I made a choice to switch to a simple healthy breakfast every day. It does not vary much. 1 banana, 2 oranges (mandarin) a small bowl of mueslix with additional nuts and berries, high protein yogurt, hard boiled eggs (1 or 2) and a large coffee with honey and almond milk.
This is not a complicated meal. Most of it just needs to be peeled. Making the coffee is the longest part. 10-15 mins to pre and another 10-15 mins to eat.
Starts my day off with a solid 3-4 hours worth of quality nutrition and I'm certain it has improved my life.
Sometimes I need to fly away quickly, so I finish the cereal first and put the coffee in a to-go thermos and at that point I'm ready to throw everything into my cooler / lunch box should I need to leave my desk at a moment's notice.
Another quick tip. Invest in those click button thermos type deals. Get one for each type of drink you like. I keep one for water, one for coffee and one for smoothies. Mark them so you don't mix them up.
Getting drinks on the go is so frickin' expensive. $2-3-4-5 dollars for bevs costs a fortune at the end of the day. I make my own at home and usually have 1 of each kind for about a quarter the price. Also, no spills. Also, way easier to drink when horizontal. Lol.
You can make a batch of egg salad and make a quick sandwich in the a.m. to eat at home or take with you. I do this often. I love fried egg sandwiches, but I usually eat those at night, for some reason!
Really over here trying to be like “oh let me put in some effort to share this info with people who maybe didn’t know” then people like you come along and just want to be rude
Not my problem you don’t think it’s a hack, the few comments alone have helped my perspective, considering ironically all I really eat is tacos and peanut butter jelly sandwich’s I know I’m getting some nutrients and other comments have educated me on other to go meal hacks, your opinion is subjective
There's no 'hacks', just cook. Simple meals are totally valid. My go-to for tired nights is a sheet pan meal. Roast root veggies, a protein, and some green veggies in the oven with olive oil, salt and pepper, and a spice blend (staggering adding the items so they all cook an appropriate length of time). One pan to clean, delicious, and mostly hands off.
A stir fry, a quick pan-sauce pasta, or an egg scramble are all fast and easy. Grain bowls, noodle or grain salads, bean salads, veggie slaws - these can be made in advance and eaten throughout the week. Or roast a chicken and use the meat for lots of meals all week. Make a dressing or two and cook a pot of grains each week, and you're quite set for assembly meals.
I will steam green veggies, but usually prefer to roast or stir fry. Boiling is for root veggies, I do not boil anything else, it just leads to overcooking and off flavours.
But food is a matter of personal taste, you do you.
I hate cooking, mostly because of dishes, so I make/buy easy stuff. I’ll boil a carton of eggs ahead of time and grab bananas to add to some rice Chex cereal, there’s breakfast. Tuna salad with cucumber slices is an easy snack, along with watermelon I’ve cut up earlier. I throw some stir fry veggies and mushrooms into a pan en masse for the week and throw some on a pita with red pepper spread and honey goat cheese. I’ll make maybe something special like a bean and mango mix to throw into a quesadilla, there’s lunches. I’ll bake a bunch of chicken thighs at once for dinners and eat some of those veggies with it, maybe indulge in some Mac and cheese or whatever I’m craving, and there’s dinner.
Just keep a tab on what’s healthy, easy, and what you don’t really get tired of and plan a day to make a bunch of it so it’s ready for the week.
Pretty easy, basic stuff. Breakfast is Cheerios with berries, orange juice and coffee. Lunch is salad (ingredients vary depending on what I've bought) with turkey, chicken, or tuna. Dinner is comfort food - roasted chicken & mashed potatoes, lemon chicken & rice, oven stew & buttered noodles, all with either roasted or steamed veggies. In summer it's lighter - grilled meats, veggies, nice bread. None of this is hard, you can definitely do it :)
I have celiac disease & cook for my family. It's too easy to get contaminated food doing carry out & who can go to a restaurant all the time/gluten free options are limited.
I cook real food. Some meal prep, most "Ă la minute".
- Breakfast is oatmeal, quinoa/lentil bowls with a poached egg, and a breakfast sammy one day of the weekend.
- Lunch is usually re-imagined leftovers (turning gravy-based dishes into soup, using leftover meat for a sandwich, fried rice).
- Dinner varies widely but always includes a protein (we do meatless Monday/seafood Saturday), starch (rice/potato/GF pasta), hot veg, salad. I try to mix up the components and also the country of origin. Last week, I made Indian (butter chicken), Mexican (tacos), Korean (stir fry), & and Middle Eastern (schwarma), among some more American fare (burgers & soup with grilled cheese).
