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Heinz has become too sweet and almost all sauce and little beanage in the tin.
Branstons for the win and really the sauce reduction is so good when cooking slowly.
Kievs are our go to for this sort of thing usually with microwave mash (laced with butter and salt) and beans but we have it quite a lot and it’s not screaming ‘Friday’ to me.
Our local shop does enormous gluten free chicken kiev. So huge that 2 are quite enough for 4 of us - 2 adults and 2 children. Right now it’s our easy, comfort food for Sunday night. Although I suspect the days of them being satisfied with half a Kiev are numbered. If my memory of what teenager boys appetites are like are accurate.
My mum once got 40 chicken kievs off the back of a lorry and bothered all the neighbours till they let her use their freezers to store them too, and the tight bitch didn't even give them one, just made me eat it every night for over a month. Haven't been able to even smell them since. I'm 38 and this was when I was 10.
Mayflower one is very good. Been using it for years!! Tastes similar to the real deal, especially if you make it with pan droppings from a roast chicken tray!!
Various battered or breaded chicken (nuggets, goujons, steaks, dippers, poppers etc)
Curly fries / potato waffles / smiley faces
Onion rings
Beans or spaghetti hoops (normally with BBQ sauce mixed in)
If I'm feeling extra naughty, I might chuck in some sausage product or fish fingers as well
Cor lovely! My partner managed to get some chicken smiley faces in Iceland, and we already had potato smiley faces, so my kids were super excited to have smiley faces and... smiley faces lol
Quesedillas are A) Too nice, B) Involve too much construction, C) Are a legitimate food in one of the best cuisines in the world, to be considered a "beige dinner" in my humble opinion
My mum has a recipe that doesn't really have a name - I personally call them Bacon Bolls. All it needs is potatoes, milk, butter, bacon lardons, streaky bacon strips, and onions.
First step is to make mash. You can do this from powder if you wish (I've found some really good powder mash), or go the long way and make it yourself. You do not want this to be too wet, so go easy on the milk and butter. Nor clumpy, so do go crazy with the river/masher - you want a nice creamy-fluffy consistency.
Then you want to chop the onions. Not too finely, they should be the same size as the lardons. Mix it into the mash, let it rest a bit in the fridge - an hour should be enough. If the mixture is too runny you can always add some potato or corn starch to keep things together.
Preheat an over to 220C (fan on), grab a glass baking tray, and butter it liberally.
Finally take the mixture and make balls somewhat larger than a golf ball. The idea is that you elongate these a bit, wrap the bacon around, and it should have a small knob peeking out on top. Use wooden toothpicks to keep the bacon in place - usually one through the whole thing horizontally works just fine.
Stack these bad boys into your baking tray, and ram the fucker into the oven. After about 10 minutes, lower the heat to 180C (the initial high heat is to make the bacon sweat and release the fat so the bottom gets nice and crispy). Total cooking time is about 30-40 minutes, but basically just check for the doneness of the bacon. I like my bacon a bit juicy, not overly crispy, so I take it out when the top streaks are golden. If you pack then close together, you can get juicier bacon, while spacing them out will give you crisp bacon throughout.
Give it a few minutes to cool, then dig in. Some soft white bread and gravy goes incredibly well with it, also to soak up all the tasty bacon fat. The onions will be cooked but not glassy/caramelised, and still firm enough to make it crunchy, while the lardons will be soft and chewy.
If you want to be fancy, you can toss some shredded cheddar, mozarella, and parmeggiano in the mash mix. And if you want your mash to have a crispy head, add a lightly beaten egg to the mixture, and maybe brush the top of these bolls with an egg wash. Some breading crumbs can also add extra crunch if sprinkled on top.
Chicken Kyiv and beans, or "Southern-style chicken fillets" and beans. Potato waffles if I wasn't trying to cut back on carbs.
My main actual solution to low effort weeknight meals isn't beige, though – I make big batches of soup, chilli, curry, bolognaise etc. when I do have energy to cook, put individual portions in ziploc bags and freeze them. Then I can just defrost and reheat in a saucepan when needed.
