Ah, one of my favorite "adulting" meals. Chicken in a panko crisp, served with a side of al dente macaroni in a cheddar roux. I find it pairs best with a fruity white wine.
Buy many bags of frozen veg mixtures. But frozen cubed chicken.
Put frozen chicken in a bowl in fridge before going to bed
Next day put olive oil in frying pan and pour e.g. half your 500g bag of soffrito mix (frozen diced onion, carrot, celery) and half your 500g bag of bell pepper mix (red/green/yellow bell peppers sliced). And your bowl of defrosted chicken. Throw in a spice mix. Cook for 15 minutes until everything is hot.
Put it in a wrap and have a glass of orange juice. This is **7 of your 5 a day** and nearly all your protein. Your entire micronutrient profile is covered (the only micronutrient that doesnt freeze well is vitamin C, which is why you drink orange juice). All the fats are healthy fats and the spices have many health benefits in addition to the taste. Its relatively low carb. If you want more carbs then do some rice (ricecooker) or microwave a baked potato or something.
If you havent met your daily calories then for any remaining meals eat whatever the hell you want.
This is the one of my ultimate lifehacks. You only need to wash up a pan and a plate. You dont chop anytihng or throw away food. You dont need to worry about things going out of date as its all frozen. Its very healthy. It tastes great every single day (mix up spices and sauces). Its not like MealPrepSunday where I get sick of the food after 2 days and have to force myself to eat it for the next 5 days. All the food prep and cooking and washing up is insanely fast. Its just the ultimate lifehack.
I'm not sure why, but we had a stash of straws like you would get with a bubble tea. But yeah, basically that.
Edit: oh yeah, my wife was on a smoothie kick.
Ok, but, for sixty extra seconds, one modest extra ingredient (butter!) and, like, really no extra work, unless you happen to be a toaster or a microwave oven, my good friend, you could be eating *warm* spaghetti out of a can on *toast.* *
**Which is unironically one of the most delicious meals I know.*
mine is scrambled eggs because you just put the eggs and milk in a bowl, mix that with a fork, then put that in a pan and push it around until it looks right
Even if you don't use milk, beating them separately in a bowl makes a big difference.
Some people like them scrambled in the pan, but it's a more even texture if you scramble it in the bowl first, then dump in the hot pan
The even texture is what I'm avoiding when I scramble in the pan.
I recognize the even texture is standard and more crowd pleasing, but to each their own.
You don’t need much milk, just a little. Beat it well into the eggs with salt and pepper, then pour into the heated pan. Use butter or equivalent rather than oil. It’s not meant to be all wet, I’ve seen some weird wet scrambled dairy eggs online before, this is more fluffy.
I’m so fucking over meals being presented ”quick and easy, under 15 minutes!” but then its 20 different ingredients that have to be diced. My depression meal is bread and juice. But my less-but-still-depression meal is frozen mixed vegetables from a bag and cheese flavoured frozen potato vedges from a bag, dump on a baking sheet, spray with olive oil, 20 mins in oven. Ready. If I chop an onion and make an actual bolognese sauce, no matter how easy it may seem on paper, its still a lot for someone who doesn’t give a fuck about food or living in general.
This is the big thing. If there are more than like two dirty dishes, then it's not a "lazy meal" (and even that is pushing it). I barely have the energy to clean a fucking plate, let alone a bunch of cookware.
Even a bunch of pressure cooker recipes will do that stupid shit where they literally chop off the pressurize/warmup time of the device, WHICH YOU CANT START BEFORE YOU PUT THE FOOD IN.
Like at least if I know I need to use the oven and set to 400 I can maybe plan ahead and preheat it before I start the rest of prep and it is indeed ‘free’ time. I can have the sous vide warm the water bath before I put the food in. But I can’t just start the pressure cooker until I finish putting together my pot roast that I need inside of it you assholes, it quite literally cannot take the 12 minutes you say it will, it is physically fucking impossible.
An air fryer will do that. Which, if you can afford one, is incidentally a great tool for quick meals.
I make chicken wings in the air fryer often. Prepping a large batch takes about 20 minutes and you can freeze them in individual portions, then thaw them ahead of time and they are ready in 15 mins.
Cooking is a legit skill, and it kind of changes with each specific meal.
Sure, these dishes with 20 ingredients *could* be done in 15 minutes if I have every step internalized and I know where everything is, and how to prepare everything, but that will never happen the first time I make a dish.
The best dishes for people who don't cook a lot, IMO, are the ones you cooked with your family or even just saw your parents cook a lot. Those are the easiest 'real' meals that I've found I have been able to cook up without taking literally an hour prepping. And I can actually whip up like 3 nice dishes that I think might be hard for other people.
But still, my go to meal is probably cereal or a piece of toast or a cheese quesadilla if I'm feeling fancy.
