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What's your go to recipe when you don't feel like cooking?
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My go to, and actually what I’m planning on having for dinner, take half an avocado. Stuff it with a can of light tuna in water, top with a small diced up tomato add a little salt, pepper and lemon juice. It’s delicious.6
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1-2 scrambled or fried eggs with hot sauce and a slice of toast with jam, and a cup of tea.
Alternatively, a fried egg sandwich with mayo and/or mustard & pickles.4 -
When I REALLY don't want to cook, I microwave some popcorn and pour myself a glass of wine.25
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Chicken thighs in a shallow roasting pan half covered with Wicker's BBQ marinade, pop it in an oven for an hour. Open a can of greens and a can of field peas. Possibly slice some tomatoes. Feels like real food and all I have to do is pour.
If I don't want to wait an hour I often make a salad - boxed greens, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, and those tiny peppers - topped with edamame and a poached egg. Egg can be done in the microwave.2 -
Papa Murphy take and bake Pizza! Or a frozen entree1
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Rice with cheese, taco sauce, sour cream, and if I have it grilled/rotisserie chicken3
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Delivery.2
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I usually go for nuts and fruit with peanut butter2
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Avocados in season so I always have them.
I mash up an avocado...salt and pepper.
Toast a good seeded bread. Smear the avocado on toast and sprinkle bacon bits on top and a bit of grated cheese.
Simple meal and sticks with you.5 -
I can only eat so many salads before I start gagging at the very thought.
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Spaghetti is usually our "I don't feel like cooking" meal.2
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if i'm being really lazy- toast and peanut butter. If we're being a little more liberal with the definition of 'no cooking', then I'd say baked oatmeal with whatever fruit is laying around2
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Putanesca sauce is made with store cupboard ingredients and can be made in the time it takes to cook the pasta.
Put some water to boil, salting lightly. Rinse a teaspoon of capers per person and de-seed 4-5 olives per person. When the water boils put in your pasta. In a separate pan gently fry in olive oil a clove of pressed/chopped garlic per person, and two anchovy fillets per person. As the garlic colours toss in a tin of chopped tomatoes. When it is time to drain the pasta, stir in the capers and olives and serve on the pasta with some parmesan grated at the table. You can add some torn basil leaves while serving.8 -
I get the salad kits from Aldi for a quick lunch. For dinner I do a grilled chicken salad. I buy the garden salad, sliced mushrooms, and southwest chicken from Aldi and mix it together in a big bowl. It's enough for me and my fiance with some left over.2
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Carbonara is another pasta sauce that can be made from the store cupboard in the time it takes to boil some pasta. Quantities for two people.
Put the water on to boil and add some salt. Grate 50g of cheese in the food processor. A combination of parmesan and pecorino is classic but any hard salty cheese will do. Beat together one egg, one yolk and half the cheese together. Chop up 75g of pancetta or guancale into small cubes, though streaky bacon will do. Throw in your spaghetti or linguine when the water boils. Smash a clove of garlic and peel. In a pan big enough to hold the cooked pasta fry the garlic clove until lightly browned in a tablespoon of olive oil, and then fish out the garlic and discard. Fry the pancetta or bacon in the garlic flavored oil until translucent and just starting to brown. Turn off the heat. When pasta is just about done reserve a mug full of the starchy water and drain. Stir the pasta to coat in the bacon fat. Then vigorously stir in the egg and cheese mixture, loosening with a little pasta water to help distribute the egg mixture.
Serve with the remaining cheese and a good grind of pepper.5 -
ClaudiaDawn2 wrote: »When I REALLY don't want to cook, I microwave some popcorn and pour myself a glass of wine.
This.4 -
AB&J. Everytime.0
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Most of the ideas people are throwing out still involve a lot of cooking.6
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Corn tortillas with a spicy black bean veggie burger patty, reduced fat shredded mozzarella, and spinach.3
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I'll buy some pre-made taco meat or carnitas from the store and do tacos. Because tacos. Or grilled cheese and tomato soup.3
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I keep fresh fruit in my fridge, pair it with a good amount of romaine lettuce-from a bag and pour over a bit of poppy seed dressing. No cooking-just slicing fruit.
Slice an apple and spread on Peanut butter or sun butter.
Microwaved sweet potato with a little butter, maybe a tiny bit of Light brown sugar or cinnamon.
All else fails, rotisserie chicken from the supermarket and prepared mashed potatoes (near packaged lunch meat) - heated quickly in the microwave. With a bagged salad - a complete meal.
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Leftovers lol. I usually have something , either already in the fridge or frozen.
If no leftover then some other options I usually have on hand are
Crackers with cheese .
Celery or Apples with peanutbutter
A throw together salad.
Open a can of Black beans, rinse and stir in a little sourcream and seasoning. Maybe add some veggies to it like chopped tomatoes, lettuce etc. We usually have lime tortilla chips so I may add that too.
Open a can of chickpeas, toss it in olive oil, seasoning like salt, oregano and garlic. Maybe chop up some green olives to go into it.
Throw the chickpeas into a blender with lemon juice, olive oil , garlic , salt , cumin etc to make hummus. Eat with pita chips or on toast.
Smash avocado on toast.4 -
Chicken wings seasoned with Old Bay, thrown in the air fryer for 25 min. Boom.2
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Sliced apple with cinnamon/nutmeg or berries
Nonfat latte - with a dash of nutmeg
Kashi cereal - dry, with unsweetened cocoa powder mixed in
Unsalted nuts
And 1/2 oz dark chocolate.
I actually have this daily
the only cooking is the latte, but you could have cold milk or yogurt instead... 1 -
Unsweetened applesauce mixed with walnut pieces and cinnamon, and sliced deli ham.2
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Overnight oats (I always have 2-3 sitting in fridge ready to go)
protein powder
almond butter
trail mix
almonds (never comes in my trail mixes)
some apple/banana/strawberries
greek yogurt
a piece of dark chocolate to sit on the top of it so it melts in and looks sexy as it swirls.
I sometimes eat this twice/day, it's too good.2 -
Fajita grilled chicken (either that I’ve grilled ahead, or Kirkwoods from Aldi), 1 tbs buffalo sauce, 1 tbs avocado or yoghurt ranch, 1 small celery stalk, thinly sliced, handful of lettuce on a whole wheat wrap.
Or a tomato tuna melt. Tuna & cheese baked on 2 slices of tomato. Sometimes I also top with sliced avocado.1 -
Greek roasted tilapia. Low fat, low carb and 30 minutes start to finish.3
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Eggs,
Scrambled with some cheese and ham.
Fried or boiled on toast
Rotisserie chicken on a salad or sandwich.
All easy no fuss1 -
What do you like to whip up when you don't feel like being in the kitchen?
Commercial frozen foods.
Frozen turkey patty grilled + a serving of a commercial ranch dressing or BBQ sauce for dipping and a double or treble serving of frozen vegetables either microwave steamed or oven roasted. Frozen blackberries with store bought Greek yogurt and 6 grams of white sugar for dessert.
Very much hands off; just have to be able to coordinate cooking times to have everything ready at the same time. From start to finish, can have dinner in 20-30 minutes doing this.
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