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I'm bored and it's like 2AM so here's some mid/low effort food, mostly cause I hope it helps someone but also so I can have a list I can reference quickly when I don't know what to cook/get in a slump and can't put much effort into cooking
Broccoli and rice
- Cup of broccoli (or more, I like more)
- Butter (salted or unsalted or margarine, just some kind of oil, whatever you have lying around)
- Some kind of instant rice (I usually use minute rice for rushed meal prep so keep that in mind during the instructions)
- Curry powder
- Boullion cubes
- Optional; garlic powder, onion powder, and parmesan
1) Start making your rice (minute rice usually has a 1:1 ratio of water and rice)
Add curry powder (measure with your heart) and boullion cube to the hot water before the rice (for the cubes I use, one cube = about 2 cups of stock, so I cut them roughly into quarters to adjust when cooking only for myself)
Leave it alone. Seriously leave it alone until you are done cooking do not touch it you don't need to touch it.
2) Cut or rip apart your broccoli into bite sized chunks
3) Heat a pan over medium heat
Melt some butter (again, measure with your heart. Mostly because I genuinely did not and never have measured this; the important thing is making sure you have enough so nothing sticks)
Chuck in your broccoli
Cook until most of the broccoli is crispy and browned
Take off the heat (add garlic powder, onion powder, and parmesan here)
4) Chuck broccoli and rice onto a plate or into a bowl
*Asparagus is really good cooked like this too if you want to add it or sub out some of the broccoli
Tortilla Pizza
- Tortillas (Two large tortillas is what I usually have lying around and is a meal for me, this is surprisingly filling for what it is)
- Pizza sauce
- Grated cheese
- Optional; literally any other topping you have the time and energy to prepare
1) Set oven to 350°F
2) Spread sauce on tortillas; add cheese and any other toppings
3) Bake for about five minutes
*I'd put this on parchment paper and just bake directly on the rack of your oven; idk about you but I don't have a pan that comfortably fits two large tortillas
*Keep an eye on this while it bakes; you may need to go a little longer, but don't let the edges get too brown, tortillas burn easily
Meat and Cheese Board (Grownup lunchables/"Whatever I had in the fridge")
- Block or sliced cheese
- Fruit (Apples and grapes immediately come to mind)
- Jam/jelly/marmalade (World's your oyster; I like fig marmalade and dandelion jelly, they go well with apples and cheddar)
- Crackers
- Deli meat (Turkey/chicken breast slices my go to; even better if you have real turkey/chicken breast leftover from another meal)
- Crackers (Any kind; triscuits, saltines, melba toast, pretzel crackers, crusty bread, whatever)
- Optional; peanut butter, cream cheese
1) Measure ingredients with your heart; what can you/want to eat?
2) Cut fruit and cheese into bite sized pieces
3) Put any jam, jelly, marmalade, or other spreads/dips into bowls (or drop directly on your plate/cutting board for less cleanup)
4) Put everything either on a plate or the cutting board you used
*Yes this is a valid dinner, it does not matter that it's just a bunch of random shit thrown on a plate. It has fruit. It has protein. It has carbs. It has fats. It has things you like. It is both body nourishing and soul nourishing. It is a good dinner.