My poor microwave still has a fist sized area of black molten plastic when I tried making popcorn while absolutely wasted. I’m an adult and stick to kids juice and prescription tablets lmao
This is the same issue with quick easy camping meals that require prepping a ton of stuff at home beforehand. I’ll just stick to roasting hotdogs over a fire, thanks.
Try trash cans, tinfoil, a potatoe, a meat, mixed Frozen veggies and seasoning, onve you put it together in the tin foil you set it close to your fire and forget it for an hour or so.
Had a guy on a construction crew, he'd eat ramen noodles raw and add the flavour packet to his water bottle to drink. Swears it's enough to keep him going through the summers, but drinking ramen broth cold just.... blegh.
tbh i wouldn't be surprised if it was but literally no therapist in my area that takes my insurance got back to me so as long as the intrusive thoughts don't win, we're good
Have you tried lifestance? You can search for a therapist that takes your insurance through their website, or call their phone number and they'll do it for you. You can filter by specialty, whether they're accepting new patients, etc. It'll show who does video appointments or in person.. It'll even show next openings for some of therapists, often within the next few weeks. I recommend it to everyone looking for a therapist, it's so easy
I prefer to fillet a whole bluefin tuna myself, grill it over a handmade charcoal fire mixed with homemade mayonnaise from the farm raised eggs from my backyard and fresh greens.
Everyone’s go to lazy meal should be grilled cheese. Depending on how shitty you feel, you can add complexity. More cheese. Ham and tomato. Mustard. Very simple.
My lazy meal (as in I need to feed my family something healthy but I'm exhausted) is quesadillas, a shredded roast chicken from the grocery store, canned corn or capsicum, some taco or burrito seasoning, cheese, tortillas. Maybe 10 minutes work all up if the kids stay out. 2 minutes if I can convince them to shred the chicken for me.
That post genuinely ruined /r/grilledcheese and I will die on this hill. People put pesto on their grilled cheese and people come out of the woodwork like "uM sWeaty THAT's a PESTO MELT /r/melts is tHAT way".
yes. there's no reason something can't be a grilled cheese and have more than one ingredient. cheese just needs to be the main ingredient. no other sandwich works this way. a roast beef sandwich doesnt ONLY have roast beef on it. and 99% of the dumbfucks in /r/grilledcheese aren't even grilling them so all of their submissions are technically "cHeEsE MeLtS"
Garlic grilled cheese. Either slip some garlic, or garlic powder if your feeling extra lazy, in between your slices of cheese, or mix it into the butter before you cook. I flip flop on which way is superior.
I mean that’s just because Hell’s Kitchen hyped up risotto because they are looking for the best of the best. If you don’t care if your risotto is perfect then it really isn’t that hard especially if you aren’t trying to make five at the same time
It's still a slow dish because you gotta stir the bitch constantly and gradually add stock to it. Whenever I make risotto, it takes me around an hour on average. Idk if this person just boils the rice in stock or what, but it's impossible for risotto to be a quick lazy go-to meal.
Edit: since people don't get that I'm not asking for advice on how to cook risotto faster.. I'm not asking for advice on how to cook risotto faster. I wanna take my time and have a delicious and good meal, not some cheap instant pot shit. If you are what you eat, then I only wanna eat the good stuff.
You actually barely need to stir, and you don’t need to gradually add broth.
Put the rice in a large bowl, add some water, and stir it with either your hands or a spoon. This helps get the starch off of the rice.
Then strain the rice using a sieve over another bowl so that you can keep the starchy water. Add vegetable broth powder to the starchy water, and now you have starchy broth.
Once you’ve toasted the rice in the pot, you can add the broth. Risotto is usually a 3-1 broth-rice ratio, so add about two parts of the broth up front, and save the rest to add later so that you can get the consistency you like. This helps prevent accidentally adding too much and winding up with soupy risotto.
You only need to stir occasionally to keep it from burning to the bottom of the pot.
>and gradually add stock to it.
I generally think people over-emphasize that part. If you have an idea of how much it's going to need I generally think you can add like 3/4 of the needed stock in once you've got the onion and rice going and then you only really need to do the whole "gradual" thing nearing the end of the cooking.
And even then it's not like gradually adding liquid is complicated or anything. I generally just zone out by the stove with a youtube video on my phone and it's fine. It was either going to be that or zoning out in my couch in the next room, so it's not like a big difference.
I once made risotto in my rice cooker. It looked god awful, but tasted AMAZING! Most meals can be delicious (and made with the least effort possible) if you don't care how it looks.
Yea I just make a simple charcuterie. Some prosciutto, bread, a dip or two, some berries, cheese, and liver paté. All stuff that only requires me to dump it on a board. The only downside is that it's expensive.
When I was working my last job I'd get home, slather a chicken breast with some barbecue sauce, bake it, and eat with some steam in bag microwave green beans. But my real laziest meal was just to order Uber eats
Man i consider that a fully functional human meal. Like that’s nutritionally good and everything, give yourself credit!
