I’m planning to do some meal prepping for myself.
This was something my nutritionist mentioned to me. I want to make my lunches and dinners beforehand and for certain days.
I need some ideas for it, but I will have to wait until the first of October.
Thoughts and feelings?
personally i love paneer. it’s super easy to make and keeps well.
I hate cooking, so the only thing I cook anymore is tofu with bell peppers and Hass avocados.
The peppers and avocados are easy: just peel the avocados and cut them in half, and cut the peppers into sizes you like, spray the aluminum foil on a baking sheet with olive oil baking spray, then bake them in the oven for about 15 minutes at 450°F.
For the tofu, I buy extra firm, cut the block into 8-10 little squares, coat them with cornstarch mixed with salt and arrange them on the baking tray with the peppers and avocados. Bake the tofu for 15 minutes each side at 450°F. Don’t forget to spray the aluminum foil or you’ll have a devil of a time getting the tofu off. To me they’re perfect when the outside is crunchy and the inside is still a little spongy, but you might want to experiment with cooking times and temperature until it’s just right for you. (*＾-‘) 乃
Would you ever do home delivered meal prep kit?
Paneer?
Nope. We go shopping every other week, so I just buy things that can be eaten pretty much as is, like salad kits, meal shakes, sliced cheese, peaches, bananas, etc. No prep needed, and no delivery costs. (*＾-‘) 乃
Wait, do you live alone or with people?
paneer masala! indian cheese and curry gravy dish! you can make the spice very mild if that’s an issue for you.
For bastardized white person version (such as what i can manage to cook) you can buy frozen paneer cubes, powdered paneer curry, and canned chickpeas. dump it all in a big pan for 20 minutes or in a slow cooker for a few hours. Eat with naan if you so like.
You can also add onion, tomato (canned is okay), and plain yogurt or sour cream for flavour and texture and added nutrition.
The ingredients keep well seperately and once cooked you can keep it in the fridge and reheat without making it mushy or shrivelled up.
I live with my parents. (ღ˘ᴗ˘ღ) 
Does any one of them cook? Do they both do the cooking?
My mom only cooks on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, so those are the only days of the year when we have sit down meals. My dad cooks breakfast for himself, but no one else wants to eat what he eats: sausages, turnovers, and about 10,000 calories of carbs, fats and sugars. (-᷅_-᷄๑)
Mostly we just grab food out of the fridge or make sandwiches or whatever. Essentially just snacking. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
Ah, I see.
I make a batch of polenta sometimes and store it in the fridge. It lasts the week. Usually for breakfast. I fry an egg, spinach and mushrooms and add it to the top.
Sometimes I do syrup, berries and cream.
I don’t meal prep though. It’s usually just eat whatever I’m feeling like lol
Hmm, in advance? I usually get ground beef-pork and have a bunch of them in the freezer. Then I just put a spaghetti sauce on it and then put that on pasta or rice. So, sometimes I make a lot of “meat sauce” in advance. Mostly, I go day by day and don’t prep anything. My partner and I tried to do a prepping type of meal plan, but we always quickly fell out of it especially if there’s days when neither of us want to or can cook. We don’t prep anything, although I do plan ahead for the next day’s dinner sometimes.
Interesting to know.
I mostly cook in meats, hamburger, so I’m not able to give advice for planning out a week of meals in general :<
However, Boiled Rice and Fried Rice are pretty filling and easy to make! And you can make a bunch and have leftovers for a while!
For boiled rice, you just put rice in a pan and fill it with water up to your thumbnail and then let it boil for 10 minutes on medium heat. After it’s done, you turn the burner off but let it sit for another 10 minutes and it fluffs better.
If you want fried rice, then you put that boiled rice in the fridge and let it sit overnight. This helps the moisture evaporate and causes it to dry out a bit. The next day you move it to a skillet and set your stove’s heat to medium and just keep an eye on it and stir it around with a spatula until it yellows/darkens and voila!
Some people like to add egg, meats, and vegetables to it, but I prefer to keep it simple!
Thanks for the advice, everyone.
I find it interesting that people would avoid cooking almost at all. Though I have moments where I hate cooking too. My mental health and food have problems that they can’t address. 
I am wondering if you had the money to get your own personal chef, would that make you eat more? Would your eating habits even change if some did all the cooking for you?
Oh, sure! Before the pandemic all the restaurants used to give out coupons all the time, so we ate out a lot back then. But ever since then, we don’t get coupons very often. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
