Instant ramen. Or if I’m feeling fancy, ramen that takes 6 whole minutes to cook
Peanut butter sammich
Soylent!
- Boil macaroni elbows. Drain.
- Open jar of pasta sauce. Pour over macaroni. Stir until heated through.
- Add salt, pepper, a sprinkle of chile flakes.
Done.
I’m choosing sleep for dinner tonight!
Qui dort dîne
Microwave oatmeal
Ingredients
Oatmeal
- 1 part oatmeal (1 dl for a small meal, 2 for a bigger one)
- 1.25 parts water
- Some salt
- Optionally some psyllium seeds for extra fiber, maybe a teaspoon
Extras
- Some milk, maybe 1 dl
- Some lingonberry jam, maybe a tablespoon
- Mix everything in a bowl
- Microwave for 2 minutes for 1 dl oatmeal or 2.45 for 2 dl oatmeal
- Mix with a spoon
- Top with jam and pour over some milk (careful, it’s hot)
Ready to eat in five minutes, very low effort, produces little in the way of dishes to clean, cheap as dirt, vegetarian if using cow milk and vegan if using oat milk, and not particularly high in calories but still quite satiating. Downside is that it’s not the most exciting meal you could think of, but you arguably get more than you pay for all in all.
Popcorn, cereal, or yogurt with fruit.
Humous and baguette
Walmart frozen burritos. They are incredibly cheap, by weight almost comparable to cheap staples like pasta or rice. I can toast them on the pan and add some fire hot sauce. Tastes good. Easy to make. Inexpensive. Only downside is that there’s no way it’s good for you.
“Only downside is that there’s no way it’s good for you.”
That’s a big ‘only downside’. You should check how much salt is in those things.
(Why can’t they make processed foods healthy?)
Salt is an inexpensive preservative. Without it… Not sure what else could be used.
Take a tortilla wrap, put a slice of gouda young cheese in it, wrap like a wrap, 40 seconds in microwave et voila! Hot pocket and filling meal.
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.
Instant ramen or few slices of bread with cold cuts and some cheese microwaved till the cheese melts.
I batch cook and freeze stuff, so honestly, most of my food.
Overnight oats, just steel cut oats in whole milk left in the fridge for at least 4 hours. Healthier and cheaper than a box cereal and so so easy. But if I didn’t think ahead to chuck some in the fridge beforehand, then it’s gotta be hardboiled eggs. I always have eggs in the fridge and chucking them in a pot and waiting 11 minutes is as easy as it gets.
Well, aside from eating fruit/berries with cheese and crackers but that could be argued to be a snack not a meal.
