Being a bachelor, I often chop an onion and end up with like 4 or 5 meals worth of onion chops, so a lot of “lazy meals” are “get some chopped onion out of the fridge.”
How much onion do you use per meal? I feel like I may be using too many, since everything in a grocery store that is sold in bundles or bags, is too much for me and it would likely go bad before I can eat it all, but onions (and plain yoghurt) are the exception. A 10 kg bag of onions lasts a week or less when feeding only myself.
In the morning, frozen diced potatoes, frozen diced onions, frozen crinkle carrots, frozen stew meat, liquid campells stew seasoning, toss all of it in a slow cooker… turn it on (for extra laziness, use a slow cooker bag so you don’t have to clean it after).
At dinner, spoon it into bowls (or if I feel fancy and like putting some effort in, hollow out some bread bowls), eat.
Then the next day throw it in the microwave for two minutes, eat it again for lunch. Do it again for dinner. Cumulative work is about 10 minutes for three meals, and the only dishes are your bowls and spoons (if you used a slow cooker bag).
My go to lazy meal (actually I have it everyday now). INSTANT oats + milk powder + peanut butter + hot water + mix TF outta it. Gains for days baby 💪🍼
Edit: I’m so lazy that I use one spoon to first transfer the oats to the bowl, then the milk powder, and only then the peanut butter. Use the same spoon to mix and eat. Only wash the spoon and bowl later 😆
Fuck them instant oats bro, they taste like glop, I made the change to overnight slow oats a month ago and that’s both lazier and tastier. Never going back.
Put all the stuff in the bowl at night and put it in the the fridge. Leave that spoon in there too. In the morning just chow it down!
I use rolled oats, milk, dried cranberries, chia seeds and honey. I have bees out here on the farm and that wildflower honey is both effectively free and just exploding with flavour.
I’m not a morning person even slightly and will gladly take any opportunity to save 5 minutes and spend them in bed.
Only meal that qualifies for me is canned soup. I get them when they are on sale. Got tons of Progresso and Campbell’s Chunky’s soup when they were on sale for $1.50. I’ve still got ~40 left.
My real lazy meal is eating snacks and not having a proper meal.
Some people are just so fast at cooking. My roommate makes the same food in a quarter of time I need and I guess it comes down to me spending so much time confused and doing unnecessary things.
I’ve heard this is what distinguishes a chef proper from a home cook. Sure, your average Joe can cook up something scrumptious, but it takes a chef to understand the logistics and timing to get things prepped just in time, getting plates made at the same time, and ultimately just having everything finished at the same time.
$5 Costco cooked rotisserie chicken. Pull the meat off the bones.
Frozen bell peppers/ onion mix
Fajita seasoning seasoning
1/2 cup Rice w/ a few spoonfuls of salsa, butter, add salt / pepper to taste
1 Can O beans.
Fry up the veggies w a little oil, add cooked chicken, season w fajita seasoning lightly, remove / put in a bowl.
In the same Pan as the chicken, cook the beans.
Takes like 10 minutes n u got fajitas with only 2 pans to clean. Can I make a way better version taking 5x as long? Certainly, but do I want to? Usually no.
My wife and I have what we call 12 minute meals. They’re not quite 12 minutes, because usually you’ve got to boil the water in the kettle first, but - they’re meals that you can make and cook in the time you make macaroni, rice or spaghetti. A simple carbonara, a simple “cheats casserole” (Fry off some mince & onions, throw in some veg, cover in gravy, serve with rice), or a Macaroni Cheese (Done the proper way - grate cheese over the macaroni, mix).
Except for the Mac&Cheese, all of them require chopping an onion. I’d count them as relatively lazy meals that are also tasy and can feed a family.
There’s different levels of lazy. If you can’t bring yourself to chop an onion every once in a while, you probably just need to practice it a bit or something, because that shit isn’t hard.
Quesadilla, especially of your have a glass top oven, you just slap that tortilla straight on the element and flip it a few times before adding cheese and folding it. 5 min, no mess.