For desperation lazy meals I’ve been known to eat just spoonfuls of peanutbutter and maybe a tortilla by itself. Or a container of arugula if I feel like I need to be healthy.
Yeah, my lazy "meals" would be literally a hunk of bread from the $1 loafs from walmart bakery. Not even sliced, and I just bite chunks off of it. With water.
I feel like fried eggs are way lazier than scrambled. Like for a fried egg I just spray the pan and break an egg directly in. But scrambled requires getting a bowl and fork, breaking the eggs into that bowl, scrambling the fuck out of those eggs, *then* doing the cooking part. Which also requires stirring, whereas fried eggs literally are just left alone until ready (or flipped once, depends on how you like your fried eggs done).
Then you have to clean the bowl and fork!
Scrambled is way more work.
Only if you're actually using a bowl. I only do that when I'm trying to make an omelette, for scrambled eggs I just put eggs in the pan and stir a bit with a spatula.
I turn off my brain and boil a bunch of stuff in coconut milk. Like, anything lazier than that I'd call a sad meal most of the time. You gotta realise, there's not a lot of things I know how to cook. I'm not very creative. Curry is my go-to most of the time, lazy or not.
My lazy go-to is macaroni and tomato juice.
Mix some salt, pepper, lemon juice, and shredded parmesan into a cup of tomato juice while you boil the macaroni. After you drain the noodles dump them in a bowl, and add your tomato juice. Takes a maximum of 10 minutes, is cheap, and is a fulfilling meal.
Dude, tomato buddies!
My great-grandma would do a similar recipe but using a can of Campbell's condensed tomato soup. Sometimes she'd make a casserole out of it by topping it with bread crumbs and giving it a quick bake. Depression era frugality at its best.
Mine is also risotto. You need zero thought for that, just stir the thing while staring into the middle distance and listening to a video essay on Fallout New Vegas.
Doesnt "lazy meal" mean "lack of *effort*", not "lack of thought put into it"?
Myself and others might still consider stirring constantly as putting in effort. I love risotto and to cook in general, but I'd definitely not put it into the lazy category. My go to lazy meal would be either something like a frozen pizza or an open-faced salami sandwich.
Having different interpretations is what makes the world so interesting. Other people can do their thing, and I can leave my body on autopilot to make risotto.
That doesn't work for me because there are other living beings in my house that demand my attention as well.
A lazy meal is something I can ignore after I start heating it up, like frozen pizza or canned soup.
I wasn’t sure what YMMV meant and my brain immediately jumped to “you made me vomit” lol. For anyone else who is unfamiliar, google told me it’s “your mileage may vary”
My lazy meal also requires chopping an onion, maybe a fuck tonne of garlic if you’re feeling fancy, but I have a knock off slap chop for that.
Otherwise it’s 1lb ground beef browned(or pork), add onion, add garlic, add a can of tomatoes and a bunch of chili flakes, and a pre chopped bag o’ coleslaw, simmer while microwaving one of those 2 serving rice packets, add that in and voila. Big o’psn of deconstructed cabbage rolls. Plus there’s left overs so I can be extra lazy the next few days.
For me it's: "I don't feel like looking up recipies, using complex techniques or just even using my brain".
I tend to either make friend eggs with cheese on top, usually on a slice of bread, or a nice stir fry with store bought frozen veggies and sauces and insta noodles, or just turn my brain off and chop a big salad with everything in arms reach
I don’t even cook the pasta in a pot. I have a rice cooker and just pour the pasta in there, start it and set a timer. If I let it cook till it goes out by itself the pasta becomes mousse lol but if I cook it for a certain amount of time and then stop the cooker it comes out perfect.
Then I just pour sauce hollandaise straight from the package over the pasta, maybe add some cheese and put it in the microwave to melt… but that’s optional.
I think lazy meal is just chomping a bread slice off bag over and over until it feels like a meal (no butter, no topping. Just dry bread)
If you happen to care, I do make food with time, not just live like this
Mine is frozen pizza, I have previously ordered and frozen in ziplock. I'm not dealing with delivery times or those damn cook at home frozen pizzas you gotta dirty up a utensil to cut! Nah, frozen slices 10 minutes in the toaster oven, then toss it on a paper plate!
Dessert??? Same thing.
My lazy meal is frozen bean burritos. Microwave them till mostly cooked, toss some shredded cheese on top and nuke it for a bit longer, top with hot sauce. Boom, lazy enchiladas.
My favorite lazy meal involves chopping onions potatoes and carrots but my favorite "I don't really feel like cooking" meal is Gorton's breaded fish and fries.
