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Minute rice, yogurt and sweet chilli sauce mixed together.
Some broccoli or cauliflower florets steamed in the microwave (salt, pepper, butter, tsp water, in a bowl, covered with a plate, nuc for 2 mins) and draped with a slice of cheese.
Frozen wraps are the bomb. Take seconds to thaw and the possibilities are endless. Put on it whatever, and it is good.
Total prep time AND ready to eat within 15-30min.
Get a bowl
Make a "sauce" with plenty olive oil, basil, garlic
Slice tomatoes in quarters (about the size of cherry tomatoes) and throw them in a bowl
Let it rest for min. 30min or as long as you want to. No upper limit.
Add hot spaghetti (al dente) and stir until everything is well coated.
Edit: Expanded and added more precise instructions.
Frozen burrito :(
Least effort: essentially snacks, but somewhat filling and can get the job done
- string cheese (proteiny, and fun to pull apart like you're still a kid. Why can't adults have fun too?)
- cut up fruit
- those seaweed snacks
@toomanypancakes
Some effort
- tortilla wraps with anything, basically, to make food portable. Bananas and Nutella? Cold cuts and cheese? Half a can of beans and a chunk of that leftover chicken?
- veg sticks and dip/ranch. Always taste better than I expect (which is not much). "Some effort" bc I cut em myself and mix my own dip (sour cream and mayo as a base and any seasonings you have around are usually a good mix. I go garlic powder, olive oil, salt, pepper, lemon juice.)
pasta
Ricecakes and hummus, Beans and toast
I air-fry six chicken nuggies, cut them into bits, and mix them with half a cup of mashed potatoes.
Easy and yummy, filling, and only approximately 400-500 calories.
Grilled cheese sandwich. It's as lazy or as fancy as you're feeling.
Super lazy? Grease bread with cheese slice. Fry flip eat.
Feeling less lazy as you start? Cut a hole in one of the pieces of bread and fry an egg in it while you toast the other side, and upgrade the cheese. Just be careful. When you start eyeing meats and mustards to pair, you're in danger of making yourself a pretty epic sandwich.
A good curry is incredibly easy to make nowadays. Patak's and Pasco make great curry bases. You just fry a big dollop of the base, then chuck in some chicken and either water or coconut milk.
Combine that with basmati from a rice cooker, and you've got restaurant quality food for 3 minutes of work, and some waiting
Bonus- your entire house now smells like curry 🤤
Bread or cereal
I only cook if there is someone else in the house who needs to eat. My meals are either family meals or leftovers, toast, cereal, toaster waffles. Occasionally a cheese quesadilla.
Or, more commonly, nothing. Unfortunately, there arent many "lazy" meals I could use to feed the whole family, which I am obligated to do at least twice a day, most days. Sometimes I can get away with re-using leftovers as the foundation of a new meal.
Mac & Cheese with a can of tuna. Usually either Kraft Deluxe or Velveeta Shells and Cheese and usually white/albacore tuna. Sucks that shrinkflation has made the cheese packets watered down so much that it's no longer tons of sticky cheese and that the cans of "solid" tuna are now only mostly solid pieces with added filler. But it is still a decent tasting, simple meal.
Redbul. Or Alcohol.
Avocado toast or peanut butter toast. I guess technically there is some sort of cooking involved there but it is minimal...
if "prepping something beforehand" and "throwing stuff in a pan and just let it sit for a couple minutes untouched" is still fine:
I've been doing big batches of japanese Gyoza in the last couple weeks.
I make a whole kilo of them beforehand, freeze them and just put them in a pan for a couple minutes when I want a quick dinner.
I love gyoza. prepping them takes a bit of fiddling around, but once ready, they hold for a while in the freezer
Toast or a toasted bagle / english muffin with peanut butter on it.
Chicken nuggets.
I make spaghetti pasta, put a ready-made sauce from the store (one from a jar), put a grated cheese on top and cook in microwave for 2 minutes.
I still need to do some work here, but I have done it so many many times for my brain it's like putting on shoes or brushing mt teeth, do not think about it. And it's still relatively nice meal for me, I just like it so much I can eat it very often without having enough. This might be the key, find what you like that takes less than 30 minuts and require no attention (like constant checking or mixing) and just get used to it.