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Frozen burrito :(

Cup noodles with two eggs

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.

Bags of carrot sticks is my go-to for when I really don't feel like cooking or eating unhealthy.

Toasted bagel with cream cheese, a canned protein, like salmon or smoked oysters, and capers. Super easy, and it also feels fancy. It's helped me out of a rut on more than one occasion

Ricecakes and hummus, Beans and toast

Redbul. Or Alcohol.

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

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

Avocado toast or peanut butter toast. I guess technically there is some sort of cooking involved there but it is minimal...

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.

Toast or a toasted bagle / english muffin with peanut butter on it.

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.

Rice from a pouch you boil it in and tuna also from a pouch.