Laziness can be a very dangerous habit. It allows you to devolve into slothful living. Nowhere is this more apparent than meal laziness. You can’t be bothered to cook so choose unwise takeaway options. A lot. Or, if you use your own kitchen but suffer from can’t-be-bothered syndrome, your freezer may have meat pies, pizza and breaded fish, as I admit mine does.
In fact, I was at the supermarket the other night at dinnertime and I found myself looking at all the frozen foods that seemed to only need heating. What an easy way to have dinner sorted, I thought, and grabbed two packets.
When I got them home and I read the cooking instructions, one of the items was going to take longer to heat in the oven than I usually take to prepare dinner anyway. So back into the freezer it went to be used some other time when the dreaded lazybones sickness hits me but I have the time to twiddle my thumbs while it cooks in the oven.
In contrast, a couple of days later I cooked up a heap of vegetables (cut large, so I didn’t do much preparation) in some stock then whizzed them into a deliciously thick, smooth soup. The next night I cooked a big dish of diced vegetables then stirred them into some leftover soup for a chunky style soup that tasted totally different even though it was made from the same ingredients. I really didn’t feel like making dinner, but having leftovers and a loose plan stopped me from making a poor decision.
The point is, the actual work of dicing the vegetables probably took less than five minutes. No one is too lazy to do a five-minute chore. (Are they?) So the lesson is to prepare some part of the meal in advance so you have a go-to option for the days when you’re feeling lazy. I know I’ve said it before, but I really must put a heap of simple, fast recipe ideas into a folder for the days when I’m feeling particularly uninspired. I also need to spend some time in the kitchen to restock my freezer with precooked meat-centric dishes. My family’s health is too important to squander it through laziness.