Balls, posted too soon, that should have been …
Lunch/ Dinner -
-Anything on toast - beans, eggs, cheese, tinned plum or cherry tomatoes
-If you prefer, the above with crumpets or potato cakes
-Slice mushrooms, cook in some butter/ oil and then stir through some garlic and herb cream cheese. Serve with couscous, rice, toast, pasta or just bread.
-Cook pasta, add frozen peas (or other veg if you like) a few minutes before end, drain most of the water but keep a splash, stir through some cream cheese (plain or the garlic and herb variety), black pepper - can add grated cheese or Parmesan if you like, don’t have to. Could also stir in cooked chicken or salmon or ham
-Do pasta and peas as above, once drained add a knob of butter and some grated cheese if you want, lots of pepper - I do this often as an easy tea, love it. Other option would be pasta pesto and peas/ other frozen veg.
-Stir fry some veg like a pepper or bit of spring onion (sesame oil if you have it, no worries if not), add one of those microwave packets of rice to the pan and warm through, chuck frozen peas in if you want extra veg, crack in an egg and cook through. Soy sauce if you have it
-Flat breads, shop bought falafel, hummus or other dip and some salad
-Soup - get tins or the fresh tubs, or if you’re up for a tiny bit more effort get one of the pre-chopped soup mixes from the veg aisle - if you get one with added barley or lentil will be a bit more filling, and you can serve with bread or cheese on toast
-stir fry meal deal from supermarket, usually can get veg, protein element, noodles and sachet of sauce - all next to each other (or grouped as a deal online) so no thought required
-if you can afford it and eat them get cooked salmon, rotisserie chicken, cooked roast meats - Oven food - fishfingers, fischakes, shop bought pies, the ‘just cook’ range of meat/ fish - then add frozen veg, ready prepped potatoes/ mash or packet rice or oven chips
A rough shopping list if that helps would be (obvs depending on how many feeding, and which of the above ideas you like!)
Cereal/ porridge
Bread - some sliced, packet of pittas/ flat breads and maybe some crumpets or potato cakes if you fancy that
Pasta
Micro rice pouches or get the mixed grain/ lentil ones if you prefer
Jar pesto or other pasta sauce
Tins of beans
Soy sauce
Oil if you don’t have any in
Nut butter
Butter
Cheese - get some grated if easier and in budget
Cream cheese - plain and/ or flavoured
Yoghurts
Dip like hummus or tsatsiki
Selection of cooked/ deli stuff that’s easy to use in sandwiches/ salads/ add to any carb - (eg falafel, roast chicken, ham, cooked salmon, prawns, cooked sausage)
Stir fry meal deal
Ready prepped veg and potatoes
Ready prepped veg soup kit/ bag
Bag of salad leaves, cucumber, tomatoes, a pepper
Mushrooms
Frozen peas
Oven chips
Some kind of ready prepped protein part of meal from either frozen or fresh section eg - fish fillet/cakes/ fingers, pies (higgidy have nice ones and so do Aldi!), etc