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What's your go to, basic, can't be arsed dinner (not takeaway)
Top of the pops at the minute is Maggi chicken instant noodles with philedelphia cream cheese and cut up Swedish meatballs.
When I was at uni it was pasta with tinned tomatoes and sausages cut up (the sausages should be cut up raw and put in the sauce to cook. No pre browning!)
Egg on toast is up there as well.
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"Cheese on toast 
I am lazy and put it in the microwave but always for too long so all the fat bubbles put and the toast goes hard lol
Mushrooms on toast though! "
You melt the cheese in the microwave then spread on toast ? |
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over a year ago
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Chicken Tikka Wraps
Cook the diced chicken breast in a little ticka powder.
Chop up some lettuce and cucumber to go in the wraps. Add a little natural yogurt and some mango. Quick, easy, yummy and healthy!
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Ive got into the habbit when making a meal i make double, only with things like lasagne, chilli, stew, that sort of thing and freeze it. Its perfect for those lazy days.  |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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Crumpet loaf with decent butter.
I always feel guilty and end up cooking! I guess my laziest meal (aside from a takeaway) would be jacket potatoes but I still have to scoop the flesh out and mix it with various cheese and then bake again.
When it's just me I have a yoghurt or a Twister ice lolly. |
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I try to do batch cooking so there's always something quick and easy to have that would take ages if made from scratch.
Other wise
Fish finger sandwich with tomatoes and cheese and salad cream
Omelette on toast
Beans on toast
Poached egg on toast
Bacon, egg and chips
Live on salads in the summer
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"Egg on toast is always a winner, especially duck eggs, cos you can crisp them underneath, flip them and still have a runny yoke  "
Crispy fried eggs are just wrong! |
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Harissa chicken. And I know it makes me sound waitrose as hell
Fry chicken in a pan, add a bag of baby tomatoes till they split, add a pot of cream, add 1 good dollop of rose harissa then add a whole bag of spinach and serve over pasta.
Takes about 10 minutes to cook and I feel healthy because it has spinach in it. |
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Can't be arsed
Sausages, chips and beans.
Fish in sauce mixed with pasta, peas and cheese
Jacket spuds with tuna or cheese and beans
Quick
Nandos chicken pasta with spinach and cheese
Prawn fried rice
Most of my weekday menu lol
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"Harissa chicken. And I know it makes me sound waitrose as hell
Fry chicken in a pan, add a bag of baby tomatoes till they split, add a pot of cream, add 1 good dollop of rose harissa then add a whole bag of spinach and serve over pasta.
Takes about 10 minutes to cook and I feel healthy because it has spinach in it."
Healthy so long as you forget about the whole tub of cream  sounds delicious, I’ll try this. |
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"Just spaghetti and cheese. Simple and Filling 
Same - sometimes I'll add chilli oil 
Sounds like a game changer that. "
It is
Try it - honestly you won't have it plain again - just a little bit though.
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Diced chicken breast, marinated in Cajun seasoning and lemon juice, wok cooked with bell peppers, garlic, onions, chillies. Spaghetti/pasta boiled into chicken stock, drained before stirring into chicken. Washed baby spinach stirred in after removing wok from heat.
15 minutes, start to finish.
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"Harissa chicken. And I know it makes me sound waitrose as hell
Fry chicken in a pan, add a bag of baby tomatoes till they split, add a pot of cream, add 1 good dollop of rose harissa then add a whole bag of spinach and serve over pasta.
Takes about 10 minutes to cook and I feel healthy because it has spinach in it.
Healthy so long as you forget about the whole tub of cream sounds delicious, I’ll try this. "
It's very easy to forget the whole tub if cream I find
Just focus in on the healthy part |
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Pasta with a good dollop of pesto (and a bit of cream or cream cheese if there's any in the fridge) stirred through it and freshly grated Parmesan on top. Takes about 10 mins. But more often than not I batch cook stuff so there's always chilli con carne, bolegnese,curry,soups etc in the freezer that only need defrosted and heated up |
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"Sausages, potato croquettes and beans is my go to. Reminds me of being a child "
Ah now this is a definite childhood memory. Beans with sausages in as well for that time you run out of just beans! |
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Soup Stew. Vegetable soup in a large bowl with peas and cut up small potatoes (pre steam for a few minutes). Bit of curry powder. All heated up in microwave. Decent to warm you up on a winters night! |
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Cheese omelette with baked beans
Poached eggs on English muffin with smoked salmon or bacon
Bag of salad with a tub of prawns mixed in or ant flavoured chicken strips
Tomato soup with cheese on toast
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Spam fried rice. I always have rice left in my rice cooker so if I'm not bothered making something interesting I'll just either fry it or eat it with whatever is left in the fridge and a fried egg. |
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Immediate: Cereal
10 mins: Couscous, tomatoes, peas and mozzarella in a thousand island dressing (ok - tomato sauce and mayonnaise mixed together)
30 mins: Spaghetti with peas and peanut butter sauce |
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"Immediate: Cereal
10 mins: Couscous, tomatoes, peas and mozzarella in a thousand island dressing (ok - tomato sauce and mayonnaise mixed together)
30 mins: Spaghetti with peas and peanut butter sauce "
Oh wow. Peanut butter sauce sounds bomb! Could you please tell me how you make it?? |
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Anything on toast is good. Beans, scrambled eggs, cheese.
