This is a good, basic crustless pizza recipe. You can add as many pizza toppings as you want, though!
4 oz. Mozzarella cheese
1 lb. ground beef
1/4 c. tomato juice
1 c. green pepper
1 lg. onion
1 c. mushrooms
Cook ground beef, and when almost done, add all vegetables and tomato juice. When cooked to your preference, place mixture in a baking dish and top with cheese and place under broiler until melted.
However, in a pinch, I’ve been known to simply scrape toppings off of a well-topped pizza (say, Meat Lovers), and just cut them up with knife and fork and eat them.
Neat - I did not know that! I live in Apple Valley, so it’s not that far away. I’ll have to make sure we stop by one to check it out when we are in the area!
Instant ramen. Start the water boiling, toss in some chopped onions/garlic and a couple handfuls of frozen mixed veggies. Add noodles, maybe some left-over diced ham, then crack an egg over the whole thing and stir it in. Add salt, pepper, half the season packet, and nom.
My go-to food, if i haven’t been shopping for weeks and the cupboard is bare, is homemade bread. I never run out of flour, and if I have a little meat or cheese, I can make filled rolls. Other than that, chicken flavor ramen cooked with an egg in it. Mmm.
I recently found a great frozen lunch/dinner review site - they seem to love TJ’s as mush as we dopers: Heat, Eat, Review
Uncle Ben’s Bistro Express Brown Rice: 2 minutes in the microwave
President’s Choice Whole Wheat Couscous: 5 minutes on the stove, and easily flavoured with vegetable broth, or herbs
Baked Beans (vegetarian): heated, cold or on toast
President’s Choice The World’s Best Meatless Chicken Breast: We always have a box in our freezer. The taste is fabulous and they are very easy to prepare. We often have them sliced on top of a spinach-based salad, or whole with the aforementioned Uncle Ben’s Bistro Express Brown Rice.
I love having easily prepared healthy foods available. The easier they are to make, the more often they get eaten.
If I lived near in the States, anything from Morningstar Farms or Quorn (vegetarian convenience food nirvana) would be my choice, and if I lived near Trader Joe’s, my list would include many of their options. They have these yummy little quiches (with green chile and Monterey Jack cheese, I think) that are fantastic. It’s probably better for me that I live in Canada.
My standard “too tired/frazzled to dink around” breakfast is peanut butter on apple slices. It’s fine for dinner too when I just don’t want to hassle with cooking. I don’t really like eating heavy meals in the evening anyway; they make me feel too bloated and logy.
Hey, I thought I was the only one who did the wheat tortilla/peanut butter/banana thing! I never thought of heating it up first though. Genius!
A nuked spud topped with whatever’s handy is also a favorite low-fuss meal. A frequent version is a sprinkle of cheese and a spoonful of hot giardinaria.
I love steam-in-the-bag veggies. My favorite (don’t remember the brand) has white corn and asparagus pieces along with other…stuff.
These things. They take about 1/2 an hour in the oven, but hey - for frozen chicken kiev they’re damn tasty. And cheap when they’re on sale for $10 for 10! Husband loves the Cordon Bleu ones. I think they’re kinda too rich.
Otherwise it’s the stuff I mentioned in this thread, or I’ll take a piece of toast, put a slice of cheese on it, fry up some ham lunch meat, put that on the cheese, and on top of that throw a fried egg.
Frozen Waffles are always good, too. Or Chef Boyardee Spaghetti and Meatballs.
If I’m lucky enough to have my son at home, I’ll do Hillshire Farm smoked sausage and Kraft M&C.
Totino’s party pizzas. 3 minutes in the microwave and you have a tasty pseudo-pizza! Also, if I really don’t want to wait 3 minutes I will resort to breakfast cereal, more than likely Cap’n Crunch or Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
My husband introduced this one to me when I met him: Ramen noodles, and when they’re done put a slice of cheese in there and melt it. Yuck, you’d think! But yum!
My staple dinner when I was a bachelor:
two pieces of toast
tofu (spread it on toast)
spaghetti sauce (tomato sauce, flavour of choice, in my case tomato sauce from a can simmered with garlic and onions and then saved in the refrigerator) to put on the tofu
Voilà! Instant dinner.
Otherwise (as already mentioned in the thread): avocado and crackers. Doesn’t need anything else, but if you want, mash up the avocado with some crushed garlic and lemon juice.
A can of Bushes Honey Baked Beans, drained. Heat n’ serve with B&M canned brown bread with raisins.
A toasted English muffin with peanut butter on the first half and honey on the second (for dessert).
There always seems to be a container of plain old leftover elbow macaroni hidden away in the refrigerator, and a little shredded cheese, a pat of butter, a touch of hot mustard or ketchup or salsa - nuke - eat - makes for the easiest of noshes.
I love those Totino’s Party Pizzas, and they’re always less than $1. (The Mexican one is my favorite.) I bake rather than nuke, though.
Lipton Noodles & Sauce was my dinner many a night in college or when I was single and lived alone. The Alfredo is still my favorite. The Lipton Rice & Sauce was not bad, especially the cheddar broccoli or the Spanish rice.
I still like Spaghettios. (Hangs head in shame.)
My new find is these pre-cooked, frozen sausage patties at Wal-Mart, about 18 for $5-6. I can nuke one in 30 seconds, toast an English muffin, slap a slice of pepperjack or cheddar cheese on it, and there’s a handy breakfast sandwich.
My Mom clued me in to Bear Creek Creamy Potato Soup mix, for which you add water, cook for 15 minutes, and it turns into a surprisingly good potato soup that will feed about 6 people.
