7 Affordable Lazy Dinners You Can Make in 10 Minutes

Ten minutes and a short shopping list: that is the whole promise of this set. We cooked and filmed all seven dinners in one video, so you can watch them back to back and pick whichever matches what is already in your fridge. Nothing on the list will strain a grocery budget.

The seven fall into natural pairs. Tortillas do double duty, shredded into a pie in one recipe and shaped into mini cups with sausage and cheese in another. Pizza gets two rethinks as well: a high-protein breakfast version and one that drops the dough entirely in favor of a meat crust. The remaining three cover the cozy middle ground: creamy noodles with caramelized onions, eggs cooked in a cheesy tomato skillet, and chicken sealed inside parchment.

Start with the caramelized onion noodles if you want the gentlest entry point; slow-cooked onions and a pot of noodles are hard to get wrong. From there, the timestamps under the player jump straight to each dish, so one lazy evening can settle the next week of dinners.

Recipes in this video

The set opens here for good reason. Stretching pizza toward breakfast makes this the one to try when tonight’s dinner and tomorrow’s morning both need solving at once.

Of the two tortilla ideas in the set, this is the substantial one, a whole pie rather than bite-size cups. Cook it first when a single dish has to carry the whole meal.

The boldest swap of the seven. Meat stands in for the crust here, so pizza night still happens for anyone who wants dinner heavier on protein than on dough.

Right at the midpoint of the video sits the set’s only bowl food. No crust, no cups, just noodles in a creamy onion sauce, and the gentlest place to start.

Eggs earn a dinner slot here. Tomatoes and cheese in one skillet make this the lightest lift in the group, the natural pick when the fridge is nearly bare.

The lone chicken dish in the lineup, and the only recipe that cooks sealed in paper, which keeps washing-up close to zero. A quiet counterweight to all that cheese.

Saved for the final slot, and rightly so. Bite-size and hand-held, these cups are the one entry that moves from weeknight dinner to party tray without changing a thing.

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