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...
