What's your "go to" meal at home when you're looking for something simple and quick?
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August 17th, 2016
What’s your “go-to” meal at home when you want an easy prep or no cook meal?
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Fresh raw vegetables with shredded cheese and nuts and a slice of whole wheat toast.
Soup in winter.
Meat (chicken/beef/pork) and salad in summer.
We’d rarely have a ‘no-cook’ meal, but salad doesn’t need cooking and BBQing a bit of meat isn’t taxing.
Tuna and lettuce on a flour tortilla, with some kind of salad dressing. That’s if it’s just for me.
If the boys are eating, too, I keep some quick microwaveable stuff. 5 minutes for steamed veggies, 90 seconds for instant rice, and whatever easy meat I have – breaded fish in the oven or whatever.
Morningstar Farms meatless ribs
My favorite quickie: Angel hair pasta, garlic, butter, crumbled bacon, peas (all stuff I have in the refrigerator) with lots of chopped parsely and black pepper whipped together in a big salad bowl. Max five minutes.
Soup or a stew made from stock I keep in the fridge and leftovers with a bit of rice mixed in.
Salad made of garden veggies and leftovers.
Granola, fruit and milk or yoghurt.
Ratatouille made with leftovers.
Risotto made with stock and leftovers.
Just about anything wrapped in a tortilla topped with a cold sauce or salsa.
Bread and butter with bouilon.
knäckebröd, topped with butter, cheese, green pepper with bouillon.
Mystery gespacho.
Red or tomato-based sauces keep forever in the fridge and are a source of many tasty quickies.
My “go to” is WIGR. (whatever is getting rotten.) I open the fridge or the freezer and grab something.
If there is nothing then I’ll reach for a can of tuna, 2 pieces of toast, slice of cheese, salad.
And coffee – whatever can is oldest.
Quesadilla. Usually stuffed with avocado, cheese, and beans.
Stir-fry veggies and rice.
Linguine or angel hair pasta (the 3-min. boil kind) tossed with crumbled feta cheese, Italian-style tomato sauce, and chopped black olives. It’s great warm or chilled. Quick and easy to make and filling filling.
Bread and pecorino cheese.
I have a few.
Mixed greens with raspberry dressing.
Melted cheese sandwich.
Stouffer’s frozen. Or, frozen pizza.
Cereal and milk.
Tuna, if the iceberg lettuce is already washed.
Soup or ramen.
Leftovers in the microwave for 1.5 minutes to heat them up. Leftovers can be many different things.
Piece of fruit. Depends on the season. Apple, plum, nectarine, watermelon, banana, and cherries are the fruits I typically eat, but not in large quantities. Maybe a “piece” every other day. As a small meal or snack.
It varies but a common one is cheese on toast which is surprisingly delicious.
Easy prep? an omelette with whatever is in the fridge
No cook? pbj or blt/club
Boyardeeeeeeeeee sketti.
Cold.
Out of the can.
Peanut butter and jelly. Or fast food lol.
Two categories here:
1) Not going to store – heat up some soup from the cupboard.
2) going to store – pick up some chicken or beef fajitas mix at the butcher counter, takes five minutes and one skillet to cook.
Tuna sandwich on lightly toasted bread with lettuce, tomatoes and bread and butter chip pickles.
Quickie veggie burritos with whatever, assortment of salsas I have on hand. Beans, either refried or black, shredded extra sharp cheddar, diced tomatoes, diced cucumbers, alfalfa sprouts if I have any.
Tomato or cream of mushroom or cream of celery soup with cheese and crackers.
Tomato sandwich, sliced tomato on toasted bread with light mayo and S&P
My daily summer salad marinade here, have it every-single-day in the summer.
Sliced, diced, fresh from the garden here, tomatoes, cucumbers and black olives in either an italian or red wine dressing marinade, but…I have been extra decadent the last few nights and have been using “Green Goddess” dressing. Nothing better than that over sliced cucumbers.
Grilled cheese sandwich with thin slice of tomato toasted in. For me, the most comforting of all comfort meals.
wow some of these seem like work to me!
Not only work to make, but work to clean up. That’s why I listed a melted cheese sandwich, not a grilled cheese. I don’t want to clean the pan if I’m thinking quick and easy.
Lately it’s been a hummus sandwich on pita with sliced tomatoes and cukes. Sometimes it’s cheddar on a baguette with the veggies.
Or – ice cream,
These
12 minutes in the oven and they are delicious when dipped in this.
Munching on a PB & Honey sandwich now.
Ensure and mini pies. and reheated leftovers in the microwave. Also Eggos.
Scrambled egg, bacon and cheese burrito. Sometimes with ricotta or cream cheese. After wrapping put in microwave for 70 seconds, cover with salsa.
@BellaB, I love an omelette. We often have omelettes made with whatever is in the fridge too.
I guess it depends upon whether I feel like going out to get something or whether I’d rather not leave the house.
I’m much more likely to go out and get a bean burrito from one of the hundreds of takeout Mexican places within a 10 mile radius of my house, with about 10 within a 1 mile radius. That is my #1 go to meal, in fact I’m probably going to have that tonight.
If I don’t want to go out, or I’m too tired, or it’s too late, or I’m not feeling well, I am likely to fix a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on whole wheat bread with a side of some type of raw vegetables and either some nuts (pistachios, peanuts, walnuts or pecans) or some whole grain chips from Trader Joes.
Another meal that I like is a piece of buttered toast and a bowl of Grapenuts cereral.
I also like frozen pizza. I usually have a cheese pizza, then add broccoli, mushrooms and Jalapeños.
@janbb—hummus sandwich. One of my faves. I love it.
Spaghetti with meat sauce.
Vanilla Greek yogurt with chopped walnuts and berries (whatever’s on hand – blueberries, blackberries, raspberries).
English muffin toasted with some cheese (if I have English muffins).
Fruit
Hardboiled eggs
@jca I just made hard boiled eggs last night : P
Healthy salmon salad
Ingredients:
Canned salmon
Greek yogurt
White wine vinegar
Diced red onions
Red grapes
Sweet relish
Red pepper flakes
Black pepper
Sea salt
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