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Gilled chicken or steak on the BBQ, broccoli and couscous. Takes like a total of 15 minutes or less. The cookware from broccoli and couscous is super quick to clean.
Throw the bread in the toaster oven, mash up the avocado, spread it across the toast, tin of King Oscar Bristling Sardines on it. Takes 5min and pretty healthy and protein packed.
if you want a hack to make salads get a veggie chopper . just toss whole veggies in that bitch and slam it down. creates diced veggies instantly. toss a little dressing of choice and done .
easiest thing to whip up fast is beef despite its current prices lol . you can stir fry it with some soy sauce, dash of sugar , some garlic , and a little cornstarch . served on white rice and maybe fry an egg .
if i want to treat myself i’ll cook a ny strip in a pan with lots of butter n onions n mushrooms. microwave a kraft mac n cheese or a potato . wash it all down with a cold beer
Salmon is easy. Preheat the oven to 425F. First you cut a few slices about an inch apart across the top, season with coarse salt and pepper.
Put some minced garlic, lemon slices and sliced olives on top and bake it for 17 minutes before turning the broiler on. Let it sit under there for another 3 minutes, just to put a bit of crisp on it.
I like basic white rice and carrots with that. If you wanna get a bit more fancy you can put some brown sugar, garlic powder, salt and pepper in some melted butter and pour that over the cooked carrots.
Tbh I go to family’s most Sundays and my sister always sends me away with a couple of meals worth of left over roast dinner. It actually almost tastes better reheated, just make some fresh gravy.
I do a lot of Lasagna’s and currys etc as so easy to portion off & whack in the fridge.
Poverty pasta – slice up an onion and a couple coves garlic, throw it in a pan with olive oil. Throw in some sausage. Then throw a jar of premade pasta sauce, I splurge for Rao’s. Cook it all down a few minutes. Throw half a block of cream cheese. Cook noodles and add to pan with a ladle of pasta water. You’re eating in less than 30 and it’s surprisingly good.
George Forman grill. Two burners, two buns. Slap on grill, take off when cooked about 8 mins later and insert into buns with your choice of topping. Simples.
Chicken breasts are simple. Cut in half so you end up with two pieces that are the same size just thinner. Preheat oven to 425°. Cover a shallow pan with aluminum foil, spray some non-stick coating on it. Drizzle olive oil, season with whatever you want (blackened seasoning is my personal favorite). In the oven for 24 minutes. Done. I usually make 3 or 4 whole breasts at once, so 6 – 8 pieces. Make some rice and veggie or two. It takes a total of 30 minutes and you’ll have dinner already prepared for 3 or 4 days
I’m house poor right now sooooo: tuna melts, spaghetti and meatballs, meatball subs, caramelized onions with garlic and potatoes, rice n beans, JoJo’s and baked beans, eggs on toast
I have a supply of cooked, frozen chicken that can easily be put in the wok with other frozen veg and either a few herbs and spices or a sauce that can be served up with noodles or rice.
Cooking after a long day sucks. Throw protein, veggies, flavor of choice in a crockpot on low and come home to a cheap and delicious slow cooked dinner
I put rice in the cooker and either a fish or pork or chicken on the pan or oven, takes a few minutes and it’s delicious, I also use vegetables that are ready to eat so I don’t have to prepare them
One of those Taylor Farms salads (Green Goddess, Dill Pickle, Kale, Caesar, Mexican Street Corn) and 3 or 4 Sufra Halal chicken strips w Frank’s Red Hot sauce. I’m not Muslim but the strips are amazing.
I have a couple homemade pasta sauce recipes that are pretty easy, and way better than anything out of a jar.
It kind of amazes me that people actually even use pasta sauce from a jar. You can make delicious homemade sauce from scratch while you’re waiting for the water to boil and the pasta to cook, so it doesn’t take any longer. It’s a little more work, but it’s not that much work. It’s pretty straightforward, even after a long day of working.
Guanchale (I’ve used smoked pork jowls, bacon, pancetta before as well, typically I make this with bacon because it’s what I have on hand).
Spaghetti
Parmesan cheese
2 eggs
Pepper
Butter
Start spaghetti water. Add a good splash of salt. I dont measure, but I bet I add 2-3 tablespoons minimum. You want the water salty. Add pasta once water is boiling, while you’re waiting start the pork.
