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remove prawns from freezer. defrost beforehand if you're organised. pour boiling water on. turn hob on to pre-heat. drain of first lot of water straight after as this will absorb alot of coldness. put some more water on.

put sauce of choice (curry/sweet & sour/that peanutty one/whatever you like) in pan on hob. put mircowave rice (uncle bens - pilau/plain/long grain/basmati) on for 2 mins on our hi-tec microwave. stir sauce.

put rice in pan straight after it beeps, stir. drain water off prawns and put in pan. stir and eat from pan to save on washing up.

and there's nothing wrong with prawns you facists.

What's right with them don't you mean, the cockroaches of the sea!

I'd have to go with slam bacon under grill, add wholemeal baguette and lightly toast, butter then add bacon and melt blue cheese over.  Season with a little sea salt and fresh cracked black pepper.

I don't do this one anymore and it's a tad embarassing but here goes.  Get one packet of flavoured smash, mix up in large bowl with boiling water then add a can of those hot dog sausages and mix into a meaty potatoe combo.  Season with a little English mustard.

Prawns are wrong!

Buy sandwich from M&S, open carton, eat.

Prawns are good, but then I love seafood in general.

A family size ASDA pizza is the best dinner in proportion to effort. cheap too.

Preferbly of the stonebaked, smothered in meating toppings after flirting with the bird on the counter :)

Piemonte - I am with you on this, live over west swindon and theres about 2 fit lasses on teh checkjouts, obviously this is where I queue!

Buy some meatballs in a tomato sauce, along with some cheese and submarine (torpedo) rolls.

Heat meatballs as per instructions. Grate cheese. When meatballs are cooked thoroughly throughout, transfer into the rolls and sprinkle cheese on top

Alternatively intead of a roll you could buy some super noodles, and have noodles and meatballs with cheese grated on top.

In comparison, i had the worst meal ever the other day... due to a lack of resources, i resigned myself to having a bowl of Uncle Bens microwave rice, mixed with Heinz BBQ sauce, with a chunk of corned beef on the side... oh the shame.

That is inspiring stuff!

Tell me about it. I even bought SPAM yesterday...  :(

Oo dear Dave.

i did treat myself to Sainsburys fresh carbonara ravioli, 2 for £2.50 as well... and some vino blanco.

It's not all bad then.

Payday!  8)

Crack the spam open :beers:

I did myself one of those pre packed ceaser salads the other night, with a whole pack of bacon mixed in (fat cut off :mrgreen: ) seved with a side bowl of jersey royal spuds lightly covered in marg & garlic and herb sauce.

BEST SALAD EVER. scientific fact.

Prawn's are indeed the shits of the sea.  I prefer, bacon in the georgie foreman for a good ten minutes, or until crisp, whilst they're cooking kettle on and hey presto, tea and bacon, one of the greatest food and drink combo's the good Lord ever invented.

Anybody tried the bacon and chip butty? lots of butter and hp sauce?

I haven't either but I thought about it and it sounds rather good

Dave are you poor or something? you have to buy spam?  do you want me to post you a nice homemade chicken casserole?

Bacon's the best!  I love the pig.

George Foreman grills are ace. ours is called Ted.

Ours is called George.   :wink:

Do you clean your fat drip tray every time you use it or wait until the fat's about to overflow?

I was poor, then i got paid and found out how much my bonus is next month.  So as i was shopping, i decided to buy SPAM as it made me chuckle.  It just made the whole Sainsburys experience a bit better.

overflow, or let the mrs do it!

I reckon the optimum cleaning point is after three uses, after that I get a little cautious.

Steak and chips. Cooked at the pub.

No effort whatsoever.

Aha, but the effort is getting to the pub

what the fuck?

bacon and tea? breadless you loon?

thats not effort si you fool, its reward if anything.

Hey i'm no fool, chump. It's an effort for me to get out of bed most days even if I am going to the pub. Surely less effort to booze it up at home. Not that i'm dissing the pub, the pub is great and it is a reward when your there, for the labouring journey to get to it

i didnt mean anything by the fool comment, si

I didn't mean anything by the chump comment either, just went a bit Mr T for a second  :wink:

calling it effort to get to the pub depends on the degree of effort expended. if i had to walk 45 minutes to get to the pub for my steak and chips I'd agree with you, but on the other hand if it's next door or someone drives/carries/puts me in a wheelbarrow and pushes me there then it is very little effort. certainly less effort than actually cooking something yourself.

Tbh the steak pie and chips was a bit of a crap example but otherwise i'm agreeing with you - you can put pie and chips in the oven and leave them there til cooked - not much effort is it?

its not steak pie its a steak

pub steak and chips is my favourite meal. i put no effort into making it

thus it is the best dinner in proportion to effort ever

sorry  :oops:

i had my mind on pies...steak pie

you could put a steak under the grill and the chips in the oven and you wouldn't even need to leave the house. no effort.

yeah but oven chips are nowhere near as good as pub deep fried

if it was home id rather have roast potatoes with my steak. which is more effort

but we're not talking about what you'd rather have, we're talking about what would be the least effort.

Get a fucking frier

this post confuses me

what im saying is that for me a pub steak and chips is the best dinner in proportion to effort

beginning, middle and end of

but you could have steak and chips at home for less effort.

actually you said there was

I think a home ordered take-away steak and chips would require less effort, so it would mean that the meal:effort ratio would be greatly maximised. Substitute favourite food for steak and chips if needs be

less effort but the dinner wouldn't be as good

proportionally the quality of a pub steak and chips outweighs any effort involved getting to the pub so much so that it is a better dinner in proportion to effort than a home made steak and chips or any other home-made meal

see take-away post