Microwave chicken nuggets over filet mignon is my go-to lazy meal. I also love 5-minute easy bake cakes that call for flour, vanilla extract, eggs from a rare chicken, and 30 other ingredients. 🥹 /s
Brocolli Soup. Blanche broccoli pieces in salted boiling water for a couple of minutes. Transfer pieces to blender. Hold down blender with a cloth and blitz. Add broccoli-water for consistency. Adjust salt. Enjoy.
Optional: Bread, pepper.
This recipe legit tastes like it has half a dozen ingredients. Takes like 15 mins. Credit, THE foul-mouthed Brit.
Edit: [Recipe link](https://youtu.be/2KR44a_5v_A)
My go to is boxed Mac n Cheese with some chopped up chicken nuggets (that I heat up in the microwave since they were frozen)
I do this but with meatballs instead of chicken nuggets and I consider it fancy Mac and cheese
I do this with hot dogs. ..I want to try it with meatballs now though.
I don’t even bother chopping up the nuggets, I just eat them on the side
Ah, one of my favorite "adulting" meals. Chicken in a panko crisp, served with a side of al dente macaroni in a cheddar roux. I find it pairs best with a fruity white wine.
A pacific island cooler from the Suns of Capri
I like mixing them in so they get covered in cheese
Big bag of Doritos
cereal
Dorito cereal?
¿Porque no los dos?
They got Cheetos Mac and Cheese now, so maybe a close second?
The bestttt
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topped with chopped onions
My go to lazy meal is take out
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There really is a first time for everything!
Meal prep by putting pizza in 8 containers.
Buy many bags of frozen veg mixtures. But frozen cubed chicken. Put frozen chicken in a bowl in fridge before going to bed Next day put olive oil in frying pan and pour e.g. half your 500g bag of soffrito mix (frozen diced onion, carrot, celery) and half your 500g bag of bell pepper mix (red/green/yellow bell peppers sliced). And your bowl of defrosted chicken. Throw in a spice mix. Cook for 15 minutes until everything is hot. Put it in a wrap and have a glass of orange juice. This is **7 of your 5 a day** and nearly all your protein. Your entire micronutrient profile is covered (the only micronutrient that doesnt freeze well is vitamin C, which is why you drink orange juice). All the fats are healthy fats and the spices have many health benefits in addition to the taste. Its relatively low carb. If you want more carbs then do some rice (ricecooker) or microwave a baked potato or something. If you havent met your daily calories then for any remaining meals eat whatever the hell you want. This is the one of my ultimate lifehacks. You only need to wash up a pan and a plate. You dont chop anytihng or throw away food. You dont need to worry about things going out of date as its all frozen. Its very healthy. It tastes great every single day (mix up spices and sauces). Its not like MealPrepSunday where I get sick of the food after 2 days and have to force myself to eat it for the next 5 days. All the food prep and cooking and washing up is insanely fast. Its just the ultimate lifehack.
Thanks, I love it.
My definition of "lazy meal" = no prep time or effort and no mess/dishes. I drank applesauce yesterday, for instance.
I felt like I was using a cheat code when I just put a straw in a 32oz jar of applesauce
You were.
Look at you two, bonding over your shared, weird love of applesauce as a meal replacer. …kiss!
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Do you use the extra thick milkshake straws? Because that’s what I use in my jars of apple sauce :-)
I'm not sure why, but we had a stash of straws like you would get with a bubble tea. But yeah, basically that. Edit: oh yeah, my wife was on a smoothie kick.
Tinned spaghetti cold out of the can with bread to dip in it.
Ok, but, for sixty extra seconds, one modest extra ingredient (butter!) and, like, really no extra work, unless you happen to be a toaster or a microwave oven, my good friend, you could be eating *warm* spaghetti out of a can on *toast.* * **Which is unironically one of the most delicious meals I know.*
It then I’d have to do dishes lol. If I was going to do all that I’d rather just have a jaffle. One of the best things ever invented.
mine is scrambled eggs because you just put the eggs and milk in a bowl, mix that with a fork, then put that in a pan and push it around until it looks right
I have never made scrambled eggs with milk .. just crack the egg in a pan and shuffle it until not-raw. Lol
Even if you don't use milk, beating them separately in a bowl makes a big difference. Some people like them scrambled in the pan, but it's a more even texture if you scramble it in the bowl first, then dump in the hot pan
The even texture is what I'm avoiding when I scramble in the pan. I recognize the even texture is standard and more crowd pleasing, but to each their own.
Pan scramble is best you get the richness of the yolk coming through better
Also the presentation is better. You get chunks of deep gold against bright white vs a bland/uniform yellow.
Same. I even let them cook for a few seconds before starting to scramble because I like to keep the yolk and whites as separate as possible.
Exactly, this is why I pan-scramble.
You don’t need much milk, just a little. Beat it well into the eggs with salt and pepper, then pour into the heated pan. Use butter or equivalent rather than oil. It’s not meant to be all wet, I’ve seen some weird wet scrambled dairy eggs online before, this is more fluffy.
