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When you don't know what you want? Or when it's late and you don't want to cook?
What's your fall back food?
I teach Mon and Tues nights and often i'm not organised enough to sort out dinner before we get home. Tues is pizza night for the kids so often I don't have anything sorted for me and I can't be bothered at 8.30 at night.
So...hit me with your suggestions and favourites :)
anti-pasto platter (sundried tomatoes, olives, feta, cold meats etc) - something light that won't make me feel bloated before bed
I have even resorted to those "diet" shakes (pumped up with full-cream milk & thrown in some frozen berries)
i usually just have a tin of sweet chilli tuna on a vitawheet or ryvita biscuit! - if i can be bothered, ill boil some pasta (only takes 10 mins!) and mix the tuna thru that :)
Baked beans or spaghetti on toast
Toasted sangas
Basic omelette
Punks' suggestion about the platter is a good one. I remember when I was living with some girlfriends in a country area, if it was stinking hot we'd sort of only really wanted to pick at stuff anyway so it worked well. You can make them as healthy or as indulgent as you wish!
Banana smoothie, curried egg sandwich, garlic mushrooms on toast (I had that tonight!), cereal.
That's all I can think of for now. :)
Cereal.... my sisters often joke at the amount of times I have eaten cereal for dinner because I can't be bothered to organise anything else :redface:
I normally just have a vegemite sandwich or when i was at home with my parents used to eat weet bix alot... Oops:redface::redface:
Jacket potato with sour cream, shallots and bacon. Sooo quick and easy. mmmm
Toasted sandwich is another good one.
Make a kinda slack cesear salad using chicken nuggets :)
2 min noodles with frozen veg, butter & cheese mixed through ..
pasta with pesto or flavoured tuna ...
rice cooked with frozen veg added at end of cooking (in microwave) with salsa stirred through
or the lean cuisine that's always in the freezer :D
Hey CQ :D
My fall back meal is baked beans on toast :redface:!
I justify that its not that bad as the can states its equivalent to 3 serves of vegies :lol:.
I can't believe I forgot cheese toast! Oh the shame...
Toast. Mueslie (I prefer to eat this before bed instead of dessert... I suffer from insomnia and the heaviness of the oats stops me from feeling hungry when i wake up). Eggs... scrambled.
toast with butter and jam, fetta cheese, olives and hot cuppa.
Thanks guys, I might stalk this thread this evening when I get home lol!
Some of these sound really yummy!
Eggs, Smoked Salmon and Cucumber sangers, Tuna & Mayo on crackers, Lettuce with poached eggs.
Avocado on toast with black pepper
Porridge
Peanut butter sanga/toast
Fruit and yoghurt sprinkled with cinnamon
Pita bread pizza
Boiled egg and toast soldiers;)
Can't go past tomato soup with vegemite on toast. I thought having vegemite toast with tomato soup was the 'norm' until we had it for dinner one night and DF looked at me like I was crazy when I came out with the toast as well as the soup! lol
I usually do something interesting on toast...
* Toasted grain bread with spicy eggplant relish, tasty cheese and a fried egg.
* Toasted grain bread with peanut butter, sliced banana and a drizzle of honey
* Heat baked beans and melt through some really tasty cheddar and tabasco sauce, fried bacon too if you have it... eat out of the saucepan with toast fingers stuck in if in a rush!
* Or how about french toast with maple syrup and some kind of fruit if available, eg sliced nana or berries.
Oh. my. I need to eat something NOW!
My mum was a full time teacher and mum to 3 of us and this happened a few times a week, and
She would call it a COLD PLATE,
We had a slice of cucumber, tomato, a boiled egg, a slice of cheese, a piece of bread, or kinda anything in the fridge, even pickles etc.
We thought at the time it was great and now do this with our kiddies.
I do a cold plate for the kids too!
Jaffles...with anything you have. My favourite's are baked beans and cheese, tinned spag and cheese and leftover bolognaise sauce and cheese.
A lot of my faves are already here:
Jacket potato (in the microwave) w baked beans, cheese or tuna, corn & mayo
Quiche with baked beans
Baked beans on toast
Packet macaroni cheese:redface: (I generally don't eat processed foods)
Tuna pesto pasta
Cheese and vegemite toasted sanga
Vitawheats and something
Or we usually have a big batch of homemade spaghetti sauce or risotto that DP has made.
A modification of a Ploughman's Lunch perhaps?
We had a family friend who had a meat and salad sandwich for dinner every night, as she said it held all the food groups and wasn't too heavy on her stomach for when she went to bed.
Omelettes are great.
Otherwise a very quick stirfry with noodles (frozen vege, frozen chicken sliced very thin, teriyaki sauce, noodles) in the wok about 5 mins great...
Icecream if you're really desperate lol