to ask for your laziest meals?

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decided to have chicken nuggets, potato waffles and baked beans tonight the ultimate lazy meal!! pop nuggets into the oven, toast the waffles and microwave the beans, done in 20 mins what are your laziest meals?

Before becoming a mom, or whilst son and DH are at school and work, my laziest meal is thin air.

@Oblomov20 what would class as lazy then, if not quick and easy?

What are your laziest meals?

@TheSmallAssassin I’m stealing that one!

A good one for being pregnant - chop up broccoli and put it on to boil in the same pan as pasta. When it’s cooked, stir in creme fraiche, black pepper and Parmesan.

The brand Gallo do a 'risotto pronto' which is the easiest most delicious mushroom risotto. You just being it in a pan with water and cook for 10 minutes. It's honestly so yummy!
Other favorites:
Tuna, mayo, and sweetcorn pasta
Chicken supernoodles on toast topped with grated cheese
Birds eye Turkey roast dinner microwave meal

Cheese and crisps, always have a selection of both in.

Crisp butty. Pot noodle butty. I envy those who's 'lazy' meals are still nutritional and can still be bothered to stand there slicing and chopping. I wish I was more like those people!

Toast a pita bread in the toaster, cut open, smear inside with pesto, put sliced cheese on top of pesto, close it up, zap in microwave for 30 seconds to melt the cheese. Devour.

tuna pasta bake and eggy bread are quick, easy and tasty favourites in this house. also omelettes and savoury pancakes.

Has to be a fried egg butty

Bacon and eggs. It’s ready in 5 minutes

Boil fresh tortellini & frozen veg in a pan. Drain. Return to pan and stir in some Philadelphia soft cheese. 5 minutes, tops.

Lazy dinner -
pesto and cream cheese pasta, sometimes with vegetables added to it.
oven pizza and prepared salad
2 slices of jam on toast and a milky coffee (not for DS though)

Lazy lunch - hummus and pepper bagel for me, hummus sandwhich and peppers on the side for DS
fried egg between 2 slices of toast

Saute King prawns in garlic and chilli (the Very Lazy stuff out the jars)
Stir through plain, cooked spaghetti. Amazing.

Fried mushrooms in garlic butter on toast.. so yum
A crispbake type thing or something that can be done in the oven like a individual pie or a lamb grillsteak/burger thing + oven chips
Salad

@Oblomov20

Most of these don't seem lazy to me. Just quick and easy.

I was thinking that too. A 'lazy' meal, to me, is one that requires as little action as possible. So that might be a FF sandwich, something that you simply bung on a tray and stick in the oven for 20 mins or even a pot noodle. Beans on toast with cheese, whilst being one of the greatest meals ever, requires you to heat beans, make and butter toast, grate cheese and assemble on plate in correct order. Definitely quick and easy but not lazy.

thanks everyone i'll definitely be making some of these! i managed 2 croissants with cream cheese this morning, of course it was a struggle though

@ChangeThePassword

So you could have saved yourself typing the first five paragraphs if you'd just given the honest answer which is that your laziest meal is chicken nuggets and chips

Op didn't ask for our laziest meal. Op asked for our laziest meals.

And my current favourite laziest meal is the one it took five paragraphs to type. No idea why you have an issue with that.

Maybe because it seems somewhat disingenuous, particularly when compared to the other responses on this thread (both your own final line and other people's).

'all the other responses' hadn't been posted when I typed it.

And its absolutely genuine. It is my go to lazy meal, it's something I have ready in my freezer most of the time. I rarely have chicken nuggets or similar for health reasons that you really don't want me to tell you about (but it's the same reason I use water rather than oil in my pesto). It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the ops question.

And its really no more effort than peeling and chipping potatoes, coating them in a teaspoon of oil and shaking the air fryer basket every five minutes for about twenty minutes. The pasta probably takes less time.

Honestly, if I'd been asked eighteen months ago my answer would have been different. It may well have been pasta with pesto from a jar, it wouldn't have been wholemeal tagliatelle though. But several doctors appointments and a colonoscopy later and what I eat has had to change massively. Hardly any meat, hardly any oil (hence why I make my own pesto), hardly any processed foods or takeaways, so I've found other solutions to having quick food.

So you can think what you like, you can believe me or not. I don't care, and I'm not going to engage further on the subject unless there is very good reason.

Name change fail! Was going to post a thread about a different medical issue and changed my mind. Oops

Spaghetti bolognese. I make gallons of sauce and freeze it.

@olivo

I consider lots of these proper meals, not lazy ones! My lazy meal is microwaved pre prepared mashed potato with loads of grated vintage cheddar stirred in

Yes, but this is Mumsnet, so you're inevitably going to get "laziest" meal suggestions that are practically worthy of a Michelin star.

Fresh bread from the local bakery and salted butter. Perfection!

My very laziest meal would have to be a pot noodle sandwich

This is illegal in my country.

Mine would be slice of thick toast with passata spread on top, sprinkle on cheese and then toast under grill. Lazy pizza

@CottonHeadedNinyMuggins

Seriously Cheddar melting cheese pot, A bake at home baguette still warm from the oven with butter spread. Some sour cream and chive pringles and assorted dipping things - perhaps some mini cheddars, pizza twists, occasionally some of the 2 for £3 snacky bits (like chicken skewers et al)

Perhaps once a month with a bottle of wine shared - beautiful!

We call this dippy tea in our house!