Lazy Bad Dinner

Or... an egg mayo wrap, kettle crisps, a pot of coleslaw and CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES (oh Holborn Metro Sainsburys how I love you)

DON'T DO IT!

I crave the squidginess of canned nasty spaghetti - the cheaper the better.

Oh, and followed by Tesco Value 'Strawberry' dessert things: kind of halfway between yoghurt and blancmange in texture, purely pink in flavour. I loves them, precious.

What did you then do with the aspic, PP? Throw it at sibling?

The aspic is good, but I like the pastry if it tastes like porkfat.

I can't think of anything much more claggy than cheese coleslaw, bleurgh.

If I am too lazy even to reach for the can opener then: chips smothered in vegetable curry from the local chinese. (This is such a slobby comfort food fave, I feel embarrassed asking for it in the shop.)

otherwise for lazy dinner it's a curry from hilmarton tandoori.

(mm, chinese noodles)

you may find it less embarassing if you ask for "chips with curry sauce" rather than "chips smothered in vegetable curry". cos the former makes you sound less like a celebrity chef at a chinese takeaway!!

to me, this is cooking.

I was caught taking three Celebrations at once yesterday :(

so many days both me and wife come home tired and have this grumpy "what do YOU want for dinner," conversation where neither of us feel like elaborate cooking or even really thinking much.

Give me ideas of good, easy dinners where I can have the ingredients stocked. Our main repertoire of dinners when we don't feel like cooking or ordering right now:

1) eggs/omlette
2) pasta
3) Amy's soups
4) some combination of bread/good cheese/olives/hummus/other spreads/other veggies
5) A big-ass salad

ROFL I love that I regarded this a "nummy food thread", shit I must have been starving.

Cereal plays far too large a role in my evening meals than it really should.

Hurting 2 - We're in the same boat, pretty much, so here's what we tend to do:

1 - Plan on leftovers (spaghetti and meatballs one night, hot meatball sandwiches the next night; cook a lot of spaghetti / pasta and toss with some olive oil to keep from sticking, then pop into the fridge - improvise on a jarred pasta sauce, make a baked pasta dish, etc.; baked potatoes one night, diced into a hash the next).

2 - Purchase a rotisserie chicken from the grocery, have roast chicken one night, then shred the leftovers and make chicken soft tacos or chicken burritos the next night or baked chicken / pasta dishes, too. You can also poach or roast some chicken parts and shred the leftovers.

3 - Breakfast foods are good (pancakes, french toast, omelettes, etc.).

4 - Purchase some good cheeses and decent bread and make different types of grilled cheese sandwiches (also good with leftover roasted veg. and / or leftover sliced / shredded meats) - serve with a salad or soup.

5 - Instead of grilled cheese, purchase some decent flour tortillas and make all sorts of grilled or baked quesedillas.

6 - Roasted / grilled vegetables are really versatile, from being side dishes to toppings for salads to inclusion in all sorts of "assembled" dishes and in fritattas.

7 - Leftover steamed rice works well as a base for soupy casseroles and in steamed rice or as a savory rice pudding.

8 - Think outside the red sauce with pasta dishes - great with shrimp and garlic, cream sauces, pasta primavera - one of my favorites is broccoli sauteed with lots of garlic, then stirred into cooked spaghetti noodles with a couple handfuls of shredded cheese (I like swiss), a splash of milk, and then baked. Also pasta salads are great.

9 - When all else fails: yogurt and granola, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches; couple hand fulls of cereal and a glass of milk.

This list is summery but summer is coming

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Oh god I've never lived in a neighborhood where the corner store had anything other than Chef Boyardee, diapers, and beer.

a lot of people like to shop for food on their way home from work

A big bowl of (not instant) oatmeal cooked with dried fruit, + toast.

A big-ass baked potato with a little butter and a lot of steamed broccoli.

Boil in the bag rice, slices of cold meat, tinned veg.

