What’s your go-to meal when you don’t feel like making dinner?

Pasta ala Leftovers. Leftover chopped chicken, unused vegetables, penne or other shaped pasta, any kind of sauce from a reduced broth to pesto to red sauce.

top ramen and kimchi

Canned soup. Or bagged salad.

I am possibly the most terrible cook in the world. I hate preparing food and I never feel like making dinner. Fortunately, I have a live-in cook. He's called my partner and he's amazing. I'll swear he can prepare anything and it will look good and taste incredible. Without him, I would probably exist on sandwiches, ramen, and frozen dinners. He's the only thing between me and starvation.

I almost always have something leftover in my freezer. If not, I will stop at the deli and get a grilled chicken breast, and add it to salad (I always have salad fixins in my fridge). Other easy meals when I am starving are rice and beans (I keep the par-boiled bags of rice and a few cans of beans on the shelf, add some hot sauce), tuna pasta salad, peanut butter and jelly on toast, eggs.

An omelette.

Gashouse egg (aka toad in the hole), ramen, grilled cheese, or mac n cheese.

Sauté any random vegetables (potato, onion, peppers, tomatoes, fresh corn, spinach). Beat a couple of eggs and scramble with the vegetables. Melt shredded cheese on top.

Fast and always satisfying!

Spaghetti. I make a big pot of sauce with shrimp about once a month and freeze it in individual servings.

I love Chef Boyardee canned lasagna. Dump it on a couple slices of garlic toast and microwave it. Add parmesan.

frozen pizza

Canned soup, or a bowl of instant mashed potatoes.

Toast.

Boxed cereal.

Ham and cheese on a kaiser roll with spicy brown mustard and chips.

soup made from whatever vegetables I have, black beans, a couple of frozen meatballs and a handful of frozen ravioli. I have a ton of little tiny containers of tomato sauce, ricotta cheese, black beans etc in the freezer for just this scenario.

black beans and shrimp in parmesan and lime sauce over angel hair or quinoa.

they both take about 5 minutes of prep max and a few minutes of actual cooking.

"shrimp in parmesan and lime sauce" sounds disgusting.

So does shrimp in spaghetti sauce.

There's a really good shrimp and pasta recipe I got years ago from lord knows where, and it has lemon juice, not lime, but it's delicious. It's shallot and garlic chopped and sauteed in olive oil, add some lemon zest and lemon juice and dry white wine, simmer some grape tomatoes in it for a few minutes until they're cooked through, then add shrimp. Toss with pasta, add parmesan and chopped Italian parsley.

I don't really care for shrimp in tomato spaghetti sauce but tossed with tomatoes in this recipe, it's good. It would probably work okay with lime, but if I'm going to have lime and shrimp, I want something Mexican, not Italian.

Exactly R19, that sounds wonderful.

Frozen ricotta stuffed ravioli with tomatoes, frozen spinach. Nachos with refried beans, olives, jalapeños, and cheese. Quesadillas. Salad with a hard boiled egg.

PBJ and milk or tuna with mayo

I agree, it sounds disgusting but it really hits the spot. it's a couple tablespoons of lime juice and one tb of parmesan. I think that the black beans make it work. or not!

I usually have either quinoa or mixed rice (wild , brown, long grain) in the fridge and roasted vegetables so that is super quick. if needed I can add some chicken breast chunks in peanut sauce.

Salad w/ some bread. If I've been to Trader Joe's, I usually get a Pasadena Salad to have on hand.

Get a rotisserie chicken (unlesd you have precooked on hand), egg noodles, chicken broth, fresh soup veggies; make delicious semi-homemade chicken noodle soup in minutes. This is easy comfort good. You can sub rice, dumplings or diced potatoes for the noodled and get creative with the veggies.

Peanut butter and lettuce on toasted wheat bread.

This is what salads and sandwiches are for. If I don’t have sandwich fillings like coldcuts or leftover meat on hand, I’ll rummage through the pantry for a can of tuna. Egg salad is also easy to make with ingredients on hand.

The above is basically like having lunch for dinner, so don’t forget breakfast can make a good dinner too. Omelettes are great but so’s a stack of pancakes with bacon or sausage.

[quote]get creative with the veggies.

No one who uses "veggies" as a word gets creative.

Cream of Sum Yung Man.

It’s Sum Yung Guy idiot.

So almost every one of these is “making dinner”. If it’s more than one ingredient or involves a recipe, that’s “making dinner”. Heating up a microwave dinner. Maybe throwing a love of chicken or fish in stove - unseasoned, un”prepared”. Adding or mixing ingredients = “making dinner”.

A sandwich, fried eggs, PB&J, frozen dinner, can of soup, Korr Pasta or Rice with a little bit of added meat, can of chicken breast chunks which I always have on hand made into chicken salad, a bowl of cereal.

Quick dinner: Buy fresh ravioli pasta (spinach) and a jar of bolognese. Boil the ravioli until ready, warm up the sauce and combine. Done in 5 - 10 minutes. This is the only food I buy that is pre-made.

Hamburger patty and toast - season the hamburger while it is cooking and toast a couple of slices of bread and butter. Done in 5 minutes.

If I'm really lazy I'll make a peanut butter (crunchy) and honey sandwich. Done in 1 minute

Totally lazy is cereal: cornflakes, milk, sugar Done in 30 seconds

R33 buys his Parmesan in green cans.

[quote]If I've been to Trader Joe's, I usually get a Pasadena Salad to have on hand.

That salad is as close to crack as a salad can get.

[quote]Maybe throwing a love of chicken or fish in stove

R31 What's a "love of chicken..."

This crockpot recipe: 1 box Zataran's jambalaya mix 2 1/2 cups water 1 large can diced tomatoes 4-5 Andouille sausages cut into chunks Cook on low for 3 - 3 1/2 hours Add about a pound of raw deveined shrimp and cook 30 minutes more

Or i'll get some really good sausage and grill and then stick asparagus in the oven under the broiler for 7 minutes tossed with olive oil and sea salt. Serve some grated parmesan over it. Or skip the asparagus and sautéed some bell peppers in olive oil.

Both are really easy.

A California version of the old British "Beans on Toast."

Sour dough toasted, served with refried beans along with some mashed avocado and chopped tomato (or pico de gallo) and shredded cheese on top. If you're lazy, the fried egg in this photo might be beyond your motivation level.