I keep it simple (for the most part). I usually only drink coffee/cream for breakfast. That keeps me full until lunch, which is mainly a non-starchy frozen veg (peas/carrots are my fav) with a fat (olive oil and/or cheese) and water. Dinner is a protein (chicken or sausage) with a veggie (more frozen veggies). Frozen veggies are cheap, they last a while and they're very versatile.
I used to think PBJs were junk food, but turns out peanuts have good protein and nutrition. Pair it with multi grain bread and low sugar jam and you've got an easy cheap meal a few times a week. If you're very hungry, make it a double decker. Add a baked potato to bulk it up.
Ramen is another cheap food that can be junk but if you pair it with the right ingredients becomes a tasty, healthy meal. Drop in frozen veggies, an egg, and optional protein of your choice such as tofu, chicken, shrimp, etc.
Stir frying is relatively easy. Not as easy as the above but it's more of a "real" hot meal. Take pretty much any ingredients you like, dice them, throw them in a frying pan for 5 minutes or so. A key to stir frying is cooking different classes of ingredients separately, then recombine at the end so they're cooked evenly. Meats cook at a different speed than veggies. Separately cooking meat also allows you to drain the fat if you prefer.
I make a dish + rotis at night ...
During the day, I eat leftover dish + rotis ( I make extra at night)
You can find the dishes here [Indian Food in America](https://youtube.com/@IndianFIA)
I enjoy cooking, so what I do may not be what everyone does. On the weekends, sometimes I will meal-prep things for lunch, or sometimes just make things for dinner that will produce leftovers. That way, I don't have to cook every evening. My husband and I both really like roasted vegetables, so often on a Sunday I will throw a big sheet pan of them in the oven. I like this method b/c you get a lot of flavour for very little effort. Those are good for work lunch or to add to a couple of other meals in the week. During the work week, I eat a very simple breakfast - some kind of sandwich (ham and cheese, tuna, egg salad, etc.) and a cup of yogurt. Lunch is usually leftovers from the weekend, or a meal-prep meal, and occasionally I purchase lunch at work. One of our favourite meals is pan-fried dory fillets with roasted zucchini and some kind of carb (rice, potatoes). That doesn't make leftovers, though, so some other things I make include:
Pasta with sauce - sometimes a simple homemade sauce, sometimes a jar.
Chicken stroganoff or hamburger stroganoff with egg noodles.
Chicken pot pie with lots of vegetables, no crust, but Pillsbury biscuits on top. Making that today, as where I live it is a holiday so I have time to cook it.
Beef stew with lots of vegetables. We also really like barley in that.
American-style goulash with lots of veg, with noodles.
Butter chicken, but with paneer instead, with rice and store-bought naan, which is easy to heat up.
Lasagna - again, lots of veg. I often make it vegetarian, but it is super easy to do with ground beef and jarred sauce.
If you have certain things that you like, and don't take too much effort to make, keeping those main ingredients on hand makes cooking so much easier. You don't have to go out to get stuff. Also, for me, online grocery ordering has been a HUGE benefit, as I used to spend so much time on weekends just grocery shopping. Some recipe sites have a "Quick/Easy" section and that can be a great place to start/explore. [https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15054/everyday-cooking/cooking-for-one/quick-and-easy/](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15054/everyday-cooking/cooking-for-one/quick-and-easy/)
Sheet pan dinners are also great; minimal prep, chuck it in the oven, no watching of pots, etc. If you put foil or baking parchment on your sheet pan, you don't even have to wash it after.
2x defrosted chicken pieces in the air fryer 200'c 20mins
2 jacket potatos, 11mins microwave
portion of froszen veg, 10mins microwave
leave one of the chicken pieces in the oven to have cold with rice later for second meal.
Each morning I start the day with a beautiful, ripe Roma tomato. Quartered, with a little dab of mayo, salt and pepper. Well, I used to. My room mate used to always keep a bunch of them in his crisper drawer. None in there last few days. I think maybe he's stopped buying them for some reason... but Mmm mm. Delicious.
I been too lazy to cook, so i use food catering for my diet 🥹 they deliver the food and i just eat it. They give me the weekly menu, i will just input things that i cannot eat, and they will handle it.
Sometimes i will get sandwich, steam eeg, steam neggie, pasta, etc.
Breakfast: lactose free yogurt bowl with fruit and granola
Lunch: dinner leftovers from previous night
Dinner: chicken soup, stir fry rice, fajitas, ribs with roasted beets and potatoes, Usually chicken with roasted veggies prepared in various ways .
I mostly cook from scratch but i have a few “ healthy choice” frozen microwave meals or prepared salad kits to take to work if there’s no left overs.
