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Old 27-02-2008, 19:47
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I cannot imagine this will be the most exciting of threads!

Anyway, the most ridiculous "lazy" food I have seen is...

Tinned fried onions for the princely sum of 69p as sold in my local ASDA.

I have fairly limited cooking skills but even I can peel, chop and fry some onions.

Anyone else seen any interesting examples of such food?
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Old 27-02-2008, 20:36
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Ready made frozen omlettes. Just how difficult is it to whisk 2 eggs and throw in a pan?
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Old 27-02-2008, 20:37
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frozen donnor kebabs?
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Old 27-02-2008, 20:38
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I cannot imagine this will be the most exciting of threads!

Anyway, the most ridiculous "lazy" food I have seen is...

Tinned fried onions for the princely sum of 69p as sold in my local ASDA.

I have fairly limited cooking skills but even I can peel, chop and fry some onions.

Anyone else seen any interesting examples of such food?
i could see that ready fried might eliminate the tears in eyes stage which might be what some people want.

Also ready prepared food might be helpful to disabled people.

But in the main it is paying extra money for something you could do easily yourself - grate cheese, cut and peel veg, etc.
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Old 27-02-2008, 20:39
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Smash is pretty lazy - lol.
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Old 27-02-2008, 20:40
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really, when you think about it, most foods are lazy - you could make your own bread, your own icecream, your own gravy, but how many do?
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Old 27-02-2008, 21:27
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really, when you think about it, most foods are lazy - you could make your own bread, your own icecream, your own gravy, but how many do?
Good point. That is food for thought (no pun intended).
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Old 27-02-2008, 22:16
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its awful but i like smash
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Old 27-02-2008, 22:24
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I think buying things like bread or ice cream is perfectly normal and understandable, as the alternative is quite a bit of time and effort if you want to do it yourself.

For me, the ultimate in laziness has to be buying pre chopped fruit - Tescos yesterday had a whole watermelon, or a small pack of chopped watermelon bits (about a twentieth of the weight of the whole thing) for the same price! And things like pre chopped apple... I mean, how hard is it to chop an apple up? It's not even messy or smelly, like onions.
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Old 28-02-2008, 00:00
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Tinned potatoes. Why would anyone buy them? They used to be in hampers my mother bought for christmas and they were awful.
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Old 28-02-2008, 07:37
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I use the jars of Lazy garlic and Lazy chillie

When you think about it most foods these days are of the 'lazy' variety.......but dont they save us some work !!!!!
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Old 28-02-2008, 09:50
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I use the jars of Lazy garlic and Lazy chillie

When you think about it most foods these days are of the 'lazy' variety.......but dont they save us some work !!!!!
I don't like the lazy garlic/chilli jars. I find the preservative that they have them in takes away a lot of the flavour.

Morrisons do bags of frozen, chopped garlic though and its only about 50p. I always have some of that in the freezer, but only tend to use it if I have ran out of fresh as it takes two minutes to chop some fresh up.
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Old 28-02-2008, 10:09
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have you seen that boil in the tin burger?

ultimate laziness...
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Old 28-02-2008, 13:13
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I cannot imagine this will be the most exciting of threads!

Anyway, the most ridiculous "lazy" food I have seen is...

Tinned fried onions for the princely sum of 69p as sold in my local ASDA.

I have fairly limited cooking skills but even I can peel, chop and fry some onions.

Anyone else seen any interesting examples of such food?
This food journalist is a big fan.

I've used ready chopped onions before, frozen not tinned. It's just a matter of convenience , just like freeze dried herbs. As she says in the article they aren't bad value and the time saved would be a key point for me especially as we're doing up our house, and very tired.
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Old 28-02-2008, 13:59
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Any pre-chopped/pre-washed etc fruit/vegetables/salads - they cost twice as much even if you take into account the wastage on non pre-prepared and what about all that extra packaging? Personally I find the chopping/peeling very theraputic after a day at work

Also - pre-grated cheese - apart from anything else it won't keep very long once you've opened it - certainly not as long as a block would.
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Old 28-02-2008, 14:01
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Any pre-chopped/pre-washed etc fruit/vegetables/salads - they cost twice as much even if you take into account the wastage on non pre-prepared and what about all that extra packaging? Personally I find the chopping/peeling very theraputic after a day at work

Also - pre-grated cheese - apart from anything else it won't keep very long once you've opened it - certainly not as long as a block would.
Also many of the ready grated cheese contain potato starch
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Old 03-03-2008, 11:58
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I actually bought some tin fried onions just to see what they were like, they weren't any better than "real" onions, although they did have an element of the taste of onions you get from a "good" burger stand, I think it comes from cooking them in bulk. Otherwise they were pointless and crap.
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:11
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batter mix has got to be the ultimate for me.....just add egg & milk - isn't it just flour then?
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:19
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have you seen that boil in the tin burger?

ultimate laziness...
thats repugnant, how anyone could stomach that revolting thing is beyond me
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:24
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have you seen that boil in the tin burger?

ultimate laziness...
We have those in the vending machine at work, and i admit i tried it once, but never again
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:26
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Ready made frozen omlettes. Just how difficult is it to whisk 2 eggs and throw in a pan?

Thats the one that shocked me when I saw them in the freezer dept.

Though I do confess to buying M&S prepared fruit cos I just can't be arsed fiddling about with all the peeling and chopping
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:30
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Ready mashed potato Surely it can't be that difficult to peel, boil and mash a few poatoes.
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:33
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Ready mashed potato Surely it can't be that difficult to peel, boil and mash a few poatoes.

I use the M&S chedder mash. I am a pretty good cook but I have never been able to make mashed potatoes. I've tried every methord going and can't get it right so I've given up trying and head down to M&S.
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:36
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Ready made frozen omlettes. Just how difficult is it to whisk 2 eggs and throw in a pan?
Oh Good Lord!!! It takes about 5 mins max to throw an omlette together haw can it be any quicker???
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Old 03-03-2008, 12:57
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Frozen lemon wedges.
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