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Hi F!S, I was wondering if any of you have any decent recipes for lazy people.

The last month or so I've been pretty lazy with what I'm eating. I mean, I still go for walks everyday, but not so good on the food department. I just can't be assed to cook stuff, so I end up existing on bread rolls and sugary snacks and cups of tea. I eat way too much chocolate tbh. I've felt really tired and depressed lately, which isn't helping.

Yesterday I looked in the mirror and realized I look like the crypt-keeper. My wrists are twigs! I have eyebags on top of eyebags! D:

This has kind of worried me. What are some ways I can get some nutrition - like vegetables and meat and carbs and stuff - that doesn't take a lot of energy to prepare and I can pack and take with me?

Buy bags of preprepared leaf salad and baby corn, put that in your bread roll. Consume.

That's easy, but very deficient in the nutrition department. Most bagged salads are iceberg or romaine. They're not bad for you, but they don't offer the nutrients that darker leafy greens do, such as spinach, kale, collard greens, etc. Corn is starch and sugar and by nutrition standards, doesn't even count as a vegetable at all. Your suggestion also lacks protein.

Corn is starch and sugar and by nutrition standards, doesn't even count as a vegetable at all.

An ear of sweet corn has the same amount of calories and roughly the same amount of fiber as an apple, and one quarter the amount of sugar. And it has phytonutrients too--lutein, for one.

Option one: Buy a crockpot. You can chop groceries up, put it in the crockpot with some liquid, turn it on, and 6-10 hours later, you'll have food and leftovers.

Option two: Magic Bullet. It's like a crockpot for people who can't be bothered with waiting or chewing. And as long as you have a container with a lid, smoothies are portable.

Seconded to both.

Green smoothies -- orange juice (or coconut water), fruit, and spinach -- are excellent nutrition. Toss in some yogurt or even protein powder for extra goodness.

Most supermarkets have a deli section that sells whole roasted chickens.

1. Sunday: Buy chicken, bag of frozen mixed veggies, and cheapest bag of potatoes, and one loaf of bread.

2. Eat one meal (whichever piece you like best, drumstick, thigh, etc.) off of the chicken as it's still hot from the store. Do the following: Nuke one (1) potato for 5 - 7min, depending on microwave. Nuke one (1) cup of the frozen mixed veggies.

3. Eat the rest of the chicken through the week, as sandwiches (mayo/salt&pepper, 2 slices bread), in stir fry (throw shredded/sliced white meat into a frying pan with the frozen veggies and soy sauce and cook on medium-high heat 10 - 15min; serve over toasted bread), and finally, soup. (Simmer the bones, once you've eaten all of the meat off of them, for a few hours, strain. add salt and pepper, a little bit of lemon juice, and one packet of chicken ramen noodles, with the flavour packet. Add one (1) onion, if you have any.) This should bring you back to Sunday again.

4. Buy another chicken.

5. ????

6. Profit!

How lazy are we talking here? Basically, what if you didn't need to deal with FOOD, per se, at all?

http://www.soylent.me/

http://www.spacenutrientsstation.com/

Everything you need, nothing you don't, tastes like basically nothing.

Nutritious food for people who don't want to spend a lot of time doing it is a challenge, to be honest. Unless you're not a picky eater, like, AT ALL.

I'd try the crockpot idea and try to do meat/vegetable stews, or look up vegetable-heavy soup recipes. If you have a blender, check out green smoothies that are kale/spinach based. They're a super easy way to get your vegetable intake in one go, though you might have to tinker around with it flavorwise.

Another thing is learn to cook in big batches to create planned leftovers. Roast a whole chicken and use that as your protein for the week. Or bake a dozen chicken legs and have 1-2 per dinner, that way you only have to worry about vegetables and starch. If you can afford it, Trader Joe's carries a lot of frozen meals that aren't too bad. Tasty Bite has a lot of pre-made Indian foods like madras lentils that are heat and eat.

Fish and rice cooks very fast.
Fish:
Buy fish, if fresh fry for about 15 min, if frozen for 20. Depending on size. Basicaly you want white fish to become less translucent and something like salmon to become more yellowish. Use some oil, turn your fish on the other side once, cover and forget about it for 15 min.
Rice:
Buy Basmati rice. Rince 1 cup of it in a pot. Add 2.3 cups of boiling water, salt and a tiny bit of oil. Heat until boiling, then simmer for like 15 min.
Wait till it cools then put leftowers in your fridge in an airtight container or in a plastic wrap.

Sometimes it helps to find a new pecipe and get excited about it. Like quinoa. Exciting stuff.

Canned beans, stirred eggs, bananas and fruit is also something to think about.

Edited 2015-04-15 03:09 (UTC)

How do you prepare quinoa properly? I've always had difficulty with it taking ages and sticking to the bottom of the pot. :(

http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/common-mistakes/article/5-most-common-mistakes-when-cooking-quinoa

Google for recipes and experiment, anon.

I was on a quinoa kick last year. I remember rinsing grains for a long time and then boiling them. Can't recall proportions. I don't think I fried it beforehand, which supposedly gives it a nutty flavour.

Get a rice cooker if you can. You can make super easy one-pot meals in them with rice and whatever vegetables and meat you need/have on hand.

I like Annie Chun's noodle bowls, especially the peanut sesame, but they have a lot of salt and calories, and I can never eat just the half of the bowl that is supposed to be one serving. So I dilute the fat and salt by loading up with vegetables. I cut up red pepper, carrots, cabbage and onion--sometimes I add snap peas or broccoli, sometimes tofu--until I have 2 cups, microwave them until they are just tender, and mix them into the noodles along with the sauce and peanuts.

I like hummus on a pita with a little crumbled feta cheese, matchstick pieces of red bell pepper and cucumber, some walnuts, and a good handful of greens--usually a supergreens mixture with baby kale and chard and spinach. For extra protein, add some lean deli meat--but be careful, some "healthy" deli meats have more sodium than an equal serving of bologna. Who knew?!

The iron in leafy greens is best absorbed by your body if paired up with vitamin C and a modest amount of fat. I like to cook leafy greens like kale or spinach (not baby spinach--it turns into tasteless mush when cooked) by wilting them in the skillet with just the water that clings to the leaves when you wash them (shake them first, don't put them in dripping wet). Then dress them with a little olive oil and plenty of lemon juice. Add some crumbled feta if you like.

A baked potato with cheesy scrambled eggs is perfect comfort food.

For breakfast, you can now get super-quick steel-cut oatmeal that cooks in 2 and a half minutes in the microwave! Pair it up with some fruit--I like to dice up an apple and nuke it for about 90 seconds (more or less depending on your microwave and how crunchy you like your apple)--and some walnuts, plus cinnamon, maple syrup (you don't need much) and your choice of milk.

I also like a diced pear with plain Greek yogurt, drizzled with maple syrup and sprinkled with nuts.

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