You know you're lazy when.... Another post about the Keurig

You know you're lazy when your own mother buys you Keurig pods so you don't have to fill the re-fillable ones in the morning.  Because she knows you're cheap and don't like to pay so much to buy the pods.  And she knows your lazy and would prefer to just put in a pod instead of dealing with filling one.  Yup.  What a good Mama I have :)

You know you're lazy when....

Actual conversation~
DH:  Man- I hadn't realized how little you move in the morning
Me:  So? I've spent the last 3 years waking-up with a start to go feed a baby.  I prefer my mornings... calmer.
DH:  But you really don't move at all.
Me:  That's why I poured the kids cereal last night- so I wouldn't have to move this morning
DH:  So all you do is pour your coffee?
Me:  Nope.  The Keurig pours the coffee into the cup for me
DH:  So you don't even pour your own coffee in the morning?
Me: (with a grin) Nope.

Menu: Items 3 & 4

I have an incredibly lazy rotation of meals, the ingredients of which I keep on hand so I don't need to plan ahead what I'm making for dinner until right before I do.  Planning ahead is not the lazy way.  Anyway, my secret to dinner on the table, without planning, in less than 20 minutes is that all protein is pre-cooked; canned salmon, frozen shrimp, canned beans, or pre-cooked and frozen chicken/turkey/ground beef.  


#3  on my lazy menu is spaghetti.


My "Sneaky Chef" sauce:
can of carrots

"Sneaky Chef" Sauce

can of white beans
can of tomatoes
parmesan cheese


Blend.


Add to any kind of pasta, cooked and drained.  This way, there is protein and 2 vegetables in the sauce.  And cheese.  So, my son, who announces "I don't eat vegetables" even to our pediatrician (thanks by the way) doesn't know it, I don't fight with him about it, etc.  There's plenty of meals with vegetables in plain sight.  I try not to argue about it EVERY night though :)


5 ingredients
5 minutes of work.  (I don't count the other 10 that the pasta is just cooking, seeing that I'm not actually doing anything)


#4 on my lazy menu is lentils.
I love lentils.  They're so easy.  So yummy.  So lazy.


I saute onion and garlic (or just add powdered onion and garlic to the pot in the next step.  yes- I'm that lazy.)


Add:
4 c water
1 c lentils,
1 c brown rice (or white)
can of carrots

Brown rice

can of tomatoes if I'm in the mood for them
Italian Seasoning (I tend to throw it into everything- 
is there a lazier way to season things?)
2 bullion packets


Simmer 20 minutes for white rice, 50 for brown rice.


If you don't count water or seasoning, that's 
5 ingredients. 
5 minutes of work.

Peanut Butter Cookies

1 C Peanut Butter
1C sugar
1 egg

Mix and drop teaspoonfuls on greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 for 8 min.  Let cool at least 3 min.

3 ingredients
5 minutes

Peanut buttery goodness.
Gluten Free too :)

Biscuits- easy enough for even me.

I don't bake.  Really.  This, however, barely falls under the definition of baking.  They're that easy.

Pre-heat oven to 425
Combine in a large mixing bowl:
2 C flour
1 T baking powder
1 t salt

Add to that:
1/4 c oil
3/4 c milk

Mix together and knead 20-25 times until it makes a ball.
Pinch parts off, roll into a little ball (maybe baseball size?) and flatten.
Place on a greased cookie sheet.
Bake 425 for 12 min

Did you count the number of ingredients?  That's right.  Five.  It maybe takes more than 5 minutes of work, but not much.  I'll time it the next time I make them.  They're so easy I'll make them again.  That, my friends, means that you can make them too :)

Pot Pie-- the Lazy version

Felt like pot pie yesterday.  Obviously I wasn't going to make it from scratch.  Didn't have any in the house- obviously wasn't going ALL the way to the store to get some (its, seriously, 500 yards away).
What to do.

Biscuits (from the can- bake per instructions)
Jar of Gravy
Can of mixed vegetables
Turkey (leftovers that were frozen for just such an occassion)

Mix the gravy vegetables and turkey.  Top the biscuits.  Done.

LESS THAN 5 ingredients
5 minutes

To be less lazy, you can make gravy with a flour/butter roux and boullion dissolved in water or broth
or use frozed mixed vegetables and steam them/microwave them
or make biscuits.  I'll blog about the biscuits next.  They're super easy.  Obviously, or I wouldn't do it.

Super Soup

I love soup.  It is a lazy mom's dream.  If its winter, and you don't make soup all the time, you are not a lazy mom.  I'm sorry if this hurts your feelings.  The truth does sometimes.  If you want to strive for efficient laziness, get on the soup wagon.  Two days ago my husband, as he was leaving for work, said "I'd love some soup tomorrow night!"  Me:  "Sweet"  and I promptly forgot about it.  Until he called to say he was on his way home the next day (he often does 30 hr shifts).  Oh yeah.  Soup.

I boiled some water
threw in some rice
added 2 cans of black beans (rinsed)
2 cubes of bouillon
a handful of Italian seasoning
and a bag of frozen vegetables.

Boiled.
Simmered for 20 minutes for the rice to cook.
Done.
Dinner.
Easy.

5 minutes of work
5 ingredients