I love Whole Foods organic mozzarella sticks. I usually have my own homemade marinara sauce around so I just pop 2 or 3 sticks (they are quite chubby sticks) in the oven, pop some of my sauce into the microwave and I have dinner. If I'm really hungry I send out to a nearby restaurant for a cheeseburger deluxe. I'm not much into pizza or Chinese.

Frozen vegetables. The local grocery store carries a package sufficient for 2. My favorite is the California mix; cauliflower, carrots, broccoli and brussel sprouts. A dash of salt, onion power, garlic powder and into the microwave for 4 minutes.

Pulled pork on a toasted bun & potato chips.

Marinara and pasta. Also see below.....

Prawns from my manmade lagoon and homemade water by Martha Stewart.

One-pan roasted salmon with broccoli (both frozen) seasoned with lots of herbs, lemon and garlic, or lentil and tomato soup. Both done in less than 30 min and very little clean up.

Put a variety of vegetables and perhaps some chicken, beef, pork on a sheet pan. Add some peanut sauce and roast until tender. It's not work

"Spag Bol" is popular in England. So, maybe they have more pre-made Bolognese sauces available than in the U.S.

[quote]Gashouse egg (aka toad in the hole)

Also a favourite of mine but gashouse eggs and toad in the hole are two different things, although non Brits sometimes use the names interchangeably. Toad in the hole is actually Yorkshire pudding with sausages embedded in it. Usually served with onion gravy.

I grew up calling it bird in a nest, but my favourite name is Betty Grable eggs!

Using a large lettuce leaf, sliced rotisserie chicken, avocado, cucumbers rolled with or without pepper-jack cheese with Italian dressing. Ideal for the summer when it's too hot to cook.

So much fussing

Just buy one of those pre-made theme salads from TJs or WFs (e.g., "Southwest Chopped Salad") add in a precooked piece of salmon, chicken breast or steak, either store-bought or leftovers--cut into slices and throw raw almonds in to balance the macros.

Done and you have two or three meals out of it.

And R8, you don't even need to waste an extra bowl to scramble the eggs--you can scramble them in the pan if you're just mixing it all together (do that for breakfast most AMs.)

The $1 Top Ramen cup noodles, jazzed up a bit with whatever leftover vegs are in the house and a chunk of tofu, plus hot sauce, garlic and salt or soy sauce (they recently lowered the salt in the included flavor/veg/oil packets). About 5 min start to finish.

I wish someone would give me a good recipe for gashouse eggs. Does the bread have to be extra large ?

Amy's mac and cheese

[quote]you don't even need to waste an extra bowl to scramble the eggs--you can scramble them in the pan if you're just mixing it all together (do that for breakfast most AMs.)

That's lazy and disgusting. I shake my eggs with cream and salt in an old Talenti container. I can't imagine your version of "scrambled" eggs.

Taco Bell but I'm more of a Wendy's man.

R46, unless I'm mistaken, the "spag bol" eaten as simple home cuisine in the UK doesn't use bolognese sauce as Italians and Americans understand it. The sauce for spag bol is, I think, usually just an ordinary red tomato sauce with meat. In the US, we'd call it meat sauce.

Scrambled eggs

Doordash

Any Trader Joe's frozen Indian entrees

Mug of tomato soup and grilled cheese.

I make lentil soup and freeze it, and/or small containers of chili.

I will sometimes roast three or four chicken breasts, and freeze them, so I can use them in a salad, or as an entree with baked potato & steamed broccoli. It's fast & easy.

Bacon & eggs with wheat toast

Go to frozen: Coconut Shrimp or a frozen pizza

R31 is right. There's way too much cooking in this thread to meet the OP's original question. The issue isn't so much the simple cooking itself, but the cleanup. Boil water for pasta = pasta pot to be washed. Heat sauce = ditto. Salad = big bowl or plate + utelsils to be washes. Sure, you can put them in the dishwasher, but you still have to rinse them off, and then later empty the d/w.

The closest I can come to making something for dinner at home that's not "making dinner" would be bacon or toaster-over-grilled hot dogs and Bush's pork and beans, accompanies by toast.

But, really OP, if I I don't feel like even basic cooking, I just get carryout from one of the many local restaurants that offer it. If I'm home and don't want to go out ... what R57 said. In other words, the question really doesn't come up often.

Canned protein shake. Why are you idiots listing recipes?

Greek yogurt.

R55, this BBC recipe for spaghetti Bolognese (I googled "recipe spag bol") looks pretty involved.

Simple takeout is the answer, OP. Anything else, including boiling pasta or making Kraft mac and cheese, is "making dinner".

I live in the Philadelphia suburbs, so our standard local carryout is a pizza-cheese steak-hoagie place. There's one on every corner, practically. I have different favorite places for different items, all of them quite close. All of them deliver. So there's really no reason to force myself to so much as turn on the stove (except to reheat the pizza or cheese steak) if I really don't want to cook anything.

I have an Instant Pot for those days. Don't laugh. They're fucking great for good easy meals. I have a quinoa, chicken, broccoli recipe that takes less than 5 minutes to prep and like 30 to cook. A few other equally easy recipes I use often.

CAN O FOOD aka Chef Boyardee anything, such as spaghetti and meat balls! Bellissimo!

When I cook I usually make enough to freeze a couple of servings, and add fresh vegetables or a salad.

But my go-to-meals otherwise are an omelet or a quick risotto with some shrimp.

My own cum

Halloumi or tuna salads are quick to throw together and very filling

"Canned protein shake. Why are you idiots listing recipes?"

NOT SATISFYING in the least.

"When I cook I usually make enough to freeze a couple of servings"

I need to go back to that, thanks for mentioning, R67. I make chicken soup and freeze several portions. That is, several low sodium chicken broth (bought), veggies, onion and garlic, two rotisserie chickens. FREEZE in small ziplock containers which will be thrown out after. Don't try to wash those things - they'll stink until 2099.

Pussy and crackers

Cock juice

Just larger than the egg, R51. Cut a hole out of the center of the slice of bread. then melt butter in a frying pan over medium heat. Pan-toast bread and cutout on 1 side in skillet until golden. Flip bread and cutout over. Melt a small piece of butter in the hole in the bread, crack an egg into hole, and cook until egg is set. Flip it for a few seconds if you prefer over easy. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with toasted cutout for dipping in the yolk

[quote] That's lazy and disgusting. I shake my eggs with cream and salt in an old Talenti container. I can't imagine your version of "scrambled" eggs.

That's because you're a member of the Order of the Mincing Prisspot of the Maiden Aunt Brigade R53

Right down to the fact that you felt compelled to point out that it was an old *Talenti* container.

