Simple meals or food
I've been not doing great and it always has a knock on to my diet. I'm not the best with cooking and making meals anyway but I can't keep just eating bread, pot noodles and biscuits 😅
What do you eat when you're super low on energy or spoons?!
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Sorry to hear you've not been doing great @Biblioklept if there's anything we can do to help, please yell!
I'll always say instant noodles, as that's my go to lunch now. Maybe throw in a pepperami if I'm feeling fancy. But there's always the humble beans on toast, or a toasted cheese sandwich?
It's a bit of a love or hate and may cause an argument, but I do love a bit of marmite on toast. Feels like good comfort food.1 -
If I can't be bothered to cook I do omelettes you can put anything in them, mines usually mushrooms, cheese.
Yesterday I did a vegetable soup, it's quick and nutritional
But pasta is quick and goes with a lot of things, like just in sauce with cheese on or with meat.
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Sorry you're not feeling so good @Biblioklept!
I eat quite a lot of pasta, like Sandy said. I try to keep a few jars of ready made sauce on hand to dump in, and you can add meats, veg or cheese if you fancy some extra stuff.
Cans of soup can be nice and easy, you can just eat them with a bit of bread and butter or cheese.
Pouches of microwave rice can be good too, I'll often have them with some veggies boiled, microwaved or stir-fried depending on how well I am and some protein of some kind. I use the pre-cut veg packs if I'm not up to doing any chopping. And you can add whatever sauce you like to spice it up.
But generally, if I do put a bit of energy into cooking something I try to cook a big pot of it to stick in the freezer or fridge, then you can just heat it up in the microwave for a few days afterwards which saves a bit of energy in the long run 😊
Hope you start feeling better soon!
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Milk (on its own or hot chocolate or a shake, or add a couple of spoonsful of instant coffee) yoghurt, fruit, shakes, crispbread with sardines spread on it, maybe a tomato and some cucumber.
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Fruit salads with yogurt or ice cream. Toasties are always good with a whole range of fillings
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I get in this quite often @Biblioklept. One thing I've found that helps is, when you are up to cooking, try to cook something that can be frozen and easily reheated. It does require at least a bit of motivation unfortunately, which I know can be difficult to find when you're feeling low.
Me and my partner usually make a bolognese-style sauce. Add in a bunch of fresh or frozen spinach for some veg. It can easily be frozen into separate portions and then reheated in the microwave if the stove is too much.
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Thanks @Albus_Scope!! Although I feel like instant noodles are the same as pot noodles but with more washing up 🤣 I never thought of throwing stuff in with them though, not keen on pepperami but that's a good shout!
I always forget beans on toast exist but that's usually a favourite, thank you for the reminder!! Going to check my cupboard letter and pray for a can of beans as I'm craving it now!
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Oooh omelette @Sandy_123! That's another one I can manage but always forget about, I've always been scared to put stuff in it because I worry there'll be random hard lumps in my food, I've fancied trying it with veggies a lot but never taken the plunge. The most adventurous I've been is grated cheese, because it melts and matches the texture of the omlette!
I'd love some vegetable soup but all the chopping and peeling and worrying about how much to use gets me all hot and flustered 😁 I do love pasta though
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@Rosie_Scope what kinds of meat and veg would you throw in with a pasta sauce? Are there any that don't require cooking first? I'm going to search deliveroo for some pre-cut veg packs, I sometimes get the microwave bags of veg which cost most but at least it means I'm eating veg. I usually have a pack of them and throw on some pepper or mint sauce 😄
I've not considered microwave veg before, I get the frozen microwave packs sometimes that are just rice but not thought about the pouches, thanks for the tip!!
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Thank you @Cantilip!! It doesn't help that I'm a picky eater, sardines always sound a nutritious good low energy meal but I just can't bring myself to eat them, same as milk and most fruit 😅 yoghurt, crispbread, shakes, tomato and cucumber are all going on the list though!
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OOooh ice cream, now you're talking!!! I love toasties and have a toastie maker machine thing but the clean up always takes it from zero effort to feeling like it's a three course meal. Whoever invented them never had to clean one I swear!!!
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Thanks @Jimm_Scope! I've tried this in the past but I never ever ever end up using the meals I've frozen. I get too overwhelmed worrying I'm not defrosting it right, or whether it can be frozen at all, or how long to reheat, or HOW to reheat and then worried about food poisoning and just can't bring myself to do it. I'd love to be able to though. A few years ago I bought loads of batch cooking and 'dump meal' recipe books and spent a LOT of time and effort trying to make them all, only for them to sit in the freezer for months until I eventually accepted I'd never eat them and threw them out 😅
Would love to know your bolognese recipe though, the times I've tried it it's been really bitter and just not good lol
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I use frozen veg for pasta a lot of the time @Biblioklept, so peas, sometimes green beans or broad beans, anything that doesn't take too long to cook through. I'll usually just stick a handful or two in with the pasta while it's boiling and cook them together.
For meat or protein, it depends what you like, really! You could get some pre-cooked chicken or ham and pop some of that in so you don't have to worry about cooking it all the way. Or you could heat it through for a minute or two in the microwave if you're worried about the meat not getting hot enough 😊
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Oooooh that brings back memories of pasta, pesto and peas!!! I don't know why I didn't think of throwing in frozen veg, or cooking it in same pot as pasta, thank you!!
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Forgot my idea of batch cooking, which is incredibly basic, boil up onions and celery and herbs and spices, shove it in the freezer, then the most effort free thing is to add a tin of soup or next up some frozen mixed veg and a tin of butter beans or tomatoes, with a baked potato. Other thing you can do is put it in a frying pan with mixed veg packet rice and leave it to reduce.
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If I'm having a good couple of days, I make a batch of ratatouille & freeze it in portions. I have it with some air fried meatballs & parmesan. But, it could make a pasta sauce, pizza topping, as is on rice, on a jacket spud…
For quickness, I enjoy tuna mayo in lettuce leaves. Used to love it with sweetcorn in, but that's off the menu now.
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Biblioklept, my tip to counteract any bitterness in a bolognese or ragu is a little sugar plus very finely chopped carrots and to simmer long and slow. Nutmeg too. Authentic Italian recipes use milk I've just read!
Mine is non carne so I use savoury soya protein mince (never that Q stuff) and Marmite 😋
I've just made a big pot to last all week and freeze for later - I did not want to cook in this heat but didn't want to waste the veg I'd bought either.
My favourite ready meal is a jacket potato from the freezer 😁
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The only time I tried the Q I was ill. Read up about it and found not unknown.
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I ate it for years before it made me ill. Eliminated certain foods, changed my diet and suddenly could not tolerate it. Then I read about it being banned in the US!
It probably contributed to my significant digestive problems during all that time.
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Honestly we don't have a specific recipe really. Turkey mince browned off. Some garlic. Two to three cans of tomatoes. Some tomato paste. Add in dry herbs and let it simmer for a while. The longer the better usually. Add sugar and salt to taste.
We then freeze it in small tupperwares, enough for a meal per tupperware, then when it comes to reheating it just take the frozen block and put it in a pot to slowly heat up or in the microwave if a pot is too much.
For an even simpler version, but more pricy longterm, we used to get pesto or one of those "just heat" sauces, and cook pasta. If we wanted to add protein we'd have pre-cooked frozen chicken that you could add to a frying pan and quickly heat up. Add a few herbs to the chicken while it's cooking.
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