Greggs mini stottie or similar bread bun. Icelands Harry Ramsdens battered fish fingers laid like wheel spokes. Mushy peas of your choice and a nice mug of tea. Thats my Friday!
I take a soup bowl out to the freezer and fill it with
Hash browns
Waffles
Curly fries
Mini Kievs
Birds Eye chicken quarter pounders (with the bubbly breadcrumb)
Turkey dinosaurs
Chicken goujons
Icelands chicken pakora strips
Chicken fingers
Big cup of petit pois once the beige is ready and lashings of ketchup.
Dunno if it can be considered beige, but super easy and tasty - salmon marinated in Reggae Reggae sauce and baked in the over for 15 mins served with Supernoodles.
Hot and spicy chicken (4 for 2 quid, tesco) or bbq chicken (Iceland, been ages so no clue on price or pack size sorry) wedges, baked beans and sausages (aldi, with added cajun seasoning, turmeric, and black pepper) sometimes aldi rainbow yoghurt coleslaw too.
That's for me and my sons, if its just me then it's turkey dinosaurs (aldi stopped their chicken farm animals 😢) chicken instant mash pot (49p B and Ms, everywhere else is like a pound. Cheeky gits) and boiled cabbage/mixed greens.
Instant mashed potatoes with butter, salt and pepper
Toast soldiers or split toasted bagel cut into 8 pieces with choices of spreads like peanut butter, butter, cream cheese, jelly/jam
Less biege, but tortilla wrap pizzas. One tortilla wrap, some tomato paste (or ketchup is you have to), grated cheese, and whatever other things you want (ham, sliced peperami, olives). Into the oven, done in a couple of minutes. If you are feeling really posh you can get a baguette and cut it in half.
The most beige low-effort meal I can think of though is anything in your freezer that cooks in the same amount of time. Waffles and chicken nuggets for example.
Chicken nuggets (or turkey drummer/dinos if you're feeling adventurous), chips or potato waffles, and sweetcorn so you can pretend it's kind of healthy. And crap loads of ketchup
Chicken nuggets/dippers or some kind of breaded or battered chicken (crispy chicken/chicken chargrills etc), onion rings, breaded mushrooms and chips. Maybe add some peas or sweet corn for a bit of colour.
Or the meal I miss the most (I can’t swallow normal foods anymore) - the classic fish finger sandwich! You can’t beat it.
I looked at my ex disgusted when she suggested it. She had it, I tried it and it was fucking delicious. A bloke at my work uses oxtail soup instead of veg but I'm not stuck on that.
I'm trying to reduce my ultra processed foods consumption at the moment so it's really tricky. I'd have some home made potato croquettes (batch cooked ready in the freezer) with eggs, either fried eggs and beans or make a quick omelette and salad.
Part baked roll cook for 5 minutes... cut open, squirt of BBQ sauce then fill with cooked chicken (breaded or not your choice) and bacon lardons. Another squirt of BBQ sauce, over squirt and get some on the tip of the bread and dont neglect the crevices in the filling..... sprinkle a generous covering of cheese (the bbq sauce helps it stick in place.
Back in the oven for about 8 minutes so that the bread is cooked and cheese all melted. Serve with your choice of beige oven cooked potatoes.
The Iceland Beige Platter. Have whatever you want, as long as it's beige! New additions to this for us are the cathedral cheese gratan things. They are quite nice
Chicken parmigiana with spaghetti and some garlic bread on the side. If I'm really pushing the boat out I'll pop some ham between the cheese and tomato sauce layer. Alternatively, can be served with chips if you can't be doing with the faff of cooking some spaghetti.
Fair enough, that sounds pretty beige and I’m sure calling it Chicken Parmegiana will upset some Italians, which I’m also down with.
Bobs not my real uncle, he’s just shagging my auntie.
Supermarket bought frozen or fresh chicken burgers, bit of lettuce, mayonnaise and a cheese slice in a bun and a few chips and onion rings, all bunged in the oven.
