Entire family-size bag of Cool Ranch Doritos. Ugh.

Ice cream sundaes. With nuts for health. For me and my kids. I think that one happened once. And then there was the infamous motor buffet (which happened twice), where we drove around to all the drive-throughs possible, and everyone got exactly what they wanted; the catch was that the whole supper had to be eaten in the car.

I have had a tablespoon of Nutella and called it BLISS -- ahhh... dinner! :)

Oh, I've unabashedly and quite intentionally downed a large bowl of cereal and called it dinner. Or hummus and a bunch of Wheat Thins. Especially when it's exam week, it's no holds barred. Anything that can be eaten with as little effort as possible is alright, Perhaps I'd feel bad about it if I were responsble feeding anyone but myself, but since I live alone, I don't.

Toast 2 pieces of bread. While hot, spread with chunky peanut butter. Sprinkle with mini chocolate chips. Make sammich. Eat in front of TV.

Alternately: entire bag of Gramma Utz potato chips, washed down with root beer.

Wheat Thins and a the leftover remnants of a cheese and sausage tray. Not my most shining moment in front of a Dr. Who marathon.

There was one blissful dinner that involved entirely too much baguette and brie. Cheese and bread - totally dinner worthy material. Right? :)

(But yeah, I've done the cereal thing. And the nachos with cheese thing.)

Last night it was 3 slices of apple pie. With apple caramel crisp ice cream. Yum.

one word: oreos.

Oh I've had quite a few nights where multiple bowls of cereal have turned into dinner.

Hot Fudge Sundays or Pop corn

My mom eats cheese for dinner whenever my dad's out of town.. my dad works in sales and is out of town A LOT. Haha. I've done a lot of the things people have mentioned, on more occasions than I'd care to admit.

But since when is cereal for dinner something to be included in this list? I LOVE cereal for dinner! Haha

Apple Pie

It never starts out that way, but there is at least one night a month when I'm just too busy/exhausted/downright lazy to actually cook something and the thought of running out for something makes me want to cry. Favorite dinners on those nights: PB&J, cheese and crackers, toast with cream cheese/peanut butter/whatever is around, cereal, Little Debbie snack cakes (I'm not proud of that one), and nuked tortillas with cheese. Oh, and Guinness. That's a meal in itself, and I have treated it as such. :-)

This Sunday it was Ina Garten's Plum Cake Tatin. Three pieces.

My lazy dinner, when my husband's traveling for work, is Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal. I pour a huge bowl of it, add milk, and microwave until it turns to mush. It's yummy and amazingly filling. (And addictive. I call it Kellog's Crack cereal.)

A couple times a year we have a homemade-chocolate-chip-cookies-for-dinner night, where all we eat is fresh-baked cookies right out of the oven with milk. So much fun.

As long as I can identify a vitamin, a mineral or protein in it, it counts. So, Oreos? No. Oreos and a glass of milk? Absolutely!

My grandmother hated to cook, and some days when my grandfather got home from a long day at the hardware store, she'd say, "Surprise! Ice cream sundaes for dinner!" She lived to 98.

ramen or cereal or ham and cheese eggs (breakfast for dinner), but only when my husband is away. He hates it when I do that.

WhenI was single two of my go-to dinners were a big bowl of popcorn or a big bowl of spinach. Un fortunately, only one person in my relationship can happily eat that way.

By the way, it must be remembered that chocolate is a health food: It comes from beans. ;o)

A giant bowl of olive oil popcorn and a glass of wine. Avocado toast.

Too often-- a "freezer buffet" of Mrs. T's pierogies, a veggie burger, maybe a frozen eggroll.

For SHAME. ;)

Pretzels and hummus, with a beer.

Popcorn and M&Ms at the movies... growing up, my mom would take us for movie dinner every now and then. We used to think it was an awesome special treat! Now I still do it but feel totally gross and lazy.

Martinis. When I am traveling my husband has martinis for dinner. Usually with several olives. If he's extra hungry he'll add a can of sardines.

