Need very very quick & easy recipes

Soworried

I am sorry to hear you are having a rough time. x

How long prep wise do you have for each meal? What are your normal meals? Try not to worry, we can come up with meals for you.

borkid

My DD has ME and keeps a selection of salads in the fridge so that she always has lunch. She keeps cereal bars by her bed along with water so that if she is too ill to get out of bed she has something to eat. For main meals she'll batch cook when she is well enough, things like chilli or casserole which she can have with bread. She doesn't eat much meat , due to the cost, but has veg, cheese and eggs. It depends how severely affected you are. How long can you stand for? Most prep can be done sitting down but even that can be exhausting.

PasturesNew

I like to keep an eye out for tins of pineapple in juice when they're at about 25-30p. Easy to open a can and eat the fruit out of the can.... only a spoon to wash up too.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Onions in pan. Soften in a little oil.

Add a tin of chopped tomatoes.

Add herbs/spices/vegetables.

Put on lid and cook on low.


You now have basis for stews, soups, pastas, pizzas........

elaine12022

Just want to say I sympathise. I have cfs too. I am lucky cos my OH can cook sometimes.

I try and make soup when I can, which will last a few days. Just throw in whatever I got with a bit of a stock cube sometimes for flavour.

I have recently found some nice pasties off the butcher. Today I had half a cornish pasty left over from yesterday. Otherwise, I eat lots of eggs, fried is the quickest. Cold meat from the butcher too.

I know this is not what you asked but have you considered having some ready meals in stock? Wiltshire farm foods do some good quality meals that can be done in the oven or microwave, they deliver to the door, will even put them away for you. Also there is no minimum order. Are there any support groups near you?

If you can manage to cook some baked potatoes do enough for a few days. You can eat them cold and they can be quite nice. With baked beans, cheese, fried up, whatever.

Are you getting or entitled to any help? I know it's awful not being able to cook properly and this then can make us even tireder & foggier!

Pre prepared salads any good? Although if you're like me, doing the shopping is even harder than the cooking:)

Personally, I don't eat normal pasta, it makes me very sluggish.

chirpychick

Hello
I am looking for some main dinners that are easy, quick and cheap to make. Our baby is 14 weeks (where did the time go?!) on Thursday and we have spent this month absolutely skint and using up what we have in the house and so we are needing to try and refill our cupboards and attempt to get used to our new budget.
I lack time and energy to cook the evening meal and quite often it has ended up being sandwiches or chips :cool: which is doing nothing for our waistlines.
I used to be brilliant at meals for under 50p a portion and had them all saved and then the laptop broke and I have only a few in my brain vault lol.
I am determined to join the grocery challenge and for once stick to our budget. I would really appreciate a few ideas of what you cook when you are short on time and energy. My cooking skills aren't great but I will give pretty much anything a go.

Hubby has allergies so we don't eat nuts, peppers, bananas, kiwi, celery, mushrooms.
Happy to have meat free days.
Hubby is allergic to egg but I like egg.

Also we have 6 days until payday and no money any ideas what we can make with

4 carrots
200g potatoes
4 slices bread
1/2 tub marg
1/2 jar paste
1/2 jar jam
flour
caster sugar
2 eggs
1kg pasta
1/4 bag of frozen peas
1/4 bag frozen sweetcorn
frozen garlic
1/2 bag frozen onions
3 pasta sauces in jars
800g spaghetti
1/2 bag rice
10 tins custard :rotfl:
2 pints milk
coco pops :eek:
weetabix

^^^ this is all we have left in our cupboard/fridge/freezer

my poor little guinea pig died last week so we have his hutch on ebay which ends in an hour or so and currently has a £10 bid so we should* (assuming they pay) have £10 to get some food but if not then the above has to last 6 days.

We do have a slow cooker.

I am determined to not end up like this again as we have a baby to think about now (who btw has plenty of nappies, wipes, formula etc) soon he will be eating what we do and I don't want to let it get to the point of having nothing in which is why im back here looking for help for dinner ideas.

Thank you in advance.

hilstep2000

Right, All the veg can be thrown together, fry till soft. Split into at least two lots.with one with mashed potatoes on top. Use one of the pasta sauces in the other one.
Bread and Butter pudding is fine (use the marg) You can use that for sweet or savoury things.
You don't say if you have any meat or not. If so try and make it small, to use in pasta or with the rice like a stir fry.
Hope this helps.:T

evie451

such a gorgeous looking baby! We went through this in January being completely skint and needing to make a little go a long way.....the Old Style board was a savious including the feeding a family for £7 (this is a bit of an emergency one as its not possible to do quite enough healthy stuff) and various others....
A really inspirational blog is a girl called Jack, she feeds herself and her little boy on a tenner a week and he eats pretty well from what I have read...tried one of her breads at the weekend it was great.........

others on here are much better qualified than me to help but my 2 penneth,
Lookin at your immediate issue its going to be a lot of pasta meals with sauce, but I made a veg crumble at the weekend and that was nice, I just used up some veg and added pasta sauce but covered it in breadcrumbs with herbs, I might be tempted to use some of your potatoes and make veggie cakes/falafels with an egg on top or something like that for a bit of variety....you dont say what your spice cupboard is like but try a veg stir fry too and make bread and butter pudding to use up some of that custard :rotfl:

chirpychick

hilstep2000 wrote: »

Right, All the veg can be thrown together, fry till soft. Split into at least two lots.with one with mashed potatoes on top. Use one of the pasta sauces in the other one.
Bread and Butter pudding is fine (use the marg) You can use that for sweet or savoury things.
You don't say if you have any meat or not. If so try and make it small, to use in pasta or with the rice like a stir fry.
Hope this helps.:T

How do you make bread and butter pudding? What I do actually have about 100g of sultanas in my baking cupboard!

We don't have any meat, literally what I have listed is what we currently have in! I feel really bad that I let it get this low!

evie451 wrote: »

such a gorgeous looking baby! We went through this in January being completely skint and needing to make a little go a long way.....the Old Style board was a savious including the feeding a family for £7 (this is a bit of an emergency one as its not possible to do quite enough healthy stuff) and various others....
A really inspirational blog is a girl called Jack, she feeds herself and her little boy on a tenner a week and he eats pretty well from what I have read...tried one of her breads at the weekend it was great.........

others on here are much better qualified than me to help but my 2 penneth,
Lookin at your immediate issue its going to be a lot of pasta meals with sauce, but I made a veg crumble at the weekend and that was nice, I just used up some veg and added pasta sauce but covered it in breadcrumbs with herbs, I might be tempted to use some of your potatoes and make veggie cakes/falafels with an egg on top or something like that for a bit of variety....you dont say what your spice cupboard is like but try a veg stir fry too and make bread and butter pudding to use up some of that custard :rotfl:

thank you i think he is gorgeous too
The veggie crumble sounds really delish!
Do you have a link to the blog? sounds like really interesting reading!

I was debating tonight whether to make myself egg fried rice as we have 2 eggs I have just noticed and they are past their date (but i just did the water test so fine to use) and make hubby pasta and the dolmio sauce (we got these when they were on a bargain offer, there is only 1 left, he likes them and i don't). This way i'm having something he cant have and he is having something i dont like then the rest of the week i can cook meals suitable for both of us from what we have BUT then I thought maybe it might be better to save the eggs to make pancakes if we get really desperate?

chirpychick

oh and p.s i got given a complete spice rack for Christmas which i haven't used so my spices are ok