DLCAS (Datalounge Class Anxiety Syndrome) at its finest.

PS: If you scramble the eggs in the pan as your adding the vegetables it comes out exactly the same as if you use a whisk. You would not do that for an omelette, but for a quick meal there's no real difference in taste or texture (you're combining the eggs with one or two vegetables plus cheese, which is gloopy on its own) and, as per R60, one less pot to clean up.

After my 4th Martini, I don't feel like making dinner, evah, so I usually have a sleeping pill or two then drift off. No need for dinner, dahlings.

Grubhub has never failed me.

Soup and sandwich.

No, MyMillennialMoron, I use the Talenti because it's clear. I mention it so you can picture me using a clear container. Your sweeping class analyses are one of your most ridiculous features (and you have many ridiculosities).

R77 is a hobo. WTF is Grubhub R76?

And the words "a clear container" would have been shorter and easier than "Hiss!! I usssseee a Talenti container! No basic frau ice cream for me. I am a klassy gay and I eat the $4 gelato. It's Italian, you know. No! It's gel, like shaving gel, not Gell! Some people!!!"

[quote]If you scramble the eggs in the pan as your adding the vegetables

Oh, dear.

You really have lost your shit, MyMillennialPoopPerdu.

GrubHub, DoorDash, UberEats and Postmates are food delivery apps R79, they all bill themselves as the "Uber of food delivery" as they employ their own staff of freelance delivery people who pick up the food for you.

They probably don't make money, a la Uber, but they're life changing in that many restaurants that never offered delivery will now deliver because the services do it all for them.

As a consumer the advantage is they communicate well via the app "we're getting the food in 10 minutes// We're picking it up//We're on our way and will be there in 5 miuntes//We're in the lobby

YourMillennialFriend = 21 century version of White Belt Man.

Gruyere cheese omelet with chives.

Just kidding. Ramen, Progresso soups, mini ravioli (Chef Boyardee).

All you would have to do is look at my monthly Door Dash tab. It would tell all.

Ditto R86. I usually avoid it during the week but weekends, when there are two of us, it's far too tempting.

the correct answer is r14

My neighborhood bakery makes killer garlic toast. Put cheese slices on top, broil in the toaster oven till the cheese has melted. Crunchy, gooey, garlicky, cheesy - yum.

I'm fascinated that one would buy someone else's garlic toast.

Or bread, for that matter.

Do you make all your bread, r90?

Cheerios and almond milk

Not feel like making dinner? ... Those are the evenings when I make certain my clients understand that "the boyfriend experience" means they'll be preparing a gourmet dinner for me. If they'd rather take me out, then I'll need to know the restaurant. .. Similarly, room service at the hotel might be acceptable as long as current reviews show 4+ stars.

And how many stars do YOUR current reviews show, whore at R93?

Pancakes Barbara!

I make Cream of Wheat.

I have the easiest and tastiest standby. Beans on toast! Sauté garlic, rosemary needles and some red pepper flakes in olive oil. Add a can of black beans and salt/pepper. Serve on plain toast, or spread crushed garlic and salt on toast.

Super simple but tastes great. Serve with fried or scrambled egg.

Tinned spaghetti

r84, White Belt Man was before my time. I take it he was a bad person.

Peanut butter toast and tea.

A sandwich chips and a mug of soup

Can of tuna; can of chopped "Italian-style" tomatoes (packed in olive oil); a can of chick peas.

Mix, sprinkle with a cheese like feta.

I'm appalled at how many of you guttersnipes eat Chef Boyardee and tinned spaghetti.

r101 NO.

Sorry but I think Kraft mac n cheese( thick and creamy is a must but I still add more cheese) and Hamburger Helper is very easy to do. Boil the water. Put the pasta in and stir a few times and drain and that’s it. HH you don’t even have to do that. The Velvetta brand is even easier because the cheese sauce is already made. YoI just stir it in.

Another that takes almost no effort is my favorite. Polish sausage , fried or roasted potatoes and frozen broccoli with cheese and I also add more. Slicing potatoes is a chore but taste so good it is worth it. Walmart has a Marketplace brand roasted potatoes that is delicious. This weekend I’m craving it and I’m trying to eat better so I bought turkey polish sausage couldn’t find any already cooked roasted potatoes and I’m having roasted broccoli who heat in the oven.

Tonight I got Panda Express orange chicken with chow mean. So salty, I feel really fat now. But delicious.

Microwave popcorn is pretty simple. And if there's any left over, you can have it for breakfast the next day. Just put some maple syrup on it, and it won't seem stale.

Omelet

I forgot to add since I couldn’t find any already cooked roasted potatoes I bought those mashed potatoes smiley faces that I may put a tiny amount of butter on.

The only thing I can tolerate Chef Boyardee Is ravioli. It is about the only company that sells ravioli with meat inside. I’m afraid to ask what it is made of I add something to the sauce because it is so bland I put cheese on top and heat in oven and it’s not bad. . I like the spaghetti and meatballs (another mystery meat) but however I cook it the pasta almost disappears.

This thread made me look up on line how to cook scrambled eggs. I watched a panel to determine which was the best Gordon Ramsey (goes against everything I have learned ) and Jamie Oliver( the way I learned to do it recently and liked very much). I can’t believe they picked Ramsey's.

An egg sandwich. Mayo, salt, pepper, lettuce, tomatoe, Tabasco sauce. Done.

R109 Several years ago, I saw Ramsay do his scrambled eggs on some TV show. I was surprised as well, but decided to try it.

I now make them that way .. lol!

Omg.

I want to Rey ram-dom ( not it’s real name) from the movie Parasite. Of course, I can’t afford the very expensive beef..

I cook them Jamie Oliver English style, how I've always done it

Cheerios.

This.

I open a can of red beans in chili sauce, pour over nachos, top it with shredded monterey jack cheese, microwave, season, eat with a cold beer.

I keep a few of those cheapie microwave burritos in the freezer, throw some taco sauce and a bunch of cheese on it and microwave. That's about as easy as you can get.

R90, that bakery's been in business for over sixty years. Several of my siblings have worked there over the years. It's owned by one of the kids we grew up with, who worked for the original owner and bought it from him after he retired. They're practically family to the whole neighborhood, which is why everyone loves them and why they've been in business so long.

After my dad died and left my mom with eight kids, the owner of the bakery hired one of my brothers and sent home baked goods with him nearly every night. He knew we were hard up, and we really appreciated it (especially the brownies and donuts, which were a treat for us).

