Favourite go to meal when you can't be bothered to cook a full on dinner!

[Prettypetals33]

A few staples of mine are:

Tuna pasta (always have both in the cupboards at all time)
Spaghetti hoops on toast
Cheesy beans on jacket potato :)

[BarbaraofSeville]

@BitOfFun

I see a few references to carbonara- do people mean a ready meal? Because I'd count that (and a fair few other suggestions!) from scratch as proper cooking. For me, not cooking means something really quick out of a tin or similar, like Heinz ravioli on toast.

Probably from scratch rather than a ready meal because carbonara is so quick and low effort that it doesn't really count as cooking as you don't need to do any chopping if you use bacon lardons or the mental effort of following a recipe as long as you know how to make it.

Similar for things like an omelette or egg on toast, or spaghetti with butter, parmesan, marmite etc. Add some bagged salad and cherry tomatoes if you feel obliged to eat some veg. Little time or effort available and far nicer than canned ravioli.

My suggestion for the OP would be garlic prawns. Fry some garlic in olive oil and add some large prawns and a bit of smoked paprika. Serve with nice crusty bread to mop up the juices.

[lyralalala]

Tomato pasta bake - pasta chucked in an oven dish with passata, garlic salt, Italian seasoning, water, and whatever random chopped veg I've got (fresh or frozen does). Stick some cheese and breadcrumbs on the top halfway through. 40 minutes and practically zero effort.

[BitOfFun]

I see a few references to carbonara- do people mean a ready meal? Because I'd count that (and a fair few other suggestions!) from scratch as proper cooking. For me, not cooking means something really quick out of a tin or similar, like Heinz ravioli on toast.

[ladybird69]

Corned beef hash. Tinned corned beef mixed with ready made mash or smash with fried egg on top accompanied by beans and brown sauce. Real quick and real comfort food.
Tin of soup over ready mash yum.
Jacket potato with prawns Mayo
Chicken fjatitas (sp)

[GiraffeNecked]

Coop pizza. With added stuff from fridge.

Bottom of fridge pasta, bit of bacon, mushroom, spinach. Chilli and tin of tomatoes.

Carbonara.

Fish chips and mushy peas.

Quesidella

Nice sardines in olive oil heated up on spaghetti

[Dee1975]

Eggs on toast or waffles !

[SaskiaRembrandt]

Pasta, pesto and cheese.
Shakshuka.

[Longdistance]

Toast and pate, cheeses and chutney.
Baked potato with cheese and beans.
Eggs, chips and beans.

[IJumpedAboardAPirateShip]

Hummus and crisps

[PolarBearStrength]

Side note: PIL’s minds were blown recently when I served a pasta a salad with pesto as a thrown together lunch recently. They’d never had pesto!

[PolarBearStrength]

I’ve gotten really into turkey dinosaurs recently 😳 Hadn’t eaten them for over 20 years and then bought them for DS in the hope that a dinosaur shaped food might encourage him to eat SOMETHING when he was going through a really fussy phase (it worked!)... turns out they are delicious if you don’t think about the health aspect.

Also a big fan of pasta and pesto (basically all I ate as a child). Tuna is our go to but bacon or ham definitely feels like more of a treat.

[pollywollydoodler]

Really cba?
Firm banana mashed in between 2slices of toasted seedy bread
Hummus and jacob's cracked black pepper flatbreads
Moderately cba?
Pasta with pesto and Parmesan
Fish fingers with salad in a wrap
Dahl from the freezer and pitta

[eaglejulesk]

Hash browns topped with baked beans, a bit of grated cheese, and an egg.

[smileannie]

Just seen Emily Norris make 10 minute gnocchi with peas and pesto, will try it tonight.

[Coldbatteredpuddings]

2 slices of toast - one with beans on and one with scrambled egg on. Takes 5 min and is super satisfying.
Or frozen Mediterranean veg fried in olive oil with some halloumi or chorizo all stuffed in a pitta bread. Takes hardly any time and is delicious!

[PodgeBod]

For the kids: pasta, frozen peas, dairylea and some sort of protein (often frozen chicken nuggets. I pretend it counts)

For me and DP: cereal

[NoProblem123]

Fresh pasta, fresh green pesto, grated Parmesan, big glass of white wine.

Takes 3 minutes from fridge to bowl.
Yum Yum pigs bum.

[Selmaselma]

Pasta pesto
Salad
Hummus with crackers
Parmesan and olives with crackers
Fried egg
Fried tofu
Porridge
Leftovers
Pizza delivery

[MrsR87]

Cheese and beans on toast
Eggs, chips and beans
Smoked salmon and poached egg on toast
Avocado and poached egg on toast
Sausage and egg muffins
Sausage and onion cobs
Omelette
Pitta pizza

[Jellycatspyjamas]

Super noodles with cooked chicken and sweetcorn
Beige dinner
Omelet
Soup and toastie
Pasta pesto
Beans on toast

All good in our house when I’ve run out of steam.

The filled pasta bake sounds lovely, that will be added to my repertoire

[MrsJBaptiste]

Omelette or bowl of cereal

But if I need to feed the kids, then pesto pasta or tuna pasta bake.

[Whatnext2018]

Fishfinger butties

[Puppy74]

@BinkyBoinky you are excused for having maggi's :)

[AriesTheRam]

Takeaway

[xdestarx]

Loaded mash - Usually Bacon, Egg and Mash all mixed together with mayo

Or Pasta with cream cheese.