Meal ideas for shift workers...

Callie22

I do this for OH as he often works away from home - staples are Thai green curry (chicken), Thai red curry (beef), bolognaise sauce (he can nuke a jacket potato or eat it with one of those pasta pouches - not cheap but it's easy and that's what he likes ...), chilli, chunky meatball and bean soup, beef stew, lamb tagine, curries of various types. If I'm cooking anything like that then I always make sure to make a couple of extra portions to freeze so he's always got a good selection in the freezer. He also likes those ready cooked rice pouches - I balk a bit at buying them but he won't cook anything 'complicated' so I buy them as a way of ensuring that he gets enough to eat, otherwise he'd just eat 'meat' and then buy a takeway too ...

Taadaa

My DH has just changed his hours, so he is working lates all week and isn't home til nearly ten. I have decided to make dinner for us and put some in a container for him to have the next night. Tonight he is having beef bourginion, tomorrow cottage pie probably. Jacket potatoes and beans can be whizzed up in the microwave. Soup and croutons maybe?

gallygirl

Rather than cooking and freezing whole meals I do different parts - so pasta sauces which may be plain, spicy, with spinach etc. Bolognese sauce, chilli, puttanesca, meatballs, cooked chicken, ham etc. Rice/pasta/cous cous/bulghar wheat (either fresh or frozen). Then I just mix'n'match depending on what mood I'm in.