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Originally Posted by Jersey 4
Anyone have any meal ideas? My problem is I hate to cook but can’t afford to order out all the time so most of the time I just don’t bother or if I do bother it ends up being really crappy food from like a drive thru or a frozen pizza from the store. I just literally don’t enjoy standing in the kitchen chopping veggies or meats or other ingredients. I even find breading chicken to make simple chicken cutlets a task. There is a lot of foods I don’t like, either. I know there are frozen meals at the grocery store but normally they are filled with sodium and most of them just don’t taste good. Any ideas?
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My suggestions are only vegetarian, but here you go: So one option is to buy some frozen vegetables that are already cut up, like, depending on your taste, frozen broccoli, peas, peppers, etc. Or to buy precut veggies in the produce section.
If you like spinach, you can buy the baby spinach in the produce section and cook with that--my H likes cooking with that and grape tomatoes, which you don't have to cut up.
You can get frozen cooked rice that you heat in the microwave, then heat up some black beans (and season them--though I think you can get canned Goya ones that are seasoned) and have beans and rice. Or get an Indian sauce, heat up canned chickpeas in the sauce, with rice.
They're not cheap compared to some other ones, but Amy's makes some good frozen meals, all vegetarian, and some are lower-sodium options (labeled that way).
Also, if you like eggs, they're pretty cheap and nutritious, and you can throw in veggies or not. This isn't the healthiest thing, but I'll buy frozen shredded hash browns, cook those in a pan, then whisk up some eggs and put them over the potatoes, so like a one-pan eggs and hash potatoes.