When You Don't Feel Like Cooking

Scrambled eggs. 2 minutes 😁
Toast if you can be bothered

Boil pasta. Mix in pesto sauce. Grate cheese if you can be bothered.

Freezer, ready meal, oven or microwave it. Plus microwave green veg.
I've discovered useful bits and bobs like salmon is great poached in microwave, which veg microwave well.

Jacket potato - easy peasy.

Chicken thighs in oven covered with peri peri sauce.
Shut oven door & forget about them for 50 minutes.
Read a book.
Switch oven off.
Ping a bag of rice in the microwave for 2 minutes.

Mushroom omelette using a bag of pre sliced mushrooms.

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Scrambled eggs. 2 minutes 😁
Toast --if you can be bothered--

Shove two sainsbury's southern fried chicken thighs in air fryer - when you go back into the kitchen to refill your wine glass throw some frozen chips in.

This is easier than toast for me FGT as the air fryer is out on the worktop but the toaster is in a cupboard.

Failing that a marmite sandwich or lump of cheese with crackers, buttered if I can be bothered.

Take away

Fish and chips
Turkish
Curry
Pizza

Or DH's lovely beef patties

Local carvery eat what I want and no washing up.

One tray bakes are great. Chicken breasts with potatoes and any other veg you fancy including frozen. Likewise frozen fish with veg. I often add lemon juice or balsamic vinegar. These dishes also work well with chorizo or bacon lardons and a few herbs fresh or dried. The added bonus is that there is only one dish to wash, job done!

Pizza / Chinese

Or corner tapas bar ..

A packet of salt and vinegar crisps between 2 slices of buttered bread 😋

Had a Chinese last night. I was stuffed to the gunnels😦🤢.

Jacket potato in the air fryer.
Tin of tuna mixed with mayo.
Pile on top job done.

Living on my own, I batch cook, or rather pretend I’m cooking for the family. I have all sorts in the freezer now. Just take one out and use it. As I don’t label them, it’s often a surprise!

I have never enjoyed cooking. I think I was ‘spoilt’ as a child, teenager and did nothing to help my mother, but she was happy with that.

If I had a choice I would live on French bread, sour dough bread, cheese, pate, wine and fruit. Plus a glass of wine and a cheese straw.

I know I am completely decadent and verging on lazy. It’s lucky my DH has put up with me for 54 years in October. He is a good cook 👍

Burger or pizza from the freezer
Jacket potato

My neighbour used to tell her husband it was barbecue night so he would cook

grandMattie

Living on my own, I batch cook, or rather pretend I’m cooking for the family. I have all sorts in the freezer now. Just take one out and use it. As I don’t label them, it’s often a surprise!

I do that too. It's fun sometimes not knowing what you're going to eat.

Tin of soup with buttered crusty bread, or omlette/fishfingers with airfryer chips quick simple

If I’m feeling lazy/on my own eggs are my go to

2 fried eggs chips done in the air fryer slice of bread and butter

Mushroom omelette with baked beans on top

I can do meals that are more adventurous Im a reasonably good cook but often can’t be bothered unless cooking for others too so the above are quick and tasty when it’s just me

Ring for a taxi to go to one of our numerous and varied local restaurants, DH know the look after all these years.

Grilled tomatoes on toast if the weather is cold, tomato and marmite sandwich if it’s warm. Don’t do it often as both are best with lashings of butter. Butter is my weight control downfall every time!

Sea bass fillets in air fryer with salad.

Defrost frozen onion pieces in microwave, then fry with pure minced meat, add tinned tomate pulp, tinned lentils, quarter of cube oxo and some concentrated tomato paste. All done in 5/10 mins.
I suppose you could eat it with bread/ rice/potatoes/pasta but with the 250g of lentils I don’t.