Between school and working full time I have less than 0 energy to cook food when I get home. I also don’t have the energy/time/attention span to pack a lunch most days. I’ve been eating like a raccoon for a month just waiting to feel up to meal prepping because this current pattern is bleeding me dry. What works for you?
Ethan Chlebowski has a cool video on how to meal prep if you hate meal prepping, a really flexible way if you don’t want to decide what you’re eating each day for a whole week.
Basically you braise a fuck load of meat on Sunday, which just means stick it in water in the oven for at least 5 hours (I generally do chicken thighs or beef ribs) and then shred it and put it in a container in the fridge. Then you make whatever you feel like on the day but because you’ve already done the meat, it generally takes 10mins or less to cook anything.
On a lazy day I’ll get a packet of instant ramen, some spinach and brocoli and throw it all in a pot with a decent serving of the shredded meat and that’s a meal in less than 10mins.
If I’m feeling like a bit more work, I’ll make the tinga recipe from that video and a fat bastard burrito with all the trimmings.
In between I might make some kind of pasta ragu with a pre-made sauce and then have a punnet of berries afterwards to make it a bit healthier.