What is the very quickest/easiest thing I can cook for tea?

[SlightlyMadSweet]

..and I don't have time to prep anything this afternoon, and we had takeaway yesterday....

...going t o disappear for a wile now but will read all (hopefully) replies later.

beans on toast or soft-boiled eggs and soldiers

beans on toast or soft-boiled eggs and soldiers

scrambled eggs on toast
maybe with some cooked toms to get some veg in there?

Fresh pasta with filling inside and pasta sauce. Takes 4 minutes.

aveanap - this is my staple when dh is late. So quick!

Pasta sweetcorn and tuna mayo

pasta with broccoli, cheese and peas. My standby!

or beans on toast - maybe with grated cheese on top

Omelettes with baked beans and bread and butter

Jacket potatoes.

Beans on toast.

Cook some pasta, cook some peas, chop up some ham mix all together with a dollop of cream.

Cook a bag of microwave mixed vegetables and make an omlette with them.

Cook some rice.(a microvave bag if you've got one) Cook some peas. Warm up a tin of sweetcorn. Mash up a tin of sardines. Mix it up together. (ds's favourite)

Scrambled eggs. With a bowl of raw vegetables.

Hmm...

all good ideas...some of them I would regard as a snack rather than a cooked meal (eg beans on Toast).

Was going to do pasta and tom sauce...but although I always say I will throw together some quick pasta it still ends up taking me 45mins.

Didn't think about an omelette....but thats out cos I don't know how to do ommelettes...DP does them.

In the end I have sequeezed 25min prep time between school and swimming...so I have just bunged some bangers in teh oven in a casserole dish.

I am boiling off my new potatoes.

I go out again in 6mins...at which point potatoes will come off, be slung in cold water and then when I get back from G{Ps at 6ish I can bung peas on (4mins), nuke the pots and serve the cass....hopefully.

I suppose it depends on how much beans on toast you make! And whether you serve a bowl of vegetable with them. I always do - visiting children think I'm very odd indeed!

Actually, that's a very interesting point. Why is beans on brown toast a snack while pasta with tomato sauce a meal? I agree that it looks like that, but nutritionally beans on toast is probably a better choice (apart from the salt and sugar in the beans of course!)

Because my pasta with sauce fills a wok for just 5 and usually has at least 5 different veg +ham or pepperoni.

Ah. OK then - in your case you're right!

This is one of those vocabulary things again. If you had said what is the quickest easiest thing I can cook for dinner, I wouldn't have said 'beans on toast'.

Tea is a light meal for us, dinner is more substantial.

fair comment....in my house teh word "cook" means a cooked meal.

"Get/Have" means snack.

You have to cook a soft boiled egg and baked beans.

Omelette with cheese and ham.
Pasta alla carbonara.

breakfast for dinner... omelette, bacon, toast.. or pancakes... very quick and easy..