What do you fix to eat when you're lazy?

[3acres]

I like to keep quarts of 15-bean soup in the freezer so I can just dump a chunk of soup into a saucepan and simmer it back to its original state. That, or hard boil three or four eggs to peel and eat. With a sprinkle of salt on each bite.

[Glazer]

I open a can of ravioli

[Kat]

Cold cereal. Peanut butter sandwich. Or a TV dinner.

[Oxirane]

Like you, we make large batches of soup/stews at times, freeze meal-sized portions, and that becomes a lazy meal...or we pick up a rotisserie chicken at the local grocery store...

[SmartAleq]

Frozen gyoza or frozen tamales. Cooks up in minutes and always good.

[Rock]

Beer.

[JackieLikesVariety]

rotisserie chicken sometimes and sometimes grilled cheese sandwich which totally deserves more votes in the megapoll, BTW.

[Zeener Diode]

Peanut butter and club crackers. They'll last longer than you or me.

[Oxirane]

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

rotisserie chicken sometimes and sometimes grilled cheese sandwich which totally deserves more votes in the megapoll, BTW.

Pay no attention to this lady, the grilled cheese is a Reuben killer, the vanquisher of the Greatest Sandwich EVER, it deserves it's demise...

[JackieLikesVariety]

[Oxirane]

I've somehow gotten more emotionally invested in a megapoll than I could have imagined...wanna split a Reuben?

[JackieLikesVariety]

no, but maybe we can meet for something neutral like a tuna melt.

[Oxirane]

Well, that is the Switzerland of sandwiches, so, deal!

[SNFaulkner]

Tuna melt was also unjustly defeated.

[Rock]

Originally Posted by Oxirane

...or we pick up a rotisserie chicken at the local grocery store...

Originally Posted by JackieLikesVariety

rotisserie chicken sometimes ...

You guys convinced me that I needed rotisserie chicken tonight. And more beer. Okay, I convinced myself on that last one. I just got back from the store and I'm about to dig in.

Edit: Mmm... grilled cheese...

[Random Precision]

If I'm at/near a grocery store and feeling lazy, I'll pick up a Stouffer's lasagna to nuke later.
If I'm at home and feeling lazy, grilled ham and cheese sandwich. Or if I'm feeling a little hungrier I might make up a scramble of something. Like whatever meat is available, sautéed mushrooms, onions and garlic, jalapeno slices if I've got them, 3 or 4 eggs and cheddar cheese in a skillet with some butter. Good noms, quick and easy to make and clean up, very filling and pretty cheap.

[Dazzling White Diamonds]

Grilled cheese sandwich.

Frozen breaded chicken strips nuked until nice and sizzling hot.

Fancy-schmancy ramen - the nukable kind.

Stouffers frozen meals. Their lasagna is pretty damned tasty for being store-bought and all.

A bowl of cold cereal.

[stormie]

Pikers.
Refried beans from the can. 'fix' means using a can opener and a fork.
Or to get fancy, put the beans over chips, add salsa, nuke.

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by stormie

Pikers.
Refried beans from the can. 'fix' means using a can opener and a fork.
Or to get fancy, put the beans over chips, add salsa, nuke.

you forgot cheese

[Dazzling White Diamonds]

Adding cheese is getting a leetle too close to being un-lazy.

[mjmlabs]

Stouffer's French Bread Pizzas rock. They're bread ; they're pizza ; everybody's happy, no religious wars get started.

My local Price Chopper makes ("made"?) a kickass (microwaveable) vegetarian lasagna in the Prep Foods area; back in the Before Times, when they were 24/7 and I was frequently driving past on my way home at night, that was five bucks well spent. Noodles, ricotta, awesome sauce. I don't even know if they have Prep Foods these days.

I must confess, there have been times during this Isolation-At-Home that my lazy dinner turned out to be "the whole damn bag of Doritos," without any conscious intent on my part.

[FairyChatMom]

PB&J or grilled cheese if it's just me.

Sack of sketty sauce from the freezer for a pasta supper if it's a family lazy meal. That or we order out, which, I guess, doesn't count as fixing.

