Where I will be eating the same breakfast, same lunch, and same dinner every day this week because cooking for one is horribly inconvenient and I can barely scrape together the will to plan, buy, and prep 3 meals.
I personally eat eggs on toast between 3-7 times a week. It took a lot of the pressure of cooking breakfast in the morning as it only takes 20 minutes and I use fresh parsley, fresh thyme and cut up garlic with the eggs.
@itsok Proper way to knead dough, that's more fulfilling. But the slice angle on a Persian cucumber, for a Greek salad, is also crucial to a more balanced life. 🤣
@CrazyMusicLover I just don’t want to cook in general 😩 like at all. But portioning so many foods for one 😵 last week I made egg salad and bought Hawaiian rolls to have it one. TWELVE ROLLS. so I either eat two a day for six days (I couldn’t do it) or I let it go bad, or I freeze rolls, and so many unpleasant things arise from that too 😅 it’s all too much work
@Starcrossed those are good ones. Week before last I did yogurt with granola as the breakfast, and before that I did special k. I get tired of soup quickly but that works out because I just get like two servings out of a prepared can. Do you make your own soup or getting prepared ones?
@itsok not every week. But you can make breakfast burritos with eggs, cheese and salsa, and then lunch and dinner with variety of meat, beans, veggies, that can all be prepared ahead of time.
I am sorry. I hate cooking for my family, I would love to just cook for myself and eat what I like.
Have you made your favourite meals and frozen them? I like to do this with lasagna, chilli, home made soup, spaghetti sauce, Stuff like that so I can just have it for dinners when I don’t want to cook.
@iamonfire696 I do from time to time. I freeze my spaghetti sauce into ziplock bags and break off pieces when I need them. I’ve done chili, that keeps really well. I haven’t done lasagna, I think I’d have a breakdown if I tried that. Does your family split up who chooses and cooks the meals?
@itsok My husband doesn’t cook. My kids have started to cook with me so they can learn.
Lasagna freezes really well and you can cut it into pieces and freeze them separately.
I make those muffin tin omelettes and bake them in the oven and I will freeze those for the kids for breakfast. Just anything that’s easy when I am not feeling great.
I haven’t done lasagna, I think I’d have a breakdown if I tried that.
Instead of a full layered lasagna, try baking ziti or penne with all the other lasagne ingredients - same great taste, far less effort. Actually, my wife & I had been making a style of lasagna with (cooked) sausage & artichoke hearts that's really delicious. Now we do a sausage & artichoke hearts baked penne that freezes and reheats really well (actually, we've cut out red meat so we use meatless "impossible" sausage).