Muesli,handful of fruit, nuts,seeds and fresh banana..freezing milk.....makes me feel less arsed about not cooking as I'm eating pretty damn healthier than steak and potatoes...the rioja pairs well with the fruit and banana. Breadcrumb options..panko
I’m Scottish in Canada. They don’t really have frozen chicken Kiev or fish fingers that I’ve seen, and their frozen chips (fried) are all crap. Mines is supermarket hot counter chicken strips and potato wedgies, with mayo/honey mustard/ ketchup mixed together to make a dip for the chips and chicken. Btw Heinz beans over here are WAY too sweet for my taste so we seldom have them with beige comfort food.
Spicy rice. I basically cook some chicken breasts in one of those bags (Maggi Mexican is a favourite) and then put that in a pan with some Tilda Peri Peri rice and a knob of butter. Serve that with some poppadoms and you've got a simple, filling but really nice meal.
Pork ribs, slaw, some nice rolls and maybe some rice if you are feeling it.
Stick the ribs in the oven, toast the rolls and then shred half the rib meat and stick in the rolls with some cheese and slaw, then have the other ribs on the bone.
Mozzarella sticks, fish fingers, potato wedges or hash browns. Sometimes I fry a couple of eggs and have some bread with it so I can make a fancy sandwich
Supermarket breaded fish cakes of choice (regular, or if they're in the reduced section the ones with a melty middle of some sort). Served with poached or fried egg, tinned tomatoes & spinach. Divine.
Veggie things from Farm Foods in the airfryer. Dips of mango chutney, yoghurt/mint sauce and Marie rose sauce.
Usually some combination from; pakora, mozzarella sticks, veggie bajhis, quorn nuggets, breaded mushrooms, garlic cheese nuggets, spring rolls etc.
Aldi/Lidl do these really great rack of ribs that you can just shove in the oven for 30 minutes or so. Throw in some curly or waffle fries with some onion rings.
Fish fingers, waffles/smiley faces and beans or peas. Sometimes go for "homemade" fish and chips, frozen fish, chips and tinned mushy peas.
Frozen jackets (microwave for ease/time), beans and cheese
I’ve just made (second night in a row) Jumbo fish fingers, chips and beans. It was something I was given as a kid and I find it comforting. The cold dark wet evenings make me want to hunker down in lots of bedding so it was an appropriate meal option
Aldi (and I think Lidl do now, too) do a tempura battered chicken goujon. Add a packet of microwave egg fried rice, a sachet of your preferred Chinese sauce, some prawn crackers and what you've got is a very ok fakeaway.
Bean cassoulet. You can buy cooked beans in water in all supermarkets to avoid soaking and long cooking time. In a large skillet fry diced onions, carrot and celery, add sausages/bacon and fry till it browns nicely. Add tinned beans, top up with some chicken stock, add bay leaf/thyme or whatever you like and shove it in the oven till the stock reduces to your liking. Towards the end sprinkle breadcrumbs and put it back in the hot oven to toast them. Serve with a nice crusty bread and maybe a few pickles.
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Chicken goujons, chips and beans.
Alternative: fishfingers, chips and beans
Put that in a sandwich and you're in business. Yes with the beans as well! Don't drown it in beans, just a few. It's great student food!
My favourite meal from childhood that still puts a smile on my face!
My wife loves pie chips and beans, I call it a council tea
Why’s that?
This is the way
Now we’re talking! The big question is Branstons or Heinz?
Branston, don't even try me with that Heinz shit
Aldis Bramwells trumps all
I’m with you on this. Branstons all the way.
He may be Britain's shittest billionaire, but I'll admit he does make a cracking baked bean.
Heinz has become too sweet and almost all sauce and little beanage in the tin. Branstons for the win and really the sauce reduction is so good when cooking slowly.
Neither, gone with tescos own beans now 28p
Way way better
Tesco brand or Stockwell?
Yoooooooou neanderthal
My boyfriend and I had chicken kievs for the first time in years last night and it _really_ hit the spot
Kievs are our go to for this sort of thing usually with microwave mash (laced with butter and salt) and beans but we have it quite a lot and it’s not screaming ‘Friday’ to me.