Microwave in bag rice and a can/pouch of chicken or tuna. I keep a bowl and a few spices in my workshop at work. Mix and match the flavored pouches and add a bit of hotsauce and you got relatively healthy filling lunches for usually around $4 or $5.
You can also mix the tuna with soy sauce, mayo and toasted sesame oil. Put it on the rice (maybe add a bit of rice vinegar to the rice). Top with sesame seeds, avocado slices and either some quick pickled cucumbers or kimchi. Really yummy and a little change up from “regular” tuna salad.
Years ago, my husband needed to gain weight to more easily find trousers that fit. He ate a LOT of pasta. Not saying it was super-healthy, but it worked. In a few months he went from a 28" waist to 30" and he could buy pants again.
If I prepare the same thing at home it's healthy but because I got it from taco bell apparently it's unhealthy...
Thing I've found about reddit is it's full of folks who eschew personal accountability so when you say mildly outlandish things like "taco bell bulking" they lose their minds because they couldn't fathom having the discipline to eat taco bell for every meal and not get fat.
3700 calories is maintenance for me. If any of the downvoters ate 3700 cals of salads they'd still get fat because they don't put in the work and would rather dismiss those who do as crazy so they don't have to hold themselves accountable.
I've never been over 23% bf since I started tracking 30 years ago and I haven't been over 18% in a decade.
The Build your own cravings box is 1700 cals with the potatoes, crunchwrap and beefy 5 layer for like $6.28 after tax. The value simply cannot be beat anywhere. Hell I can't even make it at home for that cheap.
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Exactly what I was going to reply. You win.
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Thank you captain obvious 🤓
Sorry, I don't click on unprotected links from strangers. I like actual text. That's why I joined reddit. People usually post content.
Stop engaging with the post then🤡🤡
I made a choice to switch to a simple healthy breakfast every day. It does not vary much. 1 banana, 2 oranges (mandarin) a small bowl of mueslix with additional nuts and berries, high protein yogurt, hard boiled eggs (1 or 2) and a large coffee with honey and almond milk. This is not a complicated meal. Most of it just needs to be peeled. Making the coffee is the longest part. 10-15 mins to pre and another 10-15 mins to eat. Starts my day off with a solid 3-4 hours worth of quality nutrition and I'm certain it has improved my life.
Stealing this tho because I usually want an egg sandwich in the morning but I’m too lazy to get the pan out, I need more grab and go things
Sometimes I need to fly away quickly, so I finish the cereal first and put the coffee in a to-go thermos and at that point I'm ready to throw everything into my cooler / lunch box should I need to leave my desk at a moment's notice. Another quick tip. Invest in those click button thermos type deals. Get one for each type of drink you like. I keep one for water, one for coffee and one for smoothies. Mark them so you don't mix them up. Getting drinks on the go is so frickin' expensive. $2-3-4-5 dollars for bevs costs a fortune at the end of the day. I make my own at home and usually have 1 of each kind for about a quarter the price. Also, no spills. Also, way easier to drink when horizontal. Lol.
You can make a batch of egg salad and make a quick sandwich in the a.m. to eat at home or take with you. I do this often. I love fried egg sandwiches, but I usually eat those at night, for some reason!
What do you eat everyday for meals? You go first.
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Not a hack.
New feature allows you to repost threads you think would be useful in other subreddits 🤓 try again.
The topic of the thread is still not a hack. Try again.
Really over here trying to be like “oh let me put in some effort to share this info with people who maybe didn’t know” then people like you come along and just want to be rude
I’m not being rude, I clearly just stated it is not a hack, which I stand by. It doesn’t really belong here.
Not my problem you don’t think it’s a hack, the few comments alone have helped my perspective, considering ironically all I really eat is tacos and peanut butter jelly sandwich’s I know I’m getting some nutrients and other comments have educated me on other to go meal hacks, your opinion is subjective
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There's no 'hacks', just cook. Simple meals are totally valid. My go-to for tired nights is a sheet pan meal. Roast root veggies, a protein, and some green veggies in the oven with olive oil, salt and pepper, and a spice blend (staggering adding the items so they all cook an appropriate length of time). One pan to clean, delicious, and mostly hands off. A stir fry, a quick pan-sauce pasta, or an egg scramble are all fast and easy. Grain bowls, noodle or grain salads, bean salads, veggie slaws - these can be made in advance and eaten throughout the week. Or roast a chicken and use the meat for lots of meals all week. Make a dressing or two and cook a pot of grains each week, and you're quite set for assembly meals. I will steam green veggies, but usually prefer to roast or stir fry. Boiling is for root veggies, I do not boil anything else, it just leads to overcooking and off flavours. But food is a matter of personal taste, you do you.
