Super Quick & Easy Recipes When You're Feeling Too Lazy To Cook

1. Cheap and Easy Spinach and Ricotta Pasta

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On a budget? Look to this super simple fettuccine with creamy spinach and ricotta sauce.


What you’ll need:

250g Woolworths fettuccine uncooked

2 tbsp olive oil

2 cloves garlic crushed

1/2 cup milk

300g Woolworths full-fat ricotta

125g frozen chopped spinach thawed and drained

1 pinch of salt and pepper


Get the recipe: Cheap and Easy Spinach and Ricotta Pasta



2. French Chicken Rissoles

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Here’s an easy meal the whole family will enjoy that’s packed with flavor and so easy to make. You’ll have these chicken rissoles on the table less than half an hour after walking in the door.


What you’ll need:

500g chicken mince

1 cup mashed potato

1 carrot, grated

40g sachet French onion soup mix

1 tsp seeded mustard

1 tbsp flour

1 tbsp cream

1 tbsp oil


Get the recipe: French Chicken Rissoles



3. Beef and Vegetable Soup

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A healthy, warming and super easy winter soup you can also make in a slow cooker.


What you’ll need:

500g gravy beef chopped

1/2 cup pearl barley washed

2 onions

3 potatoes

2 carrots

3 celery sticks

1/2 turnip

4 cups water

3 beef stock cubes

1 pinch of salt and pepper

1/2 swede


Get the recipe: Beef and Vegetable Soup



4. Easy Cauliflower and Bacon Soup

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A quick and easy soup to prepare, using only five ingredients. A great way to get kids to eat cauliflower. My kids devoured this and assumed that it was pumpkin soup because of the lovely orange color.


What you’ll need:

1 cauliflower roughly chopped whole

3 carrots roughly chopped

1 onion chopped

150g bacon rashers pieces

2 vegetable stock cubes


Get the recipe: Easy Cauliflower and Bacon Soup



5. Aussie Chow Mein

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Asian-style beef mince and a mild vegetable curry. Children like this and it is a good way to introduce more vegetables and curry flavors.


What you’ll need:

1kg beef steak minced

200g fresh green beans sliced

1/2 cabbage fresh sliced

1 cup celery stalk diced

50g chicken noodle instant soup

2 cups water

1 onion diced

1 tbs curry powder

1 tbs olive oil

1 pinch of salt and pepper to taste


Get the recipe: Aussie Chow Mein



6. Mum's Porcupine Meatballs

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An old family favorite, we used to have it with mash and vegetables. Also nice with pasta, on its own, or on a bread roll with cheese. Tastes even better the next day.


What you’ll need:

750g beef mince

1/2 cup rice uncooked

1 onion small finely diced

1 tsp salt

1 tsp pepper

2 tsp dried mixed herbs

2 x 500g Rosella canned condensed tomato soup

1 1/4 cups of water


Get the recipe: Mum's Porcupine Meatballs



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