I feel dumb asking this, but...

...what do people eat for lunch when they don't like to cook at all? I have some really bad eating habits, and I have also gained weight from that and a medication I was on for awhile. I would like to be more healthy, because my physical state is contributing to these horrible moods I get in. I do like fruits and veggies, but I actually only eat them when they are in the prepared foods I have. Once in awhile I'll have a banana or some watermelon or a nectarine or two. I have looked up "one ingredient lunches" online, but it's never just one ingredient: the wisdom being that it's not a balanced meal. I really love PB&J, but I buy the frozen ones...does that count??? Again, I feel silly, but I could use some advice, for real.

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Blackie · 51-55, M

Your diet is totally to blame for most of your issues. You should try fasting. Spend the money buy a good electrolyte powder off Amazon with zero sugar that won’t break your fast. You can start by eating your last meal at 6pm then don’t eat until noon the next day, that’s 18 hours. Do this 3x a week and you’ll start seeing results in your mood and body . Try supplementing and go to either a carnivore diet or a liquid diet but try to avoid glutton and snacking. Be strong most people are very misinformed by the role nutrition plays.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Blackie Sorry but that reads more like something pushed by a celebrity who knows nothing about biology, paid by Amazon to advertise food supplements no-one in an affluent society should need.(And few in a poor society could afford.)

Amazon is merely a box-shifter, an on-line supermarket selling anything it can, without caring about need, desirability, source, safety or quality.

We are NOT evolved to exist on just meat or just liquids, including "supplements", as replacements for proper meals. We can live as omnivores or herbivores (vegetarians) by choice; but we need a proper diet, not commercial fads pushed by on-line supermarkets and fast-food chains.

We are better off eating a reasonable breakfast, and no I don't mean a frying-pan's worth of bacon and eggs; and a cooked mid-day meal, although that is not always practical for working people who would therefore need a main meal in the early (not late) evening.

Snacking is bad but it does depend on what - fruit is better than cakes, sweets or beefburgers.

There is a lot of misinformation about food and nutrition - and it is written and disseminated by interests like the fast-foods, supplements and fad diets manufacturers whose profits depend on encouraging people to eat badly.