When I'm out camping (usually for work) anything goes. Most fruits and veggies don't stand up well to being crammed in a cooler and bounced over many miles of dirt roads. However, sunchips and salsa con queso hold up just fine. Canned pineapple and string cheese also make a nice dinner in warm weather. If I happen to pack leftover cake or pie or cookies those can be any meal, especially breakfast.

I don't even know if they make them anymore, but when I was in high school I would ride my bike to running practice, participate in running practice, and then ride my bike home (8 miles each way). I would buy a large bag of cheddar rolds gold pretzels on my way, get home and eat the entire bag as my dinner. Calorie-wise I was probably fine given all the exercise, but nutrition wise... what a fail.

The other night: crackers and salmon dip, followed by three hawaiian sweet rolls with butter. Oh, and a beer.

A donut.

I also do scrambled eggs and toast, or just-cheese nachos on occasion. I live by myself.

Ramen. Definitely have had cereal a few times.
@ Brooklynnina I completely agree about Cracklin' Oat Bran. Its my absolute fav! Kellogg's Crack - that's a good one.

Rice. In the time it takes for it to cook I can usually dream up something to throw on top of it.

A bag of Pirate's Booty.

String cheese and half a bag of pepperoni.

Popcorn and a beer or in-shell peanuts and beer. I detect a pattern here.

beef jerky and fresca. the worst part? i've had this "meal" more than once.

I love reading all these food confessions :)

I, like a few others, would do this much more often if it weren't for my husband. He eats so much that a small snack (calorie-packed as it may be), just doesn't cut it for him.

There are also nights that I go out with the girls and just have wine and snacks for dinner, and he usually eats nothing but meat as a meal- no veggies, not even a carb if I'm not there to moderate.

Cheese and crackers, or chips and salsa/guacamole. I might have had part of a can of frosting once in college as well.... I mean, what? :)

Rice with soy sauce. Maybe with a can of tuna on the side if there is one in the cabinet.

Popcorn with Parmesan, garlic powder and black pepper

Glad to see I'm not the only person who has had Wheat Thins for dinner (specifically the tomato-basil variety, with cream cheese on top). I've also done sardines on toast and liverwurst on sliced baguette.

But probably the best non-dinner dinner is a nice thick milkshake. YUM.

microwave brown rice with peanut butter stirred in. surprisingly delicious.
my fiance's grandparents used to have family popcorn and homemade ice cream night every sunday after a big sunday dinner.

Sunday night dinner in my house growing up: popcorn and malts!

I've hard a hard time convincing my meat-and-potatoes husband that this constitutes a meal...

Chips or cheese and crackers!!!

it's hard to decide which of my impromptu "meals" was the worst, but i know this one is definitely up there: 3 okra pickles, a bowl of golden grahams, a jar of maraschino cherries, and a spoonful of cream cheese. just cream cheese. i should also mention (in case it wasn't obvious) that a trip to the grocery store was long overdue.

We do cereal sometimes. The funniest is my mom will cut up a big watermelon and call it dinner. :)

Once a month or so we have junk food night. My parents did it with me so we do it now too. Get a bag of frozen taquitos, pizza rolls, all the random frozen not good for you things in the freezer ailse you can dump on a cookie sheet and then we pour it all in a bowl, sit around the tv and eat.

If not that, a box of velvetta shells and cheese is the best.

Last night, I made a roast and somehow sugar cookies I made too became dinner instead!

A friend and I once poured a jar of salsa over a block of cream cheese, nuked it, and ate it with tortilla chips. I've never felt worse but it was soooo good.

