super quick family meal ideas

newlywed

Have you got a slow cooker? That means you can prepare the food in the morning, chuck it in the slow cooker and come home to chilli, stew, casserole etc etc already cooked for you. Just cook some frozen veggies if needed and serve

Alternatively, I often cook double on another night and then freeze it for later in the week/another week.

Eg this week's meals are sausage casserole - from the freezer but previously cooked in slow cooker, chilli wraps - chilli from freezer but previously in the slow cooker, beef casserole - as above

So virtually no cooking for me at all this week


I often have oven chips and fish fillets or sausages in the freezer for an easy meal too.

Cornishpixie_2

Hi, We don't have takeaways very often but last saturday OH came home with a takeaway curry from Mr A. and that was quite cheap (about £4 each), we had a huge plate each. Or homemade fish and chips are nice. or how about something like a chicken stirfry or pizza and salad. You could invest in a slow cooker. I like my slow cooker:D


Does everyone type quicker than me?

Pink.

Hi snoozer,

I sometimes get that Friday feeling too. That's where batch cooking comes into it's own and we often have a homemade 'ready meal' from the freezer. Tonight I'm going out for dinner with some friends and don't really want to cook for the rest of the family before I go out so they're having cottage pie from the freezer.

These threads might give you some ideas for things to have:

What's your 'can't be bothered' dinner/tea?

super quick family meal ideas

Cooking for the Freezer..

When only takeaway will do?

Pink

laineyc_2

I always get tha Friday feeling. Often OH goes out after work on a Friday, so I do something that I he is not so keen on like macaroni cheese, HM pizzas, etc.

mum26

we get the friday feeling too, jacket potatoes, ommlettes or something (fish fingers or eggs usually) and chips tend to come out to play on fridays! Do you have a timer on your oven, could you set it to come one and cook jackets? Slow cooker is a good idea too x

IsoChick

Egg and chips here on a Friday (or fishfingers if we want a change!)

Boodle

On Fridays we tend to like something we feel is a treat as well as easy and fairly quick, and this tends to be what we might have (obviously, you might not have the same ideas of fave meals as we do, but might help with inspiration anyway ) :

• Dahl and rice and/or naans with salad, lime pickle and mango chutney
• As above but korma instead of dahl - basically I make a white sauce with curry paste instead of the butter and cook sliced onion in it before adding the flour and milk.
• Stir fry with noodles or rice and soy sauce (or even frozen veg cooked with the noodles instead of stir fry) - sometimes with prawn crackers (35p i think in Asda by their takeaway section) and/or a couple of the spring rolls I always stash in the freezer when on offer.
• Chilli - either with or without the meat, with rice or baguette and salad or frozen broccoli. Quicker without the meat as I just heat the tin of beans and tomatoes together for a few minutes - tho even still, frying mince doesn't take much

snoozer

Thanks everyone.

I do have a slow cooker but tend to use it at weekends for batch cooking. I think that I will dedicate a drawer in the freezer to "Friday meals" things that I can just take out and bung in the microwave without even having to think about a plan or anything. I'll make some different meals to those we normally have and perhaps buy some M & S ready meals so that it is easy but also a bit more special than the ordinary week nights.

mamabear09

hi everyone. totally new here. Me and my husband plus 2 children, aged 9 and 3, need some new ideas for tea that is easy to do or can be prepped quickly and left till later. I can cook just not too well so meals already partially prepped or made would help. i have a budget of £35 for food. please help.

louisewh123

asda do packet mixes at 4 for £1 that are good to use and the do very cheap jar mixes to. My basic must haves are - onions, tinned toms, potatoes, sausages, mince meat, carrots, baked beans, peas, pasta, parsnips, pasta and a chicken. Make a sausage casserole, a chicken casserole, a chicken soup, a sheperds pie, a spag bol, a chicken and veg soup and a chicken and veg curry. You make all of these using cheap jars and packets so very easy and still cheap!