I try to have something already put together or something the hubs can handle without tearing up the whole kitchen!

Same as Colleen for me. DH will make a takeout run, or I’ll find something in the freezer I try to keep on hand for this very reason. This just happened the other night. I had TJ’s Fettucine Alfredo in the freezer and mushrooms in the fridge. I sauteed the mushrooms to add to the pasta, along with some frozen peas. Again, takeout is always an option, too.

I just stocked up on Campbells "Chicken Gumbo Soup". It was on sale for .99cents! "0) Now...if I don't feel like cooking...I can open a can of soup! Hot and delicious! No clean up!

So, what would usually be a quicke on the lfy became dinner. Some bought but high quality chicken ravioli, the end of a jar of bought sausage tomato sauce, bought chicken and garlic sausage and handfuls of baby arugula. Too much sodium and too few fresh vegetables, but not shameful. I'm feeling encouraged, however, by your responses. I've been craving chicken but don't have a chicken. We could acquire barbecue or fried chicken from great local joints, rather than a raw one from the store--I have what to make a nice salad with along with all the leftover veg-- and I could kick the cooking can down the road another day or two....

I had so much funny cooking all that stuff! I do enjoy cooking, but cooking for a party is so much better than cooking dinner. :/

Read another thread....and just got reminded...I used to make Mapa Tofu ALL the time. LOVE IT!!!!! I should buy some TOFU tomorrow!

Lovely! Unfortunatetely, I'm still massively unmotivated. As such, I followed some ideas from other threads, too, and soaked up whatever was left in a package of royal corona beans, read a few recipes which I was in no mood to make, but got the idea to put in a couple of bay leaves, a rough hewn onion, a shriveled hand of ginger, and some barbecue seasoning that needs using. And I read that salt actually softens the skins, which no salt did not, so I put in s spoon of salt. And Then I thought of the last bit of cabbage soup. I didn't think my kale would last in a slow cook, and had no other cabbage, so I put the end of the soup into the slow cook with the beans, with some water. There are little sprouted field peas in that, but I expect they'll dissolve and leave the royal coronas to be the stars. :) There are a few tomatoes in the soup, but they weren't particularly acidic when they were fresh, and I don't think the soup is acidic. I ohpe. And I hpe the beans taste good!