Oh, I eat cereal for dinner quite frequently. I figure candy, cookies, etc, would be really bad, at least cereal has some redeeming qualities. I have ok cereals: raisin bran, crispy rice, etc. (It's not like I'm eating sugar smacks or anything!) :)

I remained very thin through my 20s with a stressful job and just a handful of chocolate chips for dinners on nights I was on deadline and late at work, but knew I needed some quick calories to make it through hour 15 at my desk.
I currently keep on hand bags of frozen chinese dumplings which I turn into pot stickers and eat, like, 20 of in one sitting.
Stilton cheese and Carrs wheat crackers. Now that's a dinner. Sounds almost-good -- at least its fancy -- but it's the equivalent of eating ice cream and oreos, when you check out the fat calories.

pam h
howtorunyourlife.blogspot.com

Pretzels and ranch dip. Seriously. SOOOO addictive. I start eating them as a snack and they turn into a meal very quickly. Even if I had planned eating something else. :)

Also, ice cream. Particularly Stewart's cookie dough ice cream. Sooo good....

On a very lazy Sunday night I told my children we were going to have a special exciting dinner... I made microwave popcorn and nothing else. They loved it but I felt very guilty about it the next day when they asked if they could have popcorn for breakfast.

chips and salsa. the whole bag. the whole jar.

Salt & Vinegar Chips........and a diet Pepsi...makes sense...right????

Last night I had a beer and 3/4 a bag of Stacy's sea salt pita chips.

If I don't have anyone to cook for my meals get notoriously bad. And I cook, a lot. And I do a pretty good job. I like to cook...but if no one else is around I tend to not see the point. Tonight it is looking like popcorn before a trip to the bar.

Popcorn. A few times when we were peckish but not hungry for a meal. Eep.

Red Berry green tea frozen yoghurt, yes I like it!

Or, black forest chocolate cake- yum.

Am definitely, unashamedly on the cereal-for-dinner bandwagon (slightly less unashamed when it's Coco Pops!), but my current preferred option is leftover cake batter while baking... just scraping out that bowl a bit less than I should!

two TJ's chicken gyoza (thought I had more) and a bowl of edamame. I try not to let it get that bad very often.

Oh, and a grilled cheese and a jar of marinated artichoke hearts, last week, too. I think I may have just eaten a jar of artichoke hearts one night but I can't remember. It's was a rough week.

I've got two people in my household - and when I bake a cake on Sunday - its always breakfast and dinner on Monday!

besides the ramen and cereal already mentioned I often announce it is "make your own damn dinner" night.My husband is good with it as long as we have tortilla's.Our teen boys eat cereal.And as for me coffee and toast.

I'm sure all of us at one point have made a meal of chips or toast or ramen or cereal or cake or pie...

Tonight I had leftover broccoli rice mixed with leftover spinach and some cheese.

I always have oatmeal in the house--good oatmeal, but oatmeal nonetheless. on those can't cook nights, more often then I'd care to admit, I have oatmeal with brown sugar, butter, and milk and, if I am really on top of things, dried cranberries and pecans.

popcorn. more than once.

PB&J is my go-to non-dinner dinner, with a glass of milk, of course. I made the mistake of using marmalade the last time I did this. Marmalade and peanut butter do not taste good together at all. Who knew?

Sunday night was leave the skillet on night. Fried or scrambled eggs, toast, butter and tea. We each took our turn and cooked our own supper. It was wonderful, as we made our butter from scratch and the chickens were free range. That was good eating.

I so love this post, especially all the comments!

Every couple of weeks, my mother used to give us a special treat of toaster waffles topped with ice cream for dinner. My Italian husband would probably keel over and die if I tried to pull that off, but it's worth a shot.

Box of cheeze-its

In junior high school, I would eat a bag of potato chips with Kraft's sour cream-based jalapeno dip. That was often dinner. As was homemade caramel corn--a giant bowl of it.

i love everyone for sharing their dinner habits. you've all made me feel much better about my more interesting meals. i feel like i was just a fly on everyone's walls and i feel NORMAL!

me: i've done it all.

A peanut buster parfait from DQ. Not recommended as a go-to dinner but it's actually really filling!

@lola_beans--I totally agree! I feel much better about having some of these identical eating habits :)

And, though it's been said, I'm guilty of the tortilla chips and salsa or guacamole combo. If I'm not paying attention, I'll devour a whole bag. Eep!

