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[TD1]

Salad is the easiest thing to make ever. Long-lasting ingredients include carrot, tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower. As a base, I tend to use spinach - which doesn't last as well, but still holds up a few days in the fridge. It's also incredibly easy to alter depending on what you feel like. Throw some greens on a plate, boil an egg, cut some beetroot, add ham, even spice up the dressing. I tend to use virgin olive oil, which may be appropriate for you given your personal text.

Honestly, vegetables are easy peasy to prepare. You can cook 'em or even eat them raw. The only must-do is washing them.

[Kagus]

Washing. Chopping... So much chopping. Sometimes a little extra peeling for fun. Managing food waste. Chop some more. Trying to keep the veggies, cutting board, food receptacle, and whatever other junk needs washing or drying sorted because I can't keep a routine and have 30cm² of kitchen countertop to work with. Keep going because I can eat half a dorm fridge (which is what I have) worth of veggies without getting full if it's a straight salad. Olive oil with a dash of balsamic vinegar is nice.

I've done Greek salads before. I've done very large Greek salads before. I was quite proud of myself for stepping out of my comfort zone enough to go through with all that!

It's not everyday fare. I'd probably just grab a carrot and go to bed rather than spend the time prepping something like that if my day ended up being anything less than energizing (which is exceedingly rare).


You have to understand, I am not well. Everything is exhausting. I am trying to get better in the kitchen, and I have some lovely and very culinarily-oriented friends around me to help with that. But most importantly, I want to make sure I eat every day.

I don't want to go back to when I didn't do that.

[TD1]

I mean, you can buy pre-grated carrot. And pre-peeled carrot. Tomatoes (plum ones are my favourite) only require washing. Broccoli you can also literally just break off and wash. Or buy pre-done.

Or buy a salad, of course, though that's economically silly. The only hardship in a salad is washing some things and throwing them on a plate.

I understand that everything is draining for you. But salad sounds easier than pasta...

[JoshuaFH]

One thing I've been abusing FAR too much lately is making my own pizza sandwiches. I have a great nonstick pan, so I don't use any oil or butter. Just regular white bread. Provolone or Mozzarella cheese slices are preferable. You can get deli pepperonis that are big for sandwiches. Acquire other meats and ingredients to your taste, I use salami, ham, and bacon (meat lovers, basically). Acquire sauce, maybe some spice or garlic to mix with it.

Place a slice of cheese on each slice of bread. Decorate with your preference of ingredients, without sauce. Put the slices together like a sandwich and grill it like a grilled ham-n-cheese. Go slow with the grilling, you want it cooked and delicious all the way through. Flip when light brown on one side, and you're almost done.
Set aside a bowl, and pour yourself some pizza sauce, this is for dipping. I prefer to have it pre-cooled in the fridge so you get a nice gradient of heat along with the flavor.
Once the sandwich is nice and brown on the other side, you're done. Dip the sandwich in the sauce for each bite, and you have yourself some premium bachelor cuisine.

[Kagus]

I understand that everything is draining for you. But salad sounds easier than pasta...

• Put on water
• Sit down for a bit
• Add salt and pasta once boiling
• Sit down for a bit
• Drain pasta
• Add can of black beans
• Oil and vinegar to taste

This has been my go-to for years. I developed a taste for it as a kid (much to the confusion of my parents), so it's comfort food, and requires little more than opening a can and waiting for it to finish itself.

That's my baseline. It's warm, it's filling, I always have some amount of appetite for it, and I don't have to think about it. Can even reuse most of the tools and dishes without having to wash them.

When I have a bit more lifepower to go around, I can pull the bag of frozen broccoli out of the fridge and make soup.

[JoshuaFH]

I enjoy a lot of fruit as well, as well as a cup full of psyllium husk fiber + wheat dextrin fiber supplement. It helps a lot man, modern diets are so badly in need of fiber it's crazy.

[TamerVirus]

Pasta with black beans and oil and vinegar?
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[Kagus]

Olive oil and balsamic vinegar, yep.

...don't ask, I honestly have no idea.

[Iduno]

I enjoy a lot of fruit as well, as well as a cup full of psyllium husk fiber + wheat dextrin fiber supplement. It helps a lot man, modern diets are so badly in need of fiber it's crazy.

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[Yoink]

I often have kidney beans+chickpeas with pasta. Mainly because they (along with 'fu) are my go-to ingredients to make a decent meal out of instant noodles or rice.

[Superdorf]

Olive oil and balsamic vinegar, yep.

...don't ask, I honestly have no idea.

Sounds good to me! Like one of them fancy pasta salads you find at potlucks and such.

[Tingle]

Fibre supplements are fine and what what, chewing actually fiber and not consuming a blended fibre powder is better as the fibre actually works through you and the flora has some houses to live in and digest for you.
But what would I know. I just talk to the old ones.

[Yoink]

I found out the other day that John Travolta is a scientologist.   

[JoshuaFH]

I found out the other day that John Travolta is a scientologist.   

"What? This Xenu stuff seems pretty credible to me."

[delphonso]

I found out the other day that John Travolta is a scientologist.   

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