Chop up pork finely, I go for small cubes or if bacon, 1/4” by 1/4”strips. Cook in skillet until crispy. Remove bacon from fat, set on paper towel.
Separate the yolks from the eggs. I just use my hand. Single use tools have no place in my kitchen. Give the whites to the dogs.
Grate Parmesan. You’ll want a lot. Like a cup or two worth. Fresh grated is always best.
Cut butter into small pieces. Nothing fancy, you just want it to melt fast. I use 1/3 of a stick of butter typically.
Drain pasta when done to your likeness. BUT Before you drain pasta, save 2 cups of that pasta water or so.
Immediately return pasta to pan on stove with burner off. Add cheese, butter, egg yolks, and a splash of pasta water. Stir vigorously. Like your life depended on it. Aggressive is best. You’re looking to emulsify the starch, egg, butter, and cheese into your sauce. It should have just enough to coat the pasta, maybe a little extra. Add more pasta water if it’s looking dry, add more fat/cheese if it’s too watery looking. You can even use some of that leftover bacon fat if you want. After a minute or two of mixing, you should have a nice sauce coating your spaghetti. Throw your bacon in there, and a generous amount of pepper. Stir to combine, serve immediately.
It’s a whirlwind of activity, but in less that 10 minutes with ingredients most people keep on hand you’ve made something pretty nice. Nice enough to impress that girl who showed up last minute unexpectedly even. I always keep some bacon in the freezer, and a block of parm somewhere.
Pasta Al Tonno is easier than it sounds, tuna wraps with avocado is ultra easy , eggs and fried potatoes. Also, when I make a stew or a curry I freeze more than half and thaw it in the microwave.
Tacos. Just throw some sort of ground whatever into a hot pan, heat up some corn torts, cut up some onion. Put it all together. Sprinkle some cheese, cilantro, sour cream, hot sauce.
Fried rice. A boat load of it. Whatever leftover protein I have in the fridge gets chopped, a tossed in some Kung Pao sauce and put on top. Done and leftovers for the rest of the week.
I try to have a smaller meal in the evening and my biggest meal in the morning.
At dinner when I’m tired, I take a salad kit and add some protein to it. A healthy salad kit will make a large low-calorie dinner. I then add a can of tuna or some diced grilled chicken and mix it in. Takes no more than 5 minutes to make.
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A can of chunky soup, 2 servings of 5 minutes rice, microwave, done.
Rice, beans, cheese, chicken
Chicken breasts or pork chops. Season with whatever you like or on hand, bake. Canned or frozen veggies are easy. Rice or another grain.
Chicken thighs. Throw on some BBQ sauce, bake.
Get a kielbasa or some other type of “cooked” meat, slice it up. Chop up some veggies or frozen. Throw into a skillet and saute it up.
Make extra so you can have it the next night.
Make some pasta. Saute up hamburger/ground pork/ground chicken. Add seasonings and pasta sauce.
Also, look up quick recipes. The more you do it, the easier it is.
Baked fish, just preheat a oven, sprinkle salt and pepper on salmon and put in oven for 20 mins
Gilled chicken or steak on the BBQ, broccoli and couscous. Takes like a total of 15 minutes or less. The cookware from broccoli and couscous is super quick to clean.
Sardine Avocado Toast
Throw the bread in the toaster oven, mash up the avocado, spread it across the toast, tin of King Oscar Bristling Sardines on it. Takes 5min and pretty healthy and protein packed.
if you want a hack to make salads get a veggie chopper . just toss whole veggies in that bitch and slam it down. creates diced veggies instantly. toss a little dressing of choice and done .
easiest thing to whip up fast is beef despite its current prices lol . you can stir fry it with some soy sauce, dash of sugar , some garlic , and a little cornstarch . served on white rice and maybe fry an egg .
if i want to treat myself i’ll cook a ny strip in a pan with lots of butter n onions n mushrooms. microwave a kraft mac n cheese or a potato . wash it all down with a cold beer
Corn tortillas, melted cheese, hot sauce, and whatever leftovers I have.
Meal replacement shakes. Boring but gets the job down.
