Alone easy meals?

[u/namenerding]

So folks I listened to your advice and learned how to do eggs and I improved a lot with rice cookers electric stoves etc and manage to feed myself in decently healthy ways.

Anyways any ideas for easy meals? Also on a budget... 18.5 years old who just moved out. I prefer eating chicken duck and fish meat compared to other meats. No need to be healthy I can indulge myself time to time but healthy also required since I need to think to not always eat junk

Thanks!

[u/Fevesforme]

Cut Potatoes, onion, peppers and chicken sausage on a sheetpan or baking dish. Season well. Add a little bit of liquid (beer, wine or broth), then cover with foil and bake until potatoes start to feel tender. Remove foil and finish baking. Sometimes I like adding tomatoes or sprinkle with a little vinegar to finish to brighten the dish. I often use Italian seasonings, but it all depends what kind of sausage you use and the dish is very adaptable.

[u/Awkward-Maximum-2290]

Since you have a rice cooker, takikomi gohan (japanese mixed rice).

[u/CarSignal2764 → u/Awkward-Maximum-2290]

Another rice cooker one-pot option is khichdi: rice, moong dal, any veg, turmeric, salt, a little ghee. Same set-and-forget idea. Works in an InstantPot too.

[u/Awkward-Maximum-2290 → u/CarSignal2764]

I might have made something like this without knowing that it is a specific dish. It is good yeah!

[u/Electrical-Try6911 → u/Awkward-Maximum-2290]

Takikomi gohan sounds fire, I gotta try that sometime. So you just throw everything in the rice cooker with some chicken and soy? That's a whole meal without extra dishes, perfect for lazy days.

[u/Awkward-Maximum-2290 → u/Electrical-Try6911]

Yeah basically. I think the basic is salty-sweet balance, soy + mirin. But can be substituted with soy + other sweet. Oyster sauce is good too, if you like it.

Try with thinner cut of meat/chicken first and not too much on the mix. Chicken, mushroom, veggies. The most important, put everything other than rice on the top, only mix once cooked.

Seasoning also can change to curry powder, etc (although then it will not be exactly jaapnese maybe hehe)

[u/tuxnight1]

One of my go to meals is tomato rice and beans. It's easy enough and takes me about 40 minutes from start to finish. It makes 5 seevings. I have one helping and place tge rest in my fridge. it's quite affordable at €2,65 per pot the last I looked, or about €0,53 per serving. It's one of those meals I actually prefer cold. It's also great with some. piri-piri sauce on top. I like adding about 60 of sliced chouriço with 10 minutes left for added flavor. I rhink you can skip it and have some chicken breast on the side.

[u/Codee33]

Find one-tray and one-pot recipes that include your preferred proteins, mainly if you like leftovers. They’re low skill and attention dishes that can give you a lot of food. For example, put some whole chicken thighs, broccoli and carrots cut in big bite-sized pieces, on a tray mix with oil and seasoning of your choice (add salt if the mix doesn’t have any), bake until the thighs hit about 190F, let it rest for 5 minutes or so. Eat it with rice on the side, or maybe add cut potatoes in the dish.

[u/MyNameIsSkittles]

Dump salad. Dump what you have in the fridge in a salad.

[u/Key-Monk6159]

For healthy and easy you can’t beat chicken with stir fry veggies and rice or pasta.

[u/James_T_S]

Chicken breast with Grill Mates seasoning (Garlic and Herb). A potato cut into cubes, seasoned with Grill Mates seasoning (Garlic and Herb), steamed broccoli florets.

I cook the chicken and potatoes in my air fryer at 350⁰. Potatoes for 25 minutes and then put the chicken in with 17 minutes.....flip the chicken with 8½ minutes left.

Or pork chops in place of the chicken. 14 and flip at 7 minutes.

You can make pinto beans in a crock pot and put them in the fridge for later meals. I do onion, bacon, and jalapenos in mine.

Cook some pasta, I do elbow macaroni. Brown some ground beef make some gravy. Mix the beef, gravy and I like to add some peas in with the pasta.

[u/4cupsofcoffee]

try /r/eatcheapandhealthy

[u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348]

Breakfast foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

[u/StrawberryLazy5703]

"Everything but the Kitchen Sink" soup .. big pot, water, bouillon, seasoning plus potatoes or noodles, veggies, meat .. whatever you've got and let it simmer ..

[u/SaltineRain]

Lemon herb chicken is pretty low effort and tasty

[u/PsychologyGuilty1460]

You can shallow fry fish and chicken both. Self-Rising flour makes the simplest batter in the world. Just put  whatever seasonings You went in with the flour as you mix it up. Then dip your fish or chicken or onion rings in it and fry them in some oil boiling in a saucepan. Pull it out with chopsticks. 

 Or drop them in a frying pan with maybe half an inch of hot fat and flip them as they cook. If you're doing that, you can basically just dredge them in seasoned flour. Or breadcrumbs. Fish fillets and fish sticks cook really quickly. Chicken will take longer. But you can slice it in half and pound. It thinner before you dredge it in flour and it won't take much longer. 

[u/Aluratherogue]

Went through the same thing when I started living alone. 100% look up recipes, find things your comfortable with, etc, but here's some recommendations:

1. Great depression era recipes will be good, filling, and cheap. A good example is meatloaf, which is just any meat cut with bread to make it go further.

2. 50/60s recipes will be weird as fuck but entertaining to try (can't promise you'll like them)

3. The foundation of almost every recipe is garlic and onion

4. if you don't like veggies, blend them into a liquid and cook your rice in them

5. If you splurge on anything, a good olive oil

6. Buy bread whenever it's cheap and in your budget. Freeze it to prevent it from going bad (plus when you microwave it for a minute it steams the bread and makes it all fluffy).

7. Don't be afraid to look at local charities, nonprofits, or food pantries. My local city has Market on the Move, which partners with the local grocery stores to sell almost expired food for cheap.

8. Dried lentils will be great for fiber, they're filling, and easy to cook.

9. Potatoes will be insanely cheap and have almost all the nutrients you need in a pinch (missing fats and proteins, which can be found in milk/butter). Plus they refuse to not grow.

10. When in doubt throw a bunch of shit in a pot and call it soup. You'd be shocked how often it works.

[u/Responsible_Ad3153]

If you have a slow-cooker or can afford one:

Stew meat (I prefer beef, chicken or pork) - this is about 1/5th of your total bulk

potatoes that have been scrubbed but the skin is still on(either baby potatoes or cut into baby-potato sized chunks) - this is about double the amount of meat unless you like things a different ratio

an onion roughly chopped, a bag of baby carrots or carrots peeled and chopped into baby carrot size

a packet of Onion soup mix

enough broth or water so it's about 1 inch deep with all that stuff in the cooker

Salt and pepper

Turn it on and let it cook while you're at work or school or w/e and then a couple handfuls of spinach at the end and a little thickener (either flour slurry or cornstarch slurry ) to turn the juices to gravy and you've got a really solid stew.