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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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OnlyFannys · 08/07/2025 07:42

Cheese omelette with nandos garlic sauce on the side

BadActingParsley · 08/07/2025 07:16

@WhiteNoiseBlurcooking the sauce for as long as that makes it much nicer, adds a lot of flavour. We make sausage pasta a couple of times a month with left over bbq sausages.

salmon or smoked haddock done in the airfyer or oven from frozen, mash ready made and a pouch of green veg. if I’m feeling fancy will heat up cream, spring onions and spinach and mustard for the smoked haddock. If not I’ll cook in milk in the oven.

Mackerelfillets · 08/07/2025 02:29

A currant teacake with cheese and onion Seabrook crisps. Teeth mark butter.

MaddestGranny · 07/07/2025 23:46

In this hot weather I buy, from nearby (& wonderful) Persian supermarket:- a freshly-cooked rotisserie chicken; a big tub of mixed loose olives; a top-up of any salad items I may need. I make a huge mixed salad - (or dip into previous day's air-tight-lidded glass-bowl of same from fridge) - enough for 2-3days. Dress with homemade dressing (also pre-made in quantity & kept in snap-tight glass bottle). No cooking. 1 chicken lasts me about 3 days. It's an "assemble on the plate" meal. Sometimes it's smoked salmon + feta in place of chicken. Or smoked mackerel. It's a "no-cook", almost-instant, fresh-produce meal for a single person. Recognise it'd be different for more than 1 person. It also helps if you don't mind eating the same sort of thing on successive days. I don't.

JoBrandsCleaner · 07/07/2025 23:28

M&S ready meals, chicken tikka masala and the fish pie

Fish and chips

TwinklySquid · 07/07/2025 23:23

Microwave pasta with cheese. Cooked in under two minutes

saltnpepperchips · 07/07/2025 23:09

Skinheads on a raft (beans on toast)

FrenchTucked · 07/07/2025 23:06

A whole bag of gnocchi,smothered with cheese, and black pepper. Ham snipped on top. A glass of fizz if I've got the house to myself.

fetchacloth · 07/07/2025 22:47

Ham sandwich with an apple.
Ploughman's lunch but for dinner.
Basically I don't like cooking during hot weather 😎

blueskydays45 · 07/07/2025 22:18

Your meal. I eat it quite regularly. Absolutely massive bowl coz it's totally protein-less and therefore not very filling. But so damn delicious

Kerrie1973 · 07/07/2025 21:41

Spudthespanner · 07/07/2025 21:23

This is my dream dinner 😍

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It's outrageously good. Currently planning camping menu for our hols in a few weeks and this is on the menu...one night eating in, one eating out!

PreciousMomentsHun · 07/07/2025 21:36

Tonight I had a babybel. Would have wrapped a piece of bread around it if the fucking dog hadn't nicked it.

abracadabra1980 · 07/07/2025 21:35

Crisp sandwich with peanuts on the side, accompanied by the indulgent scent of a dry, succulent, rosé…

Kerrie1973 · 07/07/2025 21:34

Fluffyunicorns · 06/07/2025 23:38

Baking camembert (done in the air fryer) with pitta bread to dip. If feeling adventurous add sweet chilli sauce

This is also a classic Friday night lazy ass dinner...and now added to my meal plan for this week, thank you!

Nicii · 07/07/2025 21:33

If I'm home late from work, I pour a large bowl of Kelloggs cornflakes. Then, chuck on a fist full of flaked almonds, tiny drizzle of maple syrup and pour in some soya milk to make myself feel that I'm being healthy. Voila!!! ♡

Kerrie1973 · 07/07/2025 21:31

Just thought of another one. Steak sarnie. One bavette steak, one baguette, loads of american mustard. Frozen slices onions fried while the steak rests. My fave Friday night lazy dinner.

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Spudthespanner · 07/07/2025 21:23

Kerrie1973 · 07/07/2025 21:18

Similar but different...love this so much! https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/may/18/how-to-cook-the-perfect-pasta-al-limone-recipe-felicity-cloake?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

This is my dream dinner 😍

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Idontcareboutthestateofmyhair · 07/07/2025 21:07

Lots of these still sound like normal mid week cooking! Lazy lazy for me is cereal, usually 2 bowls of rice Krispies or four weetabix. Crackers n cheese n chutney. Bagged lettuce, cherry tomatoes, already cooked chicken, Heinz saucy sauce. Toast n tuna. Lazy is spaghetti with tinned toms, capers, black olives, basil, parmesan. Chicken and sweetcorn mayo toastie. Cheese n tomato omelette.

Stressedoutmama123 · 07/07/2025 20:37

I use to love a super noodle on toast in my younger years, something about carbs and carbs?!

Thistlewoman · 07/07/2025 20:14

M&S Saag Aloo with a wholemeal pitta. Yum

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 07/07/2025 20:13

Just for me? Cheese on toast.

For the fam? My roasting tin chow mein...

Chopped meat into a large roasting tin. Mix with a supermarket sachet of stir-fry sauce. Add a ¼ cup or so of boiling water from the kettle and cook at 180ºc for 10-15 minutes depending on the type of meat. Stir through a pack of prepared stir-fry vegetables and a pack of so-called 'fresh' noodles. Add a splash more water and a good shaking of soy sauce. Another 10 minutes in the oven sprinkle with a little toasted sesame oil and serve straight from the tin.

Endofyear · 07/07/2025 20:11

Tonight I cooked Asda three chilli sausages and fried a load of red onions, we had them in soft buttered white rolls with ketchup. Heaven!

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Spudthespanner · 07/07/2025 20:08

carmak · 07/07/2025 19:40

I've just remembered my favourite snack when I worked in a bakery many years ago. Slice of bread just cooled from the oven, buttered, folded over, warm sausage roll in the middle....I'm surprised I've made it to old age.

You know, sans the sausage roll, a few big hunks of sourdough with loads of butter on is dinner enough for me too. If I can be bothered to heat up a tin of Heinz tomato soup, that’s extra level.

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Mimosa3andmore · 07/07/2025 20:06

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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I agree with the bread, but also need a good, salted butter. As for crisps, my current favourite is Seabrook's ready salted - but I am happy to have whatever is available at the time in moments of need 😂