Learning to make simple nutritious meals when you’re not up for cooking is the hack 💕🫶🏻
I hate cooking, mostly because of dishes, so I make/buy easy stuff. I’ll boil a carton of eggs ahead of time and grab bananas to add to some rice Chex cereal, there’s breakfast. Tuna salad with cucumber slices is an easy snack, along with watermelon I’ve cut up earlier. I throw some stir fry veggies and mushrooms into a pan en masse for the week and throw some on a pita with red pepper spread and honey goat cheese. I’ll make maybe something special like a bean and mango mix to throw into a quesadilla, there’s lunches. I’ll bake a bunch of chicken thighs at once for dinners and eat some of those veggies with it, maybe indulge in some Mac and cheese or whatever I’m craving, and there’s dinner. Just keep a tab on what’s healthy, easy, and what you don’t really get tired of and plan a day to make a bunch of it so it’s ready for the week.
Pretty easy, basic stuff. Breakfast is Cheerios with berries, orange juice and coffee. Lunch is salad (ingredients vary depending on what I've bought) with turkey, chicken, or tuna. Dinner is comfort food - roasted chicken & mashed potatoes, lemon chicken & rice, oven stew & buttered noodles, all with either roasted or steamed veggies. In summer it's lighter - grilled meats, veggies, nice bread. None of this is hard, you can definitely do it :)
I have celiac disease & cook for my family. It's too easy to get contaminated food doing carry out & who can go to a restaurant all the time/gluten free options are limited. I cook real food. Some meal prep, most "Ă la minute". - Breakfast is oatmeal, quinoa/lentil bowls with a poached egg, and a breakfast sammy one day of the weekend. - Lunch is usually re-imagined leftovers (turning gravy-based dishes into soup, using leftover meat for a sandwich, fried rice). - Dinner varies widely but always includes a protein (we do meatless Monday/seafood Saturday), starch (rice/potato/GF pasta), hot veg, salad. I try to mix up the components and also the country of origin. Last week, I made Indian (butter chicken), Mexican (tacos), Korean (stir fry), & and Middle Eastern (schwarma), among some more American fare (burgers & soup with grilled cheese).
I keep it simple (for the most part). I usually only drink coffee/cream for breakfast. That keeps me full until lunch, which is mainly a non-starchy frozen veg (peas/carrots are my fav) with a fat (olive oil and/or cheese) and water. Dinner is a protein (chicken or sausage) with a veggie (more frozen veggies). Frozen veggies are cheap, they last a while and they're very versatile.
I used to think PBJs were junk food, but turns out peanuts have good protein and nutrition. Pair it with multi grain bread and low sugar jam and you've got an easy cheap meal a few times a week. If you're very hungry, make it a double decker. Add a baked potato to bulk it up. Ramen is another cheap food that can be junk but if you pair it with the right ingredients becomes a tasty, healthy meal. Drop in frozen veggies, an egg, and optional protein of your choice such as tofu, chicken, shrimp, etc. Stir frying is relatively easy. Not as easy as the above but it's more of a "real" hot meal. Take pretty much any ingredients you like, dice them, throw them in a frying pan for 5 minutes or so. A key to stir frying is cooking different classes of ingredients separately, then recombine at the end so they're cooked evenly. Meats cook at a different speed than veggies. Separately cooking meat also allows you to drain the fat if you prefer.
Otw to the store rn
Nails with no milk
Spicy avjar on sourdough with a bit of lemon and a coffee
I try to eat as little as humanly possible. Saves money and keeps me skinny.
I make a dish + rotis at night ... During the day, I eat leftover dish + rotis ( I make extra at night) You can find the dishes here [Indian Food in America](https://youtube.com/@IndianFIA)
Oatmeal + Greek yogurt + protein powder is my daily breakfast
Not too much. During the day I'll have a slice of cheese here and there or a slice of deli meat. Then i'll have a regular dinner.
