Need some lazy dinner food ideas please

[HoppingKangaroo]

I'm sick of eating the same food. Husband is useless at cooking or planning what to eat. I have a difficult 4 year old (autistic) and I'm 25 weeks pregnant. Would appreciate some lazy dinner ideas please. Thanks

Bag of stir fry, Linda McCartney hoisin duck stuff, noodles, teriyaki sauce, all in one pan.

We just discovered sweetcorn fritters which are delicious and so easy.

1x can of sweet corn
150g gram flour
100 MLS water (add more off batter seems a little dry)
Garlic (as much as you like)
1 TSP cumin
1 TSP mild chilli powder
Salt and pepper

Mix it all up in a bowl, then split into 4 portions. Shallow fry for about 3 minutes on each side then place in an oven proof dish and bake on a higher heat for 15 minutes.

I served today with some leftover chicken and salad. But also previously with a nice mango salad. They would also go nicely I think with a lightly spiced fish like salmon.

The other super easy one we do is fry some choppef chicken, peppers, cherry tomatoes and onions down with paprika, garlic, cumin, chilli, salt, pepper and tomatoe paste. Then bung in a pack of microrice (plain, vegetable or Mexican flavour), and then serve with a salad, some garlic bread or nachos and dips. Takes about 20 minutes and if you make enough you get leftovers the next day for lunch.

Depends what your DC will eat, but if they’re unfussy then the following are popular here:

salmon fillets - poached on the hob, then new potatoes and broccoli boiled in another pan. Really easy.

risotto - don’t bother standing around adding in the liquid bit by bit, just sauté onion until soft, then mix in the rice, any vegetables you wish to add and a couple of pints of stock. Leave on a medium heat for 20 mins and stir occasionally.

pasta with homemade tomato and herb sauce, macaroni cheese, sausage/mash and veg, fish cakes with salad or veg, vegetable curry and rice, kedgeree also all popular here.

My DS isn’t keen on omelettes, egg on toast, baked potatoes or sandwiches, but these can be a Godsend if your DC do eat them! Ham, prawns, tuna or cheese with salad and bread rolls also a good idea.

If you've got a freezer batch cooking is the way forward. Beef mince (3 x 500g for £10), frozen soffritto (Waitrose and Sainsbury's about £1 a bag)(chopped carrots/onion/celery),sauté meat bit at a time, add soffritto, season, cool, bag up. Then for a meal, defrost bag, add stock cubes, dried herbs, and you've a cottage pie base. Frozen mash gets really good reviews on Waitrose too. Defrost another bag, add tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, herbs, and there's a Bolognese type base. Third bag, add kidney or baked beans, or chilli beans, chilli powder to taste, then you've got a basic chilli con carne.

Chicken katsu
Breaded chicken breast
Japanese curry sauce (just all boiling water)
Brown rice (microwave packet)
Steam fresh greens

Packet dhal (if you have a local
Indian supermarket or Indian section of supermarket)
Top with boiled egg
Serve with frozen garlic nan

My favourite lazy meal is chicken dippers in a wrap with lettuce and shredded cheese with honey mustard dressing. So easy. I’m home with Covid so today it’s a fishy finger wrap 🙁

Tray bakes - you can put lots of things in depending on what you and your DH and child will eat - this is typical for me.

I use a large flat tray and line with foil.

In a bowl I put some oil, salt and pepper, smoked paprika, chili powder and 'spicy season all'.

Then I add chicken goujons, new potatoes cut in half, cherry tomatoes, onion slices, pepper slices, mushrooms.

Mix it up until it is all coated in the spice / oil mix, put on the tray and cook for 20 mins.

You can eat as it is, or use it to fill tortillas.

Slow cooker creamy chicken - I have two slow cookers, this is the recipe for the small one, double up for a larger one

Chicken pieces - thighs work well
Sliced mushrooms
1 can of condensed mushroom soup
1 tub of crème fraiche

Put it all in the slow cooker, switch on, put on the lid and come back 3-4 hours later.

Lots of good ideas, thank you for all the replies. I will definitely try lots of these