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

19 replies

SlightlyMadSweet · 22/05/2008 13:25

..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.

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Othersideofthechannel · 22/05/2008 13:29

beans on toast or soft-boiled eggs and soldiers

Othersideofthechannel · 22/05/2008 13:29

beans on toast or soft-boiled eggs and soldiers

notnowbernard · 22/05/2008 13:29

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

avenanap · 22/05/2008 13:31

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

Pinkjenny · 22/05/2008 13:32

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

LoveMyGirls · 22/05/2008 13:33

Pasta sweetcorn and tuna mayo

PandaG · 22/05/2008 13:33

pasta with broccoli, cheese and peas. My standby!

or beans on toast - maybe with grated cheese on top

snice · 22/05/2008 13:33

Omelettes with baked beans and bread and butter

seeker · 22/05/2008 13:34

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.

SlightlyMadSweet · 22/05/2008 16:10

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.

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seeker · 22/05/2008 17:10

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!

seeker · 22/05/2008 17:11

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!)

SlightlyMadSweet · 22/05/2008 19:54

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

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seeker · 22/05/2008 21:30

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

Othersideofthechannel · 23/05/2008 05:35

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.

SlightlyMadSweet · 23/05/2008 14:43

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

"Get/Have" means snack.

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Othersideofthechannel · 23/05/2008 15:19

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

Anna8888 · 23/05/2008 15:23

Omelette with cheese and ham.
Pasta alla carbonara.

meridian · 23/05/2008 15:23

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

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