I'd like your absolute laziest meal ideas please

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I have an incredibly tough week coming up, where unfortunately huge work deadlines are going to collide with looking after my elderly mum, as well as having DD at home for half-term.

I'm trying to think of ANY shortcuts to get me through it. I'm doing my Tesco order later and would love your very best lazy meal ideas please. Things that you maybe wouldn't eat long term, but will get us through this patch. (I would just order ready meals for a few days, but I have to keep one eye on the salt levels due to blood pressure). Thanks in anticipation!

Tomato soup served with cheese on toast soldiers.

Panini... cut a part baked baguette, fill with whatever you like.. ham and cheese, tuna melt, Brie and cranberry sauce, salami and cheese etc and put in a George Formby Foreman grill for 3 mins. Serve with a bag of salad and a pot of coleslaw and Pringles. 😊

Pasta bake... jar of sauce, bag of pasta, cheese on top.

Fresh pasta and sauce with garlic bread.

Bought pie, bought mash, frozen veggies, bisto gravy.

Hope your week passes easily.

Very low effort very high impact:

Ready made puff pastry, roll out to double the size, spread half a tub of herbs and garlic philly on half of it, add 4 skinless boneless salmon fillets, spread other half of philly on top, pull pastry over to cover, mash sides together with fork, glaze with egg, cook for 20 minutes, serve with frozen peas cooked in microwave.

My kids love this one and honestly it's sooooo easy

Pasta with loads of pesto and cream cheese and cheese on top. If I have it in I'll add spinach and courgettes and mushrooms.

I'm all up for lazy meals so following with interest.

Tuna pasta, with mayo and cucumber.
Taco kit, leave just under half mince to top jacket potatoes with the next day.
Sausage baguettes with side of chips.
Scrambled eggs on toast.
Potato cheese bake.
Bacon Lardon loaded potatoes.
Chicken legs covered in sweet chilli sauce and grilled, with packet rice and bag salad.
Sausages and ready made mash.
And of course a takeaway.

We do a few pasta dishes with no-cook sauces. From memory: Nigella's pesto amaro (like pesto but with rocket and anchovies, from Summer), her lemon carbonara (eggs, cream, lemon zest and rind, parmesan), a tuna one (tin of tuna, crème fraîche and mayo, capers and a bit of the juice from the capers jar, blitzed to smooth), a friend's lovely one with rocket, chopped salami, cherry tomatoes dressed with lemon juice and olive oil, and one with jarred roasted peppers, a bit of garlic, some ricotta or crème fraîche and parmesan, again all blitzed to smooth. For a tiny bit more effort, Vicky Bhogal's pasta with yogurt and chilli drizzle (from Cooking like Mummyji) which I have a feeling you could use harissa for instead of the chilli drizzle. Or the easiest version of macaroni cheese sauce, heat up half a pint of double cream, dump in as much cheese as it can take, a touch of mustard if you feel the need, then add to cooked pasta as soon as it has melted through. You could put it in the oven with breadcrumbs and extra cheese on top but it's probably perfectly fine without...

Mushroom stroganoff is quick & easy, use frozen mushrooms for extra speed. Serve with microwave rice or buttered instant noodles.

Ramen noodles in a pan and Chuck in whatever needs using up from the fridge and bung an egg on it. Done in 4 mins.
( Ramen in our house is the posh name for any old shite in a bowl 😀)

Salmon steak
Pouch of microwave rice
Broccoli

Fresh tortellini
Garlic bread
Salad

Frozen pie
oven chips
Frozen veg

Slow cooked Beef/chicken/bean/veg stew

Ooh I’d forgotten about sardines on toast! Yummy with a tomato or melted cheese.

@DGFB

Bung baked potatoes in the oven for 90 minutes, serve with cheese and beans. Pizza with bagged salad Omelette with frozen peas thrown in or scrambled eggs on toast Fresh filled pasta with chopped raw tomatoes and peppers and a bit of olive oil

This would be me for the week to be honest, good decent dinners with a tiny bit of work to them to help decompress but nothing you've got to actively think about really.

That or a different takeaway each night

Fresh bread, pate, brie, coleslaw, salad

Frozen mashed potato, sausages and peas. Or replace sausages with faggots! All found in the frozen food aisle! You could also get frozen jacket potatoes, a sandwich filler (tuna, prawn, cheese, whatever) and a bag of salad.

