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

[CanneBFucked]

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 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Regularly do CBA dinners for the DDs in this house I'm afraid! Will have to up my game over the summer holidays as they're hot getting a decent hot meal at school/preschool.

Toast and a piece of fruit is a regular feature.

Or a bowl of weetabix with some blueberries.

Or a tin of macaroni cheese/beef ravioli.

If I'm feeling really fancy it's mushrooms or tinned tomatoes on toast.

I try and give them decent meals most of the time but sometimes after a long day of work and rushing around just getting them fed is the priority.

Cba to cooked last week in the heat and I had left-over curry for dc, but not enough for a full meal for them. Probably would’ve been enough with rice but it was too hot to turn the stove on and make some so I just heated the curry up, portioned into 3, dumped a packet of crisps onto each plate with some leftover olives and a spoonful of branston pickle (ran out of mango chutney). Finished off with salad out of the pack that was on its way out. Dc said it was delicious 😂

I call it IF ITS. If it's there and doesn't need cooking you can have it.

Yes, that woman was a constant reassurance! I remember one episode when someone forgot their lunch, only realising on the way to school, so Frankie slammed on the brakes and told them to help themselves to whatever rolled out from under the seat 😂

I've done the East is East breakfast many times. Was raised on biscuits for breakfast and cereal for dinner

We call them shit from the freezer days here. (Even though sometimes no freezer foods are consumed) sometimes cooking something substantial everyday is draining. As long as he enjoyed it, who cares 😏

Some of the CBA meals we've had recently;

Microwave rice with lumps of Feta stirred through.

Potato waffle and a fried egg.

Scrambled egg on toast.

Sausage sandwich.

As a kid, I was very happy with a packet of mortadella, cheese, dry bread doorstop and apple slices. These days, I'd add some garlic oil on the bread, but it's one of the few things I remember actually liking.

One of my favourites now for when that's just a bit too, well - simple - is opening up most of the random jars of preserved veg - chilli garlic, olives, capers, more olives, artichokes, beetroot - and dumping them on a plate with half a bag of rocket, cherry tomatoes, chunks of cucumber, bits of pecorino and some lemon juice/olive oil.

Now I am SUPER BAFFLED...

Several friends (slow learner here) served up (well their parents did)... some sort of MASHED UP corned beef and potato and onion runny thick stewy sort of a thing.

No chunks of lovely crispy corners and edges and caramelised bits.

Slop.

Sadness in a bowl tbh.

A cant be arsed dinner is cup of tea and most of the packet of chocolate digestives

Well reading this made me hungry and I remembered I hadn't eaten so I just had 2 slices of ham with mashed potatoes that I cooked/froze last week and salad cream - yummmmm

And I love corned beef

@Splicebaked
Corned beef that's very dated I thought they stopped selling that stuff years ago along with spam

corned need is amazing with real homemade chips and baked beans.. but the corned beef needs to be cold.

I always eat slices of spam on the side cold with those pasta and sauce mixes… cheese leek and ham

in todays cost of living it does no harm to revive some old cheap staples of the food cupboard

*beef not need

Same as most, we have certainly used the 'make your own using anything on the table' approach - there's nothing that can't either be covered or crumbled and if in doubt, tomato or (sometimes and) chocolate sauce.

One of my favourites now for when that's just a bit too, well - simple - is opening up most of the random jars of preserved veg - chilli garlic, olives, capers, more olives, artichokes, beetroot - and dumping them on a plate with half a bag of rocket, cherry tomatoes, chunks of cucumber, bits of pecorino and some lemon juice/olive oil.

yes a simple dinner on mumsnet 😂

I'm a child of the 80's and this has reminded me of my Mums 'Pie'.

A layer of corned beef, topped with baked beans, topped with mash potato with some onions mixed in and then slices of tomato and cheese on the top and grilled.

Most excellent the next day spread cold on hot buttered toast with lashings of salad cream.

The mushed up stuff is my kind corned beef hash!

Boil potatoes, carrots, onions, stock cube ect.. add corned beef, must it all together, crisp it up a little bit serve with some crusty bread and brown sauce... Perfect.

My mum's simple meals were always some sort of chicken product from the freezer, some sort of potato product from the freezer, and boiled mixed veggies. They weren't half bad although i definitely turned my nose up at the mixed veggies as a child...

Nowadays if I'm not putting any effort at all into dinner (which is only a minor step down of the regularly scheduled minimum effort into dinner) I'll have instant noodles with an egg cracked in (dinner in 3 minutes!) or crackers, cheese, ham, and grapes. If you added some baguette and salad/veggies to the last one you'd probably actually have a decent family meal.

It's so 'Mumsnet' to imply that a sandwich or toast meal is not a 'proper' meal and to ensure other mumsnetters (who cares anyway) that they will 'cook from scratch' the next day ... . Too many martyrs on here .....

Waitrose shopper here - and yes they do sell corned beef!

I’m so happy / relieved to read these CBA posts!

Quick easy dinners are cheesey beans on toast with salad cream, fish finger sandwiches…have given cereal (when requested) and felt guilty. “Freezer surprise”

No more guilt!! Yay!

You absolutely do not win it.
You provided food.

Lightweight!😁

My husband once served pasta with baked beans as the sauce- went down a treat. My personal favourite is a naan bread spread with some kind of tomato pasta sauce, grated cheese on top and whacked under the grill. Voila- pizza! I always decide not to buy an oven pizza because I have intentions of cooking lovingly-prepared meals and then mid-week, out comes the naan bread pizza. I never, ever learn and just buy the damned pizza.

The Polish version of that is called kolacje (pronounced collatsye) ‘cold cuts’ - various types of sliced Polish sausage, rye bread, curd cheese, gherkins, and for those wanting something sweet on their rye bread, morello cherry jam/powidl (thick damson spread). All washed down with a cup of tea.

This is making me all nostalgic for my Babcia and Dziadzius.

My mum also used to make corned beef fritters (or Spam ones) to ‘stretch’ the protein a bit further.

Also made a very tasty but nameless dish in which a ton if runner beans (from my grandfather’s garden) were sliced and cooked, then drained and mixed with cubes of corned beef, which sort of melted into a meaty, salty coating for the beans.

But all I've done is open some jars and packets and put things on a plate? Short of sticking a fork into the remaining half of the cat's dinner, there's not a great deal less I could do in the way of providing a meal.

Best ever meal : Kids away at granny's
Skint with hardly any food in. Cooked pasta shells, dairylea cheese chopped up tomatoes. Wacked in the microwave till the dairylea melted.
I was starving and it was absolutely delish 😋