Classic German Eintopf. One Pot. Usually take some meat that's around, slice it up, mix it with baked beans, or sauerkraut, or rotkohl, or grunkohl if I have it, and let it all warm up very slowly. I tend to buy a couple of small smoked Hungarian pork loins from Bende and have them in the freezer, they work very well. Otherwise, dinner franks or smoked sausage from Daisy Brand (the best in the world!), Just heat it up, pour it in a bowl, and voila!

r30, shouldn't it be Sum Yung Gai?

Anyone old enough to feed themselves should have a couple of basics in the pantry and in the cupboard to throw together dinner in minutes.

I often have homemade chicken soup in my freezer. It only takes a little time to make matzo balls, or toss in some egg noodles and vegetables. I always have a pâté on hand, crackers, olives, pickles, and cheeses; sometimes if it's late and I'm having (too much or too many) wine or cocktails, I'll just nosh on these and "cook" nothing.

I'm also not above tinned beans, soup, or fish. If I need something warm, fried matzo made with the egg and onion matzo is quick and comforting.

Didn't the OP say "don't feel like making dinner"? Does that mean sauteeing, marinating, braising, broasting and broiling?

Poached eggs on rice with tobasco sauce. I have automatic cookers each for the eggs and the rice, prep takes 2 mins, press the buttons, ready in 20.

Toast and popcorn.

My Korean friend turned me on to these things and oh.my.god. To die for. And they only take 3 minutes in the microwave. Trust me.

R124, I like to do a simple chicken paillard over either quick-sauted greens or a lightly-dressed salad with lemon wedges and some kind of toasted nut on top.

Or, when I don't feel like making dinner but since I'm adult and have to eat, I'll do those big plate-sized savory dutch pancakes and use up leftovers from the fridge, then put a fried egg on top. It's a favorite of our household, when I don't feel like cooking but still cook.

Not humble bragging although you'd think so. We have a country house and I can't tell you how many of our city guests (queens) volunteer to make Sunday brunch and then instruct us on how to make tender scrambled eggs. I'm not joking. We just politely listen. Yummm.

r129, what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

[quote] I like to do a simple chicken paillard over either quick-sauted greens or a lightly-dressed salad with lemon wedges and some kind of toasted nut on top.

Plop one-third of a package of Trader Joe's precooked lentils into a bowl. Drain a can of Kirkland chicken breast, add, plop in a couple of spoonfuls of mayo. Add a couple of tablespoons of garam masala and a handful of dried fruit. I like dried mangoes but I also love craisins, which I always have in the house. Makes a couple of servings.

R130 because this is a discussion about easy dinners and scrambled eggs was a part of this.

You should just order a pizza

[quote] a can of Kirkland chicken breast

A can?

Chicken breast in a can?

A bottle of merlot and a pint of Ben and Jerry's

This thread has a subplot about making scrambled eggs, dear...

R111, I just tried Ramsey’s recipe and it make me feel I have been eating over cooked eggs my entire life. Although it is confusing. Ramsey has several videos and he does different things in each. The one I saw added some kind of cream I never heard of ( looked like sour cream) didn’t have it and didn’t use it.

R129, you’re an idiot and your post doesn’t even make sense.

[quote]Makes a couple of servings.

Of what, R132? Chicken and lentil slop???

It does sound gross. The word "plop" isn't helping.

My 2p: Ramsay's a hack. One doesn't need cream for proper scrambled eggs, if he's familiar with the preferred French "fore and aft" method. A good knob of butter, low heat, and you're there. Fuck Ramsay.

The Kirkland brand of canned chicken is actually very good. I wouldn't suspect it was from a can if someone served me chicken salad made with it.

Pizza! Pizza! Pizza!

This thread has turned into the DL Galloping Gourmet.

Spaghetti and Olive oil with garlic - While 1/2 lb spaghetti is boiling heat 1/4 C olive oil and gently saute 2-3 cloves of garlic and a pinch of red pepper in a large frying pan. Don't allow the garlic to burn. When the pasta is almost done using tongs pick the pasta up out of the water and add to the frying pan with the olive oil and garlic. Cook 1-2 minutes on medium low heat to get the pasta to absorb some of the oil. Toss with parm cheese and fresh parsley. My favorite!

R143 - first thing I made was Spaghetti Carbonara after seeing Graham Kerr make it on a noontime cooking program!

R83 YourMillenialFriend is such a Mansplainer

If I have some but not a lot of inspiration I go with spaghetti and frozen meatballs cooked in store bought sauce. If I have even less motivation to cook, then it’s frozen pizza, and if I am feeling like completely worthless white trash, then it’s a bowl of captain crunch cereal and maybe a ding dong or a hoho.

ROTFLMAO -- Gordon Ramsey's "How To Scramble An Egg" video, the one with almost 40 million views, advocates scrambling the eggs in a pan. (There is no mention of a jar, Talenti or otherwise.

From Ramsay's website:

Crack 6 cold eggs into a deep saucepan.

Add the butter. For smaller batches, use a 2-to-1 eggs-to-butter ratio.

Put the pan on high heat.

Stir continuously with a rubber spatula—don't whisk—making sure to scrape the bottom of the pan.

After 30 seconds, take the pan off the heat. Keep stirring. After about 10 seconds, put back on the heat. Repeat for 3 minutes.

In the last minute, season the eggs lightly. For extra creamy texture, stir in 1 tsp of crème fraîche.

Plate and garnish with chopped chives.

Seriously, MyMillennialMoron, if this is what makes you roll on the floor laughing your ass off, maybe you need to talk to someone. And not about cooking.

There's a lot of cooking going on for not feeling like making dinner.

I looked up French scrambled eggs and they used a double boiler.

I hate NorwegianCatholics!

I saw one of Julia's shows once in which some American woman who wrote a French cookbook showed Julia The Only Way To Make Scrambled Eggs. Cooking them slowly was the main thrust of her process. "If it takes you less than half an hour," she stated, "you're cooking them too quickly."

As if.

It has recently come to my attention that I love to-ast.

Those scrambled eggs that take forever to cook are really smooth, like cream of wheat. I prefer actual curds in my scrambled eggs (Mary!).

My method: crack eggs into a bowl. Add a splash of water. Use a fork to scramble. Olive oil or Pam spray in non-stick pan. Medium/low heat. Pour eggs into pan. Let the eggs set up (cook) a bit. Use a spatula (or whatever you like) to push the cooked, bottom layer to the sides of the pan. Let raw egg flow into the middle of the pan to cook. Keep on doing that until it's as done as you want it.

