I have this device from Japanese dollar store Daiso originally meant for cooking Japanese-style soft-boiled eggs in the microwave. It’s really just a simple plastic cup with a built in sieve of sorts for easy draining of excess water away.
You’d crack an egg into the cup, fill it with enough water to cover the egg, then nuke it in the microwave for about 50 seconds. Drain the water away and you’re supposed to have a Japanese hot spring-style poached egg.
Except I have never got my eggs set to the desired doneness following the packaging’s instructions. After some trial and error with various cooking times and power levels, I pretty much gave up on using it for its intended purpose. Yolks were either overcooked or the whites remained too runny.
I then figured that cooking the egg at 70% of my microwave’s power setting for an additional 15 to 20 seconds resulted in a hard-boiled consistency, so this is my go to method for times when only a single hard boiled egg whose appearance is not a factor is needed rather than boiling it the traditional way.
If anyone were to cook this way, I would recommend some cling film loosely wrapped over the lid of the cooking receptacle though. There were a few times in my experiments where the egg kinda exploded. 😅
If I seriously don’t feel up to cooking, like there’s no fucking way I’m turning on the stove? Cereal.
My “just throw it in a pan” meal? Seashell pasta + canned tomato soup. Apparently one fateful day before payday, my grandmother had two hungry kids to feed, and nothing in the house but those two ingredients. So my gramma invented Spaghettios from first principles and a family comfort food was born. A hot meal so simple you can make it without a working brain stem.
Boil pasta first, don’t salt the water, there’s plenty of salt in a can of tomato soup. Partially drain the pasta, you want some of the water left to dilute the canned soup, add soup, on an electric stove I turn the burner off at that point, there’s plenty of heat left in the system to bring the soup up to temperature, a couple grinds of black pepper, ladle into bowls and spoon into your choice of face hole.
I do recommend using the water the pasta was boiled in rather than fully draining the pasta, adding the soup and then adding more water. The starch dissolved in the water does good things to the texture of the soup.
I take some cooked rice out of the freezer, and put it in the air fryer with a few pieces of pork shoulder season it, and boom I have a nice meal in 15 minutes
Tuna salad. Almost all of the ingredients are stable or long lasting and it’s very tasty and filling.
Ingredients are
A can of tuna ("in oil) is best, “in water” turns tuna to mush) Mayonnaise Finely diced onion Diced pickle Diced celery, lettuce or other leafy green Fresh or dry dill (optional ) Garlic powder (optional) Small drizzle of olive oil (optional, I use it when I use less mayo) American cheese (served on bread of choice, also optional)
It can be served on most breads as a sandwich or crackers. I recommend the bread be toasted as well
Directions: Dice components, drain tuna, stir, add mayo, stir, serve on carb of choice.
I mean I don’t know what you’re expecting to cook without dirtying a couple kitchen utensils. You can make the salad in a couple minutes and like half the ingredients are optional.
I make spaghetti pasta, put a ready-made sauce from the store (one from a jar), put a grated cheese on top and cook in microwave for 2 minutes.
I still need to do some work here, but I have done it so many many times for my brain it’s like putting on shoes or brushing mt teeth, do not think about it. And it’s still relatively nice meal for me, I just like it so much I can eat it very often without having enough. This might be the key, find what you like that takes less than 30 minuts and require no attention (like constant checking or mixing) and just get used to it.
Two cans of air fried garbanzo beans. I don’t consider it cooking because it takes all of 19 seconds to open the cans, drain, spray cooking spray and turn an air fryer on. Gives me what feels like a bag of potato chips at a much healthier nutrition on the cheap. Toss some tajin seasoning on there and away I go.
One can of no beans Hormel chili, one can of black beans, rinsed and (somewhat) dried. Mix in a big bowl, microwave until hot, add sour cream and shredded cheese, and use it like dip with tortilla chips. If you’re good at rinsing the beans, and your microwave doesn’t suck, you can have this ready in 5 minutes. And the only dirty dishes to deal with are a single large bowl, and a spoon.
Another thing I tend to eat a lot when I get home from work in the morning and don’t want to do anything, is literally just a bunch a wheat thins, a block of pre-sliced sarento cheddar cheese, and a container of sliced pepperoni from the deli. Takes like 2 minutes to grab those while I’m waiting for the bus home from work. Fuck ton of sodium, though. Same with the chili, I guess.
4 scoops of vanilla protein powder, 2 big spoons of peanut powder, cup of egg whites, decent whack of real maple syrup, and as much whole milk to get a thickshake consistency. Makes about a litre and its like half my daily protein target in one go.
No its not. 125 grams of protein, 50 grams of total carbs 30 grams of fat.
My maintenance calories are 3000, that shake makes up 970. I deliberately use maple syrup and whole milk to drive UP the fats and carbs if Im using the shake as a meal replacement instead of a supplement because otherwise I dont hit my Macros.
Nope, thats counting them. I buy very specific products for very specific reasons.
Trust me mate, do you think a person who has gone to the trouble of calculating their Macros for cutting, maintenance and bulking who has peanut powder and egg whites on hand to dial in their intake to specific levels cant read a nutrition label? That shake has the equivalent carbs as 2 pieces of white bread.
No, I’m asking honestly, with a neutral tone. I’m not putting down your choice of nutrition, I’m concerned for your health and everyone else reading it. Sugar is a lot worse than most people realise.
If the 50g of carbohydrates are 50g of sugar, that would be a very unhealthy amount. You could just as well down 100g of Vodka as far as your liver is concerned.
It didn’t strike me as neutral, but it did make me want to ask whether you’re German (or otherwise from a different background.) I assumed it’s a cultural difference. I asked only because it came across to me as a bit rude.
I’m not putting down your choice of nutrition
Well sure, but I’m not the person to whom you originally replied.
If I’m poor or badly prepared rice with chili crisp and and potentially egg. If it needs to be fast or very lazy 2 bananas and half a liter of milk through the stick blender. Otherwise cereal w/ milk or yoghurt, grocery store bedrolls croissant and such, prepared sweet yoghurt or instant ramen.
Maybe someone thought I was calling the author of the comment lazy, but the whole point of the thread is lazy meals. I really was just saying I am very lazy and I wish I could manifest my laziness, lol. But of course I want what’s best for my kids, so I can’t do that. Sometimes we just heat up some ready made, frozen hash browns in the oven, but it’s not every day of course. Gotta suck it up most days and make proper meals. 👍👦👶❤️
Chicken patties in the air fryer, on pane bread with mayo. Sometimes cheese. Might put frozen fries In the air fryer with them. That was my dinner tonight. Except I used frozen hash brown patties instead of fries. I meant to to have some mini cucumbers and cherry tomatoes for a side and totally forgot.
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