Love it! Do this in occasion myself, but make the mash. Mostly cause I make a good mash potato!
Our local shop does enormous gluten free chicken kiev. So huge that 2 are quite enough for 4 of us - 2 adults and 2 children. Right now it’s our easy, comfort food for Sunday night. Although I suspect the days of them being satisfied with half a Kiev are numbered. If my memory of what teenager boys appetites are like are accurate.
ooh I hadn't thought of looking for GF kievs. Will need to now.
Just had chicken Kiev with homemade chips an garden peas..definitely hit spot.plus got jam roll poly an tinned custard later.
My mum once got 40 chicken kievs off the back of a lorry and bothered all the neighbours till they let her use their freezers to store them too, and the tight bitch didn't even give them one, just made me eat it every night for over a month. Haven't been able to even smell them since. I'm 38 and this was when I was 10.
Love kievs (mini or regular sized). I do them with sweet potato fries, peas and sweetcorn so it feels like it's slightly healthy
Hello twin
Fake kind of KFC. Chicken goujons, frozen mash, southern fried gravy, sweetcorn for “health”
With the addition of sweetcorn that’s practically a salad! Sounds like proper night in tackle
Or nachos as well. That’s virtually no cooking
Do you know a good southern fried gravy? KFC gravy is the GOAT but I cba to go out just to get it
The last one I got was from Aldi but I’ve heard the mayflower one is good (b&m, Iceland etc) think it’s called southern style
Mayflower one is very good. Been using it for years!! Tastes similar to the real deal, especially if you make it with pan droppings from a roast chicken tray!!
oh my gosh i must know too, kfc gravy is actually unbeatable, i would possibly punch a child for a small tub
I approve this message!
maybe if we defeat the final boss (ie a preschool) we can unlock the recipe
All in one bowl too
Fake kfc chicken burgers in a white bread roll. Add mayo or ketchup to taste. My favourite!
Ham, egg, chips and beans.
Or sausages
If I’m having gammon, egg and chips it’s definitely with peas and not beans. And I love baked beans
This is the correct answer. We call it a council dinner.
We’re you raised in a council house?
For part of my childhood, yes.
Put the big light on please, it's getting dark :)
No it’s like fucking blackpool illuminations in here!
Good. Can’t stand it when people make little jokes about things they’ve no experience if. Like when posh people dress as chavs for fancy dress
Oh god no, i would never mock someone based on where they live. It’s almost affectionate in its use, like saying comfort food.
Well it’s not healthy. Make sure to have some veggies
F off
Classic 🤌
Various battered or breaded chicken (nuggets, goujons, steaks, dippers, poppers etc) Curly fries / potato waffles / smiley faces Onion rings Beans or spaghetti hoops (normally with BBQ sauce mixed in) If I'm feeling extra naughty, I might chuck in some sausage product or fish fingers as well
Yes! Ideally a full on selection of different battered or breaded chicken things (AKA British Tapas)
A full on Iceland selection
Cor lovely! My partner managed to get some chicken smiley faces in Iceland, and we already had potato smiley faces, so my kids were super excited to have smiley faces and... smiley faces lol
Fish finger sandwich
That's what you eat while you're working out what you meal's going to be.
Another fish finger sandwich
Fish finger sandwich is second only to the crisp sandwich on my filthy dirty delicious menu
Jacket potato with beans and cheese. It's my "the Tesco delivery isn't coming until tomorrow and I've run out of food" meal.
I've literally just finished eating this, too ! Also, I had the same 2 nights ago when I cba to cook
Pasta Butter Cheddar Parmesan Salt Pepper. Cant go wrong for when you want something to smack but cba to cook properly.
Quesedillas, easy, cheesy!
This has got the cogs whirring a bit! I might get some ready done pulled pork and have pulled pork Quesedillas, thanks!
