What's your "fuck I've got no food in" dinner?

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

Mines pasta. With whatever I can find to chuck at it/stir into it.

Anyone have any failsafe dinners they know they always have in?

😕 a lot of people here seem to have a lot of food in their cupboard for having “nothing in!” A lot of these are meals I would have to plan for!

Takeaway!!

I’ve nearly always got frozen fish and frozen mash so can knock up a fish pie.

Jacket Potatoes with tuna, red onion and mayonnaise.

Also tuna pasta bake.

If I'm on my own and the DCs are out I have beans on toast.

Bean chilli or tomato pasta.

We usually have tinned tomatoes, pasta, onions and some sort of canned beans in.

Usually pizza, pot noodles, beans on toast, pasta.

I always have waffles and spaghetti hoops in the house. Or some noodles with cheese yum!

Spanish omelette

*😕 a lot of people here seem to have a lot of food in their cupboard for having “nothing in!” A lot of these are meals I would have to plan for!

Takeaway!!*

I personally have food insecurity issues from childhood so I will always make sure I have something in the cupboard even if nothing fresh.
I've lived in places you can't easily get a takeaway or the minimum order is £15/20, but also its been out of my budget to have a takeaway. I've also lived as a single parent in a village you far from a shop to pop and get anything and when the young dc are in bed or you've had a stomach bug and can't go out you just have to make sure you have enough to last. Old habits die hard.

I can't get a takeaway. If you can afford a takeaway you can afford a bit of pasta and a spare tin of tomatoes for emergencies

I grew up in the countryside (proper countryside, several miles to the nearest shop, half a days travel to the nearest city, not a village of a few thousand people with a supermarket, pub, school etc) and always have enough food in to cope with being snowed in for a week (I now can stumble round the corner to a larger corner shop than the one we had to drive to as a child but old habits are hatd to shake). But if poorly or just feeding myself it always comes down to bread and cheese. Food of Gods.

I love chilli garlic pasta, a favourite meal!
Also just pasta, olive oil (or butter) & ground black pepper.

Always have baked beans, fish fingers, eggs, cheese (& wine ) as ‘emergency’ back up.

I grew up in a home that rarely had food in the cupboards and I often went hungry as a child. I’ve also at times gone without food so my children could eat, so now I’ve always got enough cupboard and freezer staples to keep us going for about a month. All be it lots of pasta and tomato based.
Tonight we had pasta with roast pepper and tomato sauce because we wanted something simple and that’s one of our favourite quick and easy dishes.

These are excellent.

Tonight's was pasta (a mix of two shapes as only a little left in each jar), frozen peas, the last of the spring onion, garlic and the scraping from the Philadelphia tub. Managed to get enough parmesan off the find to sprinkle on top.

It was delish.

Omelette which I resorted to today using the last bit of smoked salmon

Or a cheese toastie

Oven chips with baked beans and cheese.

Pasta & pesto
Pasta & tuna
Beans on toast
Chips & beans

Fried eggs, oven chips and frozen peas
Cheese on toast
Macaroni cheese and frozen peas
Jacket potato with grated cheese and chopped onion
Heinz tomato soup and toast/cheese on toast

Pesto pasta and grated cheese. Yum

Lentils. There is always lentils. And stock cubes or marmite. Usually there is flour of some sort. And milk. Scones with lentil soup. Nicer with onions and butter.

Curry - you can chuck anything in there, you just need some sauce or curry spice.

Egg & chips

@GenuineKlatchianPottery
I too grew up in relative poverty, where food was often in very short supply. Myself and my sisters now always have stocks of staple goods wiphich would last a good couple of months if needs be. Always have the following in:
Baked beans
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned peas, carrots, sweet corn, corned beef, kidney beans and chick peas.
Rice and assorted pastas
Tinned soups
Coffee, sugar, flour
In the fridge I have a butter mountain, 2 dozen eggs and at least 3 big blocks of cheddar. My DDs aren't as bad as me, but they always had good food every meal time.

Onion rings and beans.

Pasta bake with onion, garlic, tinned toms, balsamic vinegar and dried herbs. Then add can of sweet corn and can of kidney beans, a pepper if there is one in the fridge and the cooked pasta. Pour into dish top with cheese and breadcrumbs and bake.