Shit On Toast and other favourite meals

[ifigoup]

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?

Shit On Toast now there's are marketing angle that was missed by Heinz Toast Toppers. 😝

@ifigoup Shit on toast describes perfectly my entire diet when I'm on my own. Respect to your friend snd I'll be using that name for my toast based culinary creations from now on.

Baked beans and pasta. With some red onion if in being fancy. All mixed up together. I like to think of it as highly filling and mildly nutritious.

UFOs = Unidentified Frozen Objects ie tubs of leftovers without a label.

For pudding "Swamp Monster Surprise" which is chocolate custard covering any stewed fruit or cake that needs using up.

Toothpaste pasta. Not actual toothpaste, but pasta with just tomato puree as the sauce. To a kids eyes, the tube = toothpaste.

DH's go-to is taco pasta. Pasta + mince + a packet of taco seasoning, drizzled with hot sauce at the end. Bleurgh.

A cup of beans, with a sausage to scoop it up with

Rice sludge. Effectively long-grained rice, cooked in tinned chopped tomatoes and their juice (with just a bit more water), a drop of chilli sauce, and some herbs. Looks ghastly but fills a hole!

BIL eats UFOs all the time. DH generally cooks way too much casserole, curry, and chilli, so the surplus gets tubbed, frozen, and passed onto BIL (who is a middle-aged single male). I don't label the tubs, he plays pot-luck when he gets one out to defrost!

Beans and cheese on toast
Noodles with boiled egg
Crackers with cheese, peanut butter and banana
Fried egg butty

Bread 'n' Stuff is a popular and regular meal here.

Batchelors Pasta n Sauce (macaroni cheese or cheese and brocolli).
Or
Chicken noodles

My fabled 'meals with a twist'
My family always blanche slightly when I announce that supper will be with a twist. I can't bear to waste food, so I take every opportunity to incorporate leftovers and old bits and pieces from the fridge, which no-one wants, into a delicious, nutritious gloop. Chilli and spaghetti bolognese are particularly useful for this!

Cheesy beansy rice is a favourite here.

Summerhouse pie.

Got it’s name from when we spent a week in a summerhouse. On the last night, I basically cleared the fridge as much as possible and put it in a pie with mash on top. Can also use puff pastry or shortcrust depending on ingredients to hand.

Love the UFO’s!

Always fun seeing what will emerge from a frozen lump of ??? slowly defrosting

Oh and baguette pizza. Old baguette, olive oil, ketchup, cheese and whatever else for a topping 😋😋

My favourite easy dinner is microwave Jasmine rice with some green vegetables mixed through(Usually peas, green beans or asparagus) and a little soy sauce and sesame oil. A fried egg on top, and sprinkled with nori flakes and toasted sesame seeds.

Blindfold breakfast. (Not necessarily eaten for breakfast but can be).
Fried potatoes (tinned if desperate), mushrooms, onions, chopped bacon and sausage with beaten egg poured over. Kind of like a fritata but the egg is less dense. Initially discovered on a camping trip. The mushrooms can turn it’s kind of grey/ brown colour hence the need for a blindfold.

Someone on here once said that, when stuck for ideas, they used to lower their baby head first into the chest freezer and cook whatever it was clutching when pulled out

UFO (unidentified frozen object) out of the freezer, usually without a label, tends to be soup, chilli or bolognese but you don't know until it's thawed out and it's too late to change your mind.

Shit n sauce - pretty much anything leftover but with ketchup.

I'm enjoying the contrast between cheese on a plate and meals involving artichoke hearts and nori flakes

A cup of beans, with a sausage to scoop it up with
OMG my kids are so having this for thier tea tonight!

Someone on here once said that, when stuck for ideas, they used to lower their baby head first into the chest freezer and cook whatever it was clutching when pulled out.

This is GENIUS.

Slightly disappoint as I thought you might be talking about “Shit on a Shingle”! SOS was one of my favourite lazy food items when I was younger and am now craving it. It’s basically creamy beef on toast!
www.nutmegnanny.com/sos-creamed-beef-recipe/

Pauper's Supper.... Bread and cheese!