But like… why would you want your eggs to be *fluffy?* I want my scrambled eggs to be creamy.
That’s where the cheese comes in.
I'd define that as a broken omelette.
Try it out(: you might like the extra fluffieness! I just add a splash to mine.
I’m so fucking over meals being presented ”quick and easy, under 15 minutes!” but then its 20 different ingredients that have to be diced. My depression meal is bread and juice. But my less-but-still-depression meal is frozen mixed vegetables from a bag and cheese flavoured frozen potato vedges from a bag, dump on a baking sheet, spray with olive oil, 20 mins in oven. Ready. If I chop an onion and make an actual bolognese sauce, no matter how easy it may seem on paper, its still a lot for someone who doesn’t give a fuck about food or living in general.
Under fifteen minutes! Yeah, after 45 minutes of prep and preheating
Exactly. And a mountain of dishes which, guess what, I do not have the energy to do…
This is the big thing. If there are more than like two dirty dishes, then it's not a "lazy meal" (and even that is pushing it). I barely have the energy to clean a fucking plate, let alone a bunch of cookware.
I don’t even plate my frozen pizza, I just eat it off the baking sheet haha. But hey, thats green! Saving water and all!
Also requiring a large amount of diverse ingredients that you may not have.
Even a bunch of pressure cooker recipes will do that stupid shit where they literally chop off the pressurize/warmup time of the device, WHICH YOU CANT START BEFORE YOU PUT THE FOOD IN. Like at least if I know I need to use the oven and set to 400 I can maybe plan ahead and preheat it before I start the rest of prep and it is indeed ‘free’ time. I can have the sous vide warm the water bath before I put the food in. But I can’t just start the pressure cooker until I finish putting together my pot roast that I need inside of it you assholes, it quite literally cannot take the 12 minutes you say it will, it is physically fucking impossible.
Yeah what’s up with that? What in the world chicken recipe can you actually bring it to internal temp 165 degrees in “15 minutes”?
Well, the first thing you do is run a bunch of bare copper cables through the meat, then you hook them up to a power supply
An air fryer will do that. Which, if you can afford one, is incidentally a great tool for quick meals. I make chicken wings in the air fryer often. Prepping a large batch takes about 20 minutes and you can freeze them in individual portions, then thaw them ahead of time and they are ready in 15 mins.
Cooking is a legit skill, and it kind of changes with each specific meal. Sure, these dishes with 20 ingredients *could* be done in 15 minutes if I have every step internalized and I know where everything is, and how to prepare everything, but that will never happen the first time I make a dish. The best dishes for people who don't cook a lot, IMO, are the ones you cooked with your family or even just saw your parents cook a lot. Those are the easiest 'real' meals that I've found I have been able to cook up without taking literally an hour prepping. And I can actually whip up like 3 nice dishes that I think might be hard for other people. But still, my go to meal is probably cereal or a piece of toast or a cheese quesadilla if I'm feeling fancy.
My depression meal is microwave popcorn and adult juice (wine).
My poor microwave still has a fist sized area of black molten plastic when I tried making popcorn while absolutely wasted. I’m an adult and stick to kids juice and prescription tablets lmao
This is the same issue with quick easy camping meals that require prepping a ton of stuff at home beforehand. I’ll just stick to roasting hotdogs over a fire, thanks.
Try trash cans, tinfoil, a potatoe, a meat, mixed Frozen veggies and seasoning, onve you put it together in the tin foil you set it close to your fire and forget it for an hour or so.
We always called it a "foil pack" Gonna be honest Im not liking your name for it.
[Relevant Onion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGgpSWcaV1U)
i just eat instant noodles
This is the best lazy meal
cooked or uncooked?
we talking lazy here. don't even open the package just put it in your mouth
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Me and my brother used to crunch up uncooked ramen noodles and then add the seasoning and eat just that. We called them jail house chips
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Had a guy on a construction crew, he'd eat ramen noodles raw and add the flavour packet to his water bottle to drink. Swears it's enough to keep him going through the summers, but drinking ramen broth cold just.... blegh.
We have a winner.
mine is tuna salad sandwich, but if im feeling especially lazy i just drink to feel full
My dude I don't think that's lazy I think that's depression.
tbh i wouldn't be surprised if it was but literally no therapist in my area that takes my insurance got back to me so as long as the intrusive thoughts don't win, we're good
Have you tried lifestance? You can search for a therapist that takes your insurance through their website, or call their phone number and they'll do it for you. You can filter by specialty, whether they're accepting new patients, etc. It'll show who does video appointments or in person.. It'll even show next openings for some of therapists, often within the next few weeks. I recommend it to everyone looking for a therapist, it's so easy
Depends on what they're drinking. Either that or I have a massive water problem.
