Cheese omelet plus whatever else I have laying around.
Cacio e pepe. Make spaghetti, save a little of the pasta water. Drain the spag, put it back in the hot pot, add butter, grated pecorino romano, pepper. StirStirStir. Add a splash of water if needed. Plate and eat.
See here for more simple meal techniques. The thread didn’t start that way but it … evolved.
Egg drop soup. Boil 2 cups water, add a packet of tonkotsu concentrate and a couple dashes of chili oil and sesame oil. Whisk 3 eggs until homogenous, remove the broth from the heat, and slowly pour in the eggs while gently stirring. Optionally toss in some chopped green onions or, if I have them on hand, throw in some frozen mini chicken wontons while boiling the water and let them cook for a few minutes before adding egg.
Or Scotch woodcock. Toast two slices of bread, butter them, spread a thin layer of Gentleman’s Relish (I.e. spiced anchovy paste) on top, then top with scrambled eggs.
Probably either:
English Muffin Pizzas – English muffin, tomato sauce and shredded cheese
or
Grilled Cheese Sandwich----White bread and cheese (sometimes I add Pizza Sauce to make Grilled Pizza Sandwich. I like pizza.)
Australia’s national dish is Vegemite on toast.
I wonder if this is @swampbear s recipe
Gulyas leves:
Chicken thighs, onions, lard, paprika. In that order of volume. Sweat slowly in a Dutch oven not letting the chicken brown or paprika scorch until onions have fallen apart and chicken is fully cooked.
If you wanna get all fancy n shit, add some sour cream with a tbs of flour mixed in at the end to make paprikash.
Even stirring is mostly optional after the first ten minutes.
@solost describes the kind of quick meal I might make, but another is quesadillas:
heat pan with some olive oil. If desired, throw in some onions, peppers, and/or other veggies and saute for a bit, adding salt, pepper and cumin to taste.
If not desired, move immediately to next step: spread some drained canned beans (or refried beans) on one side of a flour tortilla, top with cheese.
Add the vegetables to the tortilla if using. Otherwise just fold the tortilla over the beans and cheese.
Fry in pan on both sides. Eat contentedly with hot sauce on the side.
Microwave a hot dog for 15 seconds.
Slap it on a slice of bread.
Add mustard and eat.
Repeat until full.
What, no onions?
You use bread?
Grilled cheese sandwich or hot dog with condiments would be my simplest, I think. I almost never cook so either one of those would automatically be in the top 5 or so for most complex, too.
This sounds scrumptious! (and easy)
Cheese on a Cracker. Only because the knife was already there.
As my husband doesn’t do eggs, our quick meals focus on cheese.
Quesadillas: Shredded cheeese, canned jalepenos, black olives. Might open a small can of black beans and add those as well.
Might do the same with tortilla chips, but in the oven. Normally without beans.
Grilled cheese is possible, but as we often don’t have bread in the house, I’ll do sort of one pot mac & cheese. Throw some frozen green beans in another pot for something green.
step one open peanut butter
step two open strawberry jam/jely/perserves
step three grab big spoon
step four spon out one to the other in turn so you get some of each
step five eat
- Put a few Chorizo slices and some American cheese on Pitta bread
- Put it in the oven
- Take it out.
That’s it.
My colleagues loved the smell and were astonished by the simplicity of the “recipe”.
Does opening a can of Spam or corned beef hash and eating it cold qualify as “preparing a meal”? 
Has to have butter as well!
One of my favourite summer meals was avocado on toast. Toast a couple of slices of bread. While they are toasting, split open an avocado. Smash as much as you like on the toast. Add black pepper, salt, & lemon or lime juice. Add slices of tomato if you like. Vegemite under the avocado slices is a thing now (although I never did). Chacun a son goût.