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

tomstickland

My "can't be arsed" tea is a reduced price pizza. Sainsbury's often sell off Pizza Express branded one down from £4.50 to £1.90ish.

Cazzdevil

Mine is omlette and beans, and if I have enough energy I'll make some home made oven chips to go with it.

It's what we had tonight actually, great way of using up a couple of droopy cherry toms and mushrooms too. And for pud I did a steamed sponge pudding, 4 mins in the micro, can't beat it.

sb44

A tin of the chicken breast in white sauce from Lidl (99p tin at the min) with boiled rice.

Simmer the chicken, boil the rice for 10 mins, squirt of soy sauce on the rice before pouring the chicken on top.

Lovely warming tea ready to eat in about 15 mins.

tomstickland

Oh yes, the filled pasta is a very lazy tea. Just boil a pan of hot water and dunk half a packet in for 1 minute.

frugalswan

I tend to use homemade ready meals just microwaved up as my CBA teas It's usually lasagne, as it's as easy for me to make a batch for six as it is for two, and four portions go in the freezer. Otherwise, I cook some pasta and pour gravy granules in (when it's just me) or take a packet of flavoured cous-cous, pour it into a tupperware container with the requisite amount of water boiled from the kettle and a bit of butter, put the lid on and leave it for a while. Take the lid off and there you go.

Mind you, that's purely when I'm on my own. I'll always cook properly for the other half.

nic2075

My 2 fussy toddlers LOVE poached egg on toast or cheats macaroni...pasta,creme fraiche and cheese. I make garlic bread out of 1 garlic clove mixed with butter and spread on bread then grilled. I love these also, but my fave is toasted cheese with wociester (sp) sauce.

Softstuff

sammyjig wrote: »

Do you have a slow cooker? Its very easy to just chuck everything in in the morning and have a lovely dinner waiting for you when you get home.

Unfortunately not, but that's because the time I'd need it over here (Nov, Dec) is the middle of the Australian summer, and stews and casseroles can be a bit heavy then. Though I will consider getting one for my other less busy period in June/July. It's good and cold then!

Softstuff

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

In 25 minutes this evening, I created oven cooked salmon (from frozen), steamed basmati rice and prawns (from frozen) in olive oil with garlic and chilli. Whilst still managing to check my email and start to surf the internet. Good food doesn't have to take ages or be complicated.

I'd also recommend the slow cooker approach, or my old favourite from my flat share days of "meal of the weak", I'd make huge risotto, pasta bake, lasagne or similar and then eat it for the next four or more days, often taking the same thing to work for lunch as well!

Though I realise that good food doesn't take ages, nor is it complicated, the fast to cook healthy items do tend to be dearer. Salmon with prawns would equal about 1/3 of our weekly food budget! (sounds damned tasty though, next time I'm in England I'm round for dinner!)

We tend to eat a lot of bean and pulse based meals, which whilst healthy and wholesome, take a bit longer.

Softstuff

tomstickland wrote: »

My "can't be arsed" tea is a reduced price pizza. Sainsbury's often sell off Pizza Express branded one down from £4.50 to £1.90ish.

Oooh I miss reductions in British supermarkets. Steam in the bag prawn pasta down to 99p.... predone veggies down to 20p... pizza at 1.90.

Pros and cons to shopping in Aus. It's currently banana season here so I picked up 2 kilos of seconds for $1, but the other reductions don't tend to get as good.

Skint_Catt

Softstuff wrote: »

Oooh I miss reductions in British supermarkets. Steam in the bag prawn pasta down to 99p.... predone veggies down to 20p... pizza at 1.90.

Pros and cons to shopping in Aus. It's currently banana season here so I picked up 2 kilos of seconds for $1, but the other reductions don't tend to get as good.

Now there's some memories! Shopping in Sydney I think I picked up plantain instead of bananas - YUK when I bit into it! :rotfl: Plus I did my skydive on the sunshine coast :T