Average British family eats the same six meals every week

Most British families live off just six recipes - prepared week in, week out.
A traditional roast chicken is the favourite - served up frequently in 30 per cent of homes.

The next popular meals are spaghetti bolognese (27 per cent) and stir fry (12 per cent). Then came sausage and mash at 12 per cent, followed by curries (10 per cent) and pork chops (7 per cent).
Just two per cent of families said that they cooked another dish most often.

The lack of appetite for adventure was revealed in the countrywide survey of 1,440 families for the What's for Dinner Club, which aims to encourage families to be more adventurous in their cooking. An amazing 98 per cent live off just six dishes.

Most (37 per cent) said they did not try new recipes because they were worried the family would not like them. Some 32 per cent said that they could not remember how to cook any other meals and 31 per cent said that they couldn't be bothered to plough through cook books to find new ideas.

The overwhelming majority, 78 per cent, buy the same selection of ingredients on every supermarket trip then follow their usual selection of recipes.

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