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 :)

[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.

[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.

[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.