Pizza rolls and potstickers made a tasty, yet terribly unhealthy dinner the other night.

chips & salsa, with a tofutti cutie dessert.

bowl of cornflakes. gin and tonic. awesome!

i love this thread.

i think my worst dinner was an entire bag of snyder's honey mustard pretzel bits and some cottage cheese.

Toast either with a homemade Liptauer spread, Nutella or cream cheese & jam. Or a bowl of cereal. Or a can of baked beans. Or crackers with brie.

I tend to have more dinners like this than I'd like to admit. My boyfriend is a paramedic and when he works nights, I tend not to eat proper meals.

raisins on spoonfuls of peanut butter. sometimes on toast if it doesn't take too long.

Popcorn and a Martini!

Such a good thread, and perfect timing -- I was feeling like a failure for flaking on dinner this weekend because it got late and the chips/salsa/guac tasted so good!

A couple of pieces of toast with real butter and homemade jelly/jam along with a steaming cup of Earl Grey is pretty much the perfect dinner when I'm home alone.

I think the more appropriate question is : what HAVEN'T I passed off as dinner?

saer
http://cravenmaven.wordpress.com

During a particularly hot summer and heartbreak, I ate ice cream sandwiches for dinner a few times a week. My kind boss typically bought me a nice lunch, so I just rationalized that I waited several hours for dessert.

Normally I can pull *something* together, but there was that time that I pulled the top off of a soup can, grabbed a spoon, and ate right from the can while standing at the kitchen counter. That was kind of a low moment.

Pickles and nutella with graham crackers. That was an odd one.

Those tomato basil triscuits or whatever have been a meal.

As well as Salt and Vinegar chips.

Ahh this is terrible

Toast, sandwiches, fruit salad, a bowl of chic nuts (roasted chic peas), half a leftover peach clafoutis you name it.

Oh..I forgot. I once ate a large can of creamed corn right from the can with a soup spoon & called that dinner.

This thread just overturns the precious foodie rock, exposing us all for our secret food habits. In fact, my own phrase for it is "secret food."

PB&J - check
Giant bag of chips - check
Popcorn - check
Toast - check

Last night, I was so tired reading for law school that I just grabbed for anything within reach: celery with peanut butter, chips, clementines.

secret comfort food: rice with soy sauce, sesame oil, a dash of rice vinegar, and sesame seeds. my mom used to roll this up in seaweed to make tiny breakfast bites for me and my siblings before we headed off to elementary school.

i´ve done the spoon full of nutella or dulce de leche and then maybe a yogurt to fill the tummy or CHEESE AND CHOCOLATE!!! yum!

But this is the type of thing i do when alone. i would never confess this to my partner. when he´s on a trip i cave in to the junk food dinners.

Yikes! I've done all of the above, and likely worse! My downfall is the "grazing". Not really cooking anything, but a few bites of just about everything in the kitchen... a few marinated mushrooms, a handful of nuts, a few slices of cheese, bowl of cereal, half a grilled cheese sandwich (yes, this is all in one night), and then a bowl of ice cream. And I still manage to think to myself, "But I really didn't eat anything". Riiiiight!

Stove-Top stuffing. In the cylindrical canister, with the plastic lid. Pour in bowl, douse with water, pat of butter, microwave, fluff. Brings grad school right back.

(Also see Potato Buds, similar method.)

chocolate Pop-Tarts mmmm...the whole box 0_o

About once a summer I announce to the kids that we're having ice cream for supper and we do just that.

They think it's the greatest.

Cheeeeeese

Absolutely cereal for dinner if I've had a big lunch. At least it contains nutrients.

It's the dinners of cheddar melted over tortilla chips, followed by a handful of marshmallows and dark chocolate chips, that are true causes of shame, even though they involve heat and at least one plate.

Oh, Lord -- when I was more active as a stage manager, I would do exactly this. Dinner during rehearsals was a bag of chips grabbed from the bodega on the corner during one of the Equity-mandated 5 minute breaks, and dinner during performances was either a slice of pizza from the place on the other corner, or a serving of whatever food was used during the show (if there was any -- one show I got lucky and there were pancakes), or cereal when I got home, or nothing at all.