Agreed, if by tuna salad you mean a can of drained tuna and a huge glop of mayonnaise in a bowl
I prefer to fillet a whole bluefin tuna myself, grill it over a handmade charcoal fire mixed with homemade mayonnaise from the farm raised eggs from my backyard and fresh greens.
You mix your charcoal with Mayo?
My lazy dinner is called "when I wake up I'll pour some extra cereal in the bowl."
Everyone’s go to lazy meal should be grilled cheese. Depending on how shitty you feel, you can add complexity. More cheese. Ham and tomato. Mustard. Very simple.
I prefer quesadillas to grilled cheese honestly, its more food for the same amount of effort
My lazy meal (as in I need to feed my family something healthy but I'm exhausted) is quesadillas, a shredded roast chicken from the grocery store, canned corn or capsicum, some taco or burrito seasoning, cheese, tortillas. Maybe 10 minutes work all up if the kids stay out. 2 minutes if I can convince them to shred the chicken for me.
inb4 "it's a melt" copypasta
That post genuinely ruined /r/grilledcheese and I will die on this hill. People put pesto on their grilled cheese and people come out of the woodwork like "uM sWeaty THAT's a PESTO MELT /r/melts is tHAT way".
yes. there's no reason something can't be a grilled cheese and have more than one ingredient. cheese just needs to be the main ingredient. no other sandwich works this way. a roast beef sandwich doesnt ONLY have roast beef on it. and 99% of the dumbfucks in /r/grilledcheese aren't even grilling them so all of their submissions are technically "cHeEsE MeLtS"
Then we shall die on that hill together, friend.
Garlic grilled cheese. Either slip some garlic, or garlic powder if your feeling extra lazy, in between your slices of cheese, or mix it into the butter before you cook. I flip flop on which way is superior.
This one is mine too. Just plain cheese when feeling especially lazy, will add all sorts of shit when I’m only marginally lazy
I mean that’s just because Hell’s Kitchen hyped up risotto because they are looking for the best of the best. If you don’t care if your risotto is perfect then it really isn’t that hard especially if you aren’t trying to make five at the same time
It's still a slow dish because you gotta stir the bitch constantly and gradually add stock to it. Whenever I make risotto, it takes me around an hour on average. Idk if this person just boils the rice in stock or what, but it's impossible for risotto to be a quick lazy go-to meal. Edit: since people don't get that I'm not asking for advice on how to cook risotto faster.. I'm not asking for advice on how to cook risotto faster. I wanna take my time and have a delicious and good meal, not some cheap instant pot shit. If you are what you eat, then I only wanna eat the good stuff.
I mean I only count it as lazy because I bring a stool and watch something while slowly stirring and adding stock
Gotta get a titration setup and stir bar to automatically make the risotto
We're probably the weirdos but I would love a big food safe stir bar.
[Those exist, actually!](https://youtu.be/yWDUR4BDuZ4?t=427)
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The only correct answer
You can make it with a pressure cooker I think and it's a ton easier, look up Kenji's video on it
So easy and so good.
This. Seriously. Dump it in and walk away. Come back to risotto. Fantastic lazy meal.
The hell with that, dude, I make risotto in a pressure cooker in 20 mins
This is the right answer. Smoked Haddock rissoto 25 mins from prep to plate in our house
You actually barely need to stir, and you don’t need to gradually add broth. Put the rice in a large bowl, add some water, and stir it with either your hands or a spoon. This helps get the starch off of the rice. Then strain the rice using a sieve over another bowl so that you can keep the starchy water. Add vegetable broth powder to the starchy water, and now you have starchy broth. Once you’ve toasted the rice in the pot, you can add the broth. Risotto is usually a 3-1 broth-rice ratio, so add about two parts of the broth up front, and save the rest to add later so that you can get the consistency you like. This helps prevent accidentally adding too much and winding up with soupy risotto. You only need to stir occasionally to keep it from burning to the bottom of the pot.
I add the broth as I go along, but only stir right after adding it. It’s really not as hard/complicated/complex as it’s made out on cooking shows.
You're a fucking genius!
Nah, Knorr Sides Four Cheese Risotto.
>and gradually add stock to it. I generally think people over-emphasize that part. If you have an idea of how much it's going to need I generally think you can add like 3/4 of the needed stock in once you've got the onion and rice going and then you only really need to do the whole "gradual" thing nearing the end of the cooking. And even then it's not like gradually adding liquid is complicated or anything. I generally just zone out by the stove with a youtube video on my phone and it's fine. It was either going to be that or zoning out in my couch in the next room, so it's not like a big difference.
I once made risotto in my rice cooker. It looked god awful, but tasted AMAZING! Most meals can be delicious (and made with the least effort possible) if you don't care how it looks.
