To ask - what do you make your children for tea if you can't be bothered cooking?

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What's your go-to on the nights where you don't have the energy to do a big meal?

Sandwiches! I hate cooking so they eat rather a lot ....

In my defence, they have a hot lunch at school

A lot of these are what I would consider cooking!

Beans on toast, egg on toast, boiled egg and soldiers, snacky bits and bobs, fish fingers and waffles.

diddl "A lot of these are what I would consider cooking!"

Well, quite! I@m not sure what constitutes a can be bothered meal"if your CBA ones are something like

stir fry, jackets with beans and salad, chicken fajitas, sausage and mash... these are all just normal dinners!

either PPs are secretly confessing to CBAing most nights, or they whip up gourmet 3 course meals every other night

Pasta with pesto and peas or broccoli

A platter with crackers, cheese, cocktail sausages, veg sticks, fruit etc (this is their favourite)

Beans on toast

Beans on toast with grated cheese on top

Omelette (so I can kid myself). Or chicken nuggets. Or boiled egg. Oven chips usually play a part.
Dd usually grabs an apple to counterbalance () and left over Easter Egg that turns up for pudding.

Oh, one of my favourites is grabbing a cooked chook from the supermarket, and doing a salad with it, with new potatoes. Corn on the cob if I'm not too pissed off with life.

Agreed, most of these are jut normal meals. We’re going to have falafels, flat bread and salad tonight. It’ll take me 15 mins tops to prepare, 20 if I do some oven chips. Is that a can’t be bothered meal? Sounds kind of flash to me.

I tend to cook extra bolognaise etc when I make it, and freeze for these meals. Then only need to cook some pasta/rice/jacket spud and nuke the main bit!

Pizza toast - basically cheese on toast but with a layer of tomato purée or pasta sauce on the bread first.
Lounge picnic - blanket on the living room floor with whatever is to hand - pots of bread sticks, mozzarella balls, cucumber, carrots, meatballs, ham, sliced mushrooms, olives, grapes, strawberries.

Take them to the supermarket and let them pick stuff from the shelves and eat as we go round ... they actually love doing this and it means no clearing up afterwards too. Just remember to keep the empty packaging to pay at the end!

WTF 😱

Pitta bread, hummus, cherry tomatoes, veg sticks, chopped cheese or scrambled egg.

not sure what constitutes a can be bothered meal"if your CBA ones are something like

stir fry, jackets with beans and salad, chicken fajitas, sausage and mash... these are all just normal dinners!

sausages and mash: plonk sausages in oven, boil potatoes, mash them with butter/milk: no time, no effort, they cook on their own. I suppose peeling the potato would put this toward "cooking".

chicken fajitas: put chicken in pan, turn over maybe twice, add spice and put in tortillas from the pack, serve with salsa from the pack. If you make everything from scratch, then yes, it would be cooking.

Jacket potatoes: put in oven

None of these require any work.. Cooking involves me being in the kitchen and at least keeping an eye on things, or spending more than 5 minutes doing something. Anything less is a lazy tea, and we all need them when you have no time after work.

I freeze leftovers in the foil takeout style containers so that I can stick them straight in the oven from frozen in case I truly can't be arsed.

Something like curry or meatballs in tomato sauce with a sachet or two of microwave rice makes dinner with zero effort.

Jacket potatoes in the microwave

Pasta with cheese and veg
Baked beans / spaghetti hoops and toast (not ON toast for that would be DISGUSTING)
Crusty bread with cheese / fruit / ham etc
Freezer stuff
Baked potato

freezer tea- throw random things from the freezer in the oven. Put some frozen peas/mixed veg out so my mum of the year award doesn't get taken away!

Oh, well my DS had had mostly lazy teas then :/

My idea if lazy is using instant mash, instead of making it yourself (eg instant mash, beans and egg on top)

Peeling, cutting, boiling and mashing potatoes is effort!

Something from the freezer. I freeze extra portions on a regular basis. Today we are having toad in the hole but if I couldn’t be bothered then in the freezer I have portions of....lasagne, cottage pie, chilli con carne, chicken casserole, chicken risotto, beef stew, (all home made) plus frozen fish in sauce, frozen veg, frozen rice, frozen pies etc.

jacket potatoe.cheat use microwave then crispy skin in oven..wi tuna or cheese or whatever...sausage rolls n beans..egg n chips(now i want it)...

Eggs with buttered bread or pasta in a really quick tomato sauce.

Chicken flavoured Super Noodles with cheese added in.

I shouldn't have opened this thread it's just making me hungry!

Peeling, cutting, boiling and mashing potatoes is effort!
It depends what you are used to, all our meals have some kind of starter or salad, so grated carrots or carrot sticks, tomato salad, cucumber and so on, so there's always a bit of peeling and cutting involved, and same goes with the fruits.

None of us can be bothered to have fresh fruits at every single breakfast I have to admit!