A few years back, when Lean Cuisine started that ad campaign which featured women sitting around and talking about the most shameful dinner they'd each made for themselves ("I had a whole bag of Snickers", "I ate ten donuts," "I had a box of animal crackers"), they all made me laugh because I recognized myself.

slims jims mixed into kraft mac and cheese.

I love this thread! Thought I was the only one who would skip a "normal" dinner just so I could indulge with my favorite snacks.

Usually I woud do a combo of various snacks that I like - cereals (always eaten dry), potato chips, shrimp crackers, ice cream cone.

The weird thing is I also like to alternate savory and sweet. So a bag of chips, then a chocolate cookies, then some doritos, then ice cream...

A big slice of leftover 3-berry cake from Sweet Lady Jane in L.A. Hey, I wanted to make sure I had room for dessert so I ate it first and then there wasn't room for dinner, which I wasn't in the mood to cook anyway.

Hahaha, last night my dinner was chocolate-cake-in-a-mug and maple ice cream.

Once after a looooooong day working a festival booth, I trudged home, stopping at the corner store for pint of ice cream, and plopped down on the chair just inside the door, too exhausted to walk as far as the freezer, much less to go make my planned dinner.

After a few minutes' thought, I plucked the lid off the Ben & Jerry's and ate the pint of pistachio ice cream. With my fingers.

I will not forget that exhaustion soon, nor the frozen fingertips.

cake from the night before...

I've had an entire bag of Lays Kettle Chips Original for dinner on many, many ocassions. I especially love the knarly ones!

Cheerios isn't dinner?
Feta cheese picked out of the Tupperware I keep it in, three or four olives, two glasses of wine. Voila. Dinner.
But oh yeah, what about the kids?
Breakfast cereal, or avocado toast, or carrots n' grapes. I let the girl eat a box of Cheeze Its for dinner once and looked the other way...

Cheese and a few glasses of red wine (plenty of calories)

I've done just about all of this at times as well.

The sad part is I've done several of these while making a lovely dinner for my significant to enjoy when he gets home from his second shift job. But the time the late cooked dinner is done I've sometimes snacked/ eaten random things too much to want any of it!

I do second the protein comment. Candy bars no, but ice cream (milk has protein), cereal, or more often all the odd ends of cheese in the fridge and ridiculous amounts of toast.

leftover cold pork chop and hershey's syrup.
surprisingly delightful.

Regular Ruffles chips with Philadelphia dill pickle dip... Whole bag + whole container of dip in one sitting... Yeah, I know. It's bad.

I have the same problem skylark254 has. My BF gets home almost 3 hours later than me some nights, and by that time I haven't eaten in about 8 hours. And thus, snacking commences.

Two words: Hummus spoon.
Another variation: Jar of peanut butter. Sprinkle chocolate chips in, grab spoon, eat top layer. Repeat as necessary.

If I'm by myself, I just eat junk food. I'm not picky about what kind of junk, but usually I include three or four varieties. When my hubs is home, we force ourselves to eat real meals. Though, on occasion, we find ourselves scrounging around in the freezer or pantry for whatever we can concoct into a glorified snack.

Whenever my dad was out of town for work, my mom relished the fact that she could have popcorn for dinner.

an entire focaccia and a diet coke, of course

Big bowl of popcorn with Parmesan cheese and an obscene amount of siracha sauce. Drizzle siracha slowly whilst tossing popcorn for even coverage. ;)

@BlueChairFruit - Me too, to the letter.

when they're in season, i will eat a huge bowl of cherries for dinner, or several large juicy peaches. otherwise, homemade granola and milk.

Whenever I have to make dinner at my boyfriend's apartment, it's a triumph of resourcefulness but a failure of a meal. I'm a lactose-intolerant vegetarian and he lives on chicken and cheese.

