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I have so many categories of "lazy meal" because it all depends on what kind of lazy I'm feeling.
Don't want to stand around a hob or worry about burning something? Slow cooker mushroom rissoto or freezer soup (during the month I add odd bits of unused veg and fresh herbs into a zip lock to make vegetable soup with, this means on a lazy day in just dump the whole bag in, pour over some water, press a button and walk away)
Don't want to chop things? Roast sweet potato with canned corn and lebneh/yoghurt/sour cream (stab the yam with a fork and "roast" in the microwave for extra laziness)
Don't want to wash up crockery? Cous cous, Walnut, and cranberry/sultana warm salad (it can be prepared in the same bowl you eat from, which can also totally be a disposable container)
Don't want to wait for something to cook? A slab of cold Japanese tofu with pickled radish & carrot, cucumber, spring onion and whatever sauce (soy, ponzu, teriyaki, etc)
Another "quick cook" go to is what I call "fakers pho". I have pho stock cubes, and a ready to serve shiritaki hot pot noodles. So I just boil the kettle, pour the water over the noodles and cubes, add raw mushroom or tofu (if you had rotisserie chicken in the fridge that would be perfect to rip into) and rip up some coriander & spring onion from outside.
Then there's "don't want to do anything" which is a carton of up-and-go (a pre-made meal replacement shake basically) and a banana or raw carrot to munch on.
But at a certain point my laziness will be bad enough that "bedtime for dinner" sounds good to me.
To be 100% honest, that's just the way to go, lazy or not.
After years of only making baked potatoes in the microwave, about two years ago I decided, "Fuck it, I'm over-achieving today. I'm gonna make real baked potatoes. Baked. In the goddamn oven. Like a real chef. Hell yeah."
It was awful, took forever, had to bake the snot out of them, and in the end they were horribly overcooked on the outside and still 'fookin RAW' in the center.
Complete waste of time and effort.
I could have made them AND ate them AND cleaned up...TWICE, in the time they spent in the oven.
I'll never do baked potatoes any other way than the microwave ever again.
This is my opinion too - you might be able to convince me to roast it in the air fryer, but I'm more likely to cook it in the microwave and then just do a minute in the air fryer to crisp it up (our oven's broiler/grill is broken, otherwise I'd crisp it up under that)
Unless I'm making jacket potatoes for more than 5 people (in which case a big baking tray in the oven makes sense) the microwave is just so fool proof for a cooked spud.