I used to love cooking, and Saturday Kitchen is still a normal background TV as I potter about doing the morning chores. However in the last few years of being a parent I just can't face it, due to different preferences.
I love a decent roast, but my wife isn't a massive fan of meat (not a veggie, she just gets bored of it) so if I do that then a majority goes in the fridge for my later eating.
My daughter loves spaghetti bolognese, but my wife is now fed up with pasta. A lasagne is a good compromise the three of us enjoy; but my son hates anything with "sauce" so refuses either of these.
Local farm shop sausages are a win, but we've had them so often that now the three of them don't finish and so my lunch the next day is a left over sausage sandwich.
My wife loves a simple salad with prawns or similar, but after I've eaten that as a starter I have to go and make another meal from the roast leftovers in the fridge.
My daughter hates anything potato related, whereas my son loves most potato meals such as chips, roasts, crisps, but refuses boiled or mashed.
My daughter used to love my fish pie, but last time I cooked it she was gagging and refusing to eat due to flavour/texture - and having got food poisoning at a fish and chip shop when lockdown#1 first lifted I am totally off of fish (never really having been a fan in the first place).
None of them like spices or complicated flavours, and recently my wife has noticed more and more meals out being flavoured with cumin or paprika which brings back bad memories and so she can't eat them; and recently she ordered a burger that the menu described as a "mayo'd bun" but turned out to be the equivalent of the mint/yoghurt frequently used in Greek cooking so she was scraping it off trying to eat the rest of the meal.
I don't want to cook different meals each day, but in the need to get them to eat I've just fallen into that routine. We have a limited repertoire now, based on fish fingers/pasta/salad for him, fish fingers/beans/salad for her, some random meat and two veg for us.
I need inspiration please for something that might be a single meal suitable for all. When I watch Saturday Kitchen I get ideas but then realise it's all too fancy, will take too much effort, and a percentage of the family will refuse to eat it.