You can also put cheese into your mixture. If your eggs are room temp, add the cheese in right away. If you're working with cold eggs, add the cheese in after eggs have set up a bit.

I’ll do scrambled eggs for 5 minutes but over 30 minutes is not ever going to happen.

[quote]Microwave popcorn is pretty simple. And if there's any left over, you can have it for breakfast the next day. Just put some maple syrup on it, and it won't seem stale.

Memo to self: Don't stay for breakfast at R106's house.

Fairy Toast and canned potatoes.

When I don’t feel like cooking, I open and drain a can of tuna, squirt some sriracha sauce on it, grab a fork, and enjoy my dinner.

Crackers with peanut butter or soup . But I've pretty much lost 90 percent of my appetite. I generally go days having a few small morsels. I just don't get hungry anymore.

Do you know why this is happening to you R161? I hope it's not serious and if it's contagious I wish you could come and breathe on me. Seriously, I hope you feel better and can enjoy what you eat, even if it's just a little.

I’m trying to will myself to get up ( I guess I have the winter blues still haven’t recovered from the holiday blues) and fix an egg sandwich on toasted bread cooked in the same pan with Nestle’s Quick. I wish I could fix the egg sandwich like in movie V is for Victory but I have tried many times and gave up.

R146 That's one name for him I suppose. I have others.

Club Fancypants: Always with some paté on hand, (and lemon wedges and some toasted nuts on top). "Oh, Jeffrey just called to say he's left work and should be home in a few hours, he's bringing some white wine from our favorite shop, and some of that divine super-crusty bread from Il Forno, and stopping by Johnnie's to pick up some organic arugula from his garden, and then three roast pigs from the charcuterie because, well, I'm peckish, oh, and some fresh flowers just flown over, and for dessert, well he says it's a big surprise! So simple!"

Club Disgusto: Bizarre pregnancy cravings and trailer trash recipes of stuff found between seat cushions of a sofa. Chef Boyardee ravioli or lasagna? Pam spray? (why not just borrow a can of mother's AquaNet and give you food hold and poison?) Shrimp cooked for a half hour? Tined spaghetti? Frozen individual portions of shrimp and spaghetti? All that peanut butter and peanut butter and jelly? Kirkland chicken in a can?

R162 Thanks I don't think it's contagious haha. I'm not entirely sure why but I think it's just that I've just had a rough few years and it's been difficult to enjoy much of anything. Occasionally I will make a nice pasta dinner for myself however.

Just open up a canned whole chicken!

More delicious treats in a can!

Cottage cheese and buttered noodles.

Cook noodles Melt a large wad of butter and mix with noodles Add cottage cheese, mix and enjoy.

R170 I had a Slovak friend at University who made a similar dish, she added bacon and bacon grease in lieu of butter. Delicious, but very heavy, and a food coma would always ensue! I've seen various renditions on this theme...some with sour cream, others with nutmeg and smoked sausage. Are you Czech or Slovak?

Tonight I was really tired and had a portion of Grape Nuts with milk and 2 string cheese things. Prep for it, 1.5 minutes. Sometimes I get really tired of spending 2 + hours making a meal that takes at most 30 - 40 minutes to eat. I start to think, WTF!

[quote] When I don’t feel like cooking, I open and drain a can of tuna, squirt some sriracha sauce on it, grab a fork, and enjoy my dinner.

R160, be sure to save the water or oil that's drained out of the tuna can for any cats you know -- if they're not around right now, you can freeze it until the next time you see them. It's good for them and they love it.

I can't believe people actually eat canned chicken. It looks offal. A couple of times a month, usually Saturday afternoon or Sunday, depending how I feel, I cook. I'm talking about roasting chicken and veggies or making a loin pork roast and veggies, or a beef pot roast, or soup, chili, etc. Or I'll roast several chicken breasts. I portion it out in individual servings, put it in freezer bags, and I have stuff ready to go on the nights ...or days I don't feel like cooking. I don't do fast food and the only snack-ish things I have is crackers and canned tuna.

I grill some flank steak and bag salad.

^bag salad to go with the flank steak, I don't grill the bag salad.

frozen pizza or sometimes I'll get take out from a taco place down the street from my house.

earrings

caftans

gin

regret

R168 That looks like something out of a horror movie 🤢

Grilled cheese sandwich, and either lentils or tomato soup.

I do fast food. Door dash. Either order pizza or Micky D's. Sorry. No point in lying.

r174, I don't usually keep canned chicken but I can vouch for the Kirkland canned chicken. It is good. I usually pick out the chicken from canned soup because it's gross and rubbery, but can eat this stuff.

I made chili last night for the Superbowl. I used canned tomatoes and beans. It took all of 10 minutes to put together and then sat on low heat on the stove until I was ready to eat it, but I could have eaten it within 20 minutes.

OK. Stagg steakhouse chili is always in my cupboard. It is the best damned chili in the world. I might add just a little bit of garlic powder, and chili powder and cayenne pepper, maybe a tiny bit of cumin. But honestly you don't have to add a thing.Nada. It's good straight from the can. Just dump it in a bowl maybe throw some shredded monterey jack cheese on it, and nuke it in the microwave. Sometimes I'll chop up some onions and cherry tomatoes to put on top with the melted cheese. WTFever. Delicious. And I don't eat canned meat, but I make an exception for this. Oh. Don't forget the chips. Any kind of corn chips.

We're all gonna die....

R183 I'll have to give that one a try. I'm not familiar with the brand.

Canned salmon stew. I saute butter in some olive oil and marinate minced garlic, onion and tomatoes for several minutes. I season the salmon with sazon seasoning, garlic and onion powder with some adobo and black pepper. Add the salmon to the oil and butter, let it simmer on medium to low flame for about 20 minutes, and add a scotch bonnet pepper. I make enough to last a week and eat it over rice.

Delicious and easy. Always my go-to.

Omelet, oatmeal with blueberries, avocado toast, grilled cheese. I eat like this quite often now.

So, even though this thread is for ideas for when you "don't feel like making dinner," some of you still go through a lot of trouble to fix something.

I don't count "making dinner" as something that can be fixed in 10-15 minutes. I don't want to have to order out out all the time, either.

A bag of baby carrots and several vodkas-on-the-rocks.