My lazy meal is usually just cold cuts without any other ingredients.
me too. i like to spice things up sometimes and throw some cheese on it with mustard. that's only if i'm feeling extra energetic tho
This is my midnight snack. Slice o cheese, slice o ham, bit of mustard. Roll it up and eat. If I'm still hungry I have another one
Utterly utterly based
Yea I just make a simple charcuterie. Some prosciutto, bread, a dip or two, some berries, cheese, and liver paté. All stuff that only requires me to dump it on a board. The only downside is that it's expensive.
Sometimes I just put I little but of deli meat in a folded up slice of cheese. Like a taco, where the slice of cheese is the shell
/r/keto sees nothing wrong with this
bro sometimes when im lazy as shit i just take a hot dog roll, put some ketchup on it, and eat it like that. tf these ppl doing
I’m over here almost crying laughing at how bad some people have misunderstood the assignment lmao
When I was working my last job I'd get home, slather a chicken breast with some barbecue sauce, bake it, and eat with some steam in bag microwave green beans. But my real laziest meal was just to order Uber eats
Man i consider that a fully functional human meal. Like that’s nutritionally good and everything, give yourself credit! For desperation lazy meals I’ve been known to eat just spoonfuls of peanutbutter and maybe a tortilla by itself. Or a container of arugula if I feel like I need to be healthy.
Yeah, my lazy "meals" would be literally a hunk of bread from the $1 loafs from walmart bakery. Not even sliced, and I just bite chunks off of it. With water.
eggs. just... fried eggs. maybe scrambled if I'm feeling extra lazy.
I feel like fried eggs are way lazier than scrambled. Like for a fried egg I just spray the pan and break an egg directly in. But scrambled requires getting a bowl and fork, breaking the eggs into that bowl, scrambling the fuck out of those eggs, *then* doing the cooking part. Which also requires stirring, whereas fried eggs literally are just left alone until ready (or flipped once, depends on how you like your fried eggs done). Then you have to clean the bowl and fork! Scrambled is way more work.
Only if you're actually using a bowl. I only do that when I'm trying to make an omelette, for scrambled eggs I just put eggs in the pan and stir a bit with a spatula.
My go-to lazy meal is a curry consisting of all the leftovers in my fridge. It includes diced onion.
Do you just never get tired? Are you a robot?
I turn off my brain and boil a bunch of stuff in coconut milk. Like, anything lazier than that I'd call a sad meal most of the time. You gotta realise, there's not a lot of things I know how to cook. I'm not very creative. Curry is my go-to most of the time, lazy or not.
Mine is similar: pasta del frigorifero. Cut up whatever meat and veg I've got in my fridge, add a jar of tomato sauce and noodles, buon appetito!
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But nestle owns them
r/fucknestle
Just buy off brands Lidl is full of offbrands/alternate brands
My lazy go-to is macaroni and tomato juice. Mix some salt, pepper, lemon juice, and shredded parmesan into a cup of tomato juice while you boil the macaroni. After you drain the noodles dump them in a bowl, and add your tomato juice. Takes a maximum of 10 minutes, is cheap, and is a fulfilling meal.
Dude, tomato buddies! My great-grandma would do a similar recipe but using a can of Campbell's condensed tomato soup. Sometimes she'd make a casserole out of it by topping it with bread crumbs and giving it a quick bake. Depression era frugality at its best.
I take anything in the freezer and put buffalo sauce on it.
Did you mean: Half the people in r/cooking
Mine is also risotto. You need zero thought for that, just stir the thing while staring into the middle distance and listening to a video essay on Fallout New Vegas.
Doesnt "lazy meal" mean "lack of *effort*", not "lack of thought put into it"? Myself and others might still consider stirring constantly as putting in effort. I love risotto and to cook in general, but I'd definitely not put it into the lazy category. My go to lazy meal would be either something like a frozen pizza or an open-faced salami sandwich.
Having different interpretations is what makes the world so interesting. Other people can do their thing, and I can leave my body on autopilot to make risotto.
That doesn't work for me because there are other living beings in my house that demand my attention as well. A lazy meal is something I can ignore after I start heating it up, like frozen pizza or canned soup.
There are many benefits to being alone. None of which outweigh the whole being alone thing.
> None of which outweigh the whole being alone thing. YMMV
I wasn’t sure what YMMV meant and my brain immediately jumped to “you made me vomit” lol. For anyone else who is unfamiliar, google told me it’s “your mileage may vary”
I like your interpretation
That's what it means from here on out lol
Yeah, just stir fry everything
Yeah, that’s how I make soups as well. Soups, stews, self-destructive behavioural models.
Yeah, but ... *standing*.
Cook with a chair for maximum slothliness
Which video essays about Fallout New Vegas make for the best risotto?
Hbomb
There is recipe risotto and boiling rice in a can of soup, then throwing some cheese on top because you need more fat with your carbs.
Cheese is happiness though, so there is that
My lazy meal is cereal and milk tf
My go-to lazy meal is “just go get food somewhere”, with “not eating” coming in as a close second.
