1 pound firm tofu
1 pound frozen veggies
1 jar of korma or other sauce
1 large onion
rice

Dice and sautee onion for about 10 minutes. Dice tofu and open bag of frozen veggies and put into pot along with korma sauce until everything is cooked.

Serve over rice.

Pasta, any shape. I use spaghetti or orecchiette.
Premade pesto. I like Costco or Buitoni.
Pulled rotisserie chicken.
Roasted red peppers in oil
Toasted pine nuts

Cook the pasta as directed. Warm chicken, if you like, then stir in pesto and peppers. Top with pine nuts.

More than 5 ingredients but seriously the fastest recipe I've ever made:
http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/chickpea-tikka-masala

Martha Stewart's Vegetarian Bean and Corn Tortilla Pie (modified)

4 flour tortillas
1 onion
1 can black beans (rinsed and drained)
1/2 package of frozen corn
8 ounces of cheddar cheese

1. Chop onion then sautee in oil in pan until translucent
2. Add black beans and 3/4 cup of water and bring to boil
3. Reduce heat and let simmer until most of liquid is gone
4. Mix in corn
5. Put tortilla at bottom of a pie plate. Layer with 1/4 of bean mixture and 1/4 of cheese. Then put another tortilla on top and continue layering like a lasagna. Top layer should be filling.
6. Bake for 20 minutes at 350 or until cheese on top is melted.

Serves 3 to 4.

Here's Martha's original recipe which has more ingredients, but I always make it as stated above.

http://www.marthastewart.com/336692/tortilla-and-black-bean-pie

2-3 lb boneless pork loin roast (not tenderloin, which will overcook)
1 jar of pepperoncini

Put pork roast in slow cooker. Pour pepperoncini on top, brine and all. Cook on low 6 hours or so. Pull apart with forks (so it's like pulled pork), serve on crusty rolls (optional: with sliced provolone or mozzarella and/or arugula). Salad on the side.

I felt like there was some need for this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=round+zucchini&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=DmY9U6aVDoioyAHfiYGwAg&sqi=2&ved=0CCUQsAQ&biw=1268&bih=733

voila, images of round zucchini!

This is sort of cheating, because it's eight ingredients, but maybe olive oil, salt and pepper don't count?

Real Simple's recipe for ravioli with walnuts: http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/cheese-ravioli-toasted-walnuts-10000001693764/

Anyway, this is a favorite in my household - easy and so good!

- Salmon (steak or filet)
- 1tbsp brown sugar mixed with 1/4 cup of soy sauce - stir
- dribble olive oil and salt and broil salmon
- last few minutes of cooking salmon, dribble the soy sauce mixture

Add more sauce to salmon when ready to serve

Optional: add red onion in the broiler

Serve with brown rice and steamed brocolli

I'm making the roasted tomatoes with shrimp and feta now and my house smells amazing!

Hope it tastes as good as it smells

Cheese stuffed pastas (in the refrigerated section) 1 package
Ground beef 1 pound
Can (1) of Italian seasoned diced tomatoes
Cooked fresh spinach 1 bagged package

Cook separately and drain: pasta, ground beef, spinach. Add/heat all together, add the canned tomatoes. Sprinkle w/feta. Could also sprinkle w/olives

1lb of ground turkey
1 can whole berry cranberry sauce
1 cup stove top stuffing
1/4 tea thyme
Some onion

You can form Into patties and cook or you can just mash together and crumble up in a saute pan and cook. Serve with sweet potato fries or casserole.

I love this post! Here's what I made last night: 4 ingredients and only uses ONE pan! It's AWESOME and healthy and great leftovers for lunch today:

1 cup farro: cook according to instructions (can substitute brown rice)
1 can diced tomatoes
chicken tenders
onions

Grill onions in EVVO, remove, set aside. Grill chicken in same pan, season to taste, remove, set aside. Pour can of tomatoes with juice into same pan, add farro, add salt/pepper to taste.
I served chicken and grilled onions together with the farro/tomato as a side for dinner. For lunch I combined everything in a leftover container. YUM!!!

Anonymous wrote:Frozen pizza.
Stick in 400* oven for 20 minutes.

Or

Crackers (open box)
Pre-cut cracker cheese (open package)
Apple (cut it up yourself)
Grapes (rinse them)
Wine (pour into a glass--you were not raised in a barn)

I have a baby, a stressful job, and a chronic illness that has been acting up. This is all I can handle lately. The baby doesn't eat the grapes or the wine.

Seriously though, thank you for this thread. I obviously needed some low effort ideas.

We've had these nights and I don't have a baby, a stressful job or a chronic illness. TRader Joes frozen meals are great to stash in the freezer for this sort of night.

Bacon-wrapped fish:
Coat fish fillet (grouper, monkfish, halibut, etc) with salt/pepper, maybe a little oregano. Wrap with bacon slices (1-2 per 1/2 lb of fish), bake at 375 until done.

Osso Buco (maybe 6 or 7, but all things you have except the meat)
Brown veal shanks dredged in flour. Add onions + chicken broth to cover. Wait 15 minutes. Add carrots + celery. Wait 45. Add mushrooms. Wait 30. Eat.

Salmon on a cedar plank:
soak cedar plank (can buy from amazon, williams-sonoma, etc) 1 hour so it doesn't burn on the grill. salt+ pepper salmon fillet and spread 1:1 mixture of brown sugar and dijon mustard on top. cook over low heat on plank on the grill 30 minutes. eat.

For the fishes, can in the mean time boil broccoli in a lot of salt water or prepare greens by boiling, draining, adding butter + garlic. Cook rice in rice cooker. Meal done.

A pack of mini bell peppers - red, orange, yellow
1 can black beans
Garlic salt
Red crushed pepper
Oil oil

Cut peppers in to half, length wise. Grease baking pan with olive oil and arrange peppers. Fill them with black beans. Bake at 350F for 20 minutes. Sprinkle garlic salt and pepper.