Minimum effort plan to feed everyone without losing mind

[Sourcat]

What's the easiest way to feed a family of four (two teenage boys) good, healthy meals with minimum effort ? I'm so sick of thinking about it all the time.

Somehow I manage to be really inefficient so that it seems to dominate everything. I work freelance from home, and I feel like it's so hard to get anything done because someone always needs feeding.

I guess I'm thinking along the lines of a combination of a couple of slow cooker / bung in the oven / pasta meals / leftovers. I feel like it's on the tip of my tongue, but every time I start to try and make a plan, I get to about day 3 and it always feels like so much cooking and I feel defeated again and give up.

Thoughts, clever and wise MNers?

BBC good food website has a quick and easy recipe section. Every week I tend to pick a couple that say they take 30 minutes and if we like them add them to a master list of recipes with a hyperlink so that I can find them easily.

This is where an instant pot comes in handy!
Look up dump bag recipes. Better than it sounds! You can freeze all the ingredients in a bag and just chuck them in the instantpot with the liquid components. But a bunch of ingredients and write the add-ins on the bag ( like kidney beans in chilli).
Very easy and an hour or so once, to.prep a weeks worth of.meals.

Oh and buy onions ect frozen. So much quicker!

My teens learned to cook using the Jamie Oliver 5 Ingredients cook book.

So many good ideas, thank you everyone! About to go out but will come back and re-read properly later

I have a three week menu plan which really helps. Saturday night is free so we can have takeaway/go out/try something new.
I base my plan around the carb element of the meal, so Monday is bread and something, Tuesday rice, Wednesday potatoes, Thursday pasta, Friday junk potato (chips/waffles/croquettes).

@Sourcat

So many good ideas, thank you everyone! About to go out but will come back and re-read properly later

@Sourcat - I hope you have gone to the supermarket!! 😂

@NeedToKnow101 Out for dinner actually, hahahahaha!

[quote Sourcat]@NeedToKnow101 Out for dinner actually, hahahahaha! [/quote]
😂😂😂 ah well that's one less meal to think about; two if you took home doggy bags!!