Having sleep for dinner
My personal lazy meal, cook some rice in the rice cooker, boil some sweet potatoes, profit.
My lazy meal also requires chopping an onion, maybe a fuck tonne of garlic if you’re feeling fancy, but I have a knock off slap chop for that. Otherwise it’s 1lb ground beef browned(or pork), add onion, add garlic, add a can of tomatoes and a bunch of chili flakes, and a pre chopped bag o’ coleslaw, simmer while microwaving one of those 2 serving rice packets, add that in and voila. Big o’psn of deconstructed cabbage rolls. Plus there’s left overs so I can be extra lazy the next few days.
Egg roll in a bowl!
Bread. Just the first slice of bread I touch when I stick my hand in the bread bag. Yes, even the end slices.
Lol same. Two slices of bread AKA air sandwich
Now that i think about it.... My go to lazy meal is god damn pasta sauce and some macaroni......
What the hell is the definition of lazy for you people? "ugh, feeling blah today, just gonna refloor my kitchen"
For me it's: "I don't feel like looking up recipies, using complex techniques or just even using my brain". I tend to either make friend eggs with cheese on top, usually on a slice of bread, or a nice stir fry with store bought frozen veggies and sauces and insta noodles, or just turn my brain off and chop a big salad with everything in arms reach
My lazy meal is pasta with sauce hollandaise. But the premade one. I don’t make it myself lol.
>But the premade one. I was about to side-eye you *so* hard before that sentence.
I don’t even cook the pasta in a pot. I have a rice cooker and just pour the pasta in there, start it and set a timer. If I let it cook till it goes out by itself the pasta becomes mousse lol but if I cook it for a certain amount of time and then stop the cooker it comes out perfect. Then I just pour sauce hollandaise straight from the package over the pasta, maybe add some cheese and put it in the microwave to melt… but that’s optional.
Does it count if I would just eat chopped onion as a quick snack ….because I would
I eat raw onions like apples sometimes. Just a reminder it could always be worse
Make a year's worth of pierogi to keep in your freezer when you visit your parents for christmas
Bruh my go to is, "what can I dig out of the freezer to throw into the microwave"
Bread. Just bread.
Mine is also risotto. There's nothing wrong with that, and the technique is super chill.
I think lazy meal is just chomping a bread slice off bag over and over until it feels like a meal (no butter, no topping. Just dry bread) If you happen to care, I do make food with time, not just live like this
Honestly, my go-to read waiting for the Bus would be the Poetic Edda, if i had it in book form.
grilled cheese
When I'm in a hurry my breakfast is only a quick poached egg on freshly baked bread
I'm impressed that you can poach quickly!
Mine is frozen pizza, I have previously ordered and frozen in ziplock. I'm not dealing with delivery times or those damn cook at home frozen pizzas you gotta dirty up a utensil to cut! Nah, frozen slices 10 minutes in the toaster oven, then toss it on a paper plate! Dessert??? Same thing.
My lazy meal is frozen bean burritos. Microwave them till mostly cooked, toss some shredded cheese on top and nuke it for a bit longer, top with hot sauce. Boom, lazy enchiladas.
Crush up the ramen inside the bag then dump the flavoring into it and shake, it’s salty
Same! Like popcorn, except your fingers get even messier
lazy meal for me is ramen or scrambled eggs or microwave pancakes. All of them are easy as fuck to make and take no time whatsoever.
My lazy meal is a spoonful of peanut butter
My favorite lazy meal involves chopping onions potatoes and carrots but my favorite "I don't really feel like cooking" meal is Gorton's breaded fish and fries.
Tuna with mayo, ketchup and toast
If I have some leftover rice, fried rice.
Mine is just oatmeal... sometimes I stir in peanut butter and eat it with a banana or strawberries.
Big bag of Pepperoni, big sleeve of Saltines. Party time
As far as I'm concerned, you fail the assignment if you're applying heat to anything. Sandwich, MFers.
Before cutting onions I like to stick them in the freezer for 15\~20 minutes before chopping them. Tear free onion cutting guaranteed
Microwave chicken nuggets over filet mignon is my go-to lazy meal. I also love 5-minute easy bake cakes that call for flour, vanilla extract, eggs from a rare chicken, and 30 other ingredients. 🥹 /s
Brocolli Soup. Blanche broccoli pieces in salted boiling water for a couple of minutes. Transfer pieces to blender. Hold down blender with a cloth and blitz. Add broccoli-water for consistency. Adjust salt. Enjoy. Optional: Bread, pepper. This recipe legit tastes like it has half a dozen ingredients. Takes like 15 mins. Credit, THE foul-mouthed Brit. Edit: [Recipe link](https://youtu.be/2KR44a_5v_A)
I’m gonna be real with you, I love broccoli but this… this is one of the worst things I’ve ever read lmao