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Chili, sloppy joes, the casserole aisle.

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Dump-and-walk-away vegetarian chili

Ten cans, one packet, one crockpot. Nobody chops anything.

Serves 6 to 8, or one person for most of a week5 minutes of you, 6 hours of the crockpot

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From your kitchen

a crockpot, a can opener, salt.

What to do

  1. Open every can. Drain the beans and the corn. Do not drain the tomatoes or the chiles.
  2. Everything into the crockpot. Add the seasoning packet, a tablespoon of minced onion and about a cup of the broth. Stir once.
  3. Lid on. Low for 6 hours, or high for 3. Walk away.
  4. Taste it. Salt it. That is the recipe.

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Pizza mac

Three things. Your inner nine-year-old is about to lose it.

Serves 2, or 1 with no regretsThe time it takes to boil water, plus 4 minutes

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From your kitchen

a pot, water, the butter and milk the box asks for.

What to do

  1. Make the mac and cheese exactly the way the box tells you. The box has been doing this longer than we have.
  2. Stir in about half the can of pizza sauce. Taste. Add more if it is not pizza enough yet.
  3. Oregano on top. That is the part that makes it pizza and not tomato mac. Do not skip it.

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Lentil soup for people who own a crockpot

The lentils do the work. You do nothing.

Serves 6, freezes well, reheats better5 minutes of you, 8 hours of the crockpot

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From your kitchen

a crockpot, a sieve for rinsing the lentils, salt and pepper.

What to do

  1. Rinse the lentils. Tip them into the crockpot with both cartons of broth, the tomatoes, the cumin, the onion, the garlic and the paprika.
  2. Lid on. Low for 8 hours, or high for 4. Go and live your life.
  3. Twenty minutes before eating, stir in the drained green beans. Salt it properly; lentils need more than you think.
  4. Serve. Freeze what is left. It gets better.

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Sloppy joes

One pound of beef and a shelf. Fifteen minutes.

Serves 4 sandwiches, or 3 large ones15 minutes, all of them at the stove

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From the grocery store

1 lb ground beef, 4 hamburger buns. Any store, on the way home. Not in the cart button; we do not sell beef.

From your kitchen

a pan, a wooden spoon, a spoonful of sugar, salt and pepper.

What to do

  1. Brown the beef in the pan with the minced onion. Pour off most of the fat. Leave a little; it is flavour.
  2. Tomato sauce, ketchup, mustard, garlic powder, chili powder, a spoonful of sugar. Stir. Simmer 10 minutes, until it is thick enough to stay on a bun, mostly.
  3. Salt and pepper. Taste. More ketchup if it wants sweet, more mustard if it wants sharp.
  4. Onto the buns. It is called sloppy. Manage your expectations and your napkins.

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Chicken and rice bake

One dish, one can, one envelope. The oven does the rest.

Serves 4 to 610 minutes of you, 75 minutes of the oven

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From the grocery store

about 1.5 lb boneless chicken thighs. Any store, on the way home. Not in the cart button; we do not sell chicken.

From your kitchen

a 9 by 13 baking dish, foil, an oven at 350, salt and pepper.

What to do

  1. Oven to 350. In the dish, stir the dry rice, the soup, the broth and half the envelope until the soup gives up and mixes in.
  2. Chicken on top. Salt, pepper and the other half of the envelope over the chicken.
  3. Foil on, tight. 60 minutes. Foil off, 15 more, until the rice has drunk the broth and the top has some colour.
  4. Let it sit 5 minutes. Then it is dinner, and the dish it was made in is the only dish.

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Crockpot pulled pork

A pork shoulder, a bottle, an envelope. Eight hours of nothing.

Serves 8, or 4 with leftovers you will not regret5 minutes of you, 8 hours of the crockpot

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From the grocery store

a 3 to 4 lb pork shoulder (Boston butt), buns. Any store, on the way home. Not in the cart button; we do not sell pork.

From your kitchen

a crockpot, two forks, salt and pepper.

