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Frozen burrito :(

Macaroni and cheese with ground turkey. Brown the turkey while you boil pasta, make a quick bechamel, add cheese.

Tacos. Brown some ground beef, add some taco seasoning (Pensey's Bold Taco Seasoning is my go-to, do a quick corn starch slurry to make a sauce. Serve on soft corn tortillas with cheese, salsa, sour cream (or whatever).

A burrito with some sort of meat and beans. Really depends what I have on hand, but fish chicken or beef all work. Canned black beans or refried beans are easy to use as filler.

I buy some frozen fish patties from Costco and just make sandwiches. Not really much to it than baking it and defrosting a bun.

Fettuccini Alfredo. Butter, cream, and cheese. Throw it over pasta. A tiny pinch of sodium citrate will keep it from separating too. Don't use too much, it makes the texture weird.

I keep ingredients for these things on hand most of the time. I keep a lot of things in my freezer for that purpose. Meat, cheese, homemade burger buns.

Just a note that these are all things that can be made with 15 minutes or less. I don't really keep fully prepared food around.

Peanut butter on bread. Just put a layer of PB on there, fold it in half. I take three with a glass of milk and I'm good to go. Great for those times when I've forgotten to eat dinner and I just want to make the bad feeling in my tummy go away.

What is up with the rest of these comments though, half of them still involve cooking. Who the hell has patience for that?

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.

Chicken nuggets.

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

Popcorn, whatever fruit I have at home, glass of milk. Comes out to 500+ cal easily.

Cup noodles with two eggs

It's challenging to cook when one lives alone. I came up with a frozen buffet system.

I make several main dishes, several side dishes, and several desserts. Subsequently, I divide the foods into portions that I would normally eat, then I freeze.

That way I can grab 2 or 3 items, microwave, and eat whenever I'm hungry.

Doing this, I only need to cook once or twice every shopping cycle.

Avocado toast, actually. Toast bread, mash avocado on it, maybe sliced onions and if I have any cheese I have that with it or on it.

Doritos in a bowl of water microwaved for 15 minutes throw spaghetti noodles in it and let soak til soft.

Food

Spaghetti and meatballs. Rice and fishsticks. A piece of toast with oily chili-tuna slathered on.

First one with ketchup, superhot chilisauce and parmeesian, latter with lemon soysauce (ponzu) for the rice and sweet chili sauce for the fishsticks. Garlic mayo on the fishsticks is also nice.

The lazier I am, the more basic version. If I have any energy at all, I'll make an actual tomato sauce and not just put ketchup on spaghetti.

I'm choosing sleep for dinner tonight!

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

Whenever I get lazy I just throw some seasoned chicken drumsticks in my airfryer and then add some Uncle Ben's rice. Almost 0 effort.

Grilled cheeze with a thick layer of red onion chutney

Pre-made sauce and spaghetti. Usually doctor up plain marinara by adding a little olive oil with sautéed pre-packaged diced garlic, some dried oregano, and maybe a little salt and pepper. The hardest part is waiting for the water to boil.