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?

Pasta or rice salad with whatever I have around: eggs, olives,sweetcorn, tuna, beans and ....mayo. They love it. Very quick and minimal washing up

Microwaveable rice and curry from a tin!

@Elephants just leave the cold cheese out a bit to get to room temp after slicing and sandwich on hot buttered toast. It doesn't melt but it warms a little and it's delicious

Super noodle stir fry. Pack of supernoodles, frozen peas, frozen sweetcorn, chopped up ham or fishfingers mixed in.

Picnic tea which is admittedly the kids favourite, crackers, grated cheese, cucumber, ham, celery, strawberries or whatever fruit needs using.

Fish fingers, frozen chips and frozen peas if I have more than 20 minutes and it’s just my lack of arsedness that’s calling for a rushed tea rather than time.

Tomato soup and a ham and cheese sandwich!

If it’s a Friday, McDonalds!

Also boiled egg and soldiers is a big winner here.

All depends on what they’ve eaten in the day too and what I want to eat as we eat as a family each night so if they are having a crap chucked together tea - so am I!

Pasta and pesto, will stick some tinned mackerel and peas or sweet corn in if I can be bothered for some extra nutrients

Cornflakes. I'm not even kidding. I'm the worst mum on mumsnet!

When really can't be bothered tomato soup and cheese on toast. Or if we had a big lunch I sometimes get them to do their own sandwiches

Frozen pizzas, pasta pesto with olives/ham/whatever chucked in, tuna mayo sweet corn and pasta (with a few carrot and celery sticks on the side), noddles and stir fry veg with drizzle of honey and soy sauce, picnic tea (sausage rolls, breadsticks, grapes, cheese, carrots, apple....anything really), fishfinger pittas.....

Beans on toast when they were small. Am baffled by bigger efforts.

Either pasta with whatever quick veg I can find with some passata, Mayo, or tinned chopped tomatoes.

Alternatively a sandwich or toastie with salad.

Picnic tea

Also...sometimes my DS(10) makes the food if we are in a rush and I need to do several other things (such as put food shopping away) while he does that.

Cheese and beans on toast
Scrambled egg on toast
Pasta with pesto and peas
Toasted cheese and tuna sandwich

Pasta with tinned tomatoes and if I CBA opening another can, tuna.

Either hotdogs, or frozen something with chips & veg.

Homemade soup f

Chilli and rice, rice is just a bung on job whilst I cook some mince and a jar of sauce, I do like to make it from scratch but if I cba the mild jars are ok.

Pizza and crudités

McDonald’s 😅

My top Four Quick meals are:

1. Baby tomatoes, avocado, spinach and Pepper all chop up with balsamic vinegar and olive oil on toast
2. Pesto pasta with spinach, mushroom, chilli and garlic tofu.
3. Ramen with spinach, sweetcorn and mushrooms with frozen dim sum.
4. Calamari, chips and spinach

Pasta, tuna, cream cheese and sweet corn. Always goes down a storm and takes seconds.

pasta + grated cheese they get to sprinkle on

Frankfurters in a hotdog bun (take about 4 mins)

Scampi/nuggets + potato waffles (left in oven with rest) + peas (extra effort)

Occasionally 'picnic' of something like plain wrap plus tomatoes and cheese they can stick in it, carrot sticks, cheesy biscuits

Fish finger piece
Super noodles on toast
Beans on toast
French toast
Oven Chips

Gnocchi in a pan with frozen veg, tonne of butter and olive oil and garlic. Top with parmesan. Done.

Eggy soldiers, fried egg on toast, fish fingers and cherry tomatoes, pizza, sausage roll & tomatoes, cucumber etc, scotch egg from the butcher, houmous, taramasalata, crudités & warm toast.

pasta with a olive and tomato jar thrown in with a sprinkle of cheese
Cheese omelet
Pizza
chicken thighs, new potatos, green beans thrown in the over with a drizzle of honey and a chicken stock with creme fraiche. It really is just throwing stuff in