My cooking hasn't progressed much since student days, and my wife can't cook at all.
Her education dept job work load seems to have at least doubled since Blair's govt,
getting much worse since the tories got back in.
..and we are significantly worse off financially...

So meals need to be quick, cheap, and reasonably healthy and nourishing for when she comes home from work...

I seem to have spent my life practicing for subsisting frugally on a minimum state pension...
These skills will come in handy when the wife retires.
Hopefully we will have more time then for more imaginative meals,
and who knows, she might even learn how to cook without incinerating...???