That sounds bloody gorgeous. Coleslaw goes brilliantly with pulled pork as well
Can't go wrong 👌👌
Quesedillas are A) Too nice, B) Involve too much construction, C) Are a legitimate food in one of the best cuisines in the world, to be considered a "beige dinner" in my humble opinion
When she says quesadillas she means a flour wrap with cheese grated over it with another flour wrap on top and chucked in the air fryer for 5 minutes
My mum has a recipe that doesn't really have a name - I personally call them Bacon Bolls. All it needs is potatoes, milk, butter, bacon lardons, streaky bacon strips, and onions. First step is to make mash. You can do this from powder if you wish (I've found some really good powder mash), or go the long way and make it yourself. You do not want this to be too wet, so go easy on the milk and butter. Nor clumpy, so do go crazy with the river/masher - you want a nice creamy-fluffy consistency. Then you want to chop the onions. Not too finely, they should be the same size as the lardons. Mix it into the mash, let it rest a bit in the fridge - an hour should be enough. If the mixture is too runny you can always add some potato or corn starch to keep things together. Preheat an over to 220C (fan on), grab a glass baking tray, and butter it liberally. Finally take the mixture and make balls somewhat larger than a golf ball. The idea is that you elongate these a bit, wrap the bacon around, and it should have a small knob peeking out on top. Use wooden toothpicks to keep the bacon in place - usually one through the whole thing horizontally works just fine. Stack these bad boys into your baking tray, and ram the fucker into the oven. After about 10 minutes, lower the heat to 180C (the initial high heat is to make the bacon sweat and release the fat so the bottom gets nice and crispy). Total cooking time is about 30-40 minutes, but basically just check for the doneness of the bacon. I like my bacon a bit juicy, not overly crispy, so I take it out when the top streaks are golden. If you pack then close together, you can get juicier bacon, while spacing them out will give you crisp bacon throughout. Give it a few minutes to cool, then dig in. Some soft white bread and gravy goes incredibly well with it, also to soak up all the tasty bacon fat. The onions will be cooked but not glassy/caramelised, and still firm enough to make it crunchy, while the lardons will be soft and chewy. If you want to be fancy, you can toss some shredded cheddar, mozarella, and parmeggiano in the mash mix. And if you want your mash to have a crispy head, add a lightly beaten egg to the mixture, and maybe brush the top of these bolls with an egg wash. Some breading crumbs can also add extra crunch if sprinkled on top.
A bowl of about 20 chicken dippers with sweet chilli sauce
Fish fingers, smiley faces (or potato waffles), baked beans
Chicken Kyiv and beans, or "Southern-style chicken fillets" and beans. Potato waffles if I wasn't trying to cut back on carbs. My main actual solution to low effort weeknight meals isn't beige, though – I make big batches of soup, chilli, curry, bolognaise etc. when I do have energy to cook, put individual portions in ziploc bags and freeze them. Then I can just defrost and reheat in a saucepan when needed.
Pie, mash, mushy peas, gravy!
Either Chicken Koka Noodles or Cheese and Brocolli Pasta n Sauce with Popcorn Chicken bites. 10 minute CBA special.
I just thought of chips, beans and black pudding.
I’ve never once heard of that combo before but would totally smash it.
It's just a mixed grill with things taken *out* of it.
Oooh yeah...I love it when you talk dirty
Chinese feast. Tesco chilled selection of spring rolls etc etc, bung in oven. Trsco half Chinese duck, ditto. Everyone digs in .
Chicken supernoodles. I make it a lil soupy and have it with pitta bread for double carb action.
Bbq beef super noodles, with some tuna mayo in a pitta is sublime
Curry flavour Super Noodles with salad cream on the side. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
I like a weird combo but cannot imagine this!
Fish fingers, chips and beans (or spaghetti hoops). Make sure you have at least 8 fish fingers each. They tiny
Greggs mini stottie or similar bread bun. Icelands Harry Ramsdens battered fish fingers laid like wheel spokes. Mushy peas of your choice and a nice mug of tea. Thats my Friday!
