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Favourite lazy arse dinners

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Spudthespanner · 06/07/2025 20:44

As per title. Tonight I have a plate of pasta (fusilli) with butter melted through and cheddar cheese on top. Teaspoon of lazy garlic mixed through with the butter. When I’m being less disgusting I melt butter and a little garlic into the fusilli, add tuna or chicken and basil, and squeeze a lemon over. But the ultimate lazy dinner is literally a heap of pasta covered in cheese.

What are your ultimate lazy arse dinners?

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Arlanymor · 10/07/2025 19:45

I'm not beyond opening a can of beans, putting some pre-grated cheese on top, swirling it in (Or should that be folded? Don't ask me David, I can't do everything for you...) and eating cold. See also Heinz Ravioli.

Soonenough · 10/07/2025 19:42

A Magum ice cream .

MuckFusk · 10/07/2025 19:36

I buy this powdered vegan cheese sauce substitute which is to be used on pasta. I cook the pasta, mix a little butter or margarine and milk (or milk substitute) into it with the powdered sauce, stir well and there you have it. I serve bagged salad on the side. Lazy AF and my daughter loves it.

CiaoMeow · 10/07/2025 19:29

Dotto · 06/07/2025 20:52

Slab of chocolate and a packet of crisps 😂

😂

SpiceGhoul · 10/07/2025 19:27

Buldak noodles or Kimchi nong shim with a pack of stir fry veg and maybe some cooked chicken added in. Aldi or m&s loaded chicken Caesar dip with slices of hot buttered baguette, or m&s Mexican dip with Walkers max paprika or cheese and jalapeno for scooping. Red box cheesey pasta. Supermarket Rotisserie chicken on a baguette. Iceland chicken pakora strips in a wrap with salad and chili sauce. Chips and gravy or yeungs curry sauce.

Bearinthesmallmessyflat · 10/07/2025 19:16

I’m also now craving a cheese and onion crisp sarnie but we’ve no crisps in 🥲

Bearinthesmallmessyflat · 10/07/2025 19:13

In the summer - bits from the fridge withe either buttered bread or buttered crackers

In the winter - cheesy beans on toast/baked potatoes or whatever we’ve got in the cupboard/freezer stew.

Opplesandbononos · 10/07/2025 18:51

Cheese and crisp sandwich

Quirkswork · 10/07/2025 18:43

Hollowvoice · 10/07/2025 17:19

Oh no, only salt and vinegar will do!

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S&V agree. In sandwiches only though. Otherwise I could happily have 2 or 3 bags of Walkers RS for supper. Maybe 4.

FurForksSake · 10/07/2025 17:44

Itsu frozen yakatori skewers for dinner, couldn’t even be bothered to make a carb.

Hollowvoice · 10/07/2025 17:19

Spudthespanner · 07/07/2025 18:49

I’m having one of those days so it’s crisp sandwich for me tonight.

But which flavour? I say the only possible flavour of crisps for a crisp sandwich is cheese and onion. And the bread has to be thick white warburtons, buttered.

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Oh no, only salt and vinegar will do!

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Spudthespanner · 08/07/2025 23:37

Tonight’s dinner was two bowls of crunchy nut cornflakes 👍🏻

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marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 08/07/2025 23:08

Yesterday I ate peanut butter, two apples, a small slice of cheese, a piece of bead with jam and some blackcurrants from the garden. Yesterday it was just me, though.

DiscoDancingDoris · 08/07/2025 21:48

Beans on a white bread roll..(not toasted) loads of butter, pepper and cheese.

Bacon sandwich, bacon done mega crispy with mayo,ketchup and salt and vinegar crisps inside the sarnie.

I am gross I know.

Quirkswork · 08/07/2025 21:07

evtheria · 08/07/2025 19:16

@OhMaria2If you get a blanket or throw and wrap it around your shoulders, you can pretend you’re a young but wise shepherdess who lives out on the windy moors, having her simple repast for the day…

Perhaps you might be lucky enough to find a pickled onion in your pocket that you cut in half using your trusty bone handled penknife.

Anydreamwilldo2 · 08/07/2025 20:27

Love these!
mine is a pack of 4 mixed dips (sour cream, garlic, thousand island) dumped on a large baked potato

or

spongy white bread, Ardennes pate and cucumber or coleslaw

With gallons of red wine

anyzen · 08/07/2025 19:34

I've just had my laziest of the lazy arse dinners (for me). Heat pan, no oil, crack in two eggs swirl them around with a chopstick to scramble (I don't even whisk them in a cup first FGS!), add grated cheese, tip out onto toast and eat. It was delicious and took less than five minutes.

user1476613140 · 08/07/2025 19:25

Baked beans on toast.

evtheria · 08/07/2025 19:16

@OhMaria2If you get a blanket or throw and wrap it around your shoulders, you can pretend you’re a young but wise shepherdess who lives out on the windy moors, having her simple repast for the day…

tommyhoundmum · 08/07/2025 19:00

OhMaria2 · 08/07/2025 18:58

I pretend im a fantasy adventurer when I have that 😅

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I just sit and read mumsnet

OhMaria2 · 08/07/2025 18:58

tommyhoundmum · 07/07/2025 18:57

I'd prefer and apple and a chunk of cheese.

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I pretend im a fantasy adventurer when I have that 😅

OhMaria2 · 08/07/2025 18:54

MissyPants · 06/07/2025 21:00

Microwave Sunday dinners! Mmmm😋

Which ones do you recommend?

Starlight1984 · 08/07/2025 16:23

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 07/07/2025 14:16

After reading Butter, plain boiled jasmine rice with soy sauce and butter. Surprisingly delicious.
if there’s a bit of cooking involved, dh’s favourite is bacon, new potatoes and peas with mint jelly and a fuckton of butter. But I guess every meal is a lazy one for him as he never fucking cooks.

I've just started this book!!! Is it good??

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Spudthespanner · 08/07/2025 12:42

saltnpepperchips · 07/07/2025 23:09

Skinheads on a raft (beans on toast)

😂

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Starlight1984 · 08/07/2025 10:21

If I'm home alone:

Tinned mackerel in BBQ / hot and spicy sauce, Uncle Bens microwave fried rice and some frozen veg

Heinz tomato soup and Jacobs cream crackers with loads of butter (and maybe some cheese sprinkled on the soup)

Ham and crisp sandwich on white bread

Those filled tortellini with a (store bought) sauce and grated cheese.

All of the above served with a glass or two of wine and eaten at the kitchen table reading a good book with the radio on in the background. Bliss!!!