[quote]I can't believe people actually eat canned chicken. It looks offal. A couple of times a month, usually Saturday afternoon or Sunday, depending how I feel, I cook. I'm talking about roasting chicken and veggies or making a loin pork roast and veggies, or a beef pot roast, or soup, chili, etc. Or I'll roast several chicken breasts. I portion it out in individual servings, put it in freezer bags, and I have stuff ready to go on the nights ...or days I don't feel like cooking. I don't do fast food and the only snack-ish things I have is crackers and canned tuna.

This is a thread about what to eat when you don't feel like cooking. Kirkland canned chicken is pretty decent and, it looks quite like canned tuna, which you don't seem to mind.

R170-that sounds like a bare basic version of haluski or halupki, which my Slavic mother made. Buttered egg noodles, sautéed onions, sautéed green cabbage and cottage cheese. Pure comfort food for me.

[quote] ... I can't believe people actually eat canned chicken. It looks offal. ...

R174, the word "offal" is a noun that refers to the edible innards of animals and fowl, such as liver, kidney, heart, gizzard, brains, etc. Though many people do find offal to be distasteful, the term is not synonymous with the adjective "awful", which means "terrible", "disgusting", etc. I've seen canned chicken and don't think that it resembles offal, nor does it look awful -- just kind of boring.

R192 That sounds delicious as well... comforting too, and probably a bit healthier.

Toast or popcorn

R194-it's so easy to make. (It's also called halushki. There are a lot of "ki" dishes in Slavic culture.) Add the cottage cheese at the very end. As a kid I would just pile it on throughout the meal.) Some people add mushrooms, but that's blasphemy!

My cousin Tabitha’s recipe:

Boil up some noodles

Can of tuna

Cream of mushroom soup

I know perfectly well what offal means. I used it facetiously. IMO offal is shit. That's exactly what I meant.

Crackers, hummous, crudités.

Crusty French bread with a hunk of sharp cheddar.

Raisin bran cereal with skim milk and sweet n low.

We called it Halushka. Slowly cooked thinly sliced onions, cooked in lots and lots of butter until the onions turn golden brown. 2nd pan has thinly sliced tender cabbage (discard outer leaves) sauteed in butter slowly until lightly browned. Wide egg noodles are boiiled in a large pot until al dente. Drain noodles and add the onions with butter and cabbage with butter. After thoroughly mixed, taste and add more salt and some grinds of pepper. Pour onto a large platter. sprinkle with fresh chipped parsley. If you wish serve up some bratwurst on hearty rolls. I have a special brat recipe.

baby mozzarella + cherry tomatoes +canned pesto + baguette

R202 The addition of the fresh parsley sounds quite refreshing. I'm curious about your Brat recipe; do you make your own sausages? If you do, do you add a bit of dried ginger?

A friend of mine would also add carrots to haluski. It was off recipe, but proved a nice addition. Here's a recipe. But it MUST be topped with cold cottage cheese. Don't ruin it by going low fat.

Hamburger Helper- stroganoff

Tuna helper

YOur cabbage dish sounds delish, but it's too much like cooking for a thread about when you don't feel like making dinner. Gotta be honest. I eat too many eggs. BEcause my "go to" is an omelette or scrambled eggs with cheese and toast. Ever since I was a little kid toast has been our #one comfort food. Cheese toast, peanut butter and toast, toast and butter and marmalade, etc. I love toast. I love biscuits, I love English muffins slathered in butter, but most of all it's toast. It takes two minutes to cook eggs and toast. So that's what I do when I don't feel like making dinner.

Frittata with grape tomatoes and cheese. Start on the stove and finish under the broiler.

Meat!

I will grill a quesadilla. I put some cheese between two tortillas and whatever I have in the refrigerator, but it's usually spinach, peppers and onions. Sometimes beans or chicken or tomatoes.

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Loco Moco

I always have rice in the pantry. Usually have packets of brown gravy, but making it is easy, too, since I have flour and bullion cubes. And there are always eggs in the refrigerator. Super fast (unless I use the rice cooker, which, inexplicably, takes forever), savory, and lots of protein.

[quote]an old Talenti container.

I was excited by this reference even before everyone's favorite bore checked in with his negative opinion. I love those damn things! Great for mixing and for storage. I use them most frequently for making salad dressing, proofing yeast, and blending eggs (for french toast, for omelets, for baked goods, for breading things, for everything!).

As for the OP's question: I boil some water, put it in a bowl with some couscous and cannellini beans, add seasoning. Might throw in some red onion and bell peppers if I've got them.

Spam sandwiches

Sorry but noodles, cabbage and cottage cheese sounds fucking vile. Not to mention your house smells like farts.

R167 and R168 That's what they serve in jail. No thanks.

A bowl of beans, maybe with some toast or a piece of cornbread. Very nutritious, low in fat, high in plant protein, filling, affordable, sustainable.

Thank you, r216. Nothing smells worse than cabbage as it is cooking. I can't go anywhere near it. And cottage cheese looks so disgusting—white diarrhea—I have never eaten any.

Apparently, R217 speaks from experience.

I had a very quickly made gray sole tonight. I would usually dredge it and do it in a pan but I tried to just bake it with lemon zest, juice and butter and it was delicious and no carbs from the flour. It took about 15 minutes.

I had salmon that I coated with sea salt and cracked black pepper that I did under the broiler set on high. for about 15-20 minutes I also broiled some asparagus with olive oil and sea salt for about 7 minutes. Minimal effort, quite tasty and very healthy.

R216 I suppose it was nice of you to say "sorry" first, but it's still rude to crap, or perhaps in your case, fart on others' yum. Cabbage is very healthy, and many different cultures enjoy it. I don't suppose you cook Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflower, or other cruciferous vegetables out of fear your house shall smell of sulphur. Sounds as if someone is afflicted with baby tastes to me.

Huge bowl of salad with chickpeas or beans, served with some bread.

Prepared in 5 minutes or less and healthy.

R222, are the vegetables broiled with the salmon or prepared separately? I usually bake salmon but it takes 35 / 40 minutes. Is broiling quicker?

R225-Broiling is quicker. Like I said, about 20 minutes on high-but it might take 5 minutes longer depending on how done you like your salmon. I put the salmon in first, and when it has around 7 minutes left to go, I slide it to the side and pop in a sheet pan with asparagus. We like our asparagus with some crunch, so depending on how you like yours, you may leave it in 2-3 minutes longer. Play with the times, and see what works for you. It's a pretty easy dinner. An added note: I put tinfoil down for both so that when it comes to clean up, I just throw away the foil. It makes washing the pans really easy.

R223-I agree. That was rude. I'm glad you're a fellow haluski lover and defender! We shall enjoy our comfort food in peace!

