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

Boodle

Pretty much every night is "can't be bothered" night for me :rotfl:

If we are talking about simple tin/packet opening, we used to like a tuna stew by heating a tin of tuna, a tin of ratatouille and a tin of tomatoes together, serve with baguette, rice or couscous. I have made it with prawns instead of the tuna before, and also with frozen white fish just cooked through in the sauc. You could make the same with a tin of mixed beans or mixed bean salad in place of the tuna.

Another quick one is cooking couscous or quinoa and mixing in a tin of sweetcorn, pineapple and mixed beans with some chopped chilli.

A stir fry of easily prepared veg like lettuce and other greens, frozen cauli and broccoli pieces, tinned sweetcorn, etc, and have with rice or noodles is another speedy one.

Bread and cheese is just what is needed sometimes tho :cool: And we have been known to just have a huge plate of toast when the occasion calls for it...

EagerLearner

Hi all,

My fail-safe easy meals are:

- Baked sweetpotato with sweetcorn (healthy and yummy)
That's my favourite so it gets separated from the rest! Stab, then an hour in the oven and done.
MrEL teases me no end that I would eat sweetcorn with anything... probably true [wanders off, hmm, sweetcorn and porridge...?]

Anyway the remaining ones:

- Pasta & pesto - red pesto is yummy, sometimes I add parmesan when we're feeling rich
- Beans on toast with cheese & Worcester sauce
- Homemade soup - 20 mins and requires no watching, makes dinner for tomorrow night too, so the way I see it that's a double whammy lazy one!
- Mackrel - grill both sides for 5 mins - and cous cous (steams itself in a jug with half a stock cube, 4 mins). Ultra healthy too and helps the brain (all help gratefully received :rotfl:!)

Charco_2

Have you tried Rice and sweet corn?

Boil a cup-full of rice and start heating up the TIN of sweetcorn (nicer/sweeter than the frozen stuff in my opinion but maybe not as good)

Particularly good if you have some chicken to throw in!

Ready in 8-10 mins!

DFW74

Tortilla Wrap (Aldi @ 80p for pack of 8/10);couple of slices of cheddar cheese; slice of peperoni/salami cut into strips. Wrap - Microwave 1 min (1:10 for 2 or 3 wraps) - Quesadilla's Done!

Real treat (when diet out the window ) replace cheddar with Aldi Brie with Chilies - Yum:j

julie777

I was always with the Micro Potatoes brigade because I absolutely love them!
My husband of 25 years has only just revealed that he doesn't like them! (Boy he IS long-suffering!)

zippychick

I've never heard of micro potatoes? Are they similar to micro chips?

Tealady_2

Mines beans on toast with cheese
for OH fish finger sandwich with salad cream and black pepper and a cheese square
DD likes a cheese and pepperoni toastie

RachelW1987

I love Beans and Rice or Beans and Pasta

RachelW1987

zippychick wrote: »

I must say I've never heard of a pie in soup! lol! :T

Mmmmmm I love tomato soup and a mince pie in the middle yum yum :j

Mags_cat

RachelW1987 wrote: »

Mmmmmm I love tomato soup and a mince pie in the middle yum yum :j

Pie floaters the Aussie way - pie in mushy peas. LOTS of mushy peas

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