My daughter’s favourite - Lemon prawn orzo. Cook orzo (or she actually prefers the tiny star pasta) and chuck some frozen peas in there for last 4 mins or so. Meanwhile gently cook some prawns in garlic infused oil (or normal oil and add crushed garlic or garlic paste or just whatever is easiest for you!) and then add plenty of fresh lemon juice, take off heat, add the pasta and peas to the pan with a knob of butter and give it a stir. You can add parsley if you have it at the end.
Baked salmon (or any fish) in foil parcels, rice and whatever veg we have. Or with noodles and a packet of stir fry veg. There’s loads of different flavourings/ seasonings you could add in with the fish but that doesn’t make it particularly complicated or make it take longer and you just adapt to whatever you have in.
Creamy leek pasta. Cook your pasta, finely slice your leeks and start to sauté them in a pan with butter and/ or oil. As they start to soften add splashes of pasta water to keep sweating them down. Once pasta is cooked and leeks are all really soft, take leeks off heat and add some fresh cream, grated cheese and black pepper. Combine with the pasta.
Homemade pizzas - bit more than 5 depending on toppings but you can make the base with flour and yoghurt (or use the crosta and mollica flatbreads for something extra easy), make a really simple tomato sauce - it can honestly be as simple as just blending up tinned tomatoes and seasoning as you like it, or I will just cook down whatever tomatoes we have in a pan with some oil/ garlic and splash of balsamic till they’re going a bit gooey then blitz with a hand blender. Grated cheese and whatever toppings you want on top.
Roast whatever veg you like, if you wanted to make it fewer ingredients you could use a bag of prepped Mediterranean style veg, along with garlic and drizzled with olive oil and balsamic. Once cooked stir through cooked pasta (or couscous would work) and crumble over feta.