What are you cooking when you aren't using your meal stipend? I feel like I eat out almost every meal of the day, but when I have the chance to cook and want something fast, I'll usually do:
- 2 Chicken Breasts cut into cubes
- 1 onion roughly chopped
- 1 Zucchini roughly chopped
- cook together in one pan,
- add 1 can of crushed tomatoes
- serve over rice
Pretty simple and boring but tastes good and is healthy. For someone with minimum time and cooking skills, what are you all making? Ground beef and rice??
Steak. No sides. Just steak.
hell yeah brother
Yeah also to save time I'll cook 2 meals worth of steak and eat it cold out of fridge next day. It's nice with eggs over easy and runny yolk if you have more time.
I'm really not a huge fan of steak, especially if you have to cook it quickly and simply. Don't get me wrong I love a smoked brisket or really good sous vide steak, but those aren't things that come out of the fridge at 6 and end up on a dinner plate at 7. Lamb would probably be my low effort go-to. Duck can be quick too, but you need to monitor it.
My recommendation would be to crock-pot beans and the cheapest sausages you can find from a sketchy ethnic place. It's near zero effort. My mom's Italian Sunday gravy (inherited from her mother) might be marginally cheaper. (over pasta vs rice obviously) however it takes a lot more work.
You’re buying the wrong cuts my friend. NOTHING beats a picanha.
1 lb ground beef 1 cup of rice 1 can of tomatoes seasoning of choice.
Cook rice separately from beef. Mix after both are done cooking. Can toss an avocado in if you're feeling nice.
Like 600 cal and 40-50g of protein
Made this last night. Threw in a bag of frozen mixed vegetables too. Was a proper slop bowl.
Ground turkey or beef, rice, cottage cheese, wilted salad greens, sriracha, other seasonings of choice. Maybe I should add canned tomatoes based on these responses. Ultimate slop bowl
Trader Joe’s sweet potato gnocchi with butter and sage
Sliced cremini mushroom (8 ounces)
Pancetta (4 ounces)
Fry pancetta (5-7) minutes, put to side, fry mushrooms in drippings. Make gnocchi according to instructions, combine and heat together on low for a minute.
Look up Cook Well / Ethan Chlebowski on youtube. I never really cooked for myself before finding his stuff, now it's my go-to for recipes that are quick, easy, and on the healthy side. He does cooking-show style walkthroughs then has a website with normal step-by-step recipes.
Butter noodles
- box of noodles
- butter
Does everyone on WSO eat like they’re in prison?
Lemon chicken breast and buttered green beans.
Takes about 20-30 minutes, is pretty low effort/attention and can make chicken and beans simultaneously. I usually make 2-3 servings worth since it stores well
Chicken:
- salt and pepper chicken
- Sear 2 chicken breasts in oil 3-4 minutes each side depending on thickness then remove from pan
- add 2 tbsp butter and 2-3 minced garlic cloves to pan on low heat for 1 minute
- add 2 cups chicken broth and half a lemon worth of lemon juice to pan. Scrape any burnt shit off pan with spatula so it’s floating or something.
- add chicken back to pan and bring to simmer. Flip chicken every 2-3 minutes until done adding chicken broth as needed.
- let rest and add bit of remaining chicken broth on to chicken when plating.
- if/when storing if you use Tupperware put all the remaining broth from the pan in the Tupperware so it keeps the chicken juicy.
Great beans:
-Boil large pot of heavily salted water
- put in green beans for seven minutes
- take them out
- mix with butter, salt, and pepper in bowl (add fresh chopped basil if you want)
- eat
Ground turkey + homemade pico in a corn tortilla shell
Pizza hot pocket microwaved 3 min and 12 seconds so that the outside is still a bit frosty but the inside is as hot as molten lava. A perfectly balanced meal of ice and fire.
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