Instant rice. Sugar. Cinnamon. Milk.
Super lazy? Random bread/toast with store bought hummus.
A little bit cooking is okay? Then pasta with olive oil and garlic (and parmesan or chili if available). Or alternatively I put a can of kidney beans with a can of tomatoes, garlic, chili, and spices in a pot, cook it a bit, and serve with rice, pasta, bread, or tortilla chips. Or whatever else is quickly available.
Or frozen pizza.
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If I seriously don’t feel up to cooking, like there’s no fucking way I’m turning on the stove? Cereal.
My “just throw it in a pan” meal? Seashell pasta + canned tomato soup. Apparently one fateful day before payday, my grandmother had two hungry kids to feed, and nothing in the house but those two ingredients. So my gramma invented Spaghettios from first principles and a family comfort food was born. A hot meal so simple you can make it without a working brain stem.
Baked beans on toast is my usual go to when I want something quick and minimal effort.
The post immediately above yours this:
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I’ve basically got 2 lazy meals:
Veg dog on a toasted bun with diced red onion, pickled jalapeños, mayo, mustard and ketchup.
Instant ramen with some extra fixins. Always green onions and shishimi togarashi and then some combo of frozen corn, black fungus, pickled bamboo shoots, kimchi, sesame oil, miso, nori, fried gluten, and/or tofu.
what brand veggie dog! sounds delish!!
I like the beyond ones a lot, but gusta are pretty good too, and a bit cheaper.
It’s challenging to cook when one lives alone. I came up with a frozen buffet system.
I make several main dishes, several side dishes, and several desserts. Subsequently, I divide the foods into portions that I would normally eat, then I freeze.
That way I can grab 2 or 3 items, microwave, and eat whenever I’m hungry.
Doing this, I only need to cook once or twice every shopping cycle.
Humous and baguette
Two cans of air fried garbanzo beans. I don’t consider it cooking because it takes all of 19 seconds to open the cans, drain, spray cooking spray and turn an air fryer on. Gives me what feels like a bag of potato chips at a much healthier nutrition on the cheap. Toss some tajin seasoning on there and away I go.
Instant ramen. Or if I’m feeling fancy, ramen that takes 6 whole minutes to cook
Add an egg to that shit, like an egg drop soup, omg!
What’s the timing on that?
Brick ramen:
Boil water
Timer: three minutes
Egg in a small dish, to add later. NO CRACK YOLK
Timer: :50 left
Egg in, do not stir, make sure water isn’t heavily boiling
After :50, it’s perfect
Season with bullion/better-than, chili sauce, hoisin, etc. so easy, cheap, delicious, caloric for sweet “I have no energy to make food” depression meal.
Get a great big giant soup bowl (buy one before making, it feels better to eat from)
Drain lots of water out before adding seasonings, you want concentrated flavour
Fantastic! I’m going to give this a try soon. Thanks!
Absolutely! That’s gonna be my lunch today!
Quick edit: so good with scallions, which I unfortunately do not have on hand.
Update: I cracked my yolk when I made lunch. I didn’t crack my partner’s. Their soup wasn’t as creamy as mine, so maybe a little hole in the yolk isn’t so bad.
I still wish we had scallions.
I might like that even more.
Honestly it was probably better. If you pour the eg in at :30 it would do the same—I just don’t like fully cooked egg whites.
Totally replied to the wrong thought chain, I pour boiling water in my cup and drop the egg. Usually once it’s cool enough for me to handle, about 10mins-ish egg has cooked through
Ah are you talking the cup of noodles in the styrofoam? I was thinking the square package that you put in a boiling pot for 3 mins. I’ve heard an egg is great in it, but never tried it.
I have done the cup and my own bowl with it. I make sure to have my noodles broke in half in my bowl before I pour my water in, then egg. With the cup it gets a little messier because of space but still doable.
I break an egg directly into the pot of boiling water when there’s about 2.5 to 3 minutes left on the noodles’ recommended cooking time. This usually gets the whites solid and leaves the yolk runny in the middle.
I’m not a food expert though. This might be unsafe. I’ve done it a lot though and haven’t gotten sick.
4 minutes would probably cook the yolk all the way through if you want a solid yolk.
Even raw eggs are generally safe to eat.
Instead of egg, I usually have surimi (or imitation crab sticks). They’re not expensive at Asian markets (about $4-6 here in California for a couple dozen sticks) and can be stored in the freezer for a long time.
I actually just had some for breakfast. Nongshim + surimi cut into smaller pieces.
Tinned tuna is also nice to add for some extra flavor and variety.
Cheap frozen pizza and a simple salad.
You had me at cheap frozen pizza
The trick is you have to keep blowing warm air on the pizza until it warms up enough. You know, for the cheese to not cut your mouth like glass shards. Like my grammie’s pizza used to do. She’s legit from the old country. Rome. Oklahoma.
This is going to be super Asian… But I usually have rice on hand, and in the fridge an assortment of Chinese pickled/preserved veggies, fermented tofu, Vietnamese fermented prawns, salted and/or century eggs, kimchi, jars of seasoning like sate for example. Keeps forever (use clean utensils to avoid contaminating the jars) and good in a pinch.
Even better to add a side of greens if I have them. Boil or saute for a few minutes, then toss them in whatever seasoning (oyster sauce for example, keeps it simple and magically makes everything taste like stir fry).
I’m going to have to keep an eye out for fermented prawns. That sounds awesome
You can try to find it at a well-stocked Asian grocery store. It’s called “tom chua” or “mam tom chua” (sour shrimp) and sold in jars like this:
The flavor is actually more sweet and sour though. It’s very strong, so I’d recommend it more if you’re already familiar with fish sauce. You eat it whole, complete with the shell (it’s softened similar to sardines are).
Peanut butter on bread. Just put a layer of PB on there, fold it in half. I take three with a glass of milk and I’m good to go. Great for those times when I’ve forgotten to eat dinner and I just want to make the bad feeling in my tummy go away.
What is up with the rest of these comments though, half of them still involve cooking. Who the hell has patience for that?
Peanut butter, banana, and honey. That’s where it’s at baby
That sounds interesting, how much peanut butter, banana, and honey do you apply and in what order?
It’s peanut butter, banana, and honey. The answer is however much you want to stuff in your gob.