*Sub out or add things where you see fit. Peanut butter can become almond or soy butter, apples can become pears, add some vegetables, use any kind of cheese you want/have at home, if you have leftover meat from last night use that instead, don't use meat at all; this is my favourite "I don't know what to make" meal because you literally can't fuck it up and best case scenario you only have to wash a knife, a cutting board, and whatever utensils you used to scoop out any jam or peanut butter
Mason jar noodles
- 1L Mason jar
- Rice noodles (I use the ones that are already separated into single serves because I cannot for the life of me accurately measure how much rice noodle one person can eat
- Vegetables (frozen or fresh, whatever you have/can manage today. I like broccoli, baby corn, and peppers)
- Cooked chicken breast, shredded or cut into chunks
- 1 tbs low sodium soy sauce
- 1 tbs sriracha
- Chicken stock cubes
- Minced garlic (maybe like a teaspoon or two? I never measure this)
1) Cut vegetables into bite sized chunks and chuck them into the mason jar (if they're frozen and already bite sized just go ahead and chuck them into the jar. Measure with your heart, only you know how much vegetable you want)
2) Put sriracha, soy sauce, garlic, stock cube, and chicken into the jar and mix everything around. Rest rice noodles on top (as mentioned before, my stock cubes would make a lot more chicken broth than I need; I usually cut them in half but it usually ends up being a little too much)
3) Close up the jar, store in fridge until ready to eat. When it's food time, pour in enough hot water to cover the noodles (I eat straight out of the jar with chopsticks but it's a lot easier to pour them into a bowl if you can
*Bring your jar to room temperature before eating; I am begging you to not subject your glass jar to thermal shock and end up with glass in your hands
*Disclaimer that I heard this one from a dietician on YouTube (Nutrition By Kylie), and that this was intended to be meal prep and eaten at a later time, but nobody stops me from just chucking everything into a bowl and eating it then and there so nobody is going to stop you (maybe take some time on a good day/a day you aren't busy and prep a few of these ahead of time so that you can just pour boiling water into a jar and you have food ready to go on days you just can't cook for one reason or another)
Chicken Wraps
- Chicken strips (or nuggets, or chicken burgers, or leftover chicken breast; any chicken that you don't have to do much with, I just like crispy chicken so that's what I wrote)
- Tortillas
- Lettuce
- Sauce of choice (I like caesar or ranch)
- Shredded cheese
- Optional; bacon and tomato
1) Cook chicken strips according to directions (or cut/shred and reheat chicken breast)
2) Tear or cut lettuce into shreds (or just use the whole leaf, I don't bother cutting it half the time)
3) Put everything on a tortilla; roll it up
*Obviously not the end-all-be-all of chicken wrap possibilities, change whatever you want about it, this is just a reminder that you can do something ~different~ with and add to your chicken strips if you're getting sick of them
Yogurt (Hey, sometimes the simple stuff escapes us when we're overwhelmed)
- Cup of vanilla greek yogurt (or whatever you have lying around, my family just always has greek yogurt and it has a decent protein content)
- Berries (blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries don't need to be cut; strawberries don't *need* to be cut but I'd suggest it if they're a decent size)
- Granola (crush up a crunchy granola bar if you really want to)
- Optional; honey, dandelion jelly, some kind of jam, etc.
1) Put yogurt in a bowl
2) Sprinkle on granola
3) Throw berries and optional honey/dandelion jelly/jam on top
*I use enough granola to make a layer on top of my yogurt but I also love granola a little too much to be normal; one serving for most store bought granola is roughly 1/4 cup
*I cover about half of my bowl with fruit
*Home made granola is also 1000x better than store bought and if you have not made your own before please try it at least once
Ready Made Food
*Also a perfectly valid thing
*They aren't the best nutritionally but the important thing is that you are eating
*If all you can do today is put pizza pockets in the microwave or open a lunchable, you are still eating and that is good
*Focus on eating consistently first we can worry about nutrition later
*Do not feel bad over canned ravioli
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wariomolly · 12 days
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Milkidiki recipe
1 box (16 oz) thick spaghetti
(could be any pasta type but this one is my fave for this dish)
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
two cans (~ 20 oz) condensed tomato soup
cheese on top as desired (i use parmesan)
cook up the pasta. drain and return to pot. add butter and cans of tomato soup straight from the can (dont mix with water). combine together on low heat so the sauce warms up. ta daaa milkidiki ✨✨✨
this is a wonderul low income meal that my mom got from her childhood friend’s family. the butter and condensed tomato soup blends together to make such a wonderful sauce. it doesnt even need cheese but im a parm fiend. i want to submit this recipe to every website so it can live on forever. No, nobody knows why it is called that. Actually im not even sure how to spell it because its a made up word that to my knowledge my mother never wrote down. please give it a try and let me know how you like it!!!!
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corvidous · 1 year
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Man so my go-to low effort meal is rice with an over-easy egg, right? And it’s only gotten better with my acquisition of a rice cooker.