Why are these simple quick foods also some of my favourites?
A nice one is tinned tomatoes with a stock cube, Worcester sauce etc. Thrown in. Stick it on toast, lovely. |
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"Immediate: Cereal
10 mins: Couscous, tomatoes, peas and mozzarella in a thousand island dressing (ok - tomato sauce and mayonnaise mixed together)
30 mins: Spaghetti with peas and peanut butter sauce
Oh wow. Peanut butter sauce sounds bomb! Could you please tell me how you make it?? "
Thank you! Well, make a basic white sauce (milk and cornflour - I just bung it in a sauce pan, no real measurements) add a heaped teaspoon of brown sugar, a dash of soy sauce, and a heaped tablespoon of peanut butter. Heat it til it turns into a thick sauce - stirring all the time. I think it’s a bit like a satay sauce. |
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Birds eye chicken dippers a jar of sweet and sour sauce and boiled rice
bake the chicken dippers in a oven
Pour the sweet and sour sauce into a pan heat up till hot boil rice add to a bowl add the chicken dippers then pour over the sauce. Cheap and easy Instant Chinese. Kids love it |
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My quick lunch is a quick spicy soup: I dice a half a red pepper and a celery stick and cook it in plain water with some chopped spring onions until it has the right soft bite. Add a sachet of instant Hot Szechuan Soup, stir and let it simmer for a moment. I usually add some sliced meatballs before serving. Including preparation it takes 15 minutes to prepare and cook.
Similar soups use fresh mushrooms and instant chicken and leek soup or pepper and celery with an instant Thai coconut soup.
Just the right amount of filling and satisfying for a working from home lunch |
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"Toast or a sandwich
Sometimes there will be more than butter on the toast and sometimes there will be more than sauce in the sandwich.
This lunch was a mint sauce sandwich.
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OK I'm game to try that mint sauce sandwich thingy if you eat a salad cream one |
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"Toast or a sandwich
Sometimes there will be more than butter on the toast and sometimes there will be more than sauce in the sandwich.
This lunch was a mint sauce sandwich.
OK I'm game to try that mint sauce sandwich thingy if you eat a salad cream one "
You're both filthy |
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"Toast or a sandwich
Sometimes there will be more than butter on the toast and sometimes there will be more than sauce in the sandwich.
This lunch was a mint sauce sandwich.
OK I'm game to try that mint sauce sandwich thingy if you eat a salad cream one "
Tis a regular staple the salad cream sandwich!
I also have tomato and brown sauce sarnies. In the same one, not separate. |
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"Toast or a sandwich
Sometimes there will be more than butter on the toast and sometimes there will be more than sauce in the sandwich.
This lunch was a mint sauce sandwich.
OK I'm game to try that mint sauce sandwich thingy if you eat a salad cream one
You're both filthy "
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"Toast or a sandwich
Sometimes there will be more than butter on the toast and sometimes there will be more than sauce in the sandwich.
This lunch was a mint sauce sandwich.
OK I'm game to try that mint sauce sandwich thingy if you eat a salad cream one
Tis a regular staple the salad cream sandwich!
I also have tomato and brown sauce sarnies. In the same one, not separate. "
Salad cream is soooo good.....get some properly dark crusty cobs, lashings of salad cream and leave them covered over for an hour so the salad cream soaks in, yummy |
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A bacon butty
Egg on toast
Crumpets with cheese and marmite
Jacket potato with cottage cheese and pineapple
Toasted bagel with peanut butter
Now and again, I'll grab a few different cheeses, crackers, olives, meats from the deli counter and pick at those. Zero cooking required then
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"throw a pie in the oven few spuds in a pot with some carrots job's a good'n but quick and basic"
as a deliveroo loyal this would be an extravagant amount of effort for me 
ive been trying hello fresh to try get into the habit of cooking again - any spuds that came with a recipe are still in the fridge |
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"Harissa chicken. And I know it makes me sound waitrose as hell
Fry chicken in a pan, add a bag of baby tomatoes till they split, add a pot of cream, add 1 good dollop of rose harissa then add a whole bag of spinach and serve over pasta.
Takes about 10 minutes to cook and I feel healthy because it has spinach in it.
Healthy so long as you forget about the whole tub of cream sounds delicious, I’ll try this.
It's very easy to forget the whole tub if cream I find
Just focus in on the healthy part "
im thinking you could swap it out for a mix of light philli and chicken stock to bring down the calories and would taste similar |
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