I eat this most nights, lazy without being too unhealthy.

that sounds terrible

I was in manhattan and saw two post-collegiate japanese boys in suits each buying 2 cans of chef b.... wtf

Stuff hits the spot sometimes. Every year or two I get a deep craving for their dino-shapes can pasta.

my lazy dinners lately:

grilled cheese + tomato soup (usually Amy's)
burger + crispy crowns frozen potato product
kosher hot dog
grilled salami sandwich

that sounds terrible

-- Jordan, Saturday, 9 February 2008 00:40

Hahaha suppose it's pretty dull. Just trying not to get too porky on a budget. I hate cooking, if I'm going to enjoy a meal it'll be at a restaurant.

lol spadgetty ohs!
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MsLaura, like the sound of your broccoli spaghetti bake. Broccoli and garlic are excellent combo. Tonight I got my daughter fish and chips. And made me a good quality BLT - excellent bacon derived from recent trip to Star Inn in North Yorkshire: smoked but not overly, very unfatty, very very yummy. Quality lettuce, cherry toms, slight spread of mayo on both slices of bread, sprinkle of worcestershire sauce.

salivating thinking about it now, cos it was over 6 hours ago.

and no beer either, trying to lose that belly. fuck 40

I never grow tired of pizza.

lazy dinner lately: "hummus sandwich"
bread, spread on hummus, throw on some greens.
boring!!

Most of your lazy dinners are well beyond what I eat on a regular basis. Probably half my meals are something microwavable out of the freezer. I actually cook maybe once or twice a week, and that's usually like a grilled sandwich or something out of a can.

(I'm actually a v. good cook when I feel up to it, but I don't enjoy cooking at all, so I never do it except for special occasions.)

More in keeping with the spirit of the thread, I'll often get too lazy to make a sandwich, so I'll just cut off a hunk of meat, a hunk of cheese, and grab a couple slices of bread, and eat them separately.

i am sad i no longer have a microwave and can't do amy's burritos anymore
my lazy dinner is now chinese food from the restaurant downstairs...i haven't been doing it as much lately though.

though im contemplating some bean curd and broccoli at the moment

My lazy (actually, not lazy - more like terribly rushed) dinner this evening: flour tortilla, spread with peanut butter, drizzled with honey, rolled, washed down with a large glass of milk.

Followed by a frozen fruit popsicle.

whatever - you have my stomach growling; never thought to sprinkle a wee bit of worcestershire sauce, but sounds like a delicious addition. Have you ever tried a "California" BLT (add sliced avocado)?

i'll give the avocado a go, when i feel liberal with the calories!

a fave: two slices toast, marmite, two fried eggs, chilli sauce (pref. windmill).

also works as an excellent stomach settler the morning after.

i will never get why people freak out abt the calories in avocado

e.g., "The correct answer is 150 calories. Yes, its higher than most fresh fruits (for example, and average orange has 75 calories and and average banana, 100 calories)"

another site says 275 cals in one med avocado but again, most of these cals are from 'good fats'

i ate two bagels with cream cheese for lazy friday dinner
would've eaten avocado but i don't trust avocados out here esp in winter - it's pretty heartbreaking cutting into an avocado and seeing that it's all dark and gross inside :/

i ain't freaked about the calories in avocado, just about cals in general. cals are cals, whether they're good or bad fats. eat more cals than you expend = get fatter. at least that's where i'm at now.

my lazy breakfast - 3 clementines and a spoonful of peanut butter
i need to go grocery shopping!

my lazy breakfast/lunch/(and probably dinner) was trader joe's chili - it tastes remarkably like the chili i make, which either means i should be impressed with myself or my chili is crap that tastes like it's from a can!

anyway... lazy and i need to do a hardcore grocery trip but not until loan checks come!

This thread has just popped up at the right moment because I had a lazy bad lunch today = 1 giant bar of Australian stem ginger rocky road made with fake chocolate. Yumski!

giant bar of Australian stem ginger rocky road made with fake chocolate.

i don't understand what this is. but it sounds interesting.

Last night's lazy bad dinner was a big handful of Triscuits. (sun-dried tomato & olive oil flavor)

Not exactly lazy, but the dinner which resulted from my purchase of an Old El Paso enchilada kit was fucking awful.

I am having a packet of Fox's choc fudge crunch creams for pudding.