Shit On Toast and other favourite meals

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A friend of mine’s go-to meal when she’s exhausted or just can’t be bothered is Shit On Toast, which can be any kind of other foodstuff (beans, tinned ravioli, spaghetti hoops etc.) placed on top of toast.

Another friend swears by Eggs Is Eggs, which comprises... eggs.

In our house, similar meals in the rotation include:

Stuff On A Tray (which involves placing the contents of the fridge on a tray and putting it in the middle of the table with a fistful of cutlery)

Vegan Slop (self-explanatory)

Noodles In A Bowl (fancy)

...any of which could be garnished with a clump of cress, a crescent of crisps, and/or a hot egg.

What are your similar rubbish but well-beloved standbys?

Instant mash with cheese. Corned beef or ham if there is any. Probably with Ryvita.

Things On A Plate was a favourite of mine when little, and now my children's! Usually crackers, cheese, carrot sticks, and whatever needs using up in the fridge!

Not a genuine meal, but my mum would always tell me it was 'shit with sugar on it' for tea if I asked.

Tomato soup and dippy bits (anything savoury that can be dipped into a bowl of soup).

A couple from my childhood:
Disaster and custard (sunken or burned cake with the singed bits cut off or any non-savoury offering from school cookery class, served with lots of custard)

Bit of each - if there were a couple of left-over puddings or cakes, neither being sufficient to stretch far enough to give everyone a decent portion, you'd be allowed a "bit of each".

Note : names came about when dd still lived at home, names in brackets are the ones I had in my head or that I can now get away with using now dd an adult!

Freezer fun (freezer fuck it) - any freezer to oven item (various "grills", fish fingers for dd veggie ones for me, generally breadcrumbed or battered items or else sausages or pies) oven chips and Tinned veg (usually beans but sometimes sweet corn, mushy peas or butter beans)

Dds deli delight (shit sandwich) - sandwiches with junky rather than healthy fillings. Dds favourite being salad cream as the spread, ham, plastic cheese and sliced gherkins - that girl loves her vinegar! Mine being tomato purée as spread, plastic cheese, quorn pepperonj - it's sort of pizza inspired. But depending what we had in could be any kind of non healthy sandwich

Eggs galore (farters galore) - scrambled eggs with grated cheese and ketchup mixed in - sounds gross but it's yum

Bitsa picnic (crap galore) - often referred to on mn as a "picky tea), whatever would work as a cold plate item we'd just each grab a dinner plate and load up with whatever we fancied that we had in that could be eaten cold. Items included (but not limited to) cold meats, quorn deli slices, quorn picnic items (savoury eggs, sliced fillets, sausage rolls, cheese n onion rolls, cocktail sausages), coleslaw, potato salad, beetroot salad, sauerkraut, tuna & sweet corn cold pasta, olives, sun dried tomatoes, preserved peppers, pickled garlic, gherkins, sweet pickle, artichokes, crackers/crispbreads, cheeses, pate, spring rolls, samosas... all sorts

Trotters (Any kind of pork based freezer type processed stuff)
Beaks (as above but chicken based)
" Chicken of the sea" is battered frozen fish. My youngest ds does not like chicken OR fish, but his favourite meal is chicken of the sea with bisto curry sauce

All of it is vile. Kids and dh would live on it if they could.

Some brilliant dinners on this thread and the names are even better than the food. Love it 😊

Fridge gravel omelette. Anything I can find to make a frittata-ish.

"Bread and cheese" - it's what we had for lunch today, except we had prosciutto, corned beef, salami, olives, grapes with fresh bread, no cheese involved!

Egg and chips for me ! Sometimes with some ham as well .Bread and butter alongside .Best its only occasionally!

Fridge surprise rice. Chop any leftover veg, add rice, stock spices/herbs and cook until rice is cooked.

Sometimes tofu or Qorn chunks are added.

French bread pizza- uses us day old baguettes, tomato puree, cheese, herbs, sometimes topped with frozen peppers, mushrooms etc.
Carpet picnic, usually accompanies some thing big on telly, Eurovision and such. Basically freezer bits like garlic bread, breaded mushrooms, potato skins, nachos. Lots of dips.

An old friend of mine used to have a dish called Cheese Plate, which was cheese, on a plate, put under the grill for a few mins.

Sunny rice - rice cooked with a stock cube and some turmeric, with boiled eggs and sweet corn cut through it.

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Things On A Plate was a favourite of mine when little, and now my children's! Usually crackers, cheese, carrot sticks, and whatever needs using up in the fridge!

Not a genuine meal, but my mum would always tell me it was 'shit with sugar on it' for tea if I asked.

We have this but it's Snack Plate! Potential ingredients (varies every time) include sliced carrot, sliced apple, gherkins, peanuts, cheese, olives, hummous, salsa, crackers, crisps, tomatoes, cucumber, etc etc.

Freezer roulette - leftovers wit no labels
Picnic tea - assortment of random shit from the fridge

Also marmite pasta and cheesy chips but they are too good to be in the same category!

For me, when no one else around, 3 course toast, which is - starter of hot buttered toast, main of marmite or cream cheese on toast, pudding of jam on toast.

For the whole family, potato volcano - instant mash and spaghetti hoops

'dip' - houmous and whatever bread, veg, crackers, is left in the fridge, artfully arranged around the houmous

Pasta with either grated cheese or yoghurt (or ice cream if I have it) - depends on whether I feel like savoury or sweet.

Eggy bread or
Sausage rolls and baked beans

Marmite pasta with garlic and cheese.

Anything tinned on toast. Including pilchards in tomato sauce

Dippy boiled eggs and soldiers

Stuff on crackers - cheese, tuna mayo, just salad cream

Aldi’s frozen pizza with extra cheese

I have sooo many of these but I’m getting great ideas from this thread!

Tin tin tin - which is actually a Jack Monroe chickpea & peach curry - tin of tomatoes, tin of peaches, tin of chickpeas.

When I used to ask my mum what was for supper she would say ‘gif’ which means poison.

Marmite pasta

Random leftovers from the freezer (in meal-sized portions so we usually all have different meals)

Freezer food
Pasta n shit
Picky tea
Bowl of beige

My mum used to say 'shit with sugar on' when I asked what was for tea (from Lancashire).

SSIAB (spicy slop in a bowl). Shorthand for soups, veggie curries, dahl, chilli etc.