Fresh bone in chicken thighs, winter stew mix, some chicken stock cubes (or low salt), dried herbs de Provence, frozen crushed garlic, handful Pearl barley.

Brown meat, Chuck rest in with water to cover, bring to boil and simmer 1 hour 20 mins serve with mash (ready made) and steamed vegetables (buy prepared)

I'm not organised enough to batch cook, so:
Jacket spuds plus easy toppings.
Stuffed pasta that cooks in 3 minutes - you can buy or make a sauce to go with it.
Oven cod, chips and peas.
Scrambled egg on toast/eggy bread.
Stir fry noodles, stir fry veg pack and sauce - can be veggie or buy chopped chicken breast to add to it, will cook in under 5 mins if the veggie version, or 15 if chicken version.

Tray bake - sling in some new potatoes (halved to cook quicker) in a little oil - sprinkle some fajita mixed spice over spuds. Prep other veg - peppers, aubergine, red onion and add chicken breasts. Add to tray with spuds, prinkle liberally with fajita spice mix. Oven cook until chicken is done (approx 25 minutes).

Loving that old people like sardines on toast.
One of my favourite things to eat ( maybe 57 is old sardine-wise).

Some of these are my make an effort meals

My can't be bothered is cereal but I guess if you're feeding other people it might need to be slightly more nutritious...

Tinned soup and bake your own bread too.

(Shop bought bake your own bread).

Cook pasta
Stir in philly, smoked salmon pieces, spinach/peas/something gree whilst it’s still warm
As above, but stir in grated courgette and grated cheese

Uncle Ben’s Mexican Microwave Rice in a packet, tortillas and dips.

Fishfingers in one side of the toaster, potato waffle in the other, beans in the microwave

Doritos and a tub of hummus

Schnitzel from the butcher and salad while it’s cooking. 8 minutes.

Baked camembert with baguette, apple/pear slices and crackers

Minute steak with jacket potatoes

Nice chicken burgers or bean burgers with brioche buns, salad and packet (microwave) rice

Salmon also very good for quick and easy meals. Sorry, I haven't RTFT so this has all probably been said!!

Cous cous is my go to for a lazy meal

Current favourite is :

Cous cous, diced veggies (ones that can be eaten cold/raw eg peppers, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, baby corn...) Quorn sliced roasted fillets (cooked diced chicken would work for meat eaters) and some sweet chilli sauce - make up Cous cous add veggies mix in sauce - done - takes less than 15 mins to do

Cous cous also a very quick and easy alternative to rice served with tinned/batch cooked chilli, curry, Dahl etc

I also love the McCain jackets, I've no micro so they're in the oven for about 50 mins BUT I don't have to watch over them. I have them with cottage cheese or one of the following (either from a batch cook and so home made or tinned) - chilli, ratatouille, lentil Dahl, veggie curry or indeed baked beans with a bit of grated cheddar or tinned tomatoes and black pepper

Fresh pasta is super quick. Again I'd add easy veg you could use a jar sauce or a batch cooked home made one. Very easy to make a tomato sauce

Hearty soup - again home made batch cook or buy fresh ones and serve with buttered rolls

Stuff on toast - baked beans, tinned spaghetti, cheese, eggs, tomatoes (thickly sliced and grilled with a little black pepper is yum)

If you have/can get toastabags you can not only do toasties in them you can quickly cook pastry savouries (sausage rolls, pasties, cheese and onion slices etc) this way, fish fingers, nuggets etc

Picnic food - sausage rolls, falafel, mini scotch eggs, quiche, cold savoury pastries etc with some ready to eat salad veg - cherry tomatoes, carrot batons, sliced peppers and mushrooms on the side as a nod to "healthy" yoghurt and fruit for after

If you can be arsed to roast in advance a couple of trays of emergency roast veg - onions, peppers, garlic, tomatoes, courgettes, mushrooms, carrots etc freeze in portions to just add a lovely touch to anything you're throwing together. My fave is with frozen salmon bunged on same plate in the microwave, while you cook some couscous in whatever stock you've got. Chuck in some olives too maybe. 5 mins max. Yumptious and healthy!

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