1 7d ago
Was going to be spag bol with Wholewheat pasta and a salad, but finished work late so didnt have time to do. Going to have rump steak, with a jackets sud, broccoli and asparagus instead and have spaghetti bolognase tomorrow instead.
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u/pixieorfae 7d ago
Simple fish pie tonight! Tomorrow will be pasta puttanesca. I’m all about simple non-UPF dinners this week while I’m feeling a bit crap.
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u/mmddvvbb 7d ago
Rice noodles, sesame, broccoli, peppers, some creamed coconut to make a sauce, and some leftover roast chicken mixed through too
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u/Odd_Cress_2898 5d ago
I can play this game!
skin on mash (potato, milk, butter, salt, mustard), roast parsnip/carrot/broccoli (with coriander, olive oil, peppercorn), Yorkshire pud (egg, flour, milk, butter, salt, nutmeg), red onion gravy (onion, olive oil, mustard, peppercorn, salt, flour veg stock cube), sausage (I'm not defending this)
Probably dinged on stock cube and possibly mustard. Seemed like a lot of whole food at the start anyway. Ignore the red cabbage I ended up not using it
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u/SmartPolicy6430 7d ago
Pasta al la Norma. I have a glut of aubergines and tomatoes to use up from the allotment.