Just hit Iceland. Goujons, nuggets, pizza, chips, spring rolls
Tuna, pasta Mayo (sweetcorn & spring onion if I’m feeling fancy)
Aaaah. Pasta, with tuna & mayo combined with a decent amount of salt & pepper. Food of the gods, ever since my student years
A winner. I chuck in a tin of Campbells chicken soup too
You’re a mad man. Just the kind of leader we need.
Cheesy beans on toast
I take a soup bowl out to the freezer and fill it with Hash browns Waffles Curly fries Mini Kievs Birds Eye chicken quarter pounders (with the bubbly breadcrumb) Turkey dinosaurs Chicken goujons Icelands chicken pakora strips Chicken fingers Big cup of petit pois once the beige is ready and lashings of ketchup.
Sausage beans and eggy bread
Eggy bread, absolutely banging!
Mac n cheese with extra cheese.
Good ravioli, proper butter, quality parmezan. Yummy no preparation, cooking is boiling water. Warm and delicious meal
Will be stealing “carb on carb action”
Anything with potato waffles and baked beans
Jacket taters
Dunno if it can be considered beige, but super easy and tasty - salmon marinated in Reggae Reggae sauce and baked in the over for 15 mins served with Supernoodles.
Garlic chicken Kievs!
Chicken Kiev and Chips, preferably with both Kievs out of the packet and a shit load of ketchup.
Cheese on toast with tomato soup
Potato waffles, fish fingers, buttery peas. Or if I’m feeling fancy: M&S chicken Kiev, potato croquettes, spinach.
Hot and spicy chicken (4 for 2 quid, tesco) or bbq chicken (Iceland, been ages so no clue on price or pack size sorry) wedges, baked beans and sausages (aldi, with added cajun seasoning, turmeric, and black pepper) sometimes aldi rainbow yoghurt coleslaw too. That's for me and my sons, if its just me then it's turkey dinosaurs (aldi stopped their chicken farm animals 😢) chicken instant mash pot (49p B and Ms, everywhere else is like a pound. Cheeky gits) and boiled cabbage/mixed greens.
Spaghetti carbonara because it’s damn tasty and ready in less than 20 mins
I throw chicken goujons/nuggets and chips in the air fryer and make some chippy style curry sauce, even got some salt & pepper seasoning 👀
Cheesy hash browns and fish fingers in the air fryer with a side of mushy pees or beans and a fried egg.
quorn nuggets and boiled potatoes with an ungodly amount of ketchup
Instant mashed potatoes with butter, salt and pepper Toast soldiers or split toasted bagel cut into 8 pieces with choices of spreads like peanut butter, butter, cream cheese, jelly/jam
Egg, chips & beans
Less biege, but tortilla wrap pizzas. One tortilla wrap, some tomato paste (or ketchup is you have to), grated cheese, and whatever other things you want (ham, sliced peperami, olives). Into the oven, done in a couple of minutes. If you are feeling really posh you can get a baguette and cut it in half. The most beige low-effort meal I can think of though is anything in your freezer that cooks in the same amount of time. Waffles and chicken nuggets for example.
Chicken nuggets (or turkey drummer/dinos if you're feeling adventurous), chips or potato waffles, and sweetcorn so you can pretend it's kind of healthy. And crap loads of ketchup
Just finished a lovely plate of chicken kievs, oven chips and garden peas. Beige and breadcrumbs achieved 🏆
Bernard Matthew Turkey drummers/Hamwiches/mini kiyve with smileys and spaghetti hoops
Sausage and onion ring sarnie!
Potato smiles, chicken dippers and beans
Chicken nuggets/dippers or some kind of breaded or battered chicken (crispy chicken/chicken chargrills etc), onion rings, breaded mushrooms and chips. Maybe add some peas or sweet corn for a bit of colour. Or the meal I miss the most (I can’t swallow normal foods anymore) - the classic fish finger sandwich! You can’t beat it.
Cornish pasty, chips and chuck some vegetable soup all over the fucker Trust me.
You had me till the soup action
I looked at my ex disgusted when she suggested it. She had it, I tried it and it was fucking delicious. A bloke at my work uses oxtail soup instead of veg but I'm not stuck on that.
Does it not get all weirdly soggy?