Haluski requires more effort/pans than something to do when you don't feel like making dinner.

R228-not really. It's just sautéing onions and cabbage in the same pan (start the onions first, then add in the chopped cabbage( and boiling some noodles in a pot. It's phenomenally simple. I depends on what your idea of an easy dinner is. For some people take out or delivery is the best option - or something prepared from the store.

R225-I forgot to add that I occasionally sub out the salmon for some good sausages from the butcher. Same procedure-under the broiler, turn once, a separate pan of asparagus toward the end.

Corn Chex

[quote] I boil some water, put it in a bowl with some couscous and cannellini beans, add seasoning. Might throw in some red onion and bell peppers if I've got them.

R214, I'm assuming you're using canned cannellini beans. What brand do you use? (I can't find a good brand of canned white beans, all too mushy.) TIA!

R227 He doesn't know what he's missing out on. More for us.

R233-we'll get extra cottage cheese.

r232, I usually buy Bush's. There's a brand with firmer beans available at Nature's Own, but I can't remember the name.

[quote]I usually bake salmon but it takes 35 / 40 minutes.

That is some wildly overcooked salmon. Ten minutes per inch of thickness is all you need for fish.

You can prepare a bunch of dry cannellini beans yourself (thereby controlling the mushiness) and freeze them for quick meals.

A salmon filet and Brussels sprouts, roasted in the toaster oven.

15 minutes at 350 on a sheet of foil.

Fast, cheap, satisfying, minimal waste, no cleanup.

[quote]Corn Chex

R231, your simplicity is refreshing after all of these concoctions of cabbage and fish and cheese curds and noodles, and whole-meal-iin-a-can abortions on a plate.

Likewise R211 with his simple quesadilla of things on hand ( fitting things, not some awful concoction of everthing but the kitchen sink.)

[quote]your simplicity is refreshing after all of these concoctions of cabbage and fish and cheese curds and noodles, and whole-meal-in-a-can abortions on a plate.

Some of these meals left me wondering how elaborate their inventors get when they [italic]do[/italic] feel like making dinner.

My favorite petit déjeuner is hot buttered cock.

Pasta Risotto with Peas and Pancetta, it's from Nigella Lawson's Nigellissima, surprisingly easy and tasty!

pancetta, frozen peas, orzo pasta

olive oil, butter, black pepper, salt, garlic (optional), grated parmesan (optional)

one pot, minimal preparation, 15~20 mins, done!

found Nigella Lawson's cooking show for the pancetta risotto, starting on 23 min mark

A peanut butter and dill pickle sandwich on dill rye bread with potato chips and Guinness.

A quesadilla or eggs or beans on toast.

OMG, Grandma's spinach and beans. Take fresh or frozen spinach (I prefer fresh, because you have to literally squeeze all the moisture out of the frozen) and it's less than ten minutes: Olive oil in your skillet, crushed garlic, saute it gently, don't let it burn, then add the spinach, toss in the hot olive oil add cherry tomatoes cut in half, and cannellini beans drained and washed. cover it, remove it from the heat, add grated pecorino Romano and serve.

R246 I do something similar. Steam spinach and then squeeze it dry. Melt butter and saute garlic. Add the spinach and pre-cooked shrimp and warm everything together. Quick and healthy scampi.

Well, I stay away from frozen spinach. I've found fresh works best and it's faster. I just saute' in crushed garlic and olive oil, ass my beans, once the beans are heated, add the cherry tomatoes, salt pepper to taste, toss them a bit, cover, remove from heat. Done. Ten minutes. Add the grated cheese and all you need is some garlic bread if you want, and you're ready to feast.

R248 "ass my beans" sounds like something you do in a K hole.

scrambled eggs and turkey bacon

OR

grilled cheese and tomato soup

I meant "Add my beans" not "ass my beans..." LOLOL!

Eggs is a great go to meal for something quick, healthy and loaded with protein and with a million different ways to prepare, most still quick and simple.

R248 If you "ass your beans" perhaps you don't need the cheese.

Now I'm embarrassed to give out my salmon & rice recipe. Rice (have a rice cooker) and half a can of pink salmon. Handful of shredded cheese on top.

R255, why not double the amounts of rice and cheese, and use the whole can of salmon? Then freeze half of the completed dish for the next time you don't feel like cooking? Otherwise, what do you do with the unused half can of salmon?

Many years ago, r256, I had a friend who had a recipe for chili that called for only half of a green pepper. So he threw the other half out.

Lately, I've been craving ramen noodles. I don't add the whole seasoning packet (too salty), but I add garlic powder, hot sauce, a packet of Instant Ginger tea (pure powdered ginger), and finish it off with a splash of sherry vinegar and a drizzle of toasted sesame oil.

Just had it: Store Rotisserie Chicken Marsala. Boiled the pasta water while I chopped up onions and sliced mushrooms to saute. Added packaged Marsala sauce and some extra Marsala wine. Finished cooking the Campanile pasta and cut up some of the chicken. Stirred everything together in a large Le Creuset braiser.

Or else I do what I did Friday and get a mushroom pizza at a restaurant quite near me.

R5, Add a can or two of Rotel Hot Diced Tomatoes to your Rice and Beans for perfection!

R259 here. The "omelette" post made me realize that Scrambled Eggs and Toast is actually my real go-to meal when I'm tired.

R19, It's called "Shrimp Scampi" (if you omit the tomatoes). Shrimp, lemon juice, white wine, garlic, parsley, pasta.

I want to make ram-dom as seen on Parasite. I looked it up and this all I figured out. Called something else in Korea you mix two kinds of noodles ramen and some other kind of noodles. Ramen is sold everywhere of course but couldn't find instant of the other kind..also you shouldn't add two much of one of the seasoning packets. Also the dish isn't usually served with expensive meat like in the movie.

[quote]Shrimp Scampi

Cleaning shrimp is the last thing I want to do when I don't feel like making dinner.

Some grocery stores sell raw shrimp that's been de-shelled and deveined, R254. Ours does. A good go-to recipe for me is 1 box of Zatarans jambalaya rice mix, 1 large can diced tomatoes, 2 cups water, about 4 cut up Andouille sausages. Cook on high in crock pot for 3-4 hours. At the last half hour, add about 1/2 to 1 pound raw shrimp. Very easy. The only thing you have to do is cut up the sausage, and you can ask the butcher to do that. In that case, literally all you have to do is open a box and a can.

