What do you eat when you can’t face cooking?

I’m tired. I’ve already made dinner for the kids tonight. It’s past eight. I’m hungry. I really can’t face cooking again.

Unfortunately the local takeaway options aren’t worth the wait, or money, so don’t really count as an option.

I accept that means I’m stuck tonight but I was wondering what you lot have as your go to, zero effort, meals that you can keep tucked up in the house for this sort of occasion?

Toast, cereal or opening the fridge and just eating stuff straight from the packet.

Does cheese on toast count as cooking ?

Toast. Egg on toast, cheese on toast, marmite on toast, jam and peanut butter on toast, beans on toast. The possibilities are endless

Plate of cream crackers and cheese – at least a dozen!! 🤣🤣

Pasta & pesto, cheese toasties, omelette, bowl of porridge, packet of biscuits

Toast

pasta with whatever is there

Whatever with a fried egg on top

Bagels, toasted, butter and apricot jam

We’ve both had one of those days today. It’s been absolutely gruelling for reasons I won’t bore you with. For days such as these we keep these in the freezer from Iceland. Shove them in the air fryer, bang them on a pitta with some salad. They’re bloody lovely

Cold beans and bread.
Love cold beans…

Cheese on toast here too followed by fruit and fibre with loads of cold milk although does create low pressure ie farting if more than one evening
Batch cook stuff and freeze, haul it out , defrost for 12 mins in the microwave then heat up on full for 3 mins

Jar of curry heated in a saucepan for 3-4 minutes bag of micro rice in micro for 2 minutes and cooked prawns in sauce at the same time. prawn curry in 6 minutes with no prep and one pot to wash.

Fish finger sarny. Yes, strictly it’s cooking, but throwing a few fish fingers in the oven for 15 mins then throwing them on 2 slices of bread barely counts.

Fish finger sandwiches.
A staple for wor lass when she comes in from a night out with the gals

There you go!!!

Toast with marmite or marmalade. Cereal. Bananas.

Beans and cock tail sausages on toast.

cous cous and pesto (you just need to boil a kettle)

Cocaine and hookers.

Pot noodle or rustlers!

I’ve already made dinner for the kids tonight.

Assuming you fed them something worth eating (and age dependant) – whatever they eat. Ideally at the same time they eat theirs.

cock tail sausages on toast.

The formatting of this makes me uncomfortable

rustlers!

their meatless maverick ain’t too bad either

their meatless maverick ain’t too bad either

Being a fairly recent veggie, these have interested me. I have tried one yet though.

Air friers are great for this sort of thing though. Throw a few (non)chicken nuggets in and chop up a bit of salad, whack it all in a wrap with some chilli sauce, sorted.

Just buy a bottle of Filipino ‘Mama Sita’s fiery labuyo Barbeque marinae’ (a bit spicy for British standard but certainly weak for me) and pour some into the chicken, pork or whatever meat you want.

Marinate for 5 minutes. Then put into the oven to roast. You don’t have to pour a lot just a coating on the meat should be sufficient.

You can eat it with chips, bread, rice, pasta etc as you wish.

Simple.

This is my can’t face cooking marinate sauce. It is very good.

Beans on toast. Bit of black pepper, blizzard of grated cheese. Add in some mustard if you’re feeling it. Winner!

Yeah I don’t get it. You’ve already cooked once? Why didn’t you just eat then?

Nothing; if you can’t be arsed, do without.
It won’t hurt.

What do you eat when you can’t face cooking?

Marinate for 5 minutes. Then put into the oven to roast

Does roasting not count as cooking these days?

Frozen pizza (Iceland’s posh range (Piccolino?) has a great spicy meat one)

Always keep a couple of frozen ready meals in for emergencies.

Slight cooking: pasta, with a tin of tuna + tin of sweetcorn + some mayo to stick it together

Utter grot dirty meal of guilty pleasure: Fray Bentos Steak and Kidney pudding and a tin of sweetcorn, nuked in 3-4 minutes.

Bad me – Greggs steak bakes from Iceland? Yessss please. Will go hunt them down tomorrow.

Good (OK, less bad) me – a bowl of weetabix is a good filler and very very easy – so that then.

Does roasting not count as cooking these days?

Hhmmm … Not for me.

It’s just to put the meat into the oven. No ingredients prepared.

Unless, you don’t want to even do that then my favourite will be fish & chips.

Porridge.
The sachet stuff, 2 mins in a microwave, add some nuts, dates, granola etc.

Warming, filling, easy, cheap!

Nothing.
When I’m proper hungry ill cook.

cous cous and pesto (you just need to boil a kettle)

This. Harissa as an alternative. Add some olives, tomato or whatever there is in the fridge.

Pragmatic me – I periodically cook large batches of various forms of curry and freeze portions. Pretty quick in the microwave to make a meal.

Raman, nudja & an egg or two.

Stick in a bowl, stir and cover in boiling water and leave for 10 mins (or cook in a pan quicker).

Olive oil on bread with some ripped mozzarella and some sliced tomato, on the George for 5 mins.

Polish pork sausage or chorizo.

Pasta only takes minutes. I’ll usually have a jar of pesto in the house. Or just stir through some marmite.

Cheese and biscuits is my go to. Maybe with a pickled onion or several.