Did I just win the award for most 'I can't be fucked' tea for my DC?

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I've been working overtime today, exhausted, feel like shit.

My 3 year old had a plate of corned beef, cheese and sweetcorn for his tea.

Did I just win the award for most 'that'll do' tea?

He quite enjoyed it tbf! He asked for more.

Ready for today to be done 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

My dc are grown up now but my CBA tea for me is cheese, crackers, maybe a bit of cold meat if there’s any.

DS had a ham and cheese baguette for tea last night, I just chopped some of the rest of the baguette into a couple of chunks, buttered them and chucked a couple of slices of cheese on the plate.

Party food also makes an excellent tea. Mini sausage rolls, cocktail sausages, whatever else I have in the freezer by I don’t tend to buy it that often.

I hate pasta, it tastes of nothing, it smells like wall paper paste. Even with a sauce it still smells like Evo stick.
We went on a holiday with another couple who invited us over for a meal one night in their holiday rental.
Pasta with green Pesto sauce, I forced it down but it as a struggle.
How kids eat it is beyond me.

7 months pregnant with Ds2 I had flu... lay on the sofa and just ordered pizza all week for ds1 who was only about 20 months... just left the box for him to help himself to...was hellish but he was happy with CBeebies and pizza

Sorry OP, that award belongs to newly-single, absolutely exhausted and ill me, who fed her 5yo and 2yo tinned custard for tea. They had no complaints. That was 7 years ago and I haven't repeated it yet.

You need to make a corned beef and potato plate pie!!! Food of the gods!

She was my heroine!

If it's any consolation until he was about 25 my DS used to consider a pot noodle with tomato ketchup squirted into it as a gourmet delight. He now cooks everything and is a very adventurous and superb cook!

His is the only place I've ever eaten venison (in some sort of bittersweet jammy sort of sauce)*. It was very nice.

*You can tell what sort of a cook I am - If it doesn't poison anyone, it's a successful meal.

"2 colours" !

😂😂😂

The 'corned' refers to the beef having been cured with large 'corns' of salt.

I never knew this @ErrolTheDragon and had often wondered. Thank you - every day's a schooldays on MN!

I'm in South East and my husband loves corned beef so we buy it regularly. All the supermarkets stock it so you're not looking hard enough! 🤣

Corned beef sandwiches with slices of tomato and a good dollop of brown sauce. Food of the Gods 😋

Packs of sliced corned beef are better than nothing but not ideal. It needs to be from a tin (preferably one which has been in the fridge) so the slices are small and thick, with sufficient rigidity that you can eat them as they are with a dollop of chutney.

The best one I heard of was the mum who couldn't be arsed to do beans on toast, so popped a slice of bread on the plate and spooned some cold beans on top.

A recent one for me after working overtime and feeling completely not like cooking was giving the dc a tomato cup-a-soup (but I put them into bowls, to you know, make it look like an actual meal) with sliced cheese and the packet of bread.

We occasionally have a 'clear the freezer' out meal and cook all those bits that aren't enough for everyone and it gets put in the middle of the table to share. For 5 dc, usually consisting of a couple of lone burgers, a handful of nuggets, a few fish fingers, some sort of breaded chicken thing, an assortment of various types of chips or potato things and some frozen veg (for the healthy bit). And if they are lucky might be an onion ring each aswel😂

My 3 love fried spam and corned beef hash - we still have both in the cupboard

My mother was the queen of creative crap meals - the best 'Volcano potatoes'

Basically an individual mountain of mash (think Close Encounters) - tomato sauce on top - then a fried egg - you ceremoniously hit the egg and hey presto - instant individual volcano - obviously avoiding the fact it was egg and mash for tea! (usually left over mash from the day before)

Also - sandwiches 'like the queen' - butter and whatever was available without crusts - always to be eaten with a little finger in the air - the crusts were removed because the bread was mouldy - but she never mentioned that!

My mum, born 1911 was in Service as a cook to a rich shoe mogul family, she could and did make meals out of anything. Her motto was if you’ve got eggs and milk you’ve got the beginnings of a meal.
Rissoles: Left overs off the Sunday roast were minced up, added to any left over veg, carrots, turnip and mashed spud, bound together with an egg, made into patties dipped in egg wash and flour then sautéed both sides until cooked
My favourite was her home made soup, a ham shank for the stock, with loads of veg, lentils, the ham pulled off the bone after stock was done, it was minced up and added to the stock and veg..not really a CBATC tea: the first day it took hours to make the stock but it kept for a few days with more veg added. She’d make a big pile of mashed spuds and I loved a mountain of mash with mums a ladle of mums veg soup over the top.
Her CBATC tea was her version of Welsh Rarebit: Any bits of cheese not enough to make a decent sandwich with was frozen until she decided she had enough to do something with it. all colours of cheese, Cheddar, Red Leicester, Cheshire, any left over ‘heels’ of cheese. It was grated, (she didn’t even defrost it.) added to milk, eggs and an onion, after milk and egg started to scramble, add seasoning. Stirred through until cheese had melted. We had it on toast on Saturday afternoons while watching the wrestling on the telly. Basically a cheesy scrambled egg, it took fifteen to twenty minutes tops.

I just read a post by OP encouraging me to try it and had a flashback of possibly trying a bite many years ago as a child and not liking it. Probably because it was a cold piece on its own.

It must have been at my Nan and grandads, they lived in London, long gone now sadly.

I'm definitely going to add it to my next weekly Tesco shop. I rarely go into a supermarket now but occasionally pop into Lidl, Asda when I get petrol or Waitrose.

I'll heat it up and have it with mash.

I hope we all like it as it'll be perfect CBA food from a tin.

<<shrug>> Protein, fat, carbs, veg. Nowt wrong with that.

Ham egg and chips yesterday, and I mean the chips you just bung in the oven, not homemade with a chip pan 😁

I just had scrambled egg and beans, been ages since I did. So bloody yummy!

Obv still cooking but not much effort 👍

There was one memorably CBA meal my DM dished up once which would have been better with even less effort. A tin of Irish Stew (ie mostly potato with a bit of meat and maybe some onion and carrot) served with ... boiled potatoes.

We are having a vegetable pie for tea. From a box. Just pie. Pastry, vegetables, wet stuff (between a white sauce and gravy). It is tasty.

MIL thinks DH will wither and die if he does not have chips and meat.

Cheesy pasta bake but I have had the worst migraine for days and I’m awaiting covid results. The kids seem to love it

This isn't strictly a CBACT tea, but:

• it's extremely low effort
• it's adaptable (different strength salsa, more or less taco seasoning as preferred, different meat)
• it's kid-friendly (whack it on the table with wraps, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, guac, sour cream, grated cheese and let everyone assemble their own)
• if you don't have a slow cooker you could do it in a pan on the hob, or even in the microwave

I make it when I really CBACT but need to feel my family has eaten Properly.

butteryourbiscuit.com/slow-cooker-salsa-chicken-tacos/

Re corned beef. It's now pretty expensive when sliced. The traditional tins are a nightmare to open. If the key breaks half way you have not much chance of opening the damn things. I used to love corned beef hash, but is there any form of tin with a ring pull?