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?

marking cos some of these are brilliant!

There is always egg and chips..... my happy to be in on my own with a box set meal.

'I'd forgotten about tinned tomato soup, white bread and margarine the HORROR

Oh I forgot this one too, but for us, tinned tomato soup with a cheese and ham toastie

I have bags of sauce in the freezer as well as fresh pasta. Total time to get a bowl of hearty pasta, 6 minutes.

I also have bags of homemade dumplings in the freezer and it takes less than 5 minutes to get those ready.

Truly lazy, I go with the lazy meal my mum used to serve us: rice, seasoned roast seaweed, various kimchi, miso soup, and eggs.

Spaghetti hoops on toast with cheese.

Boil up some pasta add salt.
Add frozen mixed frozen veg and butter to a bowl add it to the microwave until veg is defrosted and butter is melted.
Drain the water from the pasta, add the butter and veg and stir everything.
Serve and sprinkle some Parmesan on top.

Super noodles and hot dog sausages from a jar.

Chicken salad wraps (with either dippers or cooked chicken breast). Tons of salad on the side and construct each wrap.

Microwave Mexican rice, add salad to plate and construct wraps with whatever dips/sauces you have.

Tofu scramble on toast
Beans on toast
Jacket potato and beans
Linda mcartnery sausages, potato waffles and sweet corn,
Fishless fingers, chips and frozen veg mix,
Greggs vegan sausage roll and some fruit,
Avocado on toast with tomatoes,
Yogurt with cereal, almonds, chia seeds and pumpkin/flax seeds,
Pasta pesto with peas,
Chickpea 'tuna' pasta

Some sort of egg dish.

Tortellini that take 4 mins to boil, sometimes adding in frozen peas, corn etc and serve with cucumber, carrot and pepper sticks on the side

We have a floor picnic. Sandwiches, cheese, crisps, fruit, nibbley bits, whatever is in the freezer.

Noodles and hotdogs, loves those cba teas

Bag of microwaveable rice
Cut up wafer thin chicken
Tin of sweet corn
Splash of low salt soy sauce

All mixed together
Start to finish 2 mins
No washing up
Wolfed down

Wraps with cooked chicken, rice, cheese, mayo, lettuce, tomato and cucumber

Coven garden classic chicken fresh soup with cheese on toast

Well, slightly off topic as I haven't got any children as such now, but for partner if I can't be bothered to cook, and taking his likings into account, it would be a salad with some junk snacks he likes with it, cheesy beans on toast, or sandwiches with either side salad or more junk food he likes or ready cooked chicken. For a child it would be different things.

Doubt it!

Always have a bit of cooked chicken in the fridge for quick after school meals.
Staple is chicken and pasta with some of that teeny tiny frozen mixed veg and a bit of cheese thrown in. Or chicken stir fried with a packet of frozen rice, frozen veg with an egg and a bit of soy sauce.

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Potato waffles in toaster? 🤯🤯🤯🧡

My small offering: Cheese sandwiches with tomato soup. And a straw, which leaves me with cleaner kids. Winning at life.

Olafinsummer

Chicken wraps; breaded chicken fillets, salad leaves, cucumber, tomatoes, coleslaw, bbq sauce or mayo. All wrapped together-kids think it’s yummy

Cheesy peas pasta. cook pasta, add frozen peas about half way through, drain and put on plates, grate cheese over the top. They love it.

Fish fingers on salad (I actually really like it too - with a bit of Pizza Express dressing) and noodles with tuna, sweetcorn & crispy onions (i’m not so keen on that one myself!)

Oh - and of course good old jacket potatoes!

We've just had sausages, sweet potato croquets & beans which was effort free.
Also spinach filled tortellini with tomato & mascarpone sauce & garlic bread is another quick favourite

DS2 - scrambled egg, beans and toast

DS2 (15) loves a frozen pizza ( hates egg), so he usually sorts himself out

Allsorts on toast. Whatever you've got - beans, cheese, ravioli,eggs etc, offer a choice. They love it and it doesn't hurt just once in a while if it's not optimal nutritionally.

Hot dogs, wraps with cold meat and cheese, mascarpone with breadsticks and salad, tuna wraps/panini with salad, frittata, beans on toast, grilled cheese with salad, eggs in purgatory with crusty bread.