[Oxirane]

Originally Posted by mjmlabs

My local Price Chopper makes ("made"?) a kickass (microwaveable) vegetarian lasagna in the Prep Foods area

We live in the Land of Price Chopper - the corporate headquarters is about 15 minutes away...which is why we can't have Wegmans, which sucks, we like Wegmans...here, they've rebranded to "Market 32", are they doing that there as well?

[mjmlabs]

Originally Posted by Oxirane

We live in the Land of Price Chopper - the corporate headquarters is about 15 minutes away...which is why we can't have Wegmans, which sucks, we like Wegmans...here, they've rebranded to "Market 32", are they doing that there as well?

They're working on it. Probably by next year. Maybe a little later. Things have gotten strange lately, y'know?

One of the Great Grocery Sorrows of my life was when Price Chopper switched the sourcing of their house brand "Sicilian Gravy" spaghetti sauce from imported-from-Italy to cooked-up-in-New-Jersey. The original was the tastiest, most authentic jarred sauce I've ever experienced, and it was cheap too. Ah, well. The new one ain't bad, but it ain't the same.

At least the Apple Cider Donuts are still as good as ever.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by 3acres

That, or hard boil three or four eggs to peel and eat. With a sprinkle of salt on each bite.

Soak 'em in a jar of pickle juice for a week.

Originally Posted by Oxirane

Pay no attention to this lady, the grilled cheese is a Reuben killer, the vanquisher of the Greatest Sandwich EVER, it deserves it's demise...

The Reuben, voted down?? HAHAHAHAHAHA! You guys slay me.

[Zeener Diode]

Originally Posted by stormie

Pikers.
Refried beans from the can. 'fix' means using a can opener and a fork.

Are we talking 'eating straight from the can' here?

Back in my younger/dumber days I would stock up on Dennison's chili and Dirty Moore beef stews because I could eat it from the can. Other canned crap was too solid to enjoy, but not those. One can only wonder what kind of chemical bath I was ingesting.

[3acres]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Soak 'em in a jar of pickle juice for a week

Pickled eggs. We used to eat them at Schultz's Happy Hollow when I was young. It was this little corner tavern full of drunk WW2 vets. At first when us long hair weirdos went in, they all gave us the stinkeye, but once they saw us drinking cheap beer and eating pickled eggs like them, they actually talked to us.

[krisolov]

frozen/cooked ravioli with butter and cheese

Grilled Cheese

Fancy Ramen

Quesadillas

leftovers rolled up in a tortilla, hot or cold

[Diamonds2020]

I currently don't have a girlfriend, so the majority of my meals come out of the microwave. I'm a big fan of Amy's and Trader Joe's frozen dinners.

[leafrog]

Last night I peeled and chopped up some potatoes with onions, peppers, garlic, and kielbasa and threw it in the oven until hot, sizzling, and crisp. That was pretty lazy, but it was tasty.

And then we had ice cream.

[stormie]

That is not lazy! That is h*cking cooking!

[leafrog]

Tonight was shake-and-bake pork chops, stovetop stuffing, and peas.

We're revisiting the meals of our childhood.

[EmilyG]

Cereal. I'm that lazy.

Or microwaved things (I don't have a full-size oven.)

[SNFaulkner]

Originally Posted by Dazzling White Diamonds

Adding cheese is getting a leetle too close to being un-lazy.

What about eating fistfuls of pre shredded cheese out of the bag while standing in front of the refrigerator in your underwear in the dark?

[mjmlabs]

Originally Posted by EmilyG

Cereal. I'm that lazy.

Dry cereal, eaten in fistfuls straight from the box. I'm that lazy.

[Darmund]

Yeah, that's my style too. Or Pop Tarts. Untoasted, because that takes too long.

Seriously, some of y'all need lazy lessons. If your meal involves actually chopping things, and like, adding ingredients to things, that doesn't qualify as lazy in my book.

[Random Precision]

If I can prepare and cook it in a single pan which I can then use as a dish to eat it from and the entire prep time is under 10 minutes? I consider that being lazy.

OTOH, a box of Triscuits and a tub of pimento cheese may have served as both appetizer and main course a few times.

[Oxirane]

Originally Posted by Darmund

Seriously, some of y'all need lazy lessons. If your meal involves actually chopping things, and like, adding ingredients to things, that doesn't qualify as lazy in my book.