You can buy peeled, de-veined frozen shrimp. Usually pretty inexpensive and a good thing to keep in the freezer.

r263 "Ram-dom" sounds like some new sexual fetish.

[quote]Campanile pasta

Oh, dear. (or "Mamma mia!"

I assume you meant campanelle. (A campanile is a bell tower.)

r265, using a crockpot makes it even less of a thing I'd want to do when I don't feel like cooking. 99% of the time that's the case, it's because I'm hungry: I want something now, not in four hours. However, if I were to engage in your four-hour cooking process, I'd use regular shrimp, as I'd have 3.5 hours to peel and devein them.

Someone gave me a crockpot in 2015. I have never used it.

I buy some already chopped chickenfilet and a package of frozen vegetables. Fry the chicken in some sesame oil, add the vegetables and some liquid. Let simmer for-i don´t know 10 minutes.

Seasoning varies ( curry powder, soy sauce etc.) depending on my mood. If i´m not too lazy i cook chinese noodles ore rice.

I wonder if anyone has ever considered doing without a stove altogether. There a re so any small appliances, and so any options to get take out, I wonder sometimes if I could do with out it. I was tempted to get one of those Instapots or air fryers, etc. but then my sister said single use appliances are stupid. She's always been a bully...

Instant Pots (not "instapots") are called MULTI-cookers because they're not "single-use appliances."

I use my crockpot all the time during winter. You have to plan ahead, but it's really nice having a meal ready at night. Usually the prep is pretty minimal. To each their own. For me, it's been a very useful tool. I have a friend who uses his Instant Pot all the time.

[quote] ... I had a friend who had a recipe for chili that called for only half of a green pepper. So he threw the other half out.

Even though green peppers are cheap, I couldn't bear to do that. If you don't have pet chickens or a backyard that's frequented by birds and squirrels, go for a walk near a creek and sprinkle the chopped up leftover pepper where the pieces will be found by waterfowl, possums, coons, skunks, etc. Or dice it, wrap well in a plastic bag, and freeze -- the pieces won't be crunchy when thawed, but fine for use in cooked dishes (soups, stews, scrambled eggs).

I'll also sometimes do a simple London broil with roasted potatoes and a steamed green vegetable. Nothing could be simpler and it's really delicious.

R268, Yikes on me! And I've visited some of the finest campaniles!

hot dish

I cooked a white bean and spinach soup yesterday and had it for lunch today too so for dinner I am going to have a can of tuna w/chopped pickles and green Olives and scoop it up with sunchips. I am pretty sure that wins the white trash award for the thread

Those frozen shrimp are a staple for me now R266. You can toss them in wuth a can of diced tomatoes and serve them over angel hair pasta, or make quick shrimp tacos. Even if I only have 5 or 6 left I save them to throw in with ramen noodles for a quick lunch or supper.

I always have cooked frozen shrimp and a salad kit in the house.

Otherwise a piece of whole grain toast with a fried egg with a slice of fried tomato.

Even uncooked frozen shrimp cook up very quickly. You can just boil/steam them with Old Bay and serve them with cocktail sauce and some vegetables for a quick, low-calorie, healthy meal. Maybe a side of quinoa, rice, or potatoes.

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Why don't you just cook stuff and put individual servings in the freezer for the times you're either broke or don't have the time or interest in cooking something? That's what we do.

In the winter, it's doctored up soup with bread (or pita) & hummus..

In a pot, I saute' whatever vegetables I have in a little olive oil: onions or peppers or tomatoes or beans or spinach or zucchini or mushrooms. Usually I use two vegetables so it's a little better than canned soup.

I add a little garlic or sage or oregano or black pepper. If I have turkey sausage or diced chicken I throw it in. Saute' that too.

Then I add a can of soup with the amount of water recommended, plus another can of water. Let it heat till it's almost boiling and the flavors blend.

EggMcMuffin.

Ramen: add green onions, broccoli, frozen shrimp, soft boiled egg. Sesame oil and Sriracha.

Cereal.

I open a can of black beans, rinse and drain them, make a quick salsa from tomatoes, garlic, chopped onion, and cilantro, with a splash of lime juice. throw some corn chips and melted cheese and that's it.Maybe a beer to go with it. Takes to minutes to prepare and it's filling.

con un po' di panna

Pasta with melted cheese, olive oil and ground black pepper.

Scrambled eggs, avocado and a slice of toasted rye or half of a bagel.

Haagen-Dazs Strawberry Ice cream

I make soup almost every day when it isn't hot outside. Very simple basic method that starts with butter, onions, broth (vegetable, chicken or beef), heavy cream or whole milk, salt and pepper. Broccoli/cheese, cream of onion, potato/bacon, butternut or acorn squash, corn chowder, sweet potato, carrot/ginger, many others, and they are always a little different, depending on what I have in the refrigerator.

In the summer, it's a lot of cold soups -- some combination of yogurt, cucumber, dill, celery, asparagus, or gazpacho, cold tomato bisque, often with shrimp or some kind of seafood.

It's so easy to be creative with soup. Yes, I'm old.

r289 That's my favorite Talenti flavor too. But I don't add the panna. I tried making my own sorbet a couple of times, and it comes out pretty good (I have an ice cream machine with a built-in freezer), but it's not worth all of the trouble, and it actually ends up costing MORE than just buying it.

Raisin bran with milk

I always have frozen meals in my freezer.

Although I will also buy a bunch of dips and a sleeve of crackers and that will be my easy ass dinner.

Salad. I always have mixed greens.

Soft butter on saltines

Potato and egg. Not fancy, but filling, and it works for me for any meal; breakfast, lunch, simple dinner, or snack.

Baked (or boiled or microwaved) potato

Squeeze it to break it open and put it in a hot, dry skillet.

Break an egg on the open part of the potato, cover the skillet and cook a few minutes until the egg is cooked how you like it.

I like the yolk partially cooked but with enough liquid to moisten the potato a bit. You can add butter if you want.

Surprisingly, this works for a relatively low-carb diet, as a large baked potato generally has around 30 grams of carbs. Not strictly ketogenic, but if you keep the rest of your carbs low for the day, this works. For me, it's filling, satisfying, and stays with me long enough that I'm not hungry again in a couple of hours.

I just had eggs r299. scrambled with spinach and cheese. good bread toast and some hoity toity breakfast sausages that had WAY too much flavor. like, too meaty flavored. I like the cheap ones.

I need to stop eating. I'm stressed and this seclusion shit is making me do"self care" so I'm eating. Good healthy things, but too much.