Help Low effort meal recommendations?

[Melly]

Depression meals. What the title said. Alternatively, do you know of any resources that share recipes and rate effort, cost, and nutrients? As an example if there's a miracle soup out there that has all the nutrients you'd need so that you can live off of it exclusively I'd be interested in it too, make a lot of it and freeze it. Just share your survival tips with me please. Thank you

 

[imtiredasf]

I don't know exactly how healthy it is in the long run, but when things get heavy for me, I fall back on cup noodles, individual packets of tuna/other protein and protein drinks to supplement. Probably not the worst for you if you take a multivitamin or something so you don't get scurvy or whatever.

 

[Hvergelmir]

Around here, frozen vegetable mixes are cheap, common, and relatively healthy. I often steam them and eat them alongside boiled pasta, but I guess you could blast them in the microwave or just leave them in room temperature for a few hours.

if there's a miracle soup out there that has all the nutrients you'd need so that you can live off of it exclusively

There is Soylent which is supposed to be a healthy alternative to traditional meals.

 

[livershapedbox]

Level of low effort that no one would really call cooking:

Scrambled eggs with rice or bread, toasted sandwiches (you can also put a fried egg inside them for extra nutrition and it'll taste so good), here in spain we have these sandwiches with baguette bread we call "bocadillos" usually with a good cheese and a meat, I recommend the ones with "pata" and "jamon serrano" specifically.

Somewhat higher effort but still good effort to bite ratio:

Chili con carne with rice is easy and fairly quick to make, and tastes just as good reheated even days after making it so you can just make a lot all at once and eat that for a few days.
Colombian arepas are easy and quick to make and you can put anything on them, I usually put fried eggs on them

 

[SchizoGymnast]

I eat baby food.

 

[bankai]

Whey protein shakes.

 

[whywere]

My go to is low fat string cheese and raisin bran. Protein, fiber and raisins for something sweet.

Very quick and easy.

Walter

 

[WakingNightmare]

Get a good rice cooker and the biggest bag of rice you can find. You can chuck canned tuna and frozen veggies on rice with some soy sauce and wasabi.
For powder get a mass gainer, international protein vanilla with milk tastes like a milkshake

 

[holyhorse]

I don't know if this counts as a low-effort meal for you, but maybe French toast? I'm not sure if it's cooked differently in the West, but in CIS countries, all we do is mix eggs with milk, dip bread slices in the mixture, and fry them on a hot pan.

You can also mix cottage cheese with smetana (sour cream) or plain yogurt and add sugar. Done!

If you have a microwave, you can make a mug cake. There are lots of recipes online; some might work, some might not. I haven't made one in a long time, so I forgot the recipe that worked for me.

You can also just put a slice of sausage and cheese on a slice of bread and microwave it for 30 seconds. We call that a "buterbrod" You can add a slice of tomato, cucumber, salad, or spread it with ketchup, whatever you like!

If I don't feel like cooking, I just stock up on cornflakes and milk and call it good enough for a few days

Hmm, instant noodles, supermarket pastries?

If you want a dessert (though it might need a little effort), here's one recipe: find cookies in your kitchen, no matter if they're old or not very tasty, and crumble them into tiny pieces. Add condensed milk and cocoa powder. Mix until you get a smooth texture. Roll into balls and put them in the fridge. Search for "pirozhnoye kartoshka" online for more detailed recipes.

What else... for a snack, you can just take a slice of bread, spread it with butter, and sprinkle sugar on top. Low-effort meals are all about improvisation! I also like spreading smetana on a slice of bread and topping it with jam.

Kids in daycare have a "soup" for breakfast made from milk and boiled buckwheat OR pasta (macaroni, vermicelli, etc). Hope this helps!

 

[Someonewhotypes]

salads would be the easiest healthiest for low effort. Leafy green salads (kale, spinach), or tomato, cucumber, avocado, pepper salads, also salads with beans. Basically what will give them flavor is the dressing, such as vinegar + olive oil or lemon juice. If you add cheese or egg in the salads, besides vegetables, that is a source of protein.
And spreadable healthy things like hummus make great snacks.
For cooked food, pasta is the easiest. Just combine it with a jar of pasta sauce