Sorry, but it doesn’t take an hour to cook an onion. If you do it often enough you can chop an onion finely in less than 2 minutes. You can generally just throw onions into whatever container you are cooking in. Sharp knives are a must, and watch a video on how to cut veggies. Along with a cheap knife sharpener ofc.
Onions are the bread and butter for taste in my cooking. A quick web search for best herbs to add to whatever it is you are cooking will change how you cook and eat immensely. Buying a couple of jars of herbs a month and increase your repertoire bit by bit. I realise not everyone can do this ATM with the cash flow crisis that is predominant. But for those who can spend an extra £5-6 a month, it will change how you love your food.
My tea tonight(yes, its called tea where I live) - Chicken that is busy marinating in rosemary and thyme, with onions and peppers. Along with my own version of a Ratatouille that I made yesterday mixed into pasta. I am not a clever cook or anything like it. I just cook a small number of things very well.
The best recipe I have come across so far is lamb chops. Make a mixture of sage, rosemary, thyme, coriander and cumin (1.25ml equally for each one). Put them in a small glass and mix it up, then this will coat 3 lamb chops. Fry in Olive oil in a lidded frying pan.
If you have no lid for your frying pan, I would really recommend getting one. They are easy to buy from Amazon and save a lot of energy. They also keep a lot of the flavours in the pan. Add a couple of chopped garlic cloves while frying. At 3-4 minutes before removing the chop add finely chopped onions.
Seriously, an onion is all you need to spice up a meal. No herbs or fancy stuff, stick an onion into your food as part of your 5/10/15 or whatever it is these now per day. BBC good food guide on the benefits onions.
Rich in antioxidant compounds
Contain anti-cancer compounds
Are antibacterial
May support heart health
May support bone health
May support gut health
May help regulate blood sugar
May support the respiratory system
May protect the digestive system
May help with weight management
I only mentioned herbs because they are a no brainer with exceptionally low effort.
I find the texture generally unpleasant, unless it’s crispy onions (and I mean actual crispy onions, not slightly burnt but still slimy onions), and I’ll assume the process of deep frying the fuck out of them and putting them on a burger nullifies any health benefits.
Obviously if a food gives you a reaction then don’t eat it.
I find the texture generally unpleasant
I am in exactly the same boat. I cannot eat onions unless they are finely cut. Onions that are finely cut give out more flavour anyways. It is all about learning how to cut an onions finely and quickly. This is similar to how I do it. I do downward cuts to the centre of the onion. I never do the horizontal cuts that I have seen a lot do. To me that is just asking for trouble. I also cut my slices very finely. I like the bit of leaving the end on the onion. That is a new one to me.
Never. My goto are Patties - my freezer is stocked with burgers, turkey burgers, salmon burgers, veggie burgers.
You start by chopping an onion and peppers …. While the patty is cooking on grill, skillet, griddle, whatever. Have some beer. Grab a plate, open a bun, throw on some prewashed lettuce, throw on the onions. Have more beer. Melt a slice of cheese on top for the last 30-60 seconds and throw it on your bun.
This is why we in the UK, the King’s of lazy food, have perfected the art of the “picky tea” slap two kind of beige food on a baking tray, shove it in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 200°, big dolop of your preferred dipping sauce on the side, or some baked beans if you’re feeling lush, lovely jubbly.
Have to disagree. If you’re being lazy, buy frozen chopped onions. As long as you’re not going to chop more than two onions, a kitchen knife will be faster than a chopper. Also, I hate monotask-tools. They sit in the drawer taking space 95% of their life.
The worst part of chopping an onion is removing the skin that always falls to pieces and makes a mess that’s hard to pick up. I don’t see how this solves that.
For one, never thought about it. But now that I am I’m 6’5" and my trash can top maybe comes up to knees, sounds pretty miserable. I guess I could get a bag and set it on the counter though.
This will potentially sound disgusting, but yesterday i chopped a red onion, broke off a 20cm piece of sausage and ate them with 2 pieces of bread for lunch. Couldn’t even deny I’m from Hungary🤣
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