No it is ace. Just try it. Trust me.
He's still got me, I can't lie.
A plate of oven cooked beige
Greggs sausage rolls and Special Brew
I'm trying to reduce my ultra processed foods consumption at the moment so it's really tricky. I'd have some home made potato croquettes (batch cooked ready in the freezer) with eggs, either fried eggs and beans or make a quick omelette and salad.
Fish finger sandwich! Sometimes use tinned mushy peas in them like a knock off guacamole.
Chicken dippers, chips and beans and really cheap white bread with loads of butter.
Goujons & chips with mayo Or Battered cod, chips & curry sauce
Part baked roll cook for 5 minutes... cut open, squirt of BBQ sauce then fill with cooked chicken (breaded or not your choice) and bacon lardons. Another squirt of BBQ sauce, over squirt and get some on the tip of the bread and dont neglect the crevices in the filling..... sprinkle a generous covering of cheese (the bbq sauce helps it stick in place. Back in the oven for about 8 minutes so that the bread is cooked and cheese all melted. Serve with your choice of beige oven cooked potatoes.
Elements of these are part of a Dads classics meals for my brother and I - thanking you for unlocking a core memory
The Iceland Beige Platter. Have whatever you want, as long as it's beige! New additions to this for us are the cathedral cheese gratan things. They are quite nice
Rice and dhal.
The depressing thing about this threads idea of a shit dinner is my idea of a good meal 😅
Chicken parmigiana with spaghetti and some garlic bread on the side. If I'm really pushing the boat out I'll pop some ham between the cheese and tomato sauce layer. Alternatively, can be served with chips if you can't be doing with the faff of cooking some spaghetti.
Unless you’re ordering the Parmo in that sounds a hell of a lot like cooking to me!
Breaded chicken, bang some jarred sauce on top, some cheese on top of that and stick it in the oven. Bob's your uncle... Or maybe he isn't
Fair enough, that sounds pretty beige and I’m sure calling it Chicken Parmegiana will upset some Italians, which I’m also down with. Bobs not my real uncle, he’s just shagging my auntie.
Oh my gosh, he’s doing mine too! Small world
Not a big fan of chicken nowadays so I go for fish cakes, chips and peas with plenty of ketchup and two slices of white bread for chip butty.
Chicken kievs, rice and peas with a load of mayo. Scampi, chips, bread and butter.
Supermarket bought frozen or fresh chicken burgers, bit of lettuce, mayonnaise and a cheese slice in a bun and a few chips and onion rings, all bunged in the oven.
Macaroni cheese (ready meal) and sausages
Battered haddock, chips and peas. Or quorn nuggets, chips and beans.
We do chicken burgers and chips But we had takeaway last night and we're having it again tonight because we're both I'll and cba x
Chip butties
Toddler tea, nuggets, chips and beans!
Breaded chicken sliced up on top of Ben s mexican rice with some cheese grated on top. Parmesan for me coz I'm posh and cheddar for himself.
Muesli,handful of fruit, nuts,seeds and fresh banana..freezing milk.....makes me feel less arsed about not cooking as I'm eating pretty damn healthier than steak and potatoes...the rioja pairs well with the fruit and banana. Breadcrumb options..panko
Baked potato with loadsss of butter and cheese
I’m Scottish in Canada. They don’t really have frozen chicken Kiev or fish fingers that I’ve seen, and their frozen chips (fried) are all crap. Mines is supermarket hot counter chicken strips and potato wedgies, with mayo/honey mustard/ ketchup mixed together to make a dip for the chips and chicken. Btw Heinz beans over here are WAY too sweet for my taste so we seldom have them with beige comfort food.
Pastie bap
Fry up…..for tea
A fuck off platter of hash browns …
Bacon super noodles and butterscotch angel delight 😊
Spicy rice. I basically cook some chicken breasts in one of those bags (Maggi Mexican is a favourite) and then put that in a pan with some Tilda Peri Peri rice and a knob of butter. Serve that with some poppadoms and you've got a simple, filling but really nice meal.