Tonight I had toast topped with peanut butter and sort-of-old strawberries - heated up in the microwave (to kill the strawberry bacteria? is that real?). Actually sort of delicious! I washed it down with some 2 Buck Chuck he opened and refrigerated weeks ago. That's really my one regret.

I always keep hummus and rice crackers in the kitchen just for these nights. I've also been known to hop over to Urth Caffe and eat their carrot cake for dinner - there's fruit...and protein...right?

To mimic an earlier post: baby carrots and salsa. Whole bag, whole jar. ;)

Or tonight, half a bag of edamame and some yogurt.

Back in my single days, I would happily go for weeks eating tasty sourdough toast for my dinners. Sadly, my significant other can not subsist on toast and I'm forced to prepare more balanced meals. That being said, on the occasional night I'm alone, it's almost always toast that I make for dinner. Can not be beat.

a dinner picnic at the playground last summer was root beer floats and cherries.
totally intentional :)

A whole bag of TJ's Madeline cookies and milk.

I've done oatmeal, or any dried cereal...peanut butter on apples (or spoonsfuls of pb)....ice cream....chocolate (when I need a chocolate fix).

I can relate to Satan's "make your own damn dinner" We occasionally will have "scrounge night", yes, we do it often enough that it has a name. I see some interesting combos on those nights. My 13 year old usually has pickles involved somehow, my 16 year old has carbs of some sort and my husband's usually involves sardines. I personally can gorge on a bowl of peanut butter used to coat every bite of sliced apple.

oops just saw satan is slim jims with mac & cheese so maybe someone else is make your own damn dinner. I could see several people in my family jumping at the slim jim mac & cheese.

I have chips and salsa for dinner on a regular basis. I've never thought it was weird, but maybe it is?

Three courses: 1. a huge bowl of baby peas, 2. pepper, 3. butter.

An older dinner cop-out: a mug of instant bullion with a spoonful of bisquick for texture... Sounds gross when I think of it now that I've graduated to binging on peas!

Last night I ate an overwhelming amount of the cream cheese ice cream "batter" before it made it into the ice cream maker.

AND the salted caramel topping.

Mmmm

I'm getting some fabulous dinner ideas from all these comments! :0)

So excited to hear that other families occasionally eat what my mom called an Ice Cream Supper. I remember eating a sundae for my "supper" and then a cone for dessert.

- chocolate!! - It's not just for breakfast anymore!

This is a great post-gave me a lovely chuckle

My housemates and I (all girls) had a boy dinner one night where we poured a bag of tortilla chips out on the table, with salsa straight from the jar. I think we probably had wine or margaritas to go with. And some sort of chocolate for dessert.

Now I will eat a whole baguette by myself in one night (over the course of the whole night), some slices with cheese, some with butter, some with butter and radishes, and slices with neutella for dessert. I've also put away a pint of Ben & Jerry's for dinner/dessert after snacking. Terrible.

Applesauce and cottage cheese (a nostalgic favorite from the days when my mum needed something to pass off as dinner).

Most pathetic: a tortilla folder over a hunk of cheddar. Unheated: couldn't be arsed. Shameful.

Tonight: sliced deli turkey and bacon. rolled. ran out of bread other day (from a toast n jam dinner!). side of blueberry twizzler things.

Chips & guacamole. Ramen. Spaghetti with butter, salt and MAAAYBE parmesan. Frozen pizza.

I love this! Just last night, I had 2 small chicken nuggets (best friend left her Wendy's in my fridge), chocolate Yoplait yogurt, and canned pears. Sigh.

But my absolute favorite lazy but probably gross dinner is any sort of leftover pasta smothered with a can of Hormel chilli. YUM.

I've been on a chips-and-sour-cream kick. Sometimes I'll gather up the energy to microwave myself a quesadilla.
I'm redeeming myself tonight and making dumplings and soup, though.

When I'm home alone my guilty pleasure is - please don't judge - tomato paste on buttered toast.
I've eaten almost a whole tin on my own. Not my finest moments.
Or hummus with veggies. Anything that does not require cooking.
I love to cook for my partner, friends or family, but when I'm by myself convenience comes first.

