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"Cheat" recipes for those of us who can't cook / won't cook

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If you struggle with cooking, this thread may help you, and if you are a good cook perhaps you would be kind enough to contribute.

I find as I'm getting older I don't have the energy or inclination for cooking and I also don't like some foods I used to cook such as fresh meat and veg, due mainly to texture. So to avoid living on ready meals and pizzas, I've been trying to sort out recipes that are really easy using tinned, frozen and pre prepared ingredients.

Please add your own cheat recipes to this thread. I will start - mine are the what I would cook for 2 people.

My first one is a "Roast dinner"

Ingredients: Two roasted chicken breasts, frozen stuffing balls, frozen honey roast parsnips, frozen mini roast potatoes, Chicken Gravy granules.

Method: Heat oven to 200C. Fill one oven tray with half roast parsnips and half roast potatoes, and put the chicken breasts and stuffing balls in another oven tray.

Cook the parsnips and potatoes for 30 minutes, and the chicken and stuffing balls for 25 minutes (so put the chicken tray in 5 minutes after the veg one)

A few minutes before the cooking time ends, make gravy with chicken gravy granules as per instructions (I make up about half a pint for two of us)

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  • Here is another one I like - the only prep is to grate a bit of cheese, although you can buy it pre grated.

    Cheat cottage pie:

    Ingredients - 1 can minced beef with onions in gravy, 1 can baby carrots/ sliced carrots, 1 pack prepared  mashed potato (fresh, not frozen), a little grated cheese.

    Method - Put the minced beef into a casserole dish. Drain the water off the carrots and add them to the minced beef. Open the pack of mashed potato and fluff it up a bit with a fork, then put it on top of the minced beef & carrots (spread it over as evenly as.possible using the fork). Sprinkle a little grated cheese on top.

    Cook in a pre-heated oven at 200C for around 25 minutes, until cheese melts and starts to brown.

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  • Here is another one I like - the only prep is to grate a bit of cheese, although you can buy it pre grated.

    Cheat cottage pie:

    Ingredients - 1 can minced beef with onions in gravy, 1 can baby carrots/ sliced carrots, 1 pack prepared  mashed potato (fresh, not frozen), a little grated cheese.

    Method - Put the minced beef into a casserole dish. Drain the water off the carrots and add them to the minced beef. Open the pack of mashed potato and fluff it up a bit with a fork, then put it on top of the minced beef & carrots (spread it over as evenly as.possible using the fork). Sprinkle a little grated cheese on top.

    Cook in a pre-heated oven at 200C for around 25 minutes, until cheese melts and starts to brown.

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