Your Favourite Convenience Food

[catrina]

I adore homemade mayo, but I eat it once every 6 months if that, which is why I don't make it myself. Pesto I will make in the summer when the basil is plentiful, but I find the jarred de cecco stuff from Italy is fine in the winter.

 

[Miscellaneous]

How do you make Mayo???

My convenience food has to be mini pizzas

 

[Herbsman.]

eggs and vinegar and stuff

or tofu if youre one of them vegan freaks

 

[snorbury]

pasta

 

[Callie]

I think homemade mayo would put me off eating it - seeing how much oil goes into it

Its bascially egg yolks with a bit of vinegar and flavouring (?mustard or whatever) whisked until creamy with oil drizzled in (very slowly at first) and whisked until a suitable consistancy. It suses quite a lot of oil and involves a lot of whisking although you can do it in a blender doodah iirc


I would like to nominate jars of pesto, it is easy to make but I dont often have fresh basil lying around to make it.

 

[Nixon]

lidl used to do really nice croque monsueirs with proper cheese and ham but they've stopped doing them houmous is pretty good too..my gf's housemate regularly makes loads,so we always have some knocking about,brie,salami and sweet chili jam is the best fast sandwich to make.

 

[sojourner]

9p chicken noodles - ace for snatched lunch, or when I'm ill

 

[mrsfran]

How do you make Mayo???

My convenience food has to be mini pizzas

How to make mayonnaise. It's really easy.

 

[maximilian ping]

Poncey one: Marks and Spencers 'nutritionally balanced' range Andhra Lamb Curry - gorgeous and about the only ready meal i can stomach
Normal one: Heinz Ravioli

a sarnie as 'convenience food' is slightly cheating. you do actually have to create something

and adding too many bits to things ie risotto is starting to become a bit inconvenient

 

[Kanda]

Supernoodle Sandwiches

 

[May Kasahara]

The English Provender Company's Very Lazy range: http://www.englishprovender.com/

I use the very lazy jars of chili and ginger on an almost daily basis.

That has shocked me missfran!

*mops brow*

My favourite convenience food: spaghetti with some sort of tomato sauce from a jar. It's totally indulgent since I make much better tommy sauce than you ever get out of a jar, but sometimes even that small effort is too much to bother with.

 

[mrsfran]

I'm not a culinary saint! The EPG products are very good quality and very handy.

(And don't tell anyone, but I secretly love cup-a-soups too)

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Tinned kidney beans. Saves a lot of faffing about.

 

[art of fact]

penne, a big dollop of pesto, squirt of tomato puree, chili flakes, red onion, cheese... wicked!

 

[hiccup]

Blue Dragon chicken and chilli noodles Love em.

 

[Treebeak]

Baked beans and baby sausages on toast, supernoodles, batchelors pasta n sauce, frankfurters eaten cold from the packet dipped in tomato sauce or mustard, sweetcorn mixed with salad cream eaten from the tin, baby pickled beetroot from the jar.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

pot noodles

fray bentos pies

 

[Biddlybee]

Pasta & pesto

Might try some of that risotto though - still l not learned how to make one myself

 

[dolly's gal]

waffles topped with heinz spaghetti bolognaise. kiddy comfort food. and also lush.

 

[Biddlybee]

Beans on toast with cheese on the top - great meal!

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Heinz Tomato soup with Cheddar cheese on cream crackers.

 

[jodal]

Filled pasta and salad. Max 10mins cooking time.

 

[tarannau]

West Indian patties and frozen chinese dumplings for me. Bit of a sucker for Chicken Kevins too, well Kievs anyway.

I've got to admit that I don't like that pronto Risotto stuff too much - it's a bit salty and artifical tasting generally. That said, I've had a pack of the mushroom stuff sat on top of my shelves for ages - perhaps I'll give it another try tonight

 

[maximilian ping]

West Indian patties

yumsers. i havent had one of those since i lived in west london 10 years ago. used to be addicted

 

[tarannau]

So many differently cooked styles of pattie too, from crumbliest yellow cornflour pastry through to crisper affairs. And different types of filling too - from the moistest pastes through to big chunks of veg and meat, with varying levels of peppers and spice. The search for the perfect patty is ongoing - it's a life mission I tell you.

Fortunately, we're not badly stocked for them around here. I'm currently developing a love of the curry chicken dumpling too - one of the finest snack developments in recent times...

 

[girasol]

supper noodles (must be mild curry flavour)
or
pasta with tuna/mayo/sweetcorn mixed together
or
scrambled eggs with chorizo or bacon lardons
or/and
beans on toast

 

[ringo]

Fried egg sandwich in baguette with tomato ketchup and burger mustard.
Fruit.

 

[PacificOcean]

Pepperonni Chicago Town Pizzas are my favourite and ready in only three minutes too.

 

[Dubversion]

I've got to admit that I don't like that pronto Risotto stuff too much - it's a bit salty and artifical tasting generally. That said, I've had a pack of the mushroom stuff sat on top of my shelves for ages - perhaps I'll give it another try tonight

well it's not like making it yourself, but compared with a lot of convenience stuff it's pretty good going. Top it up with fresh stuff - olives, peppers and the like - and it's pretty good

 

[SubZeroCat]

Baked beans and baby sausages on toast, supernoodles, batchelors pasta n sauce, frankfurters eaten cold from the packet

Same

Although I try not to eat convenience/junk food.

I want some of that risotto though, Dub's sold it so well