Last- Minute Dinner Ideas

[Smowball]

What are your fallback meal ideas when you've not defrosted anything/ got anything prepared at all and you need to get something on the table within an hour? I've had one of those days and I haven't got anything sorted for dinner tonight. Minds gone blank!

[Mamyalynne]

Stand well back or use a splatter guard.

[Smowball]

Hmmm, that does bring back a vague memory of heating some tinned potatoes in the microwave years and years ago and they literally exploded everywhere!

[Islay]

Tinned potatoes make a great potato salad but can't really be cooked anyway other than boiling.

[Jackdaw33]

Tinned potatoes are already cooked; they only require re-heating if used with a hot dish.

[pastafreak]

Cheese,spring onion and sun-dried tomato omelette...grilled goats cheese and crispy bacon...
...tinned corned beef hash and fried tomatoes...

[DTCwordfan]

Adult Mac Cheese - onions/leeks/bacon sauteed off, some chipotle and pepper added. Tagliatelle or Macaroni to boil

1st or second up, make a white roux then add the cheese....

Assemble, cherry toms on the top and give it 20 mins @ 200C

and Yum.

[EDDIE51]

Tinned potatoes are so full of water ,yes I know they are 90% water anyway, that frying them is not an option. I have tried it and it does not work, the water makes the fat spit all over the place!

[EDDIE51]

Tinned steak with the tinned potatoes sliced up on top as a beef hotpot! Just heat it in the oven. Tinned steak is pre-cooked.

[Smowball]

Another great idea

[EDDIE51]

I was a 'bit tongue in cheek' about the tinned steak, but I went to my cupboard and found I had a tin of beef stew. I put it in a small dish and covered it with some leftover mashed potato then bunged it in the oven. It was a good cheap and fast meal . I also make cottage pie with tinned minced beef and instant mash, usually when we are on holiday in a caravan. Works really well and no one guesses how quick and easy it is!

[Tilly2]

My fallback meal is chips, eggs and peas. They are always available.

[Bazile]

Word has it ,that there are numerous outlets out there who do take aways - delivered directly to your door .

Forget about all this tin stuff ,etc and put your feet up , while you wait for the delivery

[EDDIE51]

^ It's the cost, for the price of a takeaway for a family of 4 I can make them a main meal a day for a week!

[Islay]

//It's the cost, for the price of a takeaway for a family of 4 I can make them a main meal a day for a week!

Yes but if its all tinned steak and tinned potatoes - I'll take the takeaway and starve the rest of the week thanks!!

[ummmm]

It's true...I wouldn't touch your food, Eddie, with a barge pole. Even the thought of tinned meat make me shudder.

[Tilly2]

Sainsbury's tinned stewed steak is a good standby but I wouldn't use tinned potato.

[gness]

Tuna....a house is not a home without tins of tuna in brine or spring water.......:-)

[zebo]

Smoked gammon ham, chips and a lightly fried egg over the chips, chips in the oven as we speak.

[anneasquith]

Pasta, pasta, or pasta :-)

[Tilly2]

Anne, you can't just eat pasta, can you?