Salmon is easy. Preheat the oven to 425F. First you cut a few slices about an inch apart across the top, season with coarse salt and pepper.
Put some minced garlic, lemon slices and sliced olives on top and bake it for 17 minutes before turning the broiler on. Let it sit under there for another 3 minutes, just to put a bit of crisp on it.
I like basic white rice and carrots with that. If you wanna get a bit more fancy you can put some brown sugar, garlic powder, salt and pepper in some melted butter and pour that over the cooked carrots.
All done in less than a half hour.
Beans on Toast
Grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup. The soup is optional.
Quesadillas
Pot pie, boiled or baked potato, frozen mix veg. Want to get fancy? Buy a packet of powdered gravy and add that on top
Tbh I go to family’s most Sundays and my sister always sends me away with a couple of meals worth of left over roast dinner. It actually almost tastes better reheated, just make some fresh gravy.
I do a lot of Lasagna’s and currys etc as so easy to portion off & whack in the fridge.
Half a pound of turkey meat, taco seasoning, bag of microwave steamer veggies, bag of uncle bens minute rice.
$5-6. Under 500 cal over 40g protien
Boiled chicken breast
Poverty pasta – slice up an onion and a couple coves garlic, throw it in a pan with olive oil. Throw in some sausage. Then throw a jar of premade pasta sauce, I splurge for Rao’s. Cook it all down a few minutes. Throw half a block of cream cheese. Cook noodles and add to pan with a ladle of pasta water. You’re eating in less than 30 and it’s surprisingly good.
Grill marinated chicken and steak on Sunday eat the steak with dinner.
Grilled Chicken Spinach Salads-chop cucumber, shredded carrots, pickled onions, goat cheese, fried jalapenos…any other fruit or veg on hand. Probably takes 10 minutes.
Cheesy Chicken Bean and Rice Burritos-make once have twice.
George Forman grill. Two burners, two buns. Slap on grill, take off when cooked about 8 mins later and insert into buns with your choice of topping. Simples.
Chicken breasts are simple. Cut in half so you end up with two pieces that are the same size just thinner. Preheat oven to 425°. Cover a shallow pan with aluminum foil, spray some non-stick coating on it. Drizzle olive oil, season with whatever you want (blackened seasoning is my personal favorite). In the oven for 24 minutes. Done. I usually make 3 or 4 whole breasts at once, so 6 – 8 pieces. Make some rice and veggie or two. It takes a total of 30 minutes and you’ll have dinner already prepared for 3 or 4 days
I’m house poor right now sooooo: tuna melts, spaghetti and meatballs, meatball subs, caramelized onions with garlic and potatoes, rice n beans, JoJo’s and baked beans, eggs on toast
Pasta with lemon juice and butter. Throw spinach in there if you want.
I have a supply of cooked, frozen chicken that can easily be put in the wok with other frozen veg and either a few herbs and spices or a sauce that can be served up with noodles or rice.
Cooking after a long day sucks. Throw protein, veggies, flavor of choice in a crockpot on low and come home to a cheap and delicious slow cooked dinner
I put rice in the cooker and either a fish or pork or chicken on the pan or oven, takes a few minutes and it’s delicious, I also use vegetables that are ready to eat so I don’t have to prepare them
One of those Taylor Farms salads (Green Goddess, Dill Pickle, Kale, Caesar, Mexican Street Corn) and 3 or 4 Sufra Halal chicken strips w Frank’s Red Hot sauce. I’m not Muslim but the strips are amazing.
Put something in the slow cooker on the morning. Or a stir-fry, greek or caesar salad.
Pasta and lentils
I have a couple homemade pasta sauce recipes that are pretty easy, and way better than anything out of a jar.
It kind of amazes me that people actually even use pasta sauce from a jar. You can make delicious homemade sauce from scratch while you’re waiting for the water to boil and the pasta to cook, so it doesn’t take any longer. It’s a little more work, but it’s not that much work. It’s pretty straightforward, even after a long day of working.
Pizza, tater tot’s, chicken nuggets, hamburger, tacos, frozen chicken patties
Spaghetti carbonara.
Guanchale (I’ve used smoked pork jowls, bacon, pancetta before as well, typically I make this with bacon because it’s what I have on hand).