Yeah, um, I totally disagree, I like to cook, a lot, this morning, I threw some eggs in a pan for Mrs. White, Mothers Day, threw in some bacon bits, a little cheese, two pieces of toast, butter and jelly, just about 12.9 minutes from start to finish to included cleaning the pan, that's lazy...tonight was a total production, Mothers Day, steak, potatoes, sauteed green beans, that was not lazy...but breakfast was...and it was goooood...

[Darmund]

Originally Posted by Oxirane

Yeah, um, I totally disagree, I like to cook, a lot, this morning, I threw some eggs in a pan for Mrs. White, Mothers Day, threw in some bacon bits, a little cheese, two pieces of toast, butter and jelly, just about 12.9 minutes from start to finish to included cleaning the pan, that's lazy...tonight was a total production, Mothers Day, steak, potatoes, sauteed green beans, that was not lazy...but breakfast was...and it was goooood...

Yeah, um, you don't get to disagree with what my book says. And goddamn, that's one hell of a run-on sentence. Is your period button broken? Also, if it was me, I'd keep the toast and jelly on the side next time. Throwing it in with the eggs seems kind of gross.

[Oxirane]

LOL, yeah, it's busted...trust me, toast and jelly was on the side, it was goooooood...that's lazy cooking for us, we like to eat...

[Rebo]

Toasted cheese, which is the lazy version of grilled cheese.

Slice of bread, slice of Kraft American, under the broiler for about 3-4 minutes. It's best when the cheese poofs up and gets freckled with brown.

Sometimes I make scrambled eggs to go with it. Usually I just eat an apple or something. Or a second toasted cheese!

[EmilyG]

Originally Posted by mjmlabs

Dry cereal, eaten in fistfuls straight from the box. I'm that lazy.

Hmm, I usually have it in a bowl, or a mug if I'm too lazy for a bowl. Haven't tried it in fistfuls from the box. Thanks for the advice.

[JackieLikesVariety]

Originally Posted by Rebo

Toasted cheese, which is the lazy version of grilled cheese.

Slice of bread, slice of Kraft American, under the broiler for about 3-4 minutes. It's best when the cheese poofs up and gets freckled with brown.

Sometimes I make scrambled eggs to go with it. Usually I just eat an apple or something. Or a second toasted cheese!

I wonder if I even have a broiler? I remember doing this as kids - and I liked the top completely brown, yum.

And you can do peanut butter/honey this way, too! YUM.

[mjmlabs]

Originally Posted by Rebo

Toasted cheese, which is the lazy version of grilled cheese.

I have a different recipe for Toasted Cheese, but it's a little dangerous.

Two or three slices of American between two slices of bread, with the cheese carefully centered. Microwave for about 20 seconds, to give the cheese a little head start on meltitude. The bread will get slightly soggy; this is normal, don't flip out.

Place in toaster oven; toast on light-to-medium-light setting, watching carefully to make sure cheese doesn't drip out. By the time the microwave-soggied bread is lightly toasted, the cheese should be fully melted.

Try really hard not to burn down your house. (Trans: "Don't cook this if you've been drinking.")

[Glazer]

My lazy breakfast of late is to open a can of fruit and as I eat the fruit I add cereal. Today's selection was mandarin oranges and Cheerios.

[tunaman]

One of my favorites: Jamaican beef patties (oven) and fries (air fryer) with gravy (microwave).

Fish fillets (oven) and chips (air fryer).

Jalapeno spam and eggs (same pan).

Canned corned beef has and eggs (same pan).

Chillighetti (with canned or leftover chili).

[leafrog]

In all truthfulness, the laziest I get is a tub of peanut butter and a spoon.

[Jaglavak]

When I'm doing deep guru hard core 1%-er lazing, sometimes I'll just skip it. For times when the laziness is just that awesome.

[SNFaulkner]

Originally Posted by leafrog

In all truthfulness, the laziest I get is a tub of peanut butter and a spoon.

Why ever bother with the spoon? Just scoop it out with your finger. No there's no dish to clean.

[leafrog]

Originally Posted by SNFaulkner

Why ever bother with the spoon? Just scoop it out with your finger. No there's no dish to clean.

I know where my finger has been.