What to do

  1. Rub the pork with the chili powder, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Into the crockpot, fat side up.
  2. Stir the BBQ sauce, the onion envelope and half the salsa together. Pour it over. Lid on. Low for 8 hours. Leave.
  3. Two forks. It falls apart on contact; that is what the 8 hours were for. Stir it back into the juices.
  4. On the buns. It makes more than you think. Tomorrow it goes in a tortilla pocket and becomes a different dinner.

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Chicken and stuffing bake

Thanksgiving on a Tuesday, in one dish, nobody invited.

Serves 4 to 610 minutes of you, 45 minutes of the oven

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From the grocery store

about 1.5 lb boneless chicken breasts or thighs. Any store, on the way home. Not in the cart button; we do not sell chicken.

From your kitchen

a 9 by 13 baking dish, foil, an oven at 375, salt and pepper.

What to do

  1. Oven to 375. Chicken in the dish, salted and peppered. Drained green beans around it.
  2. Stir the soup with half a cup of the broth and pour it over the chicken.
  3. Stir the dry stuffing with the rest of the broth until it is damp, not soup. Spread it over the top. Paprika.
  4. Foil on for 25 minutes, foil off for 20, until the chicken is cooked through and the top is crisp. One dish. Nobody invited.

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The tuna noodle thing

Every family has a version. This is the one with no chopping.

Serves 420 minutes

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From your kitchen

a pot, a colander, a spoon.

What to do

  1. Boil half the bag of elbows. Drain. Back in the pot.
  2. Soup, half a can of water, the onion, the tuna, the peas. Stir over low heat until it is hot and holds together, 4 minutes.
  3. Crushed cheese crackers on top. Nobody bakes it. Nobody needs to.

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Chili mac

A box and a can. Your inner nine-year-old is back for seconds.

Serves 2 to 3The time it takes to boil water, plus 3 minutes

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From your kitchen

a pot, a can opener, a bowl.

What to do

  1. Make the mac. The box knows how.
  2. Heat the chili in the same pot after, or in the microwave, we are not the police.
  3. Chili over mac. Frank's. Stir or do not stir; both are correct.

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Cornbread-and-chili bowls

The cornbread is cheddar jalapeno. The chili is two cans. Nobody will ask questions.

Serves 430 minutes, 25 of them the cornbread baking

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From your kitchen

an 8 by 8 pan, an oven at the temperature on the box, whatever the box asks for - an egg, milk, a little oil, a pot.

What to do

  1. Make the cornbread the way the box says. It takes about 25 minutes in the oven; the chili takes 5 on the stove, so do the cornbread first.
  2. Heat both cans of chili while the cornbread cools enough to cut.
  3. A square of cornbread in a bowl, chili over it, jalapenos on top. A fork. Nothing else.

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Chili dogs

Hot dogs from the store. The chili, the mustard and the onion from the shelf.

Serves 4, two dogs each10 minutes

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From the grocery store

8 hot dogs, 8 buns. Any store, on the way home. Not in the cart button; we do not sell hot dogs.

From your kitchen

a pot or a pan for the dogs, a small pot for the chili, napkins, plural.

What to do

  1. Heat the chili in a small pot, low.
  2. Cook the hot dogs however you cook hot dogs. Boil, pan, grill, microwave. No judgement here.
  3. Dog in bun, chili on top, mustard stripe, pinch of onion. Eat over the sink.

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Three-can tomato soup and a grilled cheese

Three cans make a soup that tastes like it was not three cans.

Serves 415 minutes, the sandwiches included

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From the grocery store

8 slices of bread, 8 slices of cheese, butter. Any store, on the way home. Not in the cart button; we do not sell cheese.

From your kitchen

a pot, a pan, a spatula, a can opener.

What to do

  1. Both soups, the tomatoes, the evaporated milk and the garlic in a pot. Low heat. Stir now and then. That is the soup.
  2. Butter the outside of the bread, cheese in the middle, pan on medium. Flip when it is brown. You have done this before.
  3. Soup in a bowl, sandwich cut on the diagonal because it tastes better that way and everyone knows it.

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