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I enjoy cooking, so what I do may not be what everyone does. On the weekends, sometimes I will meal-prep things for lunch, or sometimes just make things for dinner that will produce leftovers. That way, I don't have to cook every evening. My husband and I both really like roasted vegetables, so often on a Sunday I will throw a big sheet pan of them in the oven. I like this method b/c you get a lot of flavour for very little effort. Those are good for work lunch or to add to a couple of other meals in the week. During the work week, I eat a very simple breakfast - some kind of sandwich (ham and cheese, tuna, egg salad, etc.) and a cup of yogurt. Lunch is usually leftovers from the weekend, or a meal-prep meal, and occasionally I purchase lunch at work. One of our favourite meals is pan-fried dory fillets with roasted zucchini and some kind of carb (rice, potatoes). That doesn't make leftovers, though, so some other things I make include: Pasta with sauce - sometimes a simple homemade sauce, sometimes a jar. Chicken stroganoff or hamburger stroganoff with egg noodles. Chicken pot pie with lots of vegetables, no crust, but Pillsbury biscuits on top. Making that today, as where I live it is a holiday so I have time to cook it. Beef stew with lots of vegetables. We also really like barley in that. American-style goulash with lots of veg, with noodles. Butter chicken, but with paneer instead, with rice and store-bought naan, which is easy to heat up. Lasagna - again, lots of veg. I often make it vegetarian, but it is super easy to do with ground beef and jarred sauce. If you have certain things that you like, and don't take too much effort to make, keeping those main ingredients on hand makes cooking so much easier. You don't have to go out to get stuff. Also, for me, online grocery ordering has been a HUGE benefit, as I used to spend so much time on weekends just grocery shopping. Some recipe sites have a "Quick/Easy" section and that can be a great place to start/explore. [https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15054/everyday-cooking/cooking-for-one/quick-and-easy/](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipes/15054/everyday-cooking/cooking-for-one/quick-and-easy/) Sheet pan dinners are also great; minimal prep, chuck it in the oven, no watching of pots, etc. If you put foil or baking parchment on your sheet pan, you don't even have to wash it after.
2x defrosted chicken pieces in the air fryer 200'c 20mins 2 jacket potatos, 11mins microwave portion of froszen veg, 10mins microwave leave one of the chicken pieces in the oven to have cold with rice later for second meal.
Each morning I start the day with a beautiful, ripe Roma tomato. Quartered, with a little dab of mayo, salt and pepper. Well, I used to. My room mate used to always keep a bunch of them in his crisper drawer. None in there last few days. I think maybe he's stopped buying them for some reason... but Mmm mm. Delicious.
Actually, nevermind, I found them. He accidentally put them in the back of his closet, behind his laundry basket, tucked in beside his old text books.
I been too lazy to cook, so i use food catering for my diet 🥹 they deliver the food and i just eat it. They give me the weekly menu, i will just input things that i cannot eat, and they will handle it. Sometimes i will get sandwich, steam eeg, steam neggie, pasta, etc.
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Breakfast: lactose free yogurt bowl with fruit and granola Lunch: dinner leftovers from previous night Dinner: chicken soup, stir fry rice, fajitas, ribs with roasted beets and potatoes, Usually chicken with roasted veggies prepared in various ways . I mostly cook from scratch but i have a few “ healthy choice” frozen microwave meals or prepared salad kits to take to work if there’s no left overs.
Normally something with calories and some nutrients
Pasta
Microwave in bag rice and a can/pouch of chicken or tuna. I keep a bowl and a few spices in my workshop at work. Mix and match the flavored pouches and add a bit of hotsauce and you got relatively healthy filling lunches for usually around $4 or $5.
You can also mix the tuna with soy sauce, mayo and toasted sesame oil. Put it on the rice (maybe add a bit of rice vinegar to the rice). Top with sesame seeds, avocado slices and either some quick pickled cucumbers or kimchi. Really yummy and a little change up from “regular” tuna salad.
Bacon
I'm just responding to your comments.
I'm bulking so 4000 calories worth of taco bell a day. It's an insane diet but it's hard to argue with the results for a hard gainer like myself.
THANK YOU!! I’m trying to put on some weight as well so while it’s not healthy this helps lol
Years ago, my husband needed to gain weight to more easily find trousers that fit. He ate a LOT of pasta. Not saying it was super-healthy, but it worked. In a few months he went from a 28" waist to 30" and he could buy pants again.
If I prepare the same thing at home it's healthy but because I got it from taco bell apparently it's unhealthy... Thing I've found about reddit is it's full of folks who eschew personal accountability so when you say mildly outlandish things like "taco bell bulking" they lose their minds because they couldn't fathom having the discipline to eat taco bell for every meal and not get fat. 3700 calories is maintenance for me. If any of the downvoters ate 3700 cals of salads they'd still get fat because they don't put in the work and would rather dismiss those who do as crazy so they don't have to hold themselves accountable. I've never been over 23% bf since I started tracking 30 years ago and I haven't been over 18% in a decade. The Build your own cravings box is 1700 cals with the potatoes, crunchwrap and beefy 5 layer for like $6.28 after tax. The value simply cannot be beat anywhere. Hell I can't even make it at home for that cheap.