In winter, why not chicken and sweet corn soup? We make this with a bbq (all the meat pulled off the bone), 2 cans of creamed corn and 2 litres of good chicken stock. You can add spring onions, soy/maggi sauce and if you want to get spesh stir in a whisked egg at the end and you can even serve with crunchy noodles. It really doesn't take that long to make (maybe 30 mins) and its fantastic.

Also keep some of those 2 minute rices (the family size pack) and make a quick fried rice, just as quick as tacos.

Another thing is to set the slow cooker up during the week with some porcupine balls, and lift it out of the freezer friday morning, defrost and make your own meatball subs with cheese and olives