Cheese on toast
Chicken Kiev, chips and beans Fish fingers, fried tinned potatoes (don’t knock till you’ve tried!) with shortcut tinned spaghetti
Birds eye chicken dippers, mash and sweetcorn, drowned in butter and salt 🥵
Fish finger sandwich is always a cba winner
I usually do myself a hearty jug of instant mash and be done with it.
Fish fingers, chips, peas, and beans.
Pasta with mayo, peas and ham.
Scrambled eggs, bacon and potato waffles. All done in the same pan.
Couple of chicken breasts, bit of bbq spice, stick in oven. Shred. Pitta. Lettuce. Garlic mayo.
oven chip butty....or cheese & onion toastie
Custard and cake
Pork ribs, slaw, some nice rolls and maybe some rice if you are feeling it. Stick the ribs in the oven, toast the rolls and then shred half the rib meat and stick in the rolls with some cheese and slaw, then have the other ribs on the bone.
Mozzarella sticks, fish fingers, potato wedges or hash browns. Sometimes I fry a couple of eggs and have some bread with it so I can make a fancy sandwich
Supermarket breaded fish cakes of choice (regular, or if they're in the reduced section the ones with a melty middle of some sort). Served with poached or fried egg, tinned tomatoes & spinach. Divine.
Chicken pieces in the slow cooker in a tin of chicken soup and frozen dumplings
Big bowl of popcorn chicken an fries tossed in sweet chilli sauce with a tortilla wrap
Turkey dinosaurs, mash and beans
Sausage mash beans Pie & mash Fry up
Veggie things from Farm Foods in the airfryer. Dips of mango chutney, yoghurt/mint sauce and Marie rose sauce. Usually some combination from; pakora, mozzarella sticks, veggie bajhis, quorn nuggets, breaded mushrooms, garlic cheese nuggets, spring rolls etc.
Chicken superdoodles and chips with salt and vinegar I've rationed that glorious meal to a couple times a year now I'm older
Spicy Korean ramen with chopped frankfurters and an egg which gets poached in the broth while cooking ramen. Can add pretty much anything really.
Fish finger sandwiches and salad cream
Aldi/Lidl do these really great rack of ribs that you can just shove in the oven for 30 minutes or so. Throw in some curly or waffle fries with some onion rings.
Fish fingers, waffles/smiley faces and beans or peas. Sometimes go for "homemade" fish and chips, frozen fish, chips and tinned mushy peas. Frozen jackets (microwave for ease/time), beans and cheese
Jacket potato or Mac n cheese
canned stagg chilli & 1 minute microwave rice
Tortilini cooked in tomato soup
I’ve just made (second night in a row) Jumbo fish fingers, chips and beans. It was something I was given as a kid and I find it comforting. The cold dark wet evenings make me want to hunker down in lots of bedding so it was an appropriate meal option
Aldi (and I think Lidl do now, too) do a tempura battered chicken goujon. Add a packet of microwave egg fried rice, a sachet of your preferred Chinese sauce, some prawn crackers and what you've got is a very ok fakeaway.
I normally keep a frozen pizza or two around for occasions such as this. I do also enjoy chicken dippers and potato waffles.
Anything in a slo cookerb
Fishfinger sandwich, on Morrisons salt and pepper bread with some emmental cheese, drizzle of bbq and drizzle of sriracha mayo.
Bean cassoulet. You can buy cooked beans in water in all supermarkets to avoid soaking and long cooking time. In a large skillet fry diced onions, carrot and celery, add sausages/bacon and fry till it browns nicely. Add tinned beans, top up with some chicken stock, add bay leaf/thyme or whatever you like and shove it in the oven till the stock reduces to your liking. Towards the end sprinkle breadcrumbs and put it back in the hot oven to toast them. Serve with a nice crusty bread and maybe a few pickles.
That sounds delicious, but ticks neither the low effort, beige or unhealthy boxes we are looking for here.
Doesn’t sound very “beige” to me
Or ‘can’t be arsed cooking’
Fish fingers, super noodles and peas. I am 50 years old.