-1 cup rice, 1 cup water, in the rice cooker
-once it’s done crack an egg into the pan, cook for just a minute or two, until it’s solid enough for you to flip it
-flip the egg, cook for like one to one and a half minutes (you want the yolk to still be runny)
-rice in a bowl, egg on the rice
-SAUCE. Fuckin SLATHER that shit in whatever you’ve got. Soy sauce, sriracha, kewpie mayonnaise is a champion, teriyaki sauce, Worcestershire, regular mayonnaise maybe, fuckin A1 steak sauce, vinegar, literally whatever sauces you’ve got
-SPICE. Again, anything you’ve got but dump it on there. Paprika, onion and/or garlic powder, chili powder, black pepper, salt (if you didn’t load it up with soy sauce) if you have any purpose made japanese furikake rice seasoning that shit is absolutely baller. Maybe sprinkle some panko bread crumbs on there if you’ve got ‘em.
-Mix it all up and chow down. That shit is bangin’ and it takes like 5 minutes (plus the time that the rice is in the rice cooker, but you don’t even need to bother with that, even if you forget it entirely it’s fine for hours on the warm setting).
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starrynightimagines · 7 months
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Sometimes you just need to be hugged by your familial f/o and have alllll the sadness and stress squeezed out of you like a lemon. They’ll even take you for a treat if that doesn’t work, ice cream? Cake? Sub sandwich? Whatever’ll make you feel even a little bit better they’ll get it for you, don’t be afraid to ask, because they’d gift you the world if they could 🤍
Pr.oship / co.mship DNI
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tightwadspoonies · 2 years
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The Salvage Economy in Your Local Area (And Why You Should Use It)
A salvage economy is an economic system that incentivizes the use of existing ("used") materials over the use of virgin ("new") materials to create products and generate income. They are more circular economies, where profits are more equitably shared, waste is reduced, and items have continuing value beyond a single consumer.
Let’s give the example of a piece of clothing. In a mainstream economy, raw materials would be grown (in the case of cotton/linin) or mined (in the case of something like polyester). They would then be manufactured (a water- and energy-intensive process), shipped to a store (another energy-intensive process) and sold for a profit. Once the end consumer was finished with the item, they would throw it away, losing their investment entirely, as well as losing the material and energy investment in the production of the product. Depending on the disposal method, the item would either go to a landfill (which has a limited amount of space) or burned (which releases the remains into the atmosphere where it can be a danger to human health and the natural environment- even with the most stringent of filters/re-burners).
In a salvage economy, however, the piece of clothing is diverted at the point of the first consumer no longer wanting it. It may be donated or sold to a thrift/consignment shop (where the person may get a small return on their initial investment). It could then be re-purchased by someone else repeatedly until it was no longer in a decent enough shape to be re-sold, then it would be sold to a re-processing facility, where the material itself could be deconstructed, re-woven, and returned back into that cycle (energy intensive as well, but less so than creating a garment from new materials). Everyone gets a small cut of the money involved in the item.
If the material was too damaged to continue in this cycle in a meaningful/economical way, and it needed to be disposed of, it could be added to building materials like concrete (ideal for things like polyester, for which other disposal methods would be environmentally damaging), composted (cotton/linin) to create biogas (heat/energy/cooking fuel), or burned for heat/energy (same problems as burning just to get rid of it, but at least you get energy from it, and you’re displacing some of the fossil fuels that would otherwise have to be mined just to burn for energy)*.
Salvage economies exist in parallel with more mainstream economies throughout the world, with varying levels of accessibility and cultural acceptance based on a person’s location, generation, and background. You’ve probably shopped at a “thrift” or consignment store or bought something on Craigslist or Facebook/Amazon Marketplace- this is participating in a salvage economy. But it goes deeper than that.
Culturally in the US, salvage has traditionally been seen as a cheaper second-best option if you can’t afford something new. However, in younger generations and as new items become harder to find and of lower quality, older items are becoming more desirable, and purchasing pressure is shifting, if only a little bit. While I am no economist (my highest degree is in environmental health science) I also think that as the scales start to tip to raw materials becoming less viable economically, companies will look at alternatives, and those alternatives will be existing materials.
I’m not here positing that we should abandon mainstream economies entirely. People will always want new things and be willing to pay for them. But we have a problem of too much trash and too few (and too expensive) raw materials, which create both pollution and shortages** (a problem that has been increasingly in the spotlight in recent years). And I believe that over the next few decades, the pressure (both from market demand and difficulty/expense creating/mining raw materials) will begin to shift, and with it, if you believe traditional economic theory, so too will companies looking to maintain profits. CEO’s gotta eat, (and purchase his 14th yacht), you know.
