Need Help!!! quick and simple recipes

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My 'go to' dinner when I have no time/energy. I normally make enough for 3 or 4 portions and it does two of us plus extras for work lunches:

Boil pasta (wholewheat penne or fusili if possible)

While the pasta is cooking, toast some pine nuts or almonds. Chop a handful of olives.

Once pasta is cooked, stir in 3 T green or red pesto, 1 can sweetcorn, 1 can fish (I like mackerel, sardines or herrings), chopped olives and pinenuts/almonds.

Vegetarian chilli also comes together in less than an hour:

1 onion
2-3 cloves garlic
1 bell pepper
2 cans beans (black beans, kidney beans, black eyed peas, butter beans, pinto beans...)
1 can chopped tomatoes
1 can sweetcorn
Whatever spices you like or can find. I normally put in chilli powder, paprika, salt, cayenne

Chop onion and garlic and fry in a couple teaspoons of oil. Add garlic. Chop bell pepper and add. Add tomatoes and spices. Cook until it thickens up a little. Add beans and sweetcorn and cook 15-20 minutes. Add water if it gets too thick.

Perfect by itself, with a fried egg on top, on top of brown rice/couscous/jacket potato.

Love me some grits with an over-easy egg on top yum!