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Ultimate convenience "lazy" food?
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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Ready made frozen omlettes. Just how difficult is it to whisk 2 eggs and throw in a pan?
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frozen donnor kebabs?
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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? 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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Smash is pretty lazy - lol.
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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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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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its awful but i like smash
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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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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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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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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 !!!!! 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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have you seen that boil in the tin burger?
ultimate laziness... |
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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'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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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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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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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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batter mix has got to be the ultimate for me.....just add egg & milk - isn't it just flour then?
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have you seen that boil in the tin burger?
ultimate laziness... |
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have you seen that boil in the tin burger?
ultimate laziness...
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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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Ready mashed potato
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Ready mashed potato
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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Ready made frozen omlettes. Just how difficult is it to whisk 2 eggs and throw in a pan?
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Frozen lemon wedges.
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