But I am here saying that you can start putting this pressure on corporations early. Avoid the rush, as they say- before shortages mean everyone turns to the salvage economy all at once with not enough infrastructure to support them. Here are some ways you can participate and build up that infrastructure:
Borrow or rent things you don’t use regularly
Hardware stores rent tools/machines
Look into tool exchanges in your area
Libraries for books (eLibraries like Libby are great if you can’t go to an in-person one, especially if you like audiobooks)
Libraries for toys/games/kits/electronics
Industrial kitchen rentals if you preserve or sell food in moderate quantities
Buy as much as you can used:
Need clothing and home-goods? Thrift stores like goodwill and consignment shops are great at this.
Some thrift shops have a fabric or yarn section if you have/want the skills to knit/sew your own clothing. I’ve gotten some excellent quality wools from Goodwill for super cheap.
Need building materials or furniture? Salvage yards run by demolition companies and charities like Habitat for Humanity ReStore have your back.
Pull-A-Part for car/engine parts
Need books, textbooks, physical media, really specific tools/items, etc? Facebook/Amazon Marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, Thrift Books, etc…
If you can’t get it used, at least save it from a landfill:
Shop for clothing/ home goods/furniture/food at overstock and “damaged goods” stores like Marshalls, Ollie’s, Gabe’s, Rose’s, local wholesale stores and the like.
Look into salvage grocery stores. Some are run by charities and specifically serve low-income clientele, but many are open to the public (especially in areas with high Amish populations). These stores buy overstock, expired (doesn’t mean bad), and food with damaged packaging in bulk and sell it for an extreme discount (like 90% off). Some even have frozen, refrigerated, and fresh sections.
Craigslist sometimes have people advertising fruit trees in their yards that are a nuisance to them d/t falling fruit, and want someone to come collect it
If you already have something, but it broke, try to get it fixed instead of replacing it. Look into:
Appliance repair places are still a thing
Electronics repair and referb places
Repair cafes (events where people with repair skills, people with tools, and people with things that need to be repaired can meet)
Mending circles and learning to mend and alter clothing yourself
Tailor/clothing repair shops
Watch/jewelry repair shops
Shoe repair shops
Car repair places (it’s like I’ve always said- the best car for the environment is the one you’re currently driving, especially if you keep getting it maintained and fixed appropriately as needed, but even if you don’t, it’s better than creating demand for something new)
Gardening! (look at it as making something you have or have access to (land/a yard) into something you need (food))
Most of these are cheaper options, some of them aren’t, but it’s great to create a list of resources in your local area as you find them- that way you’ll be less tempted to go straight to Target for a new item.
Additionally, with the exceptions of a few chains and online resources, many of the “salvage” stores are small, local businesses. And you want these to thrive, both to stick it to Amazon and Wal Mart, and because they keep skills and resources circulating in your local community. Yay!
*You’ll notice I didn’t say the word “recycling” anywhere in there. While traditional recycling works for some materials, it is expensive and the infrastructure just isn’t there currently to handle the demand, largely because as it stands there wouldn’t be a lot of return on that investment. To the point where most recycling is either sent to US-based landfills or sent abroad (where we’re not really sure what happens to it- some of it is sold back to US corporations as post-consumer materials (primarily for “greenwashing” efforts, but that’s a whole other thing), but we think the majority of it just ends up in foreign landfills or above-ground dumps). While recycling definitely has a place in salvage economies, as we do it today it is divorced from the end consumer/waste generator and has little purpose or accountability beyond making people feel like they’re not just throwing stuff away.
**You wanna know how that happened? We abandoned buy-it-for-life models popular before WWII and adopted obsolescence models that provided extreme short-term profits for corporations at the near-immediate expense of human health and the planet.
We also developed the absolute scourge that is disposable packaging. Think about how much of your trash is just packaging from things you bought. Did you know before WWII you purchased most of your goods by purchasing your first metal can or glass bottle of consumables with a deposit, then came back and got the same can/bottle refilled a bunch of times? And if you no longer wanted it, you returned the container to get your deposit back? It’s true. Some companies (liquid manufacturers, like soda/milk, up until the 1970s) had a system where you returned your empties for a return deposit each time, and they’d wash and refill them, and sell you full bottles + deposit for the next go-round? Imagine how much less trash we’d have today if we still worked on that model. We literally had to teach people to throw things away with advertising (see below). But I digress…
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shsl-shitartist · 10 months
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They are all banned from the kitchen
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inspired by something @crowisinthetrash said on discord (utc)
Do not repost my art without permission or claim it as you're own work. Reblogs however are greatly appreciated.