Spaghetti
Parmesan cheese
2 eggs
Pepper
Butter
Start spaghetti water. Add a good splash of salt. I dont measure, but I bet I add 2-3 tablespoons minimum. You want the water salty. Add pasta once water is boiling, while you’re waiting start the pork.
Chop up pork finely, I go for small cubes or if bacon, 1/4” by 1/4”strips. Cook in skillet until crispy. Remove bacon from fat, set on paper towel.
Separate the yolks from the eggs. I just use my hand. Single use tools have no place in my kitchen. Give the whites to the dogs.
Grate Parmesan. You’ll want a lot. Like a cup or two worth. Fresh grated is always best.
Cut butter into small pieces. Nothing fancy, you just want it to melt fast. I use 1/3 of a stick of butter typically.
Drain pasta when done to your likeness. BUT Before you drain pasta, save 2 cups of that pasta water or so.
Immediately return pasta to pan on stove with burner off. Add cheese, butter, egg yolks, and a splash of pasta water. Stir vigorously. Like your life depended on it. Aggressive is best. You’re looking to emulsify the starch, egg, butter, and cheese into your sauce. It should have just enough to coat the pasta, maybe a little extra. Add more pasta water if it’s looking dry, add more fat/cheese if it’s too watery looking. You can even use some of that leftover bacon fat if you want. After a minute or two of mixing, you should have a nice sauce coating your spaghetti. Throw your bacon in there, and a generous amount of pepper. Stir to combine, serve immediately.
It’s a whirlwind of activity, but in less that 10 minutes with ingredients most people keep on hand you’ve made something pretty nice. Nice enough to impress that girl who showed up last minute unexpectedly even. I always keep some bacon in the freezer, and a block of parm somewhere.
Mac and cheese mixed with hamburger. Better than hamburger helper.
Meal prep first and everything else is easy.
Cacio E Pepe. It’s just spaghetti, black papper, and pecorino romano. I add a little garlic to it.
Pasta Al Tonno is easier than it sounds, tuna wraps with avocado is ultra easy , eggs and fried potatoes. Also, when I make a stew or a curry I freeze more than half and thaw it in the microwave.
Carrot, leek, chicken, and red lentil curry soup.
Air Fryer Salmon, Rice and Steamed broccoli. If I’m efficient I can be done in 10 mins.
Salmon on the air fryer and rice, takes about 20-30 mins. Pretty easy to do.
Steak and chips
You can do a ton of shit with a rotisserie chicken from Costco/local food store
Pull the chicken and throw taco seasoning on it, make some minute rice and you can have a bargain bowl in 10ish minutes
Do the same thing but with buffalo and then make nachos or a quesadilla or a buffalo chicken melt
Do the same thing with bbq and have it with a baked potato (5-8 minutes per side in the microwave, poke holes in the skin with a fork first)
tv dinners.
Hello Fresh. Proportioned, cheaper than groceries if you get a deal, and instructions what exactly what to do.
Pepper steak. Thin sliced beef, vegetables, and Heinz Chili sauce over rice.
Tacos. Just throw some sort of ground whatever into a hot pan, heat up some corn torts, cut up some onion. Put it all together. Sprinkle some cheese, cilantro, sour cream, hot sauce.
Porterhouse steak with a baked potato.
Eggs. Love a veggie or ham & cheddar omelet.
Steak, chicken, or fish.
Fried rice. A boat load of it. Whatever leftover protein I have in the fridge gets chopped, a tossed in some Kung Pao sauce and put on top. Done and leftovers for the rest of the week.
I try to have a smaller meal in the evening and my biggest meal in the morning.
At dinner when I’m tired, I take a salad kit and add some protein to it. A healthy salad kit will make a large low-calorie dinner. I then add a can of tuna or some diced grilled chicken and mix it in. Takes no more than 5 minutes to make.
Steaks, burgers, porkchops… something that’s easy to season and pop on the grill or flattop, doesn’t take long to prep or cook.
Cacio a Pepe
fitmencook has a lot of throw everything in the same pot and cook type recipes that I find pretty good.
Look into food prep and just pre-cook on the weekend and eat it during the week
Rice cooker, rice, meat thingy, vegetable, seasoning, after rice cook put in eggs and wait 10min. U can go shower n whatever. Cleaning up is easy too