Your friend sounds like he has very fine taste indeed. What a brilliant idea!

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Fridays are pasta night at our house, pretty much without fail. I do the meal planning for the following week (we go to the farmers market on Saturday mornings) and my husband reheats a packet of frozen (homemade) sauce and boils up the pasta, then makes a batch of garlic bread from the heels of the previous week's loaf, and a green salad. We open a bottle of nice wine and relax together after a long week.

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Friday mornings at work, the whole office orders out for breakfast! Just another thing to look forward to on Fridays! :)

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Growing up, Sunday was always "Planned Meal Day." Breakfast was always the same: Eggs, Bacon, Pancakes or Toast, Orange Juice. Fry extra bacon, because lunch was always Pepsi, BLT Sandwiches, Lay's chips, and Mother's Chocolate Walnut Cookies. Dinner was always either a roast pork loan or a roast beef, mashed potatoes, green vegetable cooked to death, salad, bread and butter, iced tea, and either a yellow cake with coconut icing, or a yellow cake with fudge icing. In the summer, cake was replaced by sliced Cantaloupe. This always offended me greatly. On what level, any level, is substituting sliced melon acceptable in place of CAKE?

Now, it's simplier. My out of town BF arrives every Sunday. We have coffee and scone, and go over the preceding week, and putz around. For lunch it's either mexican food and cocktails, or sometimes a soup and salad and sandwich place. Seldom changes.

For myself, I only a few steady routines. One, I head straight to a Vietnamese Pho house every time 1) it's raining outside on a weekend; 2) I'm melancholy (sitting alone slurping Pho is a balm); 3) I'm exhausted from working late. Two, if I'm alone on a Friday night and have no plans, invariably, that's Cheese and Cracker Night. I make a silver shaker of a cocktail, and set out a plate of my favorite cheeses, crackers, pita chips, hummus, sometimes some salami or something, and watch a DVD, with my little cocktail party fare.

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Soup or casserole on Wednesdays when I'm at the skating rink with Daughter #3 and the other two (who would otherwise be able to cook, and did last year when they had different school hours) are home late. Anyway, Daughter #3 likes soup after skating.

Vegetarian finger food on Friday: meatless day and family movie night.

Something quick and easy on Saturday, festive formal meal on Sunday.

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday are just plain boring unpredictable, though it's more likely to be something Italian on Thursdays than on other days, I don't kow why.

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Every Sunday, and I mean every Sunday,
vegetarian Dominos pizza, NO cheese.

Delish

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On weekends, my husband and I make pancakes--with blueberries, bananas, chocolate chips or wahtever we've got.

Wednesday became pizza night as I would get home from my fitness class at 8:00 and we would have already run out of leftovers from whatever we cooked on the weekend.

I eat pita wraps almost everyday I am on campus for lunch because they have th e shortest line at the food court (even though they have the best food!) and use a lot of veggies. For dinners on campus I usually eat soup b/c it's the best thing available int he cafe at the library.

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Growing up, Monday nights were always spaghetti nights because my mother had just cooked two family meals over the weekend and didn't want to have to worry about Monday, and she always had homemade sauce on hand. Now that I'm married, my husband plays hockey on Monday nights and needs a high-carb meal beforehand - so we're back to spaghetti!

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Friday lunch is always at a local plate lunch place, Ann's Restaurant, and 98% of the time I order the open face roast beef sandwich. It's really good. It's been a standing date with my dad for several years now.
Otherwise routine is boring and I like variety too much to have the same thing day after day.

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We make pizza almost every week, although the day changes. Thaw a frozen ball of dough the night before and it only takes about 20 minutes to gather the toppings, toss the dough, and bake it on our pizza stone. Good for nights when someone is getting home late.

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We have worked out a very usable schedule in our house and it's worked for us for years. We alternate weeks. From Sun to Sat, one is responsible for all grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning up. The other takes a break. We both like to cook, but we both like to relax, too and be served. This arrangement gives us the best of both worlds. Since we each usually do the "big" shopping on Sunday, that's the day we usually have fresh seafood from the farmer's market. The rest of the week is always a suprise for one of us!

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Typically, we eat small dinners during the week and nicer, longer, bottle of wine dinners Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. No set schedule to this (as in Sunday is roast chicken night or Friday is pasta)...

While Buffy the Vampire Slayer was on TV, Tuesdays would always be Buffy-Taco night. I'm not sure how this tradition started but every Tuesday (during the TV season, for about 6-7 years) we made veggie or chicken tacos and watched Buffy on Tuesday nights. Good times!

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Tuesday is always homemade(whole wheat + veggies) pizza night, while Saturday night is always store-bought(Sicilian) pizza night.. =] It's been that way forever!

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I am a creature of habit when it comes to breakfast and lunch, so we try to mix it up a bit for dinner...with three exceptions, that is: Friday is Burger Night, the week always ends with "Slow Cooker Sunday", and we make our own flatbread pizzas any weeknight that my husband works late.

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While there is never really anything set in stone at my house, my boyfriend and I often have the routine of finding something NEW to cook for the weekends, [seasonally appropriate]. Last weekend it was lamb and white bean stew which was delicous-- we've also done roasts, other soups or stews, new fish creations- etc. It's fun to try something new and with neither of us working on weekends we can start early and it's no big deal if it ends up a disaster [it rarely does, thankfully!] we can always go grab a pizza or something easy.

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We have "Burgers with Betty" (Ugly Betty, that is) on Thursdays, pizza on Fridays and pasta on Sundays.

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Thursday is ALWAYS "CSI date night" for me and my husband :) We have pizza or Chinese "take-away" - each of us takes a turn choosing... The rest of the week, we have different things: sometimes we have "leftovers" from eating out, sometimes we have "leftovers" from one of my cooking classes [I teach an international gourmet cooking class once a month], sometimes I will pick up a cookbook from my collection and select a recipe at random and make it. Other than Thursday night, there is no pattern to our dining and that is the way we like it!!!

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I only get to cook a few times a week, but growing up we grilled every Sunday evening and had scrambled eggs in some fashion Saturday morning.

Now these days, Wednesdays are my experimental night, where I try to cook something that I haven't before.

Fridays are typically more traditional- one of my mom's standbys or a previous experimental night dish that turned out well.

Since I'm cooking for one, the leftovers from those dishes lasts me a few days- which I don't mind.

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Matt, do you photo or blog your Wednesday creations? There is a Flickr group for those who are creative on Wednesday nights. The "Wednesday Night Meal Club." Upload some of your creations!
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http://www.flickr.com/groups/wednesdaynightmealclub/
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