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❥taglist: ~[currently empty!! send me an ask to be added]~
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alex-multiverse · 8 months
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A dumb thing i did for a friend in discord
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indecisive-dizzy · 2 months
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Howdy cooking headcanon!
His cooking mostly consists of "throw it together" meals. Were he can just dump some things together and let it cook. He has no time for extensive prep! There's things to do! Merchandise to sell! Neighbors to Scam! So while he could chop vegetables or make his own dough, he'd rather just toss food and seasonings into pan and throw it in the oven! If that!
Oh and he makes bomb milkshakes. The most time he spends on them is the toppings but they're a Staple in the neighborhood.
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girlwithfish · 3 months
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the job application process will make u want to die wheeeeee
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chicago-geniza · 4 months
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A propos last repost (the low spoons cookbook), one of my goals this year is to compile my definitive, comprehensive Hypoallergenic GI Disease Cookbook On A Food Stamps Budget. Recipes will span several dietary restriction categories: low FODMAP for IBS, low histamine for MCAS, autoimmune protocol for IBD, liquids/purees for gastroparesis, and "gut rest."
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biohazard-inevitable · 4 months
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I found a new safe food!!!!
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Its soup!
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ineffectualdemon · 10 months
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Today's relatively low effort meal as my pain is about a 7.5-8 today and my mental health is not the best and I wanted something that didn't require a lot of prep and I could cook from my kitchen stool
Ingredients:
pasta of your choice. How much pasta? That's between you and god
A quarter jar of left over red pasta sauce (or just any amount red pasta sauce you got. I don't care I'm not your mom)
Pepperoni - however much you desire
Method:
Make a little tower of however much pepperoni that you want. Measure with your heart
Cut the pepperoni tower into eight little triangles so now you have 8 triangle shaped towers
Bring a saucepan of water to a boil
Add pasta of your choice and cook for the appropriate amount of time
As the pasta cooks if you're using pasta sauce that needs heating start heating that in a separate saucepan and add the pepperoni. It will start off in big chunks but if you stab the chunks with a wooden spoon enough they'll come apart. Heat on low as the pasta cooks
Drain the pasta and turn off the heat for the sauce
Add pasta too the sauce and mix
Eat either out of the pan or put in a bow
It tastes fine and, with the addition of bread to soak up the extra sauce, filling enough dor lunch
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rascheln · 7 months
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Yogurt cake with lemon zest and mango-clementine jam. The jam sadly sunk down to the bottom, but it made a really delicious gooey layer, so I'm not too mad about it!
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holykittydetective · 10 days
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Day 8 of getting my sh!t together
So, it's already the 8th day. Today I let a little lose because I'm going on a restricted diet from tomorrow and trying to workout more. So, I woke up late and also ate pretty well.
I started writing in my gratitude journal after two months. Two months ago when I stopped writing in that journal, I was only whining and complaining. I was in a dark place and felt lost and hopeless. There weren't many things I could write about in my gratitude journal and I felt like the universe wasn't on my side. So, I stopped back then and promised to write once I feel better.
I feel better now and reached out for the journal. Am I magically healed? No. That's the thing with anxiety and depression. I felt like my depression relapsed and I felt su!c!dal. I held on my life even though I felt like it wasn't worth it.
I still feel broken but I also feel strong enough to pick up the broken pieces and put it back together. I am better today, I will be better tomorrow. One day at a time!
Anyways, the menu was so yummy today.
Breakfast was just coffee as usual.
Lunch:
Mushroom zucchini chicken in oyster sauce
Cucumber and lettuce with lime juice and pepper
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Cooler
It's 42°C outside so we all need an internal coolant. Mom made this beverage by roasting raw mango also known as aam paanna.
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Evening snack:
I got snacky in the evening so I snacked on some chocolate muesli with black coffee.
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Dinner
Chapati and Okhra in yoghurt gravy
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Here's my song recommendation for the day
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highladyluck · 3 months
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A handsome lad (banana bread)
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kronize · 1 year
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Tsujiri
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