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Tuna melts are surprisingly easy. You can make enough tuna salad to last three days. Toast some bread, stick the tuna on top, then cheese and leave under the grill for a bit. Perfectly tasty snack. My classic tuna combo is tuna, mayo, olive oil, celery, spring onion and canned sweetcorn. Salt and pepper to taste.

Microwave oatmeal

Ingredients

Oatmeal

• 1 part oatmeal (1 dl for a small meal, 2 for a bigger one)
• 1.25 parts water
• Some salt
• Optionally some psyllium seeds for extra fiber, maybe a teaspoon

Extras

• Some milk, maybe 1 dl
• Some lingonberry jam, maybe a tablespoon

1. Mix everything in a bowl
2. Microwave for 2 minutes for 1 dl oatmeal or 2.45 for 2 dl oatmeal
3. Mix with a spoon
4. Top with jam and pour over some milk (careful, it's hot)

Ready to eat in five minutes, very low effort, produces little in the way of dishes to clean, cheap as dirt, vegetarian if using cow milk and vegan if using oat milk, and not particularly high in calories but still quite satiating. Downside is that it's not the most exciting meal you could think of, but you arguably get more than you pay for all in all.

Greek yoghurt. Plain,no sugar or fruit. Cucumbers and oranges with tajín. Hummus with celery sticks.

I bulk prepare and freeze food often for those situations, so I can get lazy and still have a decent meal. For example, my freezer currently has chickpeas stew with sausages, kibbeh, Bolognese sauce, a simpler tomato sauce, a half dozen pierogi... all of those can become a meal if paired with quick stuff, like rice or pasta and a tossed salad.

If that fails, I cook some quick polenta using pre-cooked cornmeal, then break some eggs in it.

Speed

Bottle of soylent. 400 calories, chug it and forget.

Depends on your definition of cooking. My "lazy and unpretentious" meal is pasta with whatever. If I have a pre made sauce, that. Perhaps some frozen cream spinach, that works too. A couple eggs mixed into the hot, strained noodles is pretty tasty too. If my stash is completely empty, a piece of butter. Then top it all off with some grated parmesan, and eat it quick before the shame sets in.

Edit: works just as well with rice

Some store bought soup and a bit of toast or something from the freezer, most likely pizza.

Total prep time AND ready to eat within 15-30min.

Get a bowl
Make a "sauce" with plenty olive oil, basil, garlic
Slice tomatoes in quarters (about the size of cherry tomatoes) and throw them in a bowl
Let it rest for min. 30min or as long as you want to. No upper limit.
Add hot spaghetti (al dente) and stir until everything is well coated.

Edit: Expanded and added more precise instructions.

Cup noodles with two eggs

Whenever I get lazy I just throw some seasoned chicken drumsticks in my airfryer and then add some Uncle Ben's rice. Almost 0 effort.

Spam Musubi

I've got a bunch of frozen mashed potatoes pre-divided into meal-sized tupperware. Microwave one of those and it's quite hearty.

I've also got a rice cooker and it's super easy to make something both substantial and tasty with one of those, dump in the rice and water and then add a tin of condensed soup as well. Push the button and come back later to dump it onto a plate. I've found most kinds of condensed soup work well, though avoid anything with "cream of" in the title as those can end up unpleasantly goopy.

Some of my favorites are peanut butter sandwiches, big chunka cheese, apples (any fruit really), hot dogs/sausages, 30 to 40 olives.

Giant fuckoff protein shake.

4 scoops of vanilla protein powder, 2 big spoons of peanut powder, cup of egg whites, decent whack of real maple syrup, and as much whole milk to get a thickshake consistency. Makes about a litre and its like half my daily protein target in one go.

• Cereal
• pasta or rice, frozen vegetables, cheese
• Vegemite on toast

I usually have Rice left over in the fridge cause I always cook it in big batches. Egg fried Rice is so quick and simple.

Peanut butter on an apple.

If I'm poor or badly prepared rice with chili crisp and and potentially egg. If it needs to be fast or very lazy 2 bananas and half a liter of milk through the stick blender. Otherwise cereal w/ milk or yoghurt, grocery store bedrolls croissant and such, prepared sweet yoghurt or instant ramen.

Redbul. Or Alcohol.

Instant ramen or few slices of bread with cold cuts and some cheese microwaved till the cheese melts.

A couple of eggs cooked in the microwave to hard-boiled consistency, mashed with some Japanese kewpie mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and pepper.

Assemble together with slices of bread to make sandwiches. Pair with cherry tomatoes and sliced cucumbers for a quick side salad.

Grilled cheese sandwich. It's as lazy or as fancy as you're feeling.

Super lazy? Grease bread with cheese slice. Fry flip eat.

Feeling less lazy as you start? Cut a hole in one of the pieces of bread and fry an egg in it while you toast the other side, and upgrade the cheese. Just be careful. When you start eyeing meats and mustards to pair, you're in danger of making yourself a pretty epic sandwich.

Can of refried beans, cheese, tortilla, whatever sauce, microwave, top with whatever veggies.

Spaghetti, olive oil, butter, and grated pecorino! A slightly fancier mac n cheese more or less.

Hubby, but I wouldn't call him lazy

five to ten microwaved potstickers and a can of carbonated water.

Grilled cheeze with a thick layer of red onion chutney

Chicken patties in the air fryer, on pane bread with mayo. Sometimes cheese. Might put frozen fries In the air fryer with them. That was my dinner tonight. Except I used frozen hash brown patties instead of fries. I meant to to have some mini cucumbers and cherry tomatoes for a side and totally forgot.

Stoufers mac n cheese, pizza, pop tarts/waffles, popcorn, depending on hunger level.

I have a poor diet lol

Carbonara, because I nearly always have some lardons / bacon in the fridge, and usually have eggs and cheese too. Sauce is ready in the time it takes to cook the pasta, and it feels like a real dinner despite not really needing much prep.

Lazier? Instant noodles, with extra spices and a big spoonful of peanut butter. Makes it richer, creamier and keep nds 'satay' like. Also feels like there's a modicum of nutrional value. If I'm feeling virtuous I'll add some frozen / tinned sweetcorn or peas.

Frozen za and(or) beer.

Cheap frozen pizza and a simple salad.

Ricecakes and hummus, Beans and toast

Chips with cheese melted in the microwave.