Bonus points for healthy/low carb. Omivore, vegetarian, vegan, I eat all the things but my autistic ass is very low on spoons. I’m a good cook but even the thought of cooking instant ramen sounds daunting sometimes.
Easy things I’ve incorporated are protein shakes with coffee, flax milk and chia seeds during the morning. Keeps me good til 1pm or so since breakfast grosses me out during the weekdays and it takes like 2 minutes to prepare
Also wraps. Throw a protein on, condiments or a sauce like pesto or something, rip up some lettuce with your BARE HANDS, and that’s it. Or if you’re feeling fancy, slice up some cheese/veggies. Less than 5 minutes with minimal clean up, just a cutting board knife, plate and maybe a spoon or butter knife. Sometimes if I’m not cutting much ill just do it carefully in my hands or on my plate to avoid washing the cutting board
The benefits of a rice cooker cannot be overstated
Hot fresh rice, tuna in olive oil, soy sauce to taste
Miso soup with a scoop of 3-4 day old rice in it
That gives me an idea about what I can get my father for Christmas.
cubed tofu, rice, water, soy sauce, whatever veggies you want all in the rice cooker together. turn on that rice cooker to cook the rice and it’ll cook everything else. lots of food, genuinely zero effort. this has been the essential cornerstone of my diet recently.
Yim and, dare I say, yum
Rice cookers can be more than just rice cookers too. Throw some beans in there. Season the rice straight in the cooker. Get creative. Basically anything that can be steamed will come out fine in a rice cooker.
Dry beans? How do you estimate the water required? I’ve been resisting the idea of buying a rice cooker since I’m low on bench space and make it with a small saucepan usually, but if I can rehydrate beans in em then I’m gunna reassess
Canned, drained. Dry might also work but haven’t tried it
I had great success the other day with rice, red lentils, mirepoix, and garlic cooked with vegetable broth instead of water. I second “most anything can be cooked in a rice cooker”
Idk, sometimes I cut up a cooked soy patty and put it in a tomato, onion, and spinach salad. Usually it’s good with some sort of oil-based dressing. That’s basically lunch.
I also really appreciate shirataki noodles as a low-carb pasta substitute.
Also Kalamata olives marinated in brine. I could eat those like candy (so eat them sparingly). Generic pimento-stuffed Spanish olives give the other olives a bad name.
I discovered the olive bar at a few grocery stores near me recently and I’m with you, it’s SO GOOD. They’ll do like roasted tomatoes and peppadew peppers too, I’ll put those maters on everything
overnight oats are pretty low effort albeit with the whole making it the night before thing, just throw vegan or non-vegan milk, rolled oats, and whatever the heck you want as a flavor into a jar and leave it in the fridge overnight
Savoury oatmeal slaps once you get used to the concept, too!
Thanks for this. Just finished prepping it for the first time, used the recipe in the link (chia seeds and vanilla extract, with oat milk). I’ve never had overnight oats before but they smelt incredible as I was putting them in the fridge and I’m excited to try them in the morn (gonna add bananas).
he’ll yeah hope it’s baller
i’ve been eating a lot of omelets dinner lately, usually with rice and stir fried veggies
Drained can of chickpeas in a pan for a few minutes
Roasted chickpeas is something my uncle eats like popcorn. One time, he offered my father some that he just made and my father absent mindedly held out his hand expecting to receive a dish. My uncle puts the chickpeas in his hand without a plate and burns his hand. Sometimes my uncle is just stupid like that.
Kimchi in a wrap with other veggies and mayo (vegan options are available at my local Asian mart). Honestly kimchi on almost anything is good.
Packet of cream cheese, sub for vegan if you’d like
One drained can of black beans
Any diced veg you’ve got the spoons to prep (ie onion or peppers) optional
Hot sauce to taste
Mix all the above into a bowl, use it to fill a tortilla in whatever shape you’d like (usually small taquitos or folded quesadillas works best for this), pan fry the assembled tortilla until brown
I was doing a keto diet for a while and I loved the excuse of having cream cheese on anything and everything. Top tier food lol
Here’s a few vegan quickies: rice from a rice cooker and firm tofu, crumbled into it. The tofu doesn’t need to be cooked. Add soy sauce, and/or some chili paste, maybe some garlic salt. Whatever you think goes good with rice. Plenty of protein, pretty filling, no effort.
Spaghetti and premade pasta sauce. That’s it.
Rice and beans (drained) made straight in the rice cooker. Just like the tofu one add whatever seasoning you want.
Hummus and basically anything you want to dip in it.
Classic PB&J.
Not vegan, but was my goto when I still ate eggs: rice from the rice cooker, with an egg cracked straight into it when the rice is still hot. Whatever seasoning you want. This is a very popular Japanese one called Tamago Kake Gohan (Egg over Rice).
Also, pack your favorite protein bars. If you’re a lazy dumbass like me, sometimes you don’t eat before work. A quick protein bar saves you til lunch.
Hey, sometimes it’s barely manageable to get up in the morning in the first place so I feel you. I made protein shakes in a big giant jar all at once so I have em over the week and that felt like such a loge hack to me lol. I haven’t had tamago kake Gohan in forever! Love the yolk in the rice
Chicken Breast (oven) with rice. Simple as that.
I love rice, even without seasoning. So, if i’m short of time/energy, this is my comfort food to go.
Oh, I almost forgot: Mate with crackers, as a breakfast, as a snack during the day, during a lecture, etc.
I forgot, my lowest effort snack is a Tofurky Italian style sausage. Eat straight outta the package, each one is like 24 grams of protein. So good I’ve been eating those for like a decade or more now
Bread, cream cheese and sliced tomato makes for a surprisingly versatile base though it’s a nice sandwich snack alone. Add onions, vinegar, fish, spices, and so on.
Can of sardines in oil with hot sauce
Silken tofu with a sauce on top. Paired with rice made in a rice cooker (a worthwhile investment, get one if you don’t have one.) Or just eat it on its own, I’ve done that lol.
Rice and hot sauce. Add a mix of some vinegar, oil, and some sugar if you want a bit of a sushi taste.
Just put it into a rice cooker and forget about it.
not healthy but my go-to autism meal is some oven chicken nuggets on a toasted bagel with bbq sauce and american cheese lol. slightly better nutritionally is laoganma rice with a fried egg. basic cheese and pepper pasta is a staple too.
Better to eat than not at all! Sometimes I’ll just go to bed hungry instead of trying to eat anything at all bc of burnout. That sounds hella good and easy too
