How Many Sides Do You Make With Dinner?

[gentlearts]

Meat or fish, potatoes, baked beans, or pasta....hardly ever rice, hardly ever bread, and a vegetable or salad.

[TabulaRasa]

Depends. If it is a one-pot type meal, with lots of veggies included, sometimes none.

[mainebrokerman]

Sometimes none ..... just protein.

Not a veggie fan

[Gorges]

It depends, of course. We rarely have just a protein dish, unless it's fish, so the protein, vegetables, and starch are often incorporated.

[rrah]

I usually serve a vegetable or salad with pasta dishes. Most of the time it's a protein, a veggie, and a salad. Sometimes I skip the salad. I only cook rice, pasta dishes, and other starches once or twice a week--if that. Starches depend on the main dish.

Husband gets his starch fix with breakfast sandwiches.

In the winter months we eat a lot of soups. I don't typically serve a side dish with those unless it's homemade bread or crackers.

[Threestep2]

There is generally fresh bread. I either bake tiny foccacias, braids, ... and freeze them or ring a neighbor to pick up some when I want fresh-fresh. Green salad whenever possible. The rest depends on time of the year, mood and dinner not to mention my permanent room mate who likes to make last minute changes. I planned corn muffins with chili last night. He asked for curly short pasta.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by lkmax

How many sides do you make with dinner? Not for the holidays, of course, but for regular dinners during the week?

I usually make a meat, a starch and a vegetable. Sometimes I make two vegetables.

I'm in a cooking group on Facebook, though, and a lot of people make 2 starches and 3 veggies every night!

don't know if I have answered this yet, so will maybe be repeating myself, but we have an entree, carb and veggie or salad; many nights we skip the carb and have 2 veggies or a veggie and a large salad.

[Sage 80]

Meat/fish, 1 starch, and 1 or 2 veggies. One of the veggies may be a salad.

Soup with 1 starch, which is usually bread/rolls.

Casserole-type baked dishes or one-dish dinners (e.g., ziti, lasagna, chili) with 1 veggie and 1 starch.

[17thAndK]

Well, when we go get a bucket of KFC, it usually comes with mashed potatoes, cole slaw, mac-and-cheese, and biscuits. When we go get a gyro platter, it comes with fries and/or onion rings. Love the onion rings! I've got some pork egg rolls in the oven right now for lunch. Those will come with sweet thai chili on the side.

[Beretta]

Total of 3 sides, usually 2 veggies and a starch. This doesn't include the main dish.