A lazy meal must have at most two items to clean up, including the cutlery
Only meal that qualifies for me is canned soup. I get them when they are on sale. Got tons of Progresso and Campbell’s Chunky’s soup when they were on sale for $1.50. I’ve still got ~40 left.
My real lazy meal is eating snacks and not having a proper meal.
Being a bachelor, I often chop an onion and end up with like 4 or 5 meals worth of onion chops, so a lot of “lazy meals” are “get some chopped onion out of the fridge.”
How much onion do you use per meal? I feel like I may be using too many, since everything in a grocery store that is sold in bundles or bags, is too much for me and it would likely go bad before I can eat it all, but onions (and plain yoghurt) are the exception. A 10 kg bag of onions lasts a week or less when feeding only myself.
Even when making larger batches of french onion soup, I don’t think I’ve ever eaten 10 kilograms of onions in a week.
I’m not sure I know how to cook anything that doesn’t start with a chopped onion.
Your pudding must be weird.
I’m a savory kinda guy.
I think this person is upset that other people are less lazy about cooking in general than he is
Not really, he is just explaining that some veggies add a lot of taste for very little effort. People watch cooking programmes and think that you have to spend an hour cutting stuff up to make it worthwhile. Or that you have to spend a fortune on herbs to make it taste nice. When the reality is that just adding a single vegetable can do wonders for the taste. Onions are just the most versatile and one of the quickest to prep/cook.
Almost everything sauteed or simmered starts out with at least onions, sure. I interpreted it, though, as “this person saying he takes no effort but they’re chopping vegetables and cooking something vs throwing some stuff in the microwave”. Hard to know with no context.
Y’all are way too productive…
And lazy doesn’t necessarily mean quick either. Frozen pizza has gotta be the real winner here.
let it cool a bit and fold it over. eat it like a big sammich. don’t even have to dirty the pizza cutter.
Call it a calzone and suddenly you’ve circled back to fancy diner.
Who the hell calls a calzone “fancy dinner”?
Someone who would eat a frozen pizza all folded up.
But what if the lazy meal is just one raw onion?
Lazy meal example for me:
In the morning, frozen diced potatoes, frozen diced onions, frozen crinkle carrots, frozen stew meat, liquid campells stew seasoning, toss all of it in a slow cooker… turn it on (for extra laziness, use a slow cooker bag so you don’t have to clean it after).
At dinner, spoon it into bowls (or if I feel fancy and like putting some effort in, hollow out some bread bowls), eat.
Then the next day throw it in the microwave for two minutes, eat it again for lunch. Do it again for dinner. Cumulative work is about 10 minutes for three meals, and the only dishes are your bowls and spoons (if you used a slow cooker bag).
My go to lazy meal (actually I have it everyday now). INSTANT oats + milk powder + peanut butter + hot water + mix TF outta it. Gains for days baby 💪🍼
Edit: I’m so lazy that I use one spoon to first transfer the oats to the bowl, then the milk powder, and only then the peanut butter. Use the same spoon to mix and eat. Only wash the spoon and bowl later 😆
Fuck them instant oats bro, they taste like glop, I made the change to overnight slow oats a month ago and that’s both lazier and tastier. Never going back.
Put all the stuff in the bowl at night and put it in the the fridge. Leave that spoon in there too. In the morning just chow it down!
I use rolled oats, milk, dried cranberries, chia seeds and honey. I have bees out here on the farm and that wildflower honey is both effectively free and just exploding with flavour.
I’m not a morning person even slightly and will gladly take any opportunity to save 5 minutes and spend them in bed.
Here’s my go go lazy meal:
*drinks water*
drinks coffee
Did you know caffeine is an appetite suppressent?
to make a lazy meal, first you must lazily create the universe…
Resting on a Sunday. What a lazy work ethic that god fellow had.
Some people are just so fast at cooking. My roommate makes the same food in a quarter of time I need and I guess it comes down to me spending so much time confused and doing unnecessary things.
I’ve heard this is what distinguishes a chef proper from a home cook. Sure, your average Joe can cook up something scrumptious, but it takes a chef to understand the logistics and timing to get things prepped just in time, getting plates made at the same time, and ultimately just having everything finished at the same time.
Sounds like a lot of effort!
Step 1: Unwrap processed cheese slice and put in mouth. Repeat as necessary.
You’re spending time unwrapping? I refuse to buy the individually wrapped ones because that’s way too much work.
I just eat the wrapper.
“this simple meal only requires about 5 minutes of prep work”
Proceeds* to list off atleast half an hours worth of shit to do prior to cooking
This is my kind of simple.
This will potentially sound disgusting, but yesterday i chopped a red onion, broke off a 20cm piece of sausage and ate them with 2 pieces of bread for lunch. Couldn’t even deny I’m from Hungary🤣
Seems pretty normal to me. I snack on stuff like that though I’d probably have some mustard, mayo or hot sauce with it.
[Camera fade in on a full-body shot of me standing in my kitchen, my hands tented smartly in front of me.]
Hi everyone, welcome back to my food channel. You don’t want to cook a full balanced meal every night, sometimes you just want something quick! So today I wanted to show everyone my go-to lazy meal.
[I rip open a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips with my teeth and just start pouring them vertically into my mouth. Many of the chocolate chips do not go into my mouth, they just fall straight down, bouncing off the floor and out of frame. Some get caught in the folds of my clothing, occasionally rolling off onto the floor and bouncing out of frame. Most unsettling are the ones that fall into my mouth and then are carried out again by their own chaotic momentum, covered in microscopic flecks of my saliva, sticking to my shirt or splattering on the floor.]
[This continues for much longer than you’d think, as I empty the entire 1-pound bag without stopping.]
[I release the empty plastic bag, which drifts to the floor. The camera zooms in on my eyes, where tears are just starting to be visible. Fade out.]
Open container, heat (optional), eat.
If it requires more, it’s not lazy enough.