I didn't particularly feel like cooking one night so after glancing in my (at that time, nearly empty) fridge, I spied a few things to throw together. It was an hors d'oeuvres dinner: whole grain cracker rounds spread with mascarpone cheese, topped with a dab of homemade fig jam and a touch of fleur du sel.

Sticky rice topped with soy sauce and a mixture of mayo and sriracha (aka spicy sauce). It is my go-to comfort dinner when my husband is away!

Best. post. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've done lots of the things other here have. Love the cereal supper (and don't think that is "passing off"; it is a fine option in my view); have done guacamole and tortilla chips, rice w/ soy suace and butter etc. But I've "innovated" two that might be usual:
1) dry ramen. eaten like potato chips. especially good if you have a tasty fizzy beverage.
2) mix yogurt and cottage cheese, stir in some Grape Nuts, let it sit while you get some berries or slice a banana, then add a tablesppon or two of peanut butter, mix it up, and finish it off with the fruit. Bizarrely delicious.

LOVE this thread.

For me personally, I like to eat a combo of junk as dinner sometimes.. cheesy snacks, chips, ice cream cone (the cone's very important, i don't really care about the ice cream), crackers, etc. and fruits!

Yummy!
Frozen french fries! A cobbler, yes almost a whole cobbler!
Hungry...

saltines with sour cream.
beer.
easy mac.
those salt and vinegar almonds those are a regular.

worst of all: leftover pasta with half a can of cream of mushroom soup and some pepper. Don't even heat it up. It's like beef stroganoff had a bastard child that decided to rebel and be vegetarian and toe the line of delicious/disgusting.

I am way late but, I have passed off the following as dinner on more than one occasion:

1. An entire bag of Guacamole Doritos
2. Pretzels & Peanut Butter
3. Crackers & Cream Cheese
4. Soft Pretzels (Yes, more than one!)
5. A bag of Wise Crunchy Cheez Doodles
6. Tasty Kakes
7. Easy Mac & Vienna Sausages
8. Poached egg over leftover pasta.

Bread (on its last day of being "good" if not a bit hard) with a mixture of olive oil, salt, pepper, cinnamon, and avocado. Bread and avocado were going to go bad. Hah.

hummus and pretzels. waaaaay more times than I'd like to admit.

I can say with some certainty that I have--at one time or another--eaten just about every one of the above things for dinner! I had to laugh when I read the "box of cheezits" and "stove stop stuffings" posts--those are two of my favorites. I would like to add entire sleeve of saltine crackers, unadorned and un accompanied, to the list as well as bowl of macaroni noodles sauced with butter and Tabasco.

This thread is amazing. Most comments I've ever seen!

I've been known to down at least half of a pint of Ben and Jerry's in lieu of a meal...but my go-to is macaroni smothered in butter and parmesan cheese.

Cheezits will also suffice.

My best friend (single) makes meals out of pogos (corn dogs?) topped wiht mayo and some bacon slices on the side. or grilled (american) cheese sandwiches. And other horrors.

As for me, I'm a sweet and salty grazer. Some chips, then a couple of marshmallows, then some crackers with cheese, followed by cookies or a few spoons of dulce de leche. And toasts. Or just a cup of ramen. Only happens when the bf ain't around of course or else he'd empty the pantry and complain about the lack of meat on his plate.

Vodka.

pan cakes filled with left over fried rice, hot red chilli paste (sambal ulek) and M&M's....

... turned out to be pretty good actually...

Whilst travelling (I want to say backpacking but I didn't have a back pack but rather a stylish large shoulder bag, but I did stay in hostels. Does that coutn as backpacking?) in Europe my friend and I regularly passed off dessert as dinner. Apple pie, ginormous chocolate sundaes, anything. Our thinking was eating dinner and dessert was expensive and to save money and eat the food we actually wanted (dinner only something we have to eat so as to earn dessert) we would just skip to dessert. Less calories than dinner and dessert too...

